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Identifying PATHOS, ETHOS, and LOGOS

In this persuasive speech, Micheal Sandel explains why democratic debate is lacked in the modern world. He bases his idea on the ideas of Aristotle ~ETHOS~, who wrote questions of justice and morality. He uses a famous thinker, especially on who has proven to be a genius in history. His point was pure logical, he made the audience answer questions that were logically incorrect, by giving them the true definitions of justice and morality ~LOGOS~. Further on, he gives examples and reasons, such as his flute example and his golf example. Especially in the golf example, he uses emotion to ask the audience what they think about the letting Casey Martin, a professional golfer, use a golf cart while competing ~PATHOS~. Basically, he is using real life events to persuade the audience and letting the audience speak for themselves and logically proving them wrong afterwards.

Using statistics, Graham Hill persuades fellow Americans that less equals more. You wouldn't understand at first, but he explains logically that people need things that they need and will use a long time. Also, if you don't buy that much space, it gives you more time, a great way to save money, and produce less pollution ~PATHOS~. He himself created a project where people can learn how save and reduce space so that we can have more needed items ~ETHOS~. He has a 420 square feet apartment in Manhattan, but has ten rooms in total, from fold out beds to extendable tables that can seat ten people. Logically he explains how we can reduce the amount of things we have while increasing happiness ~LOGOS~.

Due to the fact that he is a mathematics genius, Arthur Benjamin persuades us to change from the mathematics standards, calculus, to the more useful statistics and probability that are used on a daily basis ~ETHOS~. Calculus is not a useless subject, some careers do require calculus; but normally statistics and probability are the essentials to the economics, data analysis, and especially towards modern day life, because probability and statistics are what the world needs and to be able to understand itself ~LOGOS~. In addition, statistics and probability can be very fun, it is the mathematics of games, gambling, analyzing trends, and predicting the future, if you dominate at that, then you could probably win most of all the games you play ~PATHOS~.

The Significance of TED

TED is a website known for its ingenious speakers of several topics. Therefore, we can learn very much from these absolutely brilliant speakers. They tend to vary their tone and speak very naturally in all of their speeches. With "TED speaking" to consider, hopefully we can learn very much about how to speak in front of thousands of people. Malcolm Gladwell for an example, is one of the brilliant speakers, he talks with a naturally flowing voice and speaks with various intonations. How he does this is by simply speaking like he is actually discussing with the audience. He is also a humorous person and uses hand gestures beautifully. Although I notice that he makes a few mistakes and says "uh" or "um" sometimes, he quickly goes back to the topic right after he apologizes. That is something that I should keep in mind. I also need to learn from Arthur Benjamin which is also a great speaker that interacts with the audience. He asks for volunteers and chooses his volunteers. Hopefully I would not need any volunteers, but when I do, I would ace interactions due to learning from him. TED is a wonderful website filled with intelligence and education.