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Aristotelian Rhetoric and Golden Doodles | Alexa Cousin | TEDxTheBenjaminSchool


look I want to go and it’ll and when I

say I want to go and it’ll I really

really want a goldendoodle I mean who

doesn’t they are a mix between a gun

retriever and the poodle they have the

loving quality of a gun retriever and

the intelligence of a poodle what is

there more to ask of i have been wanting

a goldendoodle since i was either six or

seven and now I finally have one his

name is Tucker and there is nothing

cuter in the world he is so fluffy

playful and he will just add a knower

jump into the pool everything my family

loves him now but it didn’t always start

out that way my parents wanted nothing

and I mean nothing to do with the puppy

love yeah and the three years of years

of begging pleading and apparently being

a pest I finally got one you may be

wondering how I accomplish this the

answer rhetoric rhetoric is the art of

writing where the writer feels need to

persuade or motivate particular

audiences redder usually uses heuristics

and I would need to use heuristic a

heuristic is when you don’t have the

perfect argument you could use a

shortcut such as common sense and

educated guess and a rule of thumb i

wish i didn’t need fewer sticks i wish

there was just a law saying that all 12

year old girls named alexa must have a

goldendoodle that’d be so easy in fact

when you have such a slam-dunk case like

that it’s called a non artistic argument

and that is an argument that you do not

need to invent unfortunately I couldn’t

use that kind of argument I had to come

up with my own argument and that is an

artistic argument for my argument with

my parents I started with logos then led

to eat those and end in and pecos but

you could do them in any order you want

depending on what your goal is logos

logos is the appeal to logic and for

this I want it to look like a scientist

and use words like compelling evidence

and statistically significant well all

these two facts that my mom like mom

dogs low your blood pressure pressure

and regulate your heart rate during

stressful stressful situations they also

helped children children develop greater

empathy higher self-esteem and

participation in social and physical

activities and lastly over 71 million

american households

alone own a dog now the guys are

thinking I moved on to eat those ethos

and appealed ethics and I wanted my mom

to think that us getting a goldendoodle

make us good and noble people so I

started rambling on saying saying mom

most dogs end up in a rescue center

street puppy mills or worse a kill

shelter and if that if we get a dog

that’s one less dog in one of these bad

places and one less dog that has to lose

his innocent little life approximately

seven point six million animals get put

in these kinds of places a year and two

point seven of them get put to death how

would you just sit there and know this

and not want to rescue a dog now that I

got to thinking about bad people who

would be not to get a-goin doodle I

moved on to pay those Patos is an appeal

to emotion and for this I needed my

little sister I ran to get my little

sister gave her stuffed animal that

resembled somewhat a goldendoodle

pinched her in the arms so that she

would cry and pushed her into the room

with my mom she gave my mom a face that

she could not say no to and to top it

off she looks my mom in the eyes curls

her upper lip and says mommy could you

give me a goldendoodle and that was how

I got my golden doodle this is my

artistic argument getting my gold deal

is up to you a kind of argument you said

use no matter the kind of argument you

decide to use is very important to avoid

fallacies fallacies are statements may

appear to be true but are actually false

and could break up a good rhetorical

argument ironically these were supplied

by my mother but these actually helped

me one fallacy that my mother came up

with was called a slippery slope fallacy

and this is in conclusion that if a HEPA

happens then eventually XYZ will happen

and my mom came up with a doozy she said

that if we gotta go and do it be our

gateway pet and then the next year we’d

end up with a golden retriever German

Shepherd Chihuahua guinea pig and three

bunnies and all i could say back was do

you really think this is going to happen

it’s taken me this long to get a goal

and doodle and we still don’t have one

for suasion is an art that every inch of

trying master it comes in handy believe

me where they’re trying to convince your

parents yet you were puppy or you boss

to give you a raise it is all the same

few steps I could lead you to victory

and very easily too it may take a while

but it’ll all be worth it it took me six

years to get Tucker in your so

happy with him in fact and if you had

any doubts about my persuasion look at this hey mom hi Tucker thanks mom

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