The speaker was Eric Whitacre. In March of 2011 he presented a speech named A Virtual Choir 200,000 voices strong.His speech was about what he did.He conducted peices and made a virtual choir. Throughout this speech Eric Whitacre used his his experience and knowledge to show us how he began an online choir.
The audience is really to the general public almost as if he were writing in a newspaper. HIs purpose was to inform people of his accomplishments.His objective was to show the audience how proud of this project he was and how it came about. He claims that his younger self wouldn't believe he’s here today. He claimed college changed his life. He later claimed that this virtual choir is his greatest life achievement.
He uses ethos wisely, he adds that he couldn't read music until he was in college and how he had a dream of becoming a rockstar. This is used as common ground because most people don’t know how to read music ,and a lot of kids have the dream. This idea came to hm after a video was sent in of Britlin Losee singing “Sleep”.He went to Chorus in college. He notes that he wrote on his blog OMG!- Which he uses as common ground because people in this day and age use OMG frequently. After his speech was over he still had manners he showed that by saying Thank you to
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the crowd. He lacked Logos, he was going for a more Pathos effect. He did some, when talking about his goals; he made a point that MTV did something similar with Lollipop and they had 900 people participate. His goal was to beat that which he did. He got 2,051 people from 58 countries. As I said above his real aproach was Pathos though. He used Pathos by keeping you interested a couple examples were when he mentioned that at first he didn’t join choir because of the stereotypical music geeks that were in his high school. He later uses it was saying why he joined “hot babes in the soprano section” An experience that changed his life. Those were all examples of Pathos feelings they all made you want to laugh. the way he portrayed them.Another role of Pathos that was strong is when he showed the video of Britlin sing “sleep” His original inspiration for this online choir. When Whitacre says “she was so small and innocent” It was heart touching and sweet. At the end when he’s showing us all the pieces put together. It was so beautiful and overwhelming. “So I wrote on my Blog OMG OMG . I actually wrote OMG hopefully for the last time in public ever” This was Pathos because it was funny and that was his intent for us to take it as a joke to keep you entertained. Eric Whitacre uses rhetorical devices ,but not very many and they usually tie into his appeals on Ethos, Pathos ,or Logos.
He starts with a hyperbole and says “and so I figured for Mexico And babes, I could do just about anything” This appeals to be Pathos feelings because it’s funny. He later uses an analogy “ In my entire life, I had seen in black and white and suddenly everything was in technicolor.” This shows the audience how much of an epiphany being in choir was for him and how much it changed his life. The only other one that Eric Whitacre used throughout his speech was a metaphor in which he states “He scrubbed the audio” Informing the audience of the amount of work they had
done. He used visual aids acutely ,but subtly. He shows us Britlin his inspiration to create this whole project. I personally believe that helped him build why this is important.He really used it to his advantage and to build his Pathos appeal. He shows his conductors video . He shows us I think to show us his commitment to this project and the hassle he went through. It really was good to show his work ethic and how committed he was to this choir. The third and final video he showed was his final product which not only was an amazing video , you could see all the work put into the final project. It was an outstanding choice to show the audience what he actually did. The speaker’s delivery was effective. His goal was to tell his story raise awareness of what he did. The speaker is telling his story , so you hear proudness in his voice telling his story. This talk was effective ,but like every great talk it also had its weaknesses. His weak points were that he didn’t really have an argument. He could have connected it to a bigger picture about technology, the music industry, or anything. But what he did was just tell his story. I read an article about an interview that Eric Whitacre did the interview was titled Eric Whitacre:Virtual Choir Master This article gave me an extra point of view on his life before college and how he even got interested in music was because of McDonalds yes you read that right McDonald's the fast foot joint. He was on a radio advertisement which gave him the money to buy his first synthesizer. Which led to his love to his love of music. He later goes on to describe his story and how the McDonald's radio ad didn’t propel him up the yellow brick road to Hollywood.
In 102 Minutes, Chapter 7, authors Dwyer and Flynn use ethos, logos, and pathos to appeal to the readers’ consciences, minds and hearts regarding what happened to the people inside the Twin Towers on 9/11. Of particular interest are the following uses of the three appeals.
The tone during the whole plot of in Brave New World changes when advancing throughout the plot, but it often contains a dark and satiric aspect. Since the novel was originally planned to be written as a satire, the tone is ironic and sarcastic. Huxley's sarcastic tone is most noticeable in the conversations between characters. For instance, when the director was educating the students about the past history, he states that "most facts about the past do sound incredible (Huxley 45)." Through the exaggeration of words in the statement of the director, Huxley's sarcastic tone obviously is portrayed. As a result of this, the satirical tone puts the mood to be carefree.
Edward O. Wilson, the writer of this satire, writes about the opinions of two disagreeing sides to demonstrate the unproductive nature of these litigations. To do this, the author writes in a horatian manner and uses instances of exaggeration, parody, incongruity, and irony to help him convey his message that these arguments are pointless. The well distributed use of these strategies allows the writer to efficiently illustrate and mock the unproductive disagreement of these two groups of people.
Jared Diamond makes a great and compelling argument about how inequality across the entire globe originated. The main components that were agreeing with this argument were guns germs and steel. Guns meaning the advancement in weaponry, military warfare and military sophistication. Germs meaning the harmful disease and other foul illness that wiped out humans throughout History. Then the third and final point steel, which was about the advancement in societies and the complex sophistication with their technology, which lead to building great architecture and devices that were completely impactful.
