Dominic Cesario's Weblog

Should I give a homeless person a dollar?

If I was walking down the street and a homeless person approached me and asked for a dollar. my initial impulse would be to give him a dollar. It feels almost as an obligation to help out a fellow man with less fortune as you. [...]

Analysis of Presidential Commercial

I chose a Ron Paul campaign commercial for an analysis of the use of ethos, pathos, and logos. The commercial begins with a picture of the candidate, then moves into a black screen and has a number of popular political actions taken by Ron Paul. Some of the political actions [...]

1)Authority or ethos is the amount of confidence or hope the listener has toward the arguer. Emotion or pathos is the exercise in which the arguer presents a sentimental side to the argument in an attempt to touch the soft side of the audience. Logic or logos is the skill of connecting the [...]

Claim: A necessary element of an argument that serves as the thesis of the argument and as an assertion. A claim functions as the idea that the argument is created off of.
Support: The reasons why a claim or assertion is made in an attempt to convince people to agree with your claim. Support [...]