Personal Blog #8: Using ethos, logos & pathos.

In the community persuasion post I attempted persuade my audience to help keep the earth clean.

Ethos-I tried to become relate-able to my crowd by stating how together we can clean this earth together. Also by revealing my ecological foot print of how many earths it takes to support my life style. I included sources for all of my claims.

Logos-I made my reasoning very decisive and logical. I provided simple solutions such as "Using public transportation will decrease air pollution."

Pathos-The overall tone of the persuasion was to make it appear possible for us as a whole to clean up earth. Overall if someone did not want to par-take in clean earth they would feel bad about it. I mention how convenient it is to keep this earth clean. So if someone did not par-take they would feel lazy.

The six shortcuts of persuasion.

The art of persuasion is an art that is very much used in our society. The science behind it goes through six principals or shortcuts. These six shortcuts are: reciprocity, scarcity, authority, consistency, liking, and consensus. Question is, can some of these principals be used in blogs? Personally I would say that some of them are. There are three of them that I can see being used in blogs: Consensus, authority and liking. Ultimately, some of these are more effective than others. Liking, I would say is the most effective. One of the main factors in liking is relating to others. In a blog we can read of someone who is going through something we ourselves may have gone through, or is blogging about similar ideas and theories that we have had. Following liking the next effective principal is authority. People will follow those who are credible. For example, if a coffee master is blogging about different methods on making the best coffee. Coffee lovers will read and likely indulge in what the coffee master is saying. finally, the last principal I see being effective is consensus. When looking for a blog or even hearing from others of a great blog that person then feels the need to check it out. Ultimately, these three principals can be used to bring in readers to a blog. Each one uses ethos, pathos, or logos in their own way.

Personal Blog #6: The art of influence.

From The Power of Influence I liked how they touched on ethos. Without credibility our arguments carry no weight. Establishing our credibility allows others to see us as honest and trustworthy. It is through this allows us to build up our persuasion tactics and convince a crowd that we are serious about our cause. Other factors correlate with this as well such as being personable.

Furthermore, it discusses how the essayist will indulge in their own ignorance. When a new question is asked the essayist will in fact begin to research the topic to become familiar with it. It goes further to discuss how the essayist will build boarders around the question and begin to paint on the canvince with answers that address the issue.  

The Power of Influence goes on further but let me say this as a former target employee that sold an obscene amount of redcards. Ethos is necessary in any persuasion it allows us the opportunity to develop credibility and build rapport with the person we are talking to. If we do not take the time to research new questions that ruin our credibility than it will ruin our persuasion/ argument. This is the first building block to our tower of persuasion. 

Memoir: thoughts and objectives.

In writing this memoir of my friends drug addiction. I hope to find closer in myself, I helped him as best I could but there was much more I could have done. It is important to be there for friends and I do not believe in ever abandoning them. We all have our own issues and problems in life, sometimes it is extremely difficult to coop with them. It can bring us to rock bottom and completely ruin our potential in becoming our best self. I believe that part of becoming one's best self is to be supported by friends and family. Without having others to help push you forward can kill your motivation and confidence. Without that why do anything. 

Memoir Ideas

1.Lolzy relationship

My first real platonic relationship with a girl the way we acted toward each other was historical we would make groups of kids laugh through comedic dialogue and antics.

2. Roadie for an indie band

My days during my junior and senior year of high school were spent helping my friend’s band Drawing Mountains lift heavy objects and be a part of their entourage.

3. Construction by hippies

Part of my senior year in high school was spent romping around the woods and building tee pees(I do have photos to go along) it brought all of our friends together and created many adventures with it along with some interesting finds.

4. Friends Drug Addition.

While in high school my best had gotten heavily addicted to opiates. His home life was a mess with his mom being an alcoholic and having an abusive father he had to find an escape somehow.   

5. Suicide Attempt

During my junior year of high school I was prescribed Adderall to help with my studies since I was failing miserably in high school. This drug completely back fired and instead of focusing on my studies that energy was spent negative things about me. Even though I told my parents how I was feeling they force fed me the drug anyways. Eventually one thing led to another.   

Day four: Success.

Hearing the sound of my alarm today made it seem like a typical day. Walking in I could already feel the cringe go down my spine that comes with the smell of rotten milk. As the day went day everything was the same. Stocking selves, helping our guest, and selling red cards. It was not until I was on break I received a call from ghost rocket music saying that they wanted to meet me in person for an interview, but they could only meet today. So, once I punched out I drove like a crack head who just got word of someone selling. When I arrived I kicked my door open and ripped off my cloches to replace them with the adequate interview clothes. I proceeded to drive like a madman to the location where we would meet. It was not until I arrived when I realized how odd this seemed. The building we were meeting at was not far at all but  I looked around and saw that the houses close by had boarded up windows and looked run down. I figured that if I died I would not be in retail anymore. So, I called back the number that he called on he came out to greet me. We went up the stairs to his loft where he was conducting all his interviews as there was no office space. We talked for while and he thought I would make a good fit. So he offered me a position as a producer/marketing assistant at ghost rocket music. He said I would just be helping musicians produce music and help them sell it.

Day Three: The candy man!

Working in retail full time as a customer service rep. one definitely see's a cast of colorful characters. Today this older gentleman came through the store and he approached me with a gallon of tide. Once I rang him up and went through the typical hey how are you small talk he proceeded by trying to pay me in candy. Unfortunately I had to his form of payment, sadden by this he coughed up the cash for his tide and began to leave. At the last second though he turned back and tossed a huge handful of candy onto the desk and shouted "You can't be mad at the Candy Man! I just gave you free candy!" and then decided to leave. People like that make my day.