Which of the following phrases is the best example of an appeal to ethos?
a. you will make the right choice because you have something that few others have: you have heart.
b. i come before you today as someone who has studied the issue and wants to do the right thing.
c. in 15 years of exploring these woods, i haven't seen a single snake.
d. history has shown time and again that the determined will succeed.

compare & contrast informative essay/speech

when speaking or writing for the sole purpose of providing information in order to give audience members a good basis for making a decision, you would present an informative speech or essay.   because you wouldn’t want to be persuading the audience by arguing for one type of exercise over the other, you wouldn’t choose a persuasive/argumentative technique.   to fairly, and without bias, present information about the pros and cons of each type exercise, a compare/contrast, informative speech/essay would be the best bet.

b. cronkite, a trusted television personality, declared that the war was unwinnable and told the american people that the government had better find a way out

even though it went against everything the news anchors typically stood for, cronkite voiced an opinion and took a stance, telling the us that there was no way they were going to win, the war was going to end in a stalemate.