On February 19, 2010, Tiger Woods spoke to his fans, supporters, and non-supporters in search of forgiveness. In the speech, he apologizes for his acts of cheating on his wife, Elin. He hopes to change and gain support from his audience in doing so. Woods issues a strong apology by showing his respectable character, establishing culpability in the audience, and utilizing first-person point of view. Appealing to ethos, Tiger Woods shows his faithful side as he takes credibility for his actions. At the start of the speech, Woods gives a simple greeting saying, “Good morning. And thank you for joining me.” With this nice greeting, Woods immediately gives himself a stronger impression to produce a positive effect in the audience.Then, Woods makes …show more content…
In addition, he takes enormous credibility for his behavior in the paragraph starting “‘I knew my actions were wrong...’” Woods shows his honesty to the audience and boosts his chances of forgiveness as he shows awareness of his mistakes in what he had done. He also emphasizes his mistakes when he apologizes to parents who pointed to him as a role model for their kids. This shows his noble side and his sensitivity for families and others, sustaining his hopes for forgiveness. Woods also claims responsibility for his behavior by admitting his need for help, which makes others realize how he is learning how to change, in order to make his apology more sincere. Not only does he mention his need for help, but also that he is thankful for the help of his peers. Once again this shows his noble side and awareness of the helpfulness of others, which will continue to make people more likely to forgive him. Lastly, at the end of the speech he asks …show more content…
The first way he does this is by mentioning his foundation and how he wants to continue to help young people “achieve their dreams through education.” By showing he continues to care about children throughout the country, he makes people feel guilty for bringing endless pressure upon him. Knowing he helps children, the audience realizes Woods has a strong, positive side to himself and not just a negative side. Therefore, the audience is more likely to forgive someone who cares for children rather than someone who cheated on his wife. Also, Woods mentions a false rumor about his wife which claims she attacked him as a result of the issue. He makes people feel guilty for believing and spreading such a negative idea as there has “‘never been an episode of domestic violence in [their] marriage.’” Continuing to produce guilt, he causes the audience to begin to feel shame on themselves for their behavior and feel the need to forgive him. Thereafter, he continues on to mention his children and how they have been treated unfairly also and how the media reported his “2 ½-year-old daughter’s school location.” The audience realizes how mistreated his toddler was and guilt is produced as nobody wants to see a child’s life being open to danger. People will feel bad that Woods’ young girl was followed like this and will become more likely to forgive him because he is viewed as a protective
Forgiveness is a very important skill to have. It can help you retain friendships and rekindle old ones. There is so much forgiveness in the novel A Separate Peace. When Phineas is pushed off the tree limb during the school year, he brings up the idea that it was Gene’s fault he fell, but dismisses it right away. Gene goes to visit Phineas at his home during the summer. He tries to explain to him that it was indeed his fault.
For this rhetorical analysis paper I chose one of my favorite, and most famous, sports speeches of all time, Lou Gehrig’s farewell to baseball address. Lou Gehrig was a famous baseball player in the 1920’s and 30’s. Lou didn’t really need to use a attention getting introduction, he was well known and loved by so many that people piled into Yankee Stadium to watch and listen to him give this speech. Although he didn’t need an attention getter, he began his speech with one of the greatest baseball quotes of all time, “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” (Gehrig, 1939) Every single time I hear or read that opening line it sends chills down my spine and stops me for a moment to reflect on everything that is going on in my own life.
President Obama’s Address to the nation was presented on January 5, 2016. His speech was shown on all of the major network stations. The main goal of his speech was to get the point across to the nation about the increasing problem of gun use. His speech really focused on the issue of gun control and if it would benefit the country. Overall, the biggest idea of his Address was that gun control is a large issue in the United States. The way to prevent deaths caused by firearms can be prevented in other ways than taking peoples guns away. The examples brought up in this Address really stood out to me. The use of personal, national, and global examples really made his speech stronger on the topic of effectiveness.
“Moreover, many of the feelings that express character are not about what one has done or should have done, but rather about what one cares deeply about.”(Sherman154) The narrator cared for K., the boy was his best friend. Obviously he cared immensely. It was hard for the narrator to understand, so he blamed
Throughout the history of golf there have been many players that carry a sense of dominance, but none greater than Tiger Woods. His competitiveness and the way he strives for excellence is one of the main reasons Tiger is beyond talented. Woods has the most decorative career resume along with being the face of a multi-billion-dollar company Nike. He has gone through lots of ups and downs in his career. Although his career is filled with incredible accolades. Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer of all time, and the first billionaire sportsman, but he also struggles with his actions off the course.
