Ethos Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

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Abstract
The battle of grades as opposed to the battle of wits has always been an intriguing topic for the modern man. There are many people who possess the remarkable skill of attaining their objectives with the help of practical learning and experiences. Patrick Goldstein’s essay, “Tiger Mom vs. Tiger Mailroom”, talks about few of these talented people who made their fortunes on the basis of their skills and abilities despite their seemingly unfavorable academic statuses.
Thesis Statement: The practical implementation of a person’s ideologies is what plays the most important role in today’s fast ...

Ericsson, Stephanie. "The Ways We Lie." Trans. ArrayBack to the Lake: A Reader for Writers (Second Edition). 2nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. 336-343. Print.
In her essay, “The Way We Lie,” Stephanie Ericsson states a well-known fact that everyone lies, while she also argues that every lie is not essentially bad, but accepting lies turn them into a “cultural cancer” and lead to severe consequences. With structure and style of writing, Ericsson supports her claim by appealing to logos, pathos and ethos, namely: she appeals to the logos by describing historical events and facts to provide ...

The letter by Martin Luther King, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” targets the white ministers in the city of Birmingham. King writes this letter to the 8 white ministers who criticized his actions as a clergy in a statement which was published in the newspaper, after he violated the law of the city and had to be jailed. The purpose of the letter is to address issues in the city which subjects African American towards injustices and segregation. The author seeks to address the plight of the Negroes who have suffered under the whites for a long time (Fahey ...

In the Adidas ad “Making History,” Adidas shoes are presented as a split screen presentation of the same shoe, colored differently, with stats below them detailing how two soccer players – Gerd Muller from West Germany and Leo Messi from Argentina – used these Adidas shoes to set world records for making goals in their respective years. Judging from this ad, the target audience for this particular Adidas advertisement are soccer fans, those who would know the names of the players, would be familiar with the sport and the type of shoe involved, and who would be appealed to by citing ...

This Pampers advertisement, in which a baby wearing a Pampers diaper plays outside, facts and figures surrounding the baby’s diaper, uses many different strategies in order to appeal to its target audience. In this particular case, the target audience is likely adult women of child-rearing age, who have young boys or girls who are toddlers. The socio-economic status is probably middle-to-upper class, and the parents of these young toddlers are likely well-educated, as they are likely in the market for a product to use on their children and are willing to look for diapers with sophisticated features and ...

Introduction

The Goias ad passes out the message that Brazil is concerned about its environment. The image is composed of a large cloud which has the shape of a fist, and positioned on top of a city. In addition, the advertisement reads “what goes around comes around.” A smaller part of the image also speaks of Global warming, it read, “Global Warming. Do your part to change that.” Below the statement, three small images are embedded. These images are also related to the environment; the first portrays a cultivated land, the second shows a hand watering on some vegetation and the third is an image ...

Introduction

Socrates is considered one of the greatest philosophers in the history of Western Europe. Virtually every person that goes through the education system must come across his name, his works, or his demise story. Greek official had previously put Socrates in jail for the charges of ‘corrupting the mind' of the Athens' youth. In the eyes of the wealthy and the influential, Socrates was making a fool of them by empowering the young people with new information about the society and its leadership among other things. When put to jail, he was scheduled for death in a few days, ...

Socrates was, and still is, considered to be one of the most profound contributors to human philosophy that has ever lived. In the end, he was, if anything, a bit progressive for his time. This was reflected in the fact that he introduced many new thoughts and ideologies that ran counter to culture at the time. As such, he was eventually arrested, placed on trial, and set for execution. With many supporters around the region, Socrates likely could have gotten free somehow. This could have perhaps took place via an escape, but he chose no such way out. As ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was considered to be one of the greatest leaders of the Civil Rights era. In his letter, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is writing in response to a letter that was written to him by eight Alabama clergymen. In their letter, the eight clergymen expressed a dislike for the activism of Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. They believed that the demonstration that Dr. King was participating in was “led in part by outsiders” (Carpenter et al.) Additionally, the clergymen seemed to praise the police of Birmingham. In ...

The persuasive essay “Forger Shorter Showers” by Derrick Jensen has appeared in Orion magazine in 2009. It is highly persuasive essay, and Jensen’s thesis argues that “personal change does not equal social change” (Jensen 665). He persuades that the environmental problems are so serious today that the large scale action are required to actually change anything that include the global changes in society and economy. The author examines different aspects of the life in modern society and aims at proving that little everyday acts people do in order to positively influence the environment do not actually change anything, ...

Joana MacKay’s article titled “Organ Sales Will Save Lives” comes across to be an argumentative piece that aims to persuade the avid readers into being in compliance with the opinion that is voiced by the author. It needs to be noted that MacKay goes on to utilize a number of techniques of persuasion so as to influence the readers of the article. A close introspection of the intricacies of penning this article would enable one to have a much better understanding of the matter. It has to be reckoned that the writing deals with a very controversial topic ...

‘Sicko’ is a documentary film directed by Michael Moore. It is a document on the national system of health in U.S. The thematic core of the documentary is the health system in the United States and the way it is provided by the health maintenance organizations (HMOs) which are described and seen to be functioning clearly oriented by their non-stop need to keep increasing their profits. The documentary describes the established health system in the United Systems and compares it to the corresponding health system of Canada and other European countries, trying to arise questions regarding the ethical aspects of this ...