Scientists are constantly forced to test their work and beliefs. Thus they need the ability to embrace the uncertainty that science is based on. This is a point John M. Barry uses throughout the passage to characterize scientific research, and by using rhetorical devices such as, comparison, specific diction, and contrast he is able show the way he views and characterizes scientific research.
Throughout the course of this novel, Ishmael Beah keeps the readers on the edge of their seat by incorporating interchanging tones. At the beginning of the novel, the tone can be depicted as naïve, for Beah was unaware to what was actually occurring with the rebels. Eventually, the tone shifts to being very cynical and dark when he depicts the fighting he has endured both physically and mentally. However, the most game changing tone is towards the end of the novel in chapters nineteen and twenty. His tone can be understood as independent or prevailing. It can be portrayed as independent because Beah learns how to survive on his own and to take care of himself. At the same time, it is perceived as prevailing and uplifting because Beah was able to demonstrate that there is hope. Later in the novel, Beah travels to
One example of Ethos is “I started out just a mom-fighting for the life of her child. But along the way I learned how unfair America can be today, not just for people who have HIV, but for many,many people-poor people, gay people, people of color, children.” She shows to the audience that she understands the struggles of the aforementioned groups, because she has HIV. She understands just how unfair America can be to people who don’t fit in. She knows that she doesn’t seem like the best representative for the group of people she mentioned, but she wants the audience at the DNC to know that she has their best interests at heart. Mrs. Glaser wants the DNC audience to join her in the fight against AIDS. Glaser also uses Pathos in her speech. “Exactly four years ago, my daughter died of AIDS. She did not survive the Reagan Administration. I am here because my son and I may not survive four more years of leaders who say they care, but do nothing.” In this appeal Mrs. Glaser is appealing to her audience’s emotions, especially the emotions one feels when talking about their family like love and empathy. She mentions that her daughter has died because of this disease and that her son and herself are dying as well to show that this is a disease that can affect anyone and that it is crucial to work on cures or vaccinations to prevent others from suffering the way her family has. No mother or father
In the book Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer wrote about Christopher McCandless, a nature lover in search for independence, in a mysterious and hopeful experience. Even though Krakauer tells us McCandless was going to die from the beginning, he still gave him a chance for survival. As a reader I wanted McCandless to survive. In Into the Wild, Krakauer gave McCandless a unique perspective. He was a smart and unique person that wanted to be completely free from society. Krakauer included comments from people that said McCandless was crazy, and his death was his own mistake. However, Krakauer is able to make him seem like a brave person. The connections between other hikers and himself helped in the explanation of McCandless’s rational actions. Krakauer is able to make McCandless look like a normal person, but unique from this generation. In order for Krakauer to make Christopher McCandless not look like a crazy person, but a special person, I will analyze the persuading style that Krakauer used in Into the Wild that made us believe McCandless was a regular young adult.
The fight for racial equality is one of the most prominent issues Americans have faced throughout history and even today; as the idea that enslaving individuals is unethical emerged, many great and innovative authors began writing about the issues that enslaved people had to face. Olaudah Equiano was no exception. In his work The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, he attempts to persuade his readers that the American way of slavery is brutal, inhumane, and unscrupulous. Equiano manages to do this by minimizing the apparent differences between himself and his primarily white audience, mentioning the cruelties that he and many other slaves had to face, and the advantages of treating your slaves correctly.
Along with rhetorical appeals, Wiesel also uses many rhetorical devices such as parallelism and anaphora. Wiesel depicts parallelism when he says, “to fight fascism, to fight dictatorship, to fight Hitler” (Wiesel lines 103-104). The parallelism and anaphora, in the quote, provide emphasis on the discrimination and abuse that has taken place around the world. Repeating the same initial phrase shows the significance of the words Wiesel is speaking. Wiesel mentions the victims of this extreme tragedy when he states,” for the children in the world, for the homeless for the victims of injustice, the victims of destiny and society.” (Wiesel lines 17-19). This use of anaphora and parallelism emphasize the amount of people the Holocaust has affected and impacted. The parallelism being used adds value to his opinions and balances the list of people Wiesel is making in his speech.
Despite there being hundreds of video game releases every year, most of these games are unoriginal and therefore unplayable. There are countless video game genres, but one of the most popular genres in the past few years have been the zombie games, also called survival games. I was thoroughly convinced that all the games in this genre were clichéd and overdone, until I played the video game The Last of Us. Even though it is a survival game, the focus is not on gruesome zombies or gratuitous violence, making it already vastly different from the others. Instead, the focus is on telling a story. Between the gorgeous graphics, serene music, and flawless acting, it already goes beyond being just another “zombie game,” but this isn’t even accounting
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The choir immediately captured my attention and seemed to do the same for everyone else in the audience. I was very impressed by the fact that the choir was made up entirely of college students. It was also stated that some of them sing in the choir just for fun as they are not music majors. There seemed to be an appeal in the fact that the singers were mostly very young. The piece as a whole was also very enjoyable.
When he states that a successful conductor can be an incomplete musician and that he relies on and is encouraged to engage the audience to set a fake sense of leadership, this shows how much
On November 16th, 2013, I attended a concert choir, fall choral concert. This event took place on the Wheaton College Campus, in the Edman Chapel at 7:30 pm. The chapel was well-lit, with long pews for the audience to be seated. The concert began with the audience looking up into a balcony, where the ensemble stood in neat rows. They watched the conductor, who stood on a stage in front of the audience, waiting for their cue.