Approximately every five seconds in the United States, there is a car wreck. Could you imagine your car avoiding a crash for you? Cars are the number one source of transportation in America; they are apart of our everyday life. By creating vehicles that are more technology efficient we could avoid accidents altogether.
Jennifer Healey’s Ted Talks speech, If Cars Could Talk Accidents Might Be Avoidable inform her audience about how if cars could share GPS data such as position and velocity with one another and use predictive models in cars, accidents could be avoidable. Jennifer’s speech is to introduce new and improved ideas, and research that could prevent car accidents, and ultimately save lives around the world.
Jennifer uses a mix of all three persuasive techniques in her speech. She begins her speech by using logos to state a statistic about how cars are the leading cause of death in America. Once she has the audience on her side, she used pathos to grab the viewer’s emotion by telling a story about her first wreck in the interstate and how she totaled her car. After connecting with her audience statistically and emotionally, she then uses ethos throughout her speech to gain her viewer’s trust. Jennifer credibility is very strong in her speech; she talks a lot about particular ideas and research that can transform our cars today into safer more reliable vehicles. She seems to know a lot about her topic and she also uses strong evidence to support her new ideas about advanced technology in cars. Ms. Healey specifically uses data from professor Bob Wang, who is an associate’s professor in the department of computer science and information engineering at Monash University, in Australia. In his research, he uses computer sim...
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...nt Professor Wang tested. By giving the audience visual components, they would not only have actual pictures and videos about her topic, but evidence that support her ideas and experiment, which would only help her credibility. Overall, Jennifer seemed very prepared for her speech, making her viewers trust her and agree with what she is saying.
In the end, this speech leaves a mark on the viewers. This speech was very effective, because Jennifer becomes one with the audience and persuades them to realize that the drivers today are doing all the work when driving their cars and that this is a horrible way to travel. She also makes the audience understand that there are much better and safer possibilities that exist today for cars and the people in them. By giving the audience this information, they walk out of the speech wanted to drive a safer more reliable car.
There are three methods of persuasion when speaking or writing to an audience: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. Ethos uses a type of socially recognized authority as its voice. Logos uses logic and reasoning as its tool. Lastly, Pathos uses emotional attachment. For instance, the advertising industry primarily utilizes Ethos and Pathos reasoning and qualities, particularly a Matthew Mcconaughey Lincoln Motor Company commercial, and a Safe driving bonus check Ally Insurance commercial.
Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor, delivered The Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, in Oslo on December 10, 1986. He started his speech off by reciting the following prayer: "Barukh atah Adonai …shehekhyanu vekiymanu vehigianu lazman hazeh"—"Blessed be Thou…for giving us life, for sustaining us, and for enabling us to reach this day." Then, after his speech, the people thanked him for everything he had done to help humankind make peace. With a profound sense of humility, he accepted this honor.
Jay used ethos, by telling the audience that she was a psycho therapist who specialized in twenty-somethings. This gave the audience the understanding that Jay has the credibility to speak on this topic. Meg then went on to list various statistics that supported her main points, such as when she said that “we know that eighty percent of life 's most defining moments take place by age thirty five” (TED Talk). These statistics are a clear usage of logos, or the appeal to logic. Many times during the presentation, Jay used the appeal of pathos, by appealing to the emotions of the audience. An example of this, is when she said “... it 's realizing that you can 't have that career that you want. You can 't have that child that you want ... ” (TED). Another example of pathos, was when Jay spoke about son 's and daughters coming into to speak to her. Jay even used mythos effectively, by talking about the desire of many to achieve the societal norms of having a successful career and starting a family. This was an appeal to the audience 's need to belong to a group. Jay 's usage of the pillars of persuasion were masterful and there are many more examples of these incorporated into this
Her slow yet concise way of speaking, coupled with easy to follow transitions allowed for a speech that was enjoyable to listen to. Her use of examples from her personal life allowed her audience to get a picture of who she was if they did not know, and allowed her to better relate to them by provided examples of how she is related to the college they are graduating from. Her reference to many modern political problems allowed her to bring up her important role as an activist and facilitated further understanding from the audience. While some areas of her speech were weak, such as the longer than needed pauses and her lack of consistent eye contact, to a few points where she didn’t speak clearly enough, the overall picture that was her speech was fairly strong. Looking at this speech, I hope to incorporate some aspects that I failed to include in my previous speeches. Some of these include her use of hand gestures to emphasize and exaggerate certain phrases and topics, and her combined use of appeals. While my initial thoughts going in were “This is boring” and “This is too slow”, it evolved into me wanting to hear more, and overall my defeat in the beginning turned into a victory at the
Because of Keller’s use of pathos to grab attention, using a strong, independent ethos and then backing it up using logos, it was easy to get wrapped up in her cause. Keller’s style was effective and left the audience with the desire to take action.
Introduction This research is intended to analyze the transcript of a child’s speech. The target child is a female named Majorie, who is 2 years and 3 months old. The transcript is from The Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. The linguistic aspects that will be examined are the phonological processes of the child, including speech errors, syllable shapes, and her phonetic inventory consisting of manner and place of articulation.
