Presentation Analysis

Presentation Analysis:
1. This song is a very simple song, but it makes the point that goals are necessary to make on an individual level and a community level. The lyrics highlight the challenge of making and committing to a goal through incorporating different feelings/emotions (pathos). At the same time, the lyrics evoke a sense of unity and community through using these different feelings/emotions, because they make up a universal personality; everyone can relate to the emotions that are mentioned.
Therefore, I believe this song would illustrate that setting a goal is very important and can be done and accomplished on a level larger than an individual level, as long as the conflict of feelings are recognized so that the community can help each other or know what they are up against. This scenario is very illustrative of how the political issues are playing out on climate change in the United States, and through exploring it we can come to conclusions on how it can be helped/changed.
2. This comic provokes an immediate idea of competition, which is the main idea I wanted to express through this presentation. The green thing #2 makes a statement that challenges his opponent, and since the majority of the audience has been in this situation before, the audience can relate and assume that the green thing #1 will try to meet the challenge (pathos). So, once a person’s presumed inability is brought to their attention they will instinctly try to prove that they are capable.
Therefore, the main idea of this presentation ties into the “tactic” that Kennedy used during the Space Race and could be used in the future to provoke a similar response, which was that the American people did rise to the occasion in order to prove their superiority over Russia. What the audience will learn is that competition is a natural human instinct, which triggers the want to win or succeed, and can be used to accomplish a goal or mobilize people to act.
3. A goal cannot be achieved on a community level unless it is conveyed to the public, through pathos, with words and memories that make people feel emotion. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech, “I Have a Dream”, instantly brings to mind change, inspiration, and power. His ability to fabricate desires and objectives, in the mind of the people, through speech willed the public to unite under one purpose; the purpose needed to achieve the goal of equality.
He is the voice of his goal, and therefore must bring his audience along with him, engaging them emotionally and intellectually. Powerful speeches have the ability to invoke feelings of patriotism, urgency, pride, hate, respect, unity, and many other emotions. I will use this presentation to teach the audience that pathos is extremely effective in persuading your audience of your purpose.
4. This picture depicts people helping each other make it to the top. It portrays teamwork through pathos and allows the audience to assume that if one of the people were not committed to the task of helping progress would not be made. Although, I have to fill in the blank on how this presentation teaches the audience about cooperation in relation to accomplishing a goal (even if the answers are obvious), the illustration is very useful. The gestures of helping hands, of hard work, and of triumph clearly describe the rewards of cooperation and therefore describe how similar rewards or goals are capable of accomplishment through this way.