2). Consider a well-known speaker, for example, the current President of the United States. What is the speaker's strongest characteristics as a speaker? Is it credibility, attractiveness, power or all three? In what ways could the speaker build ethos in these areas?
I spoke about President Barack Obama during our week 2 discussion…he definitely is a speaker I admire because of his credibility when speaking. In my opinion, his strongest characteristic as a speaker is his integrity along with confidence. To me, confidence brings everything together and can turn any boring speech or speaker into an interesting person because not only do they are confidence in what they’re speaking about, it allows the audience to know that they at least are interested in what they are talking about. Going back on topic, the credibility, attractiveness, and power are Obama’s strongest characteristics because he brings all three easily into play when speaking on the podium. Ethos is showing moral character-- Obama can build ethos into all three characteristics by being a little bit more subtle about his decisions or plans for our world…in my opinion, it would benefit us if he was a little bit more quiet about what he was planning on doing before bringing up hopes for our citizens and just having it back fire in the end if none of his plans are approved.
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I totally agree with your post. Our president is a very confident speaker and that is extremely important when it comes to persuading people to think a certain way. I don't agree that it would benefit his ethos to hide big decisions from our country. It's important for him to build a confidence in us so that we are sure of the decisions he's making for the country. I think he's done that so far.
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ReplyDeleteI totally agree with your post this week. Obama is awesome. I feel like our whole class talks about him all the time and we all think he is basically greatest President. I think you are right he could be a little more discreet with his plans for our country so other countries can use it against us. But I do like that fact that he tells us what is going on play by play so we aren’t kept out of the loop like past presidents. Just when I thought he was perfect you opened my eyes..loll. Good one!
good post!