She uses testimonial device to bring in the well-known reliable source known as Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones from “The Atlantic” to help support her case. She uses pathos to appeal to her audience’s emotions by pulling on their heartstrings. She uses the logos to provide support to her article which she means to convince her audience by use of logic, reason, or statistics. She uses euphemism to make something harsh or distasteful sound in a somewhat positive way. She uses ethos to convince her audience of her credibility. There are very few weaknesses in her article which are greatly outweighed by the many strengths in
The major sources of my persuasive appeal the three main points that I spoke about. I mentioned the durability, affordability, and environmental benefits of these hybrid cars with evidence that backed up all of my claims. Along with all of the strong points of my speech there were some points that were weaker aspects of it. I could have done a better job opening up with a question to begin the presentation, and could have done a better job concluding it by giving my opinions to close it out. Finally even though I improved on my posture some of my aspects of deliver still need to be worked on. Even though my speech was not perfect I think that I did a good job persuading my argument to the
In order to compel listeners she mentions who she is at the beginning of her talk and she says, “I am a plant geneticist” and “My laboratory published our discovery on the rice immunity gene” she leads the audiences to trust in her work because her discovery on rice is been publically published and anybody interested in her work can read about it as in websites like TED talk. Right after her discovery about rice immunity gene her friend and colleague Dave Mackill tells the story about seventeen millions of farmers facing trouble growing rice. By sharing this story with the audience and her feelings toward the farmers, and by mentioning that they are going through hard times makes her appear more knowledgeable about the difficulties farmers are facing around the world, enables her to be more trustworthy, and willing to help. She is making an ethical conclusion when she reaches to help struggling farmers with plant genetic modification trough the help of great and powerful organizations like Bill and Melinda Gates
The speaker first grab her viewer’s attention by giving them questions and having self participation. Also, Amy uses humor to keep the audience focus on what is is talking about. She achieved this by her use of funny pictures and videos to break the ice for the viewers and to warm her crowd up. Cuddy also utilized technology in her speech. Her use of technology enhance her discussion by providing visuals to guide the audience in her topic. Together with the technology, Amy used an emotional personal story to keep the attention of the audience. This emotional story used the pathos side of a persuasive speech to use the audience emotion to keep them focus on the subject.
Companies like Google, Tesla and Nissan, among others, have announced over the past few years that their companies are trying to develop self-driving or autonomous cars [Ref. 1 and 2]. Self-driving cars can provide many benefits to the average consumer. Studies have shown that because computers can react and process information many times faster than a human being, crashes on streets and roads can be decreased with quick and consistent evasion maneuvers by the autonomous car. They can also help maximize fuel economy by calculating the most direct and fastest routes. When the driving of an autonomous car demonstrates that the computer can safely and reliably transport the passengers to their destination, this frees up the passengers to do other things that they would not normally be able to do if they were driving the car manually. For this reason, self-driving cars can help maximize productivity of their passengers.
Self-driving cars are the wave of the future. There is much debate regarding the impact a self-driving car will have on our society and economy. Some experts believe fully autonomous vehicles will be on the road in the next 5-10 years (Anderson). This means a vehicle will be able to drive on the road without a driver or any passengers. Like any groundbreaking technology, there is a fear of the unforeseen problems. Therefore, there will need to be extensive testing before anyone can feel safe with a vehicle of this style on the road. It will also take time for this type of technology to become financially accessible to the masses, but again alike any technology with time it should be possible. Once the safety concern has been fully addressed
Inventors hope to help people with autonomous cars because “autonomous cars can do things that human drivers can’t” (qtd. in “Making Robot Cars More Human). One of the advantages that driverless cars have is that “They can see through fog or other inclement weather, and sense a stalled car or other hazard ahead and take appropriate action” (qtd. in “Making Robot Cars More Human). Harsh weather conditions make it difficult and dangerous for people to drive, however, the car’s ability to drive through inclement weather “frees the user’s time, creates opportunities for individuals with less mobility, and increases overall road safety” (Bose 1326). With all the technology and software in the car, it can “improve road traffic system[s] and reduces road accidents” (Kumar). One of the purposes for creating the driverless car was to help “make lives easier for senior citizens, people with disabilities, people who are ill, or people who are under influence of alcohol” (Kumar). It can be frightening to know that that we share share our roads with drivers that could potentially endanger our lives as well as other people’s lives. How can people not feel a sense of worry when “cars kill roughly 32,000 people a year in the U.S.” (Fisher 60)? Drivers who text while driving or drink and drive greatly impact the safety of other people, and Google hopes to reduces the risk of accidents and save lives with the
These technologies have made driving an easier and enjoyable experience, as well as reducing our chances of getting into accidents. The research presented in the following article “Driven to Distraction [in car technology]” provided surprising conclusions. Professor John D. Lee from the University of Iowa states the following issue: “Technology is changing very quickly. Many of these things coming into the car were not designed to be used in it. ”(Edwards 8).
The speech was deliver in the school auditorium at shadowland Elementary school with about 100 to 150 students between the ages of 9 -13. (Grade 4th to 5th Grade). As it comes out, the director of the school was given the speech about black history. He, himself was a black African American born in the United States. The student enter in the one entrance door quietly and sat on the floor. Little by little, more kids join in. As soon as the door close, the director shows up and cheer the kids up. I could tell that the students had a connection with the director. On the screen was his name and the tittle of the speech “Now and back then” Black history speech.