Persuasion Through The Wire Those looking for a quick buck in the 1930s might put their money into betting on horse races. Con men used this desire for quick money to trick unsuspecting men who just sought a dollar. These men would continue to be tricked by what was known as the wire. The wire is a con game made famous in the movie The Sting. In its most basic form, the wire involves a brilliant grifter, a rigged betting system, and a wealthy, unsuspecting victim. The wire was also known as the ‘big con’ because it was considered the biggest scam a con artist could execute in the early twentieth century. The primary element of con artistry is persuasion, which can be explained through the use of logos, ethos, pathos, and David Maurer’s ten …show more content…
Without persuasion, a con man cannot pull off his schemes. The three pieces of persuasion are logos, ethos, and pathos. Logos is an appeal to someone’s logic. In other words: persuasion through facts and logic. In the con, logic is used to appeal to the victim’s natural intelligence. Ethos is an appeal to ethics, which basically is persuasion through credibility and facts. In the con, the victim’s own ethics are used against him to make it seem like he is part of the con. Pathos is an appeal to emotion. The use of pathos, according to YourDictionary, “creates an emotional response to convince the audience.” In the con, the victims emotions are put into play. Essentially, the heart of persuasion consists of appeals to logic, credibility, and emotion. In his book, The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man, David Mauer describes how con artists are persuasive and explains the con in ten steps. They are as follows: putting the mark up, playing the con for him, roping the mark, telling him the tale, giving him the convincer, giving him the breakdown, putting him on the send, taking off the touch,, blowing him off, and finally, putting in the fix …show more content…
These two steps are playing the con and roping the mark, and Hooker completes these steps by explaining his plans to Lonnegan. Hooker’s persuasiveness through logic and facts build a sense of trust between him and Lonnegan, which will eventually lead Lonnegan to buy into the con. Typically in the wire, the appeal to logic involves money. Greedy people always want more money and somehow, the victims in the early 20th century believed that betting on horse races was an easy way to receive
The lawyer bet that he can be in prison for fifteen years and it is a way to boost his ego. The banker bet 2 million dollars that the lawyer would not survive in prison. While in prison they both studied and read a lot of books, they built a lot of knowledge throughout
Within society, people are motivated by self interest and self gain rather than concern for other members of the society. In moments of high crisis On the Waterfront directed by Elia Kazan and Twelve Angry Men written by Reginald Rose both depict characters driven by self interest rather than compassion. However On the Waterfront and Twelve Angry Men both have a character that defies the social norms of self Interest. The play script and film portray similar themes through different devices. The characters within the film and novel cast a similar picture of greed and corruption.
Persuasion: The American Revolution and the 2016 Presidential Election Throughout history, persuasion is a tactic used by influential people in order to gain something. In both the American Revolution and the 2016 presidential election, persuasion was used to acquire a number of things: the trust of the people, their vote, their encouragement and overall, their faith. The ideas of democracy, freedom and liberty that political speakers alike employed in both of the aforementioned events helped persuade the American people. The American Revolution contained rhetoric in an abundance of its literature that features the radical ideas of democracy, freedom and liberty.
The author’s use of gullibility develops a larger point to his audience about the nature of society
Donovan Bell-DaCunha Professor Sharon Burns ENC 1101-20497 6 February 2018 Analysis of Budweiser Commercial “Puppy Love” Everyone one loves a story about cute puppies and friendship. In Budweiser's 2014 Super Bowl commercial “Puppy Love” it tells one. The purpose of this commercial like any is to convince the audience of the message its promoting. In the advertisement it uses the three tools of ethical persuasion: logos, ethos, and pathos.
According to Chris Hedges in his excerpt “Empire of Illusion,” “The most essential skill in political theater and a consumer culture is artifice” (Hedges 1). Chris Hedges wrote this book to persuade the audience that the most essential skill a person can have is artifice, the skill of deception. Throughout the excerpt, Hedges covered the important of artifice by detailing the importance of personal narratives, where the reality is irrelevant (prompt). This topic is broadly known as controversial due to the fact that some people believe artifice is necessary to be successful in life. However, others believe there are various other skills one can possess while being just as successful.
Pathos is used to manipulate the viewers emotionally and uses words of emotion. Ethos, unlike pathos, is a more
Ray Lawrence’s socially provocative Australian film, Jindabyne(2006), presents a thought-provoking and contemporary outlook on racial prejudice, the dramatised moral dilemma of responsibility, and a confronting depiction of reconciliation. The film dramatises the struggle over Australia 's history, representing the past as deeply alienating, as it explores the complexity of the relationships between racially diverse characters in post-colonial Australia. Lawrence establishes the reconciliation of characters through sound, further examining the relationship between cultures and genders in conflict. Through symbols, Lawrence explores deceit, and the roles, perceptions and experiences of men and women within various relationships, demonstrating the unforgiving consequences of division and distrust. The film presents
In the winter of 1776, during American Revolution, the still young America faced three major dilemmas: their seemingly imminent defeat, the moral debate between the Whigs and the British loyalists, and the panic and confusion of the American public. In efforts to settle the three American dilemmas, Thomas Paine wrote The Crisis No. 1 in December of 1776. In his work, Paine aimed to calm the American public and convince them to stand up to the British, and turn the war into an American victory. Paine was very successful in this, and his paper was proclaimed as one of the most persuasive works of the American Revolution. Paine’s
The last kind of people that help start epidemics are salesmen. Gladwell describes these people as having a characteristic that many people don’t have: persuasion. For them, convincing people to do something or buy something is like a second nature. Gladwell says, “Persuasion often works in ways that we do not appreciate. It’s not that smiles and nods are subliminal messages.
The Wire is a show about the Baltimore drug game, told through the lense of law enforcement, drug dealers, drug users, and the people of Baltimore. Sexism, racism, patriarchy, and heteronormativity are all seen within the show, but the two concepts that the show seems to centers around most are the concepts of Marxism and Hegemonic masculinity. Marxism is defined as the “dictatorship of the proletariat”(Merriam-Webster) which essentially means the control of the laboring class by those who have more power and more money which can be influenced by race, class, and social standing. In The Wire the interest of the powerful people is being served at the expense of the less powerful in many ways. The most prominent example that stood out was when
The three modes of persuasion are ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos, pathos, and logos are used by individuals who desire to persuade an audience with a particular argument or claim. Persuasion techniques are often used by political figures, sales people, entrepreneurs, and just about anyone trying to persuade a target audience through emotions, character, and logic. The ad, I Am One, shows how these vehicles of persuasion are presented and used; rhetorical strategies like tone, attitude, and non-rhetorical strategies related, patriotism and history references.
There are numerous persuasive devices that can be used as tricks in order to appear credible in the eyes of the audiences. There will be eight persuasive devices that will be mentioned in this analysis which are artistic proof which consist of ethos, logos and pathos, facts, repetition, positive dictions, analogy and rhetorical questions. 3.1 Artistic proof According to Aristotle, persuaders use proof to persuade audiences. Aristotle describes artistic proof as proof that is created, or invented by the persuaders.
He states that it is disbelief in existence of demons. Therefore, we see deception as one of the primary characteristics of Screwtape. Lewis attributes deception as a central tactic used by demons to win over the human souls. The devil realizes that he needs to establish different forms of theatricality and deception. Otherwise, human choices will lead man to God.
Internet has transformed our day to day live personally, socially, politically and professionally. The internet impacts our personal, social and business lives. When we wake up in the morning, we use our internet device to check the weather, the news and our social media site. When we get to the office, we check our business emails and respond to them. Before the wide spread use of the internet about 32 years ago people use to talk on landline telephones and people use to TV that use analog equipment.