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    Alone, the use of only ethos, pathos, or logos would make for a semi-interesting story, but together, they tell a believable account of real events. Beatty makes use of all three techniques to connect with her audience and share her own story as well as hard facts that verify the events. The powerful combination of ethos, pathos, and logos conveys Beatty’s story convincingly. Beatty appeals to her audience’s sense of ethos by admitting her lack of knowledge on certain topics in order to appear

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    When an author writes a persuasive article of any kind they use at least one of 3 appeals to get their point across. The appeals of Pathos, Ethos, and Logos are used by all persuasive essay writers to prove the point they are trying to relay across and are applied to every argument. Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader, pathos is an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating

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    From this course, I learned many different concepts. The one that I feel will contribute the most to my life outside of this class would be pathos, ethos, and logos. Persuasion is something that most people deal with often. Pathos, ethos, and logos are something that has a significant role in persuasion. Pathos are used to appeal to emotions of the person. Using pathos to persuade someone you want to convince them with an emotional response. These may make your paper more effective, because if it

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    Ethos is a code or an idea that illustrates what you, or your group, stands for, or how you conduct yourselves. It is a code of ethics that you live by and abide by too. There can be many differnet aspects to it depending on your moral standing of what is right or wrong. Some are born with a better understanding and ability to apply their specific ethos. This ethos is developed over time through the fires of adervsity. It is the chaos of what we call war that makes the warriors ethos. All cultures

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    three different categories to describe how people use rhetoric to persuade people: ethos, pathos and logos. Each of these terms describes different way to try to reach an audience and convince them to agree with you. Pathos is an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response. Logos is an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason. Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character

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    The term Logos is a logic, objective, proof, reason. It is a fact or incident that happened in a period of time. Whereas pathos is a feeling, empathy, values. Similarly, Ethos is a trust, credibility. The video has used a huge number of a rhetorical plan to get point across including logos, ethos, and pathos. In the 1st video “Drunk History- Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks”, There is a discrimination between white and black during 19th Century in a sarcastic way. In the video, they have shown two

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    Pathos, Logos, and Ethos. Pathos is what appeals to the emotion or what tugs on the heart. Logos is something that has to do with statistics or logistics like financial cost and funding. Lastly, Ethos is using a credible source such as the former President John F. Kennedy. Analyzing JFK speech to fund NASA, I can take a look on how this 3 aspects appeal to a great persuasive speech. To begin, John F. Kennedy’s speech contains innumerable amount of Pathos that really make the

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    How does one obtain anything one has ever desired? Rhetorical appeals and persuasion use language to help one get what one wants. The three rhetorical appeals are logos, ethos, and pathos. Logos is the persuasion of an audience through logic and reasoning. Ethos is persuading an audience through the credibility of the author. Finally, pathos is the persuasion of an audience through the emotions of the audience. This paper will focus on how the creative use of language can be used not only for one’s

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    The Rhetorical Triangle: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Persuasion is the key to getting the results you want, not only for politicians or lawyers, but for every one of us. In a job interview, you will have to persuade your interviewers why they should hire you over the other candidates. In a classroom presentation you will have to convince your classmates and teacher that what you're saying is worth listening to and that you deserve a good grade on the assignment. Every speech or presentation is persuasive

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    Presentation of Rhetoric Strategies The use of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos is presented in the three videos provided through a wide array of examples. In the first video, Drunk History- Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, the writers use of comedy was used to provide a broad narration of a particular civil rights movement. Logos is a form of persuasion through the “[representation] of arguments and evidence in the matter under discussion” (Campbell 38). In the first video, the use of logos was presented

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