ENG 103:01 Group 4

In class, we've been constantly discussing how people do or don't have a responsibility to society, looking at that, what we need to think about is what each person's motivations are, and what leads them to do actions. As an example, take a wealthy public figure and imagine they did something to make the public or media mad, so next to get back on the good side of the public, they would make an expensive donation, or start a charity, or even just apologize to have the public and media back on their side. Now some would, no most would say that's just them that doesn't apply to the "average joe," then think of this, a complete random person, "your average joe" if you will, donates to a charity. Why did they do this? To be a good person or because they have a duty to society, no, they did this because, in the end, it makes them look better to the public, or even if it's an anonymous donation, they are still making themselves feel better by doing...

I was really interested in the first chapter of Thank You for Arguing because I thought it gave a lot of great tips on how to use it in your papers. I liked how it gave me a background on how rhetoric came to be. The ancient Greeks apparently created it and they thought rhetoric was an essential skill for leadership. They thought it was so important that they placed it at the center of higher education. Rhetoric helped create the worlds first democracies that later trained Julius Caesar, Marcus Tulles Cicero and many more famous scholars. I also like Aristotle's three traits of credible leadership because I believe that we can apply those to our everyday life and use them with good intentions.