1. Camille A. Langston claims that you can get what you want by using just your words, and further uses Aristotle to show the audience how.
2. The reason this is Langston’s claim is so one can utilize Aristotle’s methods and be able to identify when they are being used on you. 3. Langston’s tone throughout her entire video is formal and informational. Her goal is to stay professional when informing her audience about the multiple different rhetorical strategies. 4. The intended audience of this video is anybody who desires to make it easier to get something they want. In hindsight, basically anybody would be willing to learn these various ways to improve their rhetoric through Langston’s logical explanations. 5. Langston arranges her ideas by starting off with, “How do you get what you want using just your words?” to draw the listeners in and make them interested (Langston 0:06-0:09). Then, she immediately introduces Aristotle and his three types of persuasive speech: forensics, epideictic, and symbouleutikon. Then she explains ethos, logos, and pathos, and how one can use them in certain situations. Langston concludes with a small few sentences on how these methods of persuasion are helpful and knowing them can help one identify if they are being used on that person. 6. Langston establishes credibility by bringing in Aristotle at the beginning and explaining that the topics talked about in the video were first thought of by him. She uses more examples throughout the video, such as when she credited Martin Luther King Jr. in his speech and related it to deliberative rhetoric: “Such as Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream that his children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by content of their character” (Langston 1:19-1:28). 7. An emotion Langston wants the listeners to feel is interest and enlightenment. She wants people to be interested in using rhetoric strategies more often. She wants people to feel like they just gained very useful information that they might not have known before. 8. Langston arranges logical argument by starting off with Aristotle. By starting off with Aristotle, one can identify where these ideas, that Langson discusses, come from. Then throughout her explanation of ethos, pathos, and logos, she uses examples of real life situations, such as how well-known people uses these methods in speeches to sway the judgement of their audience. 9. The first rhetorical strategy identified was the “But wait, there’s more” strategy. Langston starts off by explaining ethos, and how successful a persuasive method it has been with well-known people. Then, she goes on to mention another powerful way of persuading an audience: logos. Finally, she introduces pathos as another method. By doing this, she informs her audience that no matter the preference on how to use rhetoric, one can use any method. Second of all, she uses logos, another rhetorical strategy, in her video. By using Aristotle as a prime example for where all this information came from, the audience can be certain that these ideas did not come from the back of her mind. These ideas and methods of persuasion came from an extremely famous Greek philosopher. 10. When considering how I use rhetoric to get what I want, I have found that pathos is the most effective. If you can sway the feelings of someone by touching on a topic that is important towards them, they will be very open to listening to your ideas.
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1. Carol Dweck’s main claim of her speech is that kids need to be raised to have a growth mindset rather than a fixed one. Dweck says praise is most effective towards a growth mindset in children: “(Praise) the process that kids engage in” versus “praising intelligence or talent.” In this case, she describes this method as “praising wisely”.
2. Carol Dweck’s purpose of presenting her claim is to inform how to raise more kids to have a growth mindset. By reaching more adults in her talk to raise children with a growth mindset, the future generations will be more optimistic, more determined to be successful, and potentially raise their kids the same way their parents did. 3. This TED talk takes place in 2014 in a TED convention center, on a stage. Here, Carol Dweck performs her speech on the power of yet. 4. During this time, there are students all over the country with a fixed mindset. Carol Dweck uses the opportunity of the TED conference to talk about what is happening among children of all ages. “A basic human right” is what Dweck relates to raising kids to have a growth mindset. By giving kids this basic human right, it will give them the opportunity to shine. 5. Dweck’s audience is parents who are raising their kids. These parents want the best for their children, and Dweck presents a helpful way to give them that. 6. Carol Dweck starts out by using an example of a school in Chicago. When their students did not pass a class, the report card would say “not yet.” Carol proceeds with her talk by explaining her experiment of giving younger kids higher level questions. From this, the kids with the growth mindset would say something along the lines of, “I’m always up for a challenge.” The children with a fixed mindset would respond to those challenging questions by finding someone who scored lower to make them feel better. Dweck later on uses scientific research on the brains of these two different mindsets to back up her experiment. Finally, asks the audience the question, “How are we raising our kids?” 7. Carol Dweck uses various pieces of evidence to support her claim. For example, a kindergarten class in Harlem, New York ended up being in the 95th percentile because of their growth mindsets. Similar to this example, fourth-grade students from The South Bronx became the number one class in their state, all because of the way they were raised by the adults around them. 8. As a student, I think I lean towards having a growth mindset. My parents always praised me in the right ways, thus making me ready to take on a challenge and improve my skills. My dad gives speeches on happiness around the world, and even though happiness and growth mindsets are not the same thing, being raised on occasional happiness talks from my dad definitely has something to do with it. |
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