On Monday, our class learned about Ethos Pathos and Logos in our English class. Ethos, Pathos, and Logos are powers of persuasion.They are rhetorical strategies that all of us use every single day. A commercial that I thought was pretty persuasive was the St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital commercial. They should little kids that had cancer and how much they suffered. At the end of the commercial they said that we should donate at least ten cents a day to help these children. The commercial was so persuasive that it made me want to donate. Rhetoric is the art of Persuasion. The history of rhetoric and the concepts of ethos, pathos, and logos began in Greece. Aristotle was a famous Greek philosopher who studied the art of persuasion. Ethos equals ethical or moral. Ethos is the author or creator’s credibility, believability, and/or likeability. It can come from inside the text (intrinsic) or outside the text (extrinsic). The speaker or writer must demonstrate credibility to the audience to be persuasive. Some English words to know are ethical and ethics. Pathos equals feeling. Pathos are stories, scenarios, or statements designed to create an emotional response. You accept a claim based on how it makes you accept a claim based on how it makes you feel, without fully analyzing how valid the claims. Fear, love, patriotism, hatred, joy, humor, and guilt are ways of persuasion. The use of pathos can be extremely effective and also manipulative. Some English words to no empathy, sympathy, pathetic, and antipathy. Logos equals logic or reason. Logos refers to any attempt to appeal to the intellect. Logos appeals to the left side of our brain. We find certain patterns, conventions, and methods reasoning and persuasive. Numbers, polls, facts, and statistics are also is it examples of the persuasive use of logic. Some English words to know are logic and logical. Effective persuasion uses all three kinds of appeals. Ethos, pathos, and logos are powers of persuasion.
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It has just been snowing and snowing in the northeast. The snow has been nonstop in New York and Boston. Many people have been snowed in imagine beingjng snowed in and and your powers out and its freezing cold. A lot of flights and public schools were canceled. The snowstorms has caused many thing to happen. The police has responded to multiple of calls such as car crashes. The snowstorms have even been deadly. One man who was a door man, was shoveling the steps when he slipped and fell right through a glass window. That is pretty bad so we should be careful where we're walking. More than 3,800 flights were canceled and all public schools in New York City, Boston and Philadelphia were closed today. Winter storm warnings are in effect for Boston and New York. Boston should get about a foot of snow, with Springfield and Fitchburg, also in Massachusetts, seeing a few inches less. The good news is that the storm is expected to move out quickly.This is awful and another death that happened because of the heavy winds was in Virginia when it pushed a huge truck into the water and it killed the driver. There was also a house on fire which killed one person. Fifty million people from Maine down through Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., are being affected by a winter storm that dumped as much as four inches of snow per hour. The snow is like putting a big heavy white blanket on top of your house and city. The snow might be pretty, but it's not all what it seems. People can't travel to visit there family members or on a business trip. Just make sure to drive safe and avoid speeding. This week we have been reading To Kill a Mockingbird in our ELA class. We have read chapters eighteen through twenty-one. Basically what's going on is that it's Mayella is called up to testify. She looks nervous and I guess she wants the judge to feel bad for her and take her side. Either way they're going to take her side. She said that she asked him to chop up a chiffarobe, and then he jumped her from behind and choked her while she screamed and struggled, and then he raped her. When Atticus starts to ask her questions she says she scared of him and that he's mocking her. She is not used to people calling her "Miss" or "Ma'am." Since she does not understand that Atticus is merely being polite, she assumes that he is using the courteous words sarcastically. Atticus then starts to ask questions about Mayella's life so the jury knows what's going on. We also find out in this chapter that Tom Robinson got his left arm stuck in a cotton gin and tore all his muscles. When it's Tom's turn to testify he is unable to lift his left hand to place it on the Bible. Instead, he must move it onto the book with his right hand. It is obvious that he cannot use his left hand at all. This indicates that it is very unlikely that Tom could have caused the bruises on Mayella's face. Tom's side of the story was When Tom passed by the Ewell house, Mayella called to him, requesting that he fix a door inside the house. He found nothing wrong with the door and prepared to leave. Then, Mayella asked him to get a box down from the top of the chiffarobe. When Tom stood on a chair to reach the box, she startled him by grabbing his legs. She started hugging him and kissing him, demanding that he kiss her back. He told her to let him out of the house but she blocked the door. At that point, Mr. Ewell appeared at the window and started shouting at Mayella. Tom ran out of the house as fast as he could. The other Ewell kids were getting ice cream and it took Mayella a year to save seven nickels The book has been very interesting and breath taking so far. |
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