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It seems that the author is trying to show that arguments are not only about the speaker, but the one who are making the decision. I never realized how essential this point was, till he repeats it any way he possibly could. By letting the hearers have the control, it makes them believe their the one who matter in the decision. It makes them believe that their values are important in front of the speaker, not what the speaker himself wants. And if the author makes their crowd feels this, a guarantee that they might win the hearts of their votes.

Logos, ethos, and pathos are essential components used in advertising. By learning to recognize logos, ethos, and pathos in advertising, we are able to understand the message and what is being portrayed. (Albert et al, 2014), suggested that Aristotle postulated that a speaker’s ability to effectively convince an audience is constructed on how well the speaker appeals to that audience in three different areas: logos, ethos, and pathos. These appeals together form what Aristotle calls a rhetorical triangle.

Why do companies focus so much on advertising? Companies spend money to promote their products through commercials and billboards. Without advertisements, companies struggle to get people to consume their product. When making a commercial or billboard, they use ethos, logos, and pathos to ensure that customers are interested in a product. This paper will explain how two companies use ethos, logos, and pathos to persuade people to consume their product by using a billboard and ad.

The use of Ethos, Logos, and Pathos to appeal to the audience is very prominent in documentary. During the course of the film the directors bring in many experts to help develop and support the claim made. For example, Min Hwang, who is part of the Women’s Hope Center for Crisis Pregnancy of South Korea, deals with pregnant women who have been beaten by family members due to South Korean culture. Min Hwang explains a personal experience with a direct cause of child abandonment in South Korea. Another example of a credible source is Jang Ja Yang, the Director of Korean Family Legal Service Center, who talks about how mothers and parents who are capable of raising babies abandon them for dead because they have disabilities.

The United States of America faces one of its most unsatisfying presidential elections in history. Neither Donald Trump nor Hilary Clinton has done enough to win over the country. According to a recent poll done by Data Targeting INC, sixty five percent of all Americans have said they would vote for another candidate that is not Trump or Hilary (Wilson). This is where Gary Johnson becomes a major factor. He was previously the governor of New Mexico and is now running on the libertarian presidential ticket. He recently released a commercial that blasted both Trump and Clinton while also giving many reasons why he believes he would be a suitable president. The commercial starts off with someone impersonating Abraham Lincoln pointing out the many faults of Trump and Clinton including the multiple lies that have been told, the many business deals gone wrong, and the general distaste the American public has for them. It goes on to list all Gary Johnson’s accomplishments throughout his political career. The ad tries to keep a

1- Character Ethos: is the first type of persuasion mode, when the speaker have to takes stage they will either have ethos or need to earn it. In addition, it considered the most important mode of persuasion because of three things that contribute to ethos that are good sense, good moral character and goodwill. 2- Emotion (pathos): is the first type of persuasion mode, when the speaker have to takes stage they will either have ethos or need to earn it. In addition, it considered the most important mode of persuasion because of three things that contribute to ethos that are good sense, good moral character and goodwill.

Video Name: Active For Life PSA – extended URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCtMKl38r00 Target Group: Parents of children elementary school age. Central Message: Get children to begin sports early in life to promote lifetime healthy habits. Persuasive Techniques: Logos: The narrator states four facts throughout the video about: screen time, obesity rates, activity rates and, life expectancy. All four statistics directly link to the central message and help the narrative flow without feeling like facts are being forced and squeezed into the video.

In the text about problems that adolescent girls face, the author uses pathos, ethos, and logos and elements of language to support her claim. The author claims that once adolescent girls reach fifteen they change for the worst. I am going to prove her claim by discussing how she uses different elements of language along with pathos, ethos, and logos. I used allusion and imagery to prove pathos, I used allusion to prove ethos, and I used diction to prove logos.

We had to create a political ad. We also had to make up a candidate. My partner and I came up with Bill Boards. We had to include seven logical fallacies, my partner and I used Ad Populum, Every man, Non Sequitur, Red Herring, Slippery Slope, Bandwagon. We also had to use two of the three rhetorical strategies, Ethos, Pathos, and logos.

Doctor Martin Luther King Junior was an expert in persuading his audience. He was a massive advocate for the civil rights movement, and when he saw the injustice being served to the African American community during the Vietnam war, he had to take a stand. In his passage, "Beyond Vietnam- A time to break silence", he uses the rhetorical devices of logos, pathos and ethos to to strengthen his argument for why American involvement in the Vietnam war was unjust. The technique of logos, using logic to persuade an audience, is seen many times throughout this passage.

Writers use pathos, ethos, and logos in their writing to appeal to their audience. Pathos is an appeal to emotions, ethos is an appeal to trust, and logos is an appeal to reasoning or logic. Frederick Douglass's, " What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" is about his views and the views of many slaves towards the Fourth of July. He uses ethos, pathos, and logos effectively to convey his central message.

This article shows great details of how bad writing can be fixed. The article begins by showing logos of what high school and college students are struggling with the most. The reason is that it states key examples of what the students at New Dorp high school aren’t good at. The article shows a lot of opinion from teachers by telling their ways of fixing the students. It is also repetitive by saying that the main reason the kids are not good writers is because they are lazy. In certain ways, this article is using pathos by the teachers. I do think the writer could have used more proven facts.

In Neil Postman’s novel, Amusing Ourselves to Death, he argues that rationality in America has become dictated by television. Through the use of ethos, pathos, and logos, Postman demonstrates that his claim is valid and reliable. These are three forms of persuasion that are used to influence others to agree with a particular point of view. Ethos, or ethical appeal, is used to build an author’s image. Ethos establishes a sense of credibility and good character for the author (Henning). Pathos, or emotional appeal, involves engaging “an audience's sense of identity, their self-interest, their emotions” (Henning). If done correctly, the power of emotions can allow the reader to be swayed to agree with the author. Logos, or logical appeal,

Ethos, pathos, and logos are all devices that Barbara Ehrenreich effectively uses throughout her novel Nickel and Dimed to prove that America needs to address the commonly overlooked issue of poverty within every community. It is important that she uses all three devices because they help support her argument by increasing her credibility, connecting to the readers’ emotions, and appealing to their sense of logic. The combination of these devices puts a sense of urgency on the problem Ehrenreich is addressing and therefore creates an effective argument.

The different modes I use to try and persuade someone vary greatly depending on many factors. Some of these factors include my audience, the medium I am attempting to use, as well as my desired message and outcome. While writing, putting an emphasis on Logos and Pathos works the best for me, as these two in coordination will typically build Ethos. I like to use various facts that are inherently emotional in my persuasive works. I do this mostly because facts can be verified and accepted as true thus, the emotions in which I conjure and project with these facts are verified as just.