The speech by Brene Brown was impressive. For her opening, she used a little side story about how she was seen as a storyteller by an event planner. This lead to a joke to make the audience lighten up early on and that mood was fairly present throughout the duration of her speech. Brown details how shame leads to vulnerability in all of us. However, this vulnerability is necessary and and it what makes us beautiful. I really agree with Brown that we try too much to perfect ourselves. So much so that we tend to ignore the fact that we should be content with the idea that we are enough. Aside from her content. Everything from her eye contact and hand movements seemed so natural. She also used pictures as a visual aid in her speech. Not only this,
In December 2009, the world was shocked by Tiger Woods. News was released to the public of a scandal regarding Woods cheating on his wife with numerous women. As a well-known and respectful individual in the golfing world, it was important for him to take responsibility for his actions. More importantly, in order for Woods to keep his sponsors and save his reputation, he needed to apologize to his sponsors and family. His apologetic speech exemplifies his remorseful attitude through diction, or word choice, and the use of ethos, or credibility, and pathos, an emotional appeal, to the audience.
Brene Brown main point about her speech is vulnerability. Her main point of this is to understand or know what he feel and to embrace that in us. We shouldn't brig ourselves down thinking that are emotions how we feel about things makes us weak. It makes us stronger and we realize how when we feel vulnerable we need to take action and defeat it. We also need to be aware that when people see that your vulnerability they can easily target you to bring you down making you feel less confident.
In the beginning of the essay, Paul Bogard uses a personal experience to start his argument. He reflects on a trip to his family's cabin where he 'knew woods so dark that his hands disappeared before his eyes.' This gives the reader an idea of what the essay may be about, the possible topic over the beauty of the woods. However, after the second sentence he presents his argument and uses a ratio as
Bernie Sanders is running for President of the United States of America as a democratic candidate. His competition for the primary elections is Hillary Clinton, a well-known politician with plenty of experience under her belt. Bernie is running as a non-traditional candidate, which is a main factor of why his campaign is extremely successful and popular with the American people. A recent political ad released by Sander’s campaign team called “Real Change” emphasizes his family values and dedication to the working class, fighting for the votes of the average American. The ad implies Bernie is the right man for the job due to his long history of experience and commitment to the issues he believes in. This political ad illustrates how Bernie
President Obama’s Address to the nation was presented on January 5, 2016. His speech was shown on all of the major network stations. The main goal of his speech was to get the point across to the nation about the increasing problem of gun use. His speech really focused on the issue of gun control and if it would benefit the country. Overall, the biggest idea of his Address was that gun control is a large issue in the United States. The way to prevent deaths caused by firearms can be prevented in other ways than taking peoples guns away. The examples brought up in this Address really stood out to me. The use of personal, national, and global examples really made his speech stronger on the topic of effectiveness.
In Frank Bruni’s article “Higher Ed’s Lower Moment (December 30, 2017),” written for the New York Times, Bruni explicates his idea that college in today’s time is becoming more and more elitist, but if people intervene and take steps to reverse the process, colleges will become what they have always been: schools to educate America’s future. Bruni starts off this piece with a heavy appeal to logic through using statistics from reputable sources, such as Gallup and the Pew Research Center, and by collecting quotes from many college heads and officials; later in the piece, Bruni shifts more towards an appeal to ethos by providing qualifications for his sources, showing credibility and by telling the audience that they need to get involved and
The thesis or argument of Kevin Bray’s essay is teenagers are absorbed by music and hooked to their phones. Therefore, it is influencing the students emotionally and physically in class. As a teacher, Kevin Bray uses evidence observed from his students. He refers to the students as “zombies” and “ICU patients because of their devotion to their phones and music. In paragraph 2, Kevin uses an example, which supports his argument. He says “They are plugged into a smartphone or iPod, and carry them like patients shuffling down the hospital hallway tethered to an IV drip.” He uses the rhetorical device, metaphor, to compare his students to patients in a hospital. This causes the reader to visualize the influence of these students based on their addiction to music and technology.