Richard Buchanan - Design Discourse

Design Within Reach is a modernist studio based in Pasadena in a building that is very reminiscent of a Bauhaus styled building. However, the focus of the business is on the replication of Modernist furniture. The work that is being sold here are manufactured replicas of the many designers of the Modernist period. Some of them include Eero Saarinen, Le Corbusier, and a number of other prominent Modernist designers. This allows the designs to be as authentic as possible. In light of this background, it would be interesting to analyze, and critique one of these designs ...

Donald Trump’s speech marks the businessman’s entrance in the presidential election race for 2016. His speech abounds of rhetorical devices such as language manipulation, propaganda, suggestions, diversions or emotional appeals, incorporating also statistics and verified data to support the presented arguments. Aligned with the principles of rhetoric, Trump’s speech announcing his candidacy to presidency has a sound structure and most importantly it fits the speaker’s communication style, reaching is intended audience.
The speed is addressed to all American citizens who have the right to vote, as they are the targeted individuals that Trump aims to ...

In his writing, Mark Dowie makes a claim that people essentially are a part of nature. Moreover, he encourages people to realize that and stop labeling an interconnected Universe either as “civilized” or of “wilderness”. For the writing to be comprehensively considered, the audience is required to possess some knowledge on the topic. As the essay enumerates a number of scholars’ and tribes’ names, political statements (such as The Wilderness Act) and tackles the topic of preservation, one may conclude for whom it was written. Thus, the supposed audience are researchers (biologists, anthropologists, ecologists etc.), environmental activists, including politicians ...

Zora, the author of Dust Trucks on a Road, was born in 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama and died in 1960. She was regarded as one of the best and contemporary American novelists, anthropologists, and folklorists of the Harlem Renaissance (Meisenhelder, n.p). While she was three, her family moved to Eatonville Florida, one of the first all-black towns to be established in the United States. This was a place where the blacks existed independently and as they desired. Due to this, Zora often referred to it as her birthplace. The death of her mother was the beginning of her misery ...

1. The issue of immigration is a multi-faceted, controversial one. It encompasses issues such as cultural assimilation, human rights and dignity, law and justice, employment, as well as educational opportunities for host countries and migrant countries. For example, some people, like Jonathan Laurence, demand a secular absorption of Muslims -- an unconditional acceptance of their cultural norms by their host countries, and more tolerance for the rapidly-growing Muslim population in European countries. Laurence is an associate professor of political science at Boston College. Kofi Annan, United Nations' Secretary General on International Flows of Humanity, states that we need a more-balanced, conservative approach ...

- After Bob and Carol bought a video game console for their child, Greg, they began to notice a change in his behavior. When they could pry him away from games for dinner, he would be verbally abusive at the table. He would also punch walls in frustration, and even kicked over a glass table in the house. Bob and Carol blame video games for Greg’s violent behavior.The following conclusion suffers from which type of fallacy?This fallacy found in this case can be said to be a correlation implies causation fallacy otherwise known as Cum Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc this is because ...

As Jessica Lahey, a former teacher and writer who frequently contributes to The New York Times, says, “an education in cultural literacy can empower those who have been traditionally excluded in civic debate. It equips citizens and non-citizens alike in the vocabulary and knowledge they will need to understand American culture,” there is no doubt that unless a person understands the basis on which an argument or view is being expressed, the entire effort of that debate. Unless citizens and non-citizens are educated on the history of America and how culture is formed, it becomes difficult for them to understand American ...

English

Aimee Bender’s fictions are symbolic of human emotions and struggles largely analogized and formed through fairy-tale representations. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt is by and large in the same vein and is a collection of short stories that seems to suggest a narration by a teenage girl. On reading The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, in each of the short stories, the one common moral and that is one of trauma interlocked with pittance. The story about a young girl who comes home to find her dad carrying a backpack which seems to resemble a bag made of stones is intriguing. In the ...

One of the oldest adages in advertising is “know your audience.” Marketing a product properly to an audience can mean the difference between a successful product and an unsuccessful one. An excellent example of the differences in advertising can be seen when comparing products for two different markets which are made by the same company. Unilever, a large corporation that owns both the Dove and the Axe brand, is a prime example of the differences in the way that products are marketed based on the audience that they are targeted for.
The Dove website is targeted mainly towards women, and primarily women ...

Critical Thinking and Language

Critical Thinking and Language

Efficient communication implies structural knowledge of a common communication language, but also the understanding, through empathic abilities, of the non – verbal communication: perceiving the gestures, tics, mimic of the face, expressions or even silence as sources of communication. Language is directly linked with critical thinking because in a communication process the actors involved in the process need to think to what they want to say to their communication partners, to filter the information and based on what they understood to create an answer. This process implies structuring words, based on a critical thinking process. The communication actors need ...

If you want to see a cultural myth, turn on the pre-game show that comes before a Dallas Cowboys football game. Somehow, back in the 1970’s, the Cowboys were given the slogan “America’s Team.” This was also around the time that their then-general manager, Tex Schramm, finagled them a home game every Thanksgiving, in what seems like perpetuity. If you watch that pre-game show, you’ll see images of great Cowboys from the past: Roger Staubach, Tony Dorsett, Troy Aikman and the like. You’ll also see a montage of current Cowboy highlights, and you might even see the fedora-wearing coach ...