The key to successful public speaking is recognizing pathos, logos, ethos, and rhetorical appeals, according to Aristotle in his book, "The Art of Rhetoric." This ancient Greek philosopher the principles of persuasion---pathos or emotional appeals, logos or logic, and ethos---one's ethics, character, and values. To change the audience's behavior, the debater must use all appeals--emotion, logic, and values, moral behavior or ethics.
Anita W.
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The key to successful delivery, appropriate decorum, credibility, and ethical intent is the successful analysis of the techniques of great orators and rhetors who are inspired by the following rhetorical actors: Rational, logical, and cogent speakers. Principled, moral, mavins or experts in wise, critical thoughts and deeds, and consequences. And passionately, committed to the beautiful qualities of the Golden Mean and the virtues of the prophets, spiritual leaders of the creator, God, Jehovah, and Jing Alfred the Great.
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06/22/25
Anita W.
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The teacher is the expert authority in an ideal realm. She/he is the rhetor, the one with the voice of authority in a structure-bound and tradition bound universe, akin to the 1950 and 1960s "Leave it to Beaver" demographic environment. Teachers, therefore, were experts, were qualified to instruct a traditional, pre-Smart-phone classroom. Rhetoric, the art of persuasion, asserted that the mode of verbal communication resided in one-way, top-down communication, the teacher-centered classroom. in the early 1960s and 1970s revolutionary shifts in the Zeitgeist or way of thinking of the time emerged--the student-centered classroom. The student was given a voice, and he/or she was given input or voice of authority. They dictated the lesson plan with their questions, with their complaints about relevance, and with their nihilistic Teachers, we don't need no education from Pink Floyd, and counter-culture rhetoric.
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10/20/25
Anita W.
06/17/25