In Bill Clinton’s speech “I have sinned” showed that Clinton realized the mistakes he has done to others and ask them if he can ever be forgiven and not committing the same mistakes again. Clinton is sorry for the bad errors he had done and he has repented for what he has done and promises to make a better nation. In life, we all do bad things, but we tend to realize the mistakes we have done and we repent of what we had committed, so we could be a better person and the others around us would still have trust in us. Before we ask to forgive others we should actually forgive ourselves because what we have done not only affected the others but affected us emotionally because you feel guilty for the bad actions you caused to others. Usually it is us who
felt ashamed after he got into trouble with the police and also felt sorry for his actions. These
Forgiveness can best be seen in a movie called ‘’Simon Birch’’ in which a young kid accidentally
Jim Valvano was the head coach for the North Carolina State Wolfpack in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). In 1992, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and as a result he created the V Foundation, whose raises money for cancer research. In 1993, Valvano won the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage at the ESPY’s. In his acceptance speech, Valvano effectively incorporates the three appeals of speech writing, but uses a strong ethos appeal to capture the audience. Through such a strong ethos appeal, Valvano makes himself worthy for the award he is receiving, which is the goal for any acceptance speech. Valvano’s speech is also effective because he uses four of the six parts of a speech, found in the Ad Herenium. In Valvano’s speech, exordium, narration, proof, and peroration are present. Since the purpose of this speech is not to get the hearers to donate, division (showing the difference between you and your opponent) and refutation (lowering your opponent’s arguments) are not needed. So let us go through Valvano’s speech to see the different parts where he makes his ethos appeal.
In this paper I am going to discuss the rhetorical appeals, as well as the argumentative structure, audience and purpose set forth by George W. Bush in his September 27 speech in Flagstaff, Arizona. More specifically I will refer to the rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos and logos, and explain how they are used to gain the support and attention of the audience and further the further the purpose of the speech. As I explain these appeals I will also give an insight into the argumentative structure and why it is apparent in this particular speech.
...is story, Higgs tries to point out to her "Good Girl" readers and remind them of the fact that forgiveness isn't something they deserve; it is something they should accept as a gift from their Father.
...to the woods transforms him from an overly trusting, naïve man into a cynical, and corrupted man. Before his life changing journey, goodman Brown is unknowing of all the sin that goes on around him. He believes that everyone he knows is perfect and without sin. This changes when he takes a trip through the forest. His eyes are opened in a sense, but maybe too wide. Goodman Brown becomes paranoid about everyone in the village including his wife, Faith. He also becomes corrupted and unable to focus on his religious activities that he has always done before. Fundamentally, faith is something that Brown gave away freely to anyone but, rather, should be given moderately.
A wise person once said, “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does change the future.” If a person receives forgiveness, it will change their future. It allows a person to transform and live their life, moving forward, in a better way. This is true of Brent because he has to be forgiven and forgive himself, not to forget what he has done, but, to transform and live a better life. If he did not find forgiveness, Brent would still be angry, selfish, and sad. In the brilliant novel Whirligig, by Paul Fleischman, the main character Brent requires forgiveness from himself and from others in order to undergo a transformation.
When Woods was starting his professional career, he was one of the most up and coming stars in professional golf. He had a fresh outlook on golf and was extremely young for how talented he was. Everyone saw the good in him and saw his potential. The media portrayed him to be an extremely good athlete and person when he was rising to fame. During this time, if anyone would mention the name Tiger Woods everyone would think positive because he had been so successful in his professional career. He was beginning to become a role model, at this stage in his life, for many young people and athletes (Callahan). Tragedy began to hit Woods. In 2006, Earl Woods lost his battle to cancer. This was Woods’ main mentor. This, alone, significantly hurt his career (Kelley). Shortly after this loss, it came out in the media that Woods had been cheating on his wife during the recent months and even some while he was away at tournaments. This scandal broke out in the media quickly because he never had anything of this sort happen. He admitted to having sexual relations with many different women, which eventually broke up his family and his marriage. He soon admitted himself into rehab for personal issues and took a leave from golfing for a short period while trying to get his life back on track. Many different companies dropped their endorsements with him so that their name would not be associated with someone who did this type of behavior. His divorce greatly affected his career, even affecting it currently. Today, his endorsements are just under half of what he was previously making (Callahan). Surprisingly, he has not won a major tournament since his divorce; however, he won a few smaller tournaments (Posnanski). This scandal has also affected how society sees him. The belief that many people had about him quickly changed. People were beginning to believe how awful of a person he was. The media was
Mistakes are inevitable but Southey’s book teaches that it’s best to think before doing. When Goldilocks invades the bears’ cabin, eats their porridge, sits in their chairs, and sleeps in their beds Southey makes it clear that what she is doing is wrong. (Southey) These poor actions represent the wrongdoings that many are unaware of even doing. Whether it be saying or doing the wrong thing, there are many influential beings with huge impacts on kids who can relate to Goldilocks. The rest of the world depicts the bears who are left to deal with Goldilocks poor choices. At the end of the story the bears do happen to get justice despite the whole ordeal, “Out the little old Woman jumped; and whether she broke her neck in the fall; or ran into the wood and was lost there; or found her way out of the wood, and was taken up by the constable and sent to the House of Correction for a vagrant as she was, I cannot tell”. (Southey) When Goldilocks tries to escape, the aftermath kicks in. Robert Southey yearned to teach that unacceptable behavior doesn’t fly by unpunished. Corrupt influencers have caused many kids to be blind to the fact that in the real world it’s impossible to act however. The old fairytale about a careless girl still correlates with today's society because there are still people who are unaware that thinking before acting will