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    Finally‚ Adichie uses logos to add power to her message in a way that is quite appealing: she supports the claims of her thesis with eloquent language and poignant examples. She continuous use situations that are of national debate‚ notable books like Updike‚ Tyler‚ Steinbeck Gaitskell and John Locke. In addition‚ mentioning well-known artists‚ such as Mariah Carey‚ Jay-Z‚ and Bob Marley to tell her story that others can identify with and adding her own experience and failure in stereotyping to further

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    writes “…Squealer would talk with tears rolling down his cheeks… “‚ showing squealer has knowledge of literary devices and how to use them (Orwell100). Obviously Squealer is cunning and full of himself knowing that he is smarter than the other animals. Ethos is the ability to develop credibility for a source‚ or like‚ an advertisement or something. Squealer uses Napoleon’s credibility of being their “savior” to convince the animals not to rebel and to stand true to Napoleon. Just by the fact

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    The advertisement uses pathos with the powerful message‚ “YOU THINK BEING IN SCHOOL SUCKS? You know what sucks a whole lot more? A baby. Almost every 2 hours for feeding time. And breastfeeding isn’t always easy. So if you choose to use formula. You’re looking at about $1‚500 a year. Guess school doesn’t suck that badly‚ huh? ” It starts off by asking two questions‚ one asking

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    Rhetoric is the art of effective and persuasive speaking or writing. It is through the use of rhetoric that clear‚ strong arguments are made. Homer evidently knew this‚ because he implemented all three types of rhetoric in many places throughout his epic poem. The “ethos‚” “pathos‚” and “logos” arguments are all distinctly employed by the vast array of characters given by the blind bard in a captivatingly realistic way. Not long after the opening scene of the epic‚ Achilles is seen trying to show

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    ETHOSPATHOS‚ AND LOGOS. Aristotle was a Greece philosopher lived from 384BC to 322BC. He wrote and taught many subjects in his career. One of his incredible writings included Rhetoric. Rhetoric is the art used to persuade or motivate an audience. Persuasion is an art used as a tool to change people’s belief‚ behavior‚ or even there attitude towards certain things. The Greece philosophers believed that to be truly effective to the audience you had to use a motivational way. The three

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    middle way. Henry David Thoreau‚ a great author and pioneer in transcendentalism wrote the essay “Civil Disobedience”‚ in which he reminds us‚ “All men recognize the right of revolution;... the right to refuse allegiance to‚ and to resist‚ the government‚ when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.” This is the thin line that we must walk. Civil disobedience has been tested numerous times in history. It brings much-needed change in society. Without civil disobedience‚ the laws of

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    pledges to the electorate. They use rhetorical techniques as well as political gimmickry to capture the public’s attention‚ get their approval and persuade them tactfully‚ all this in order to achieve power. This is interesting because the public’s approval plays a significant role in ascertaining the president’s political power and policy-making. Comparing Malcolm X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet” and Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” reveals strands of logos and pathos. For example‚ Malcolm X’s

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    talks about obesity. He talks about the changes in lifestyles and uses of different foods. Pollan’s writing compares and contrats the writing‚ he uses ethospathos‚ and logos to state his argument‚ and his success in his argument and improvements that could be made to make the writing better than it already is. Pollan compares the past causes of obesity to the present causes of obesity. He also contrasts the difference of sugars and uses of corn over time. Pollan states multiple times how alcohol caused

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    I think that there are a lot of things together that make a good speech. I think that the base of a good speech starts with using all ethos pathos and logos‚ i think that a good speech leads with one of these but still uses the others almost as much. I think out of ethos pathos and logos is logos because i think that people would rather believe something they can know to be true instead of someone with authority or something that emotionally speaks to them. Also it’s almost always most rational to

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    types of communication‚ logosethos‚ and pathos. “My first book‚ Stiff‚ was an offshoot of a column I wrote for Salon.com.” (Roach 1) The Solon columnist Mary Roach dives into the use of dead bodies that are donated to surgeons for research purposes. Mary Roach wrote the book Stiff. I read a small section of the book. The part I read was very interesting and gave exciting insight to historical research. In the text I read‚ she seemed to focus on logos and pathos. Pathos is the form of communication

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