In his speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, former Senator Fred Thompson aims to convince his audience to vote for John McCain in the upcoming election. Thompson also works to create the persona of a perseverant, patriotic leader for McCain. In his attempts to persuade the American voters, Thompson uses McCain’s personal experiences and logic that discredits the Democrats in order to gain support for McCain’s campaign.
In the story “Young Goodman Brown”, the devil is convincing Goodman Brown to come attend the devil’s party in the forest by using pathos and ethos. The devil first uses pathos by narrating his relationship with Brown’s father and grandfather, who are devout puritans. He makes up the experience of helping Brown’s forefathers lash the Quaker woman and fight with the Indians in King Philip’s War in order to associate himself with the Puritan values of being pious to god and contributing to social welfare. Additionally, by flattering Brown’s ancestry’s contributions, the devil emotionally pleased Brown and letting Brown to believe that the devil is a kind and devout old man just like his grandfather. Besides that, the devil also uses ethos by asserting
Old Major pinpoints and labels humanity as the enemy, using them as a scapegoat for all the animals’ problems. In this particular instance, when he was addressing the animals’ problems during his speech “Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?” From this instance, Old Major’s usage of ethos leads the animals into believing that their every misfortune and problem is caused by the greedy humans. He then uses the built up animosity from the animals towards humans which he uses to strengthen the resolve of the animals’ idea of rebellion. Furthermore, during his rant of the horrendous crimes humans have committed, Old Major stated that “no animal shall escape the cruel
William Wells Brown was greeted with warm applause as he entered the Croydon Lecture Hall, in Croydon, England. He was to deliver what at the time was among the first speeches delivered to a British abolitionist audience, so he did not know what to expect. Brown was a famous ex- slave turned author, publisher, and anti-slavery activist. There are plenty of stories describing his adventures and heroics in the United States, but not many people know of his journey to Europe, when in 1849, the American Peace Society chose him as their representative to the Peace Congress in Paris. While in Europe, he decided to stay there for 3 years in order to educate Europeans of slavery in America and his stance on the issue, for English people had a general
The speech given by Hilary Clinton at the United Nations fourth world conference in 1995 sparked interest in women’s rights. The conference consisted of people who cared strongly about women's rights and wanted to change the world for women. Her speech concentrates on connecting to women through facts and real life experiences. She wants women to…
During the time of the Civil War, the United States was divided on many issues; one of the issues being the issue of slavery. The North was fighting against the heinous act of imprisoning someone for life for self-gain and the South was fighting to preserve this heinous act. The North needed all the warriors of freedom as possible, which is why Alfred M. Green gave a speech in Philadelphia in April 1861 to get his fellow African Americans to join the union and fight be the warriors of freedom that the North needed them to be in this fight against slavery. But, there is a problem in recruiting people to leave their lives and go fight in a gruesome war -- people fear for their lives. To avoid this fear and get African Americans to fight in this war, Green utilizes two unionizing rhetorical strategies in order to dismantle this fear
One element that makes this speech effective is Jobs use of pathos, which are emotional appeals. The emotional appeals he uses, includes the stories of dropping out of college, getting fired from Apple, and then later being diagnosed with cancer. Jobs dropped out of college because he had no idea what he wanted to do with his life and he felt it was a waste of his parents’ life savings. He stopped taking the required classes, and began dropping in on ones that interested him.
I was sitting in class keeping focused on the words of the instructor, being sure to absorb all the personality and instructions that were provided. Upon first hearing the sentence she had uttered I was confused, I had never thought that people would go out of their way to indulge in bigotry and dare I say it, racism. The instructor abstractly addressed an opponent during an argument, this opponent was a crafted strawman, a weak adversary with an awful argument which could not conceivably hold-up to her rhetoric. The utterance that the instructor had produced ran through my mind, I began to find myself rolling her words back and forth. I replaced one choice word with the equivalent and found myself gazing at a blatantly bigoted sentence.