Revealing my Ethos

After enjoying the beautiful weather that Kansas had for the first time in months, I decided to go inside and check out my Facebook page. Realizing that I had been tagged in a ‘25 Random Facts About Me’ note by one of my Facebook friends, I took the liberty of creating a '25 Random Facts About Me’ note as well.

The sad thing is I had never been so stumped. How could 25 things about me be so hard to come up with? I was pathetically trying to think of SOMETHING that would be interesting. And suddenly, my thoughts jumped back to what I had learned earlier in the day: a lesson about ethos, pathos and logos.

In class, we were instructed to write a persuasive paper about two different presidential inauguration speeches, convincing our readers that one speech was better than the other. Now, I know that writing 25 random facts about myself doesn’t exactly compare, but the ‘ethos’ part is what helped me come up with my zany facts. Ethos is basically how well you know your info; being convincing and honest, of course.

And it was almost out of nowhere that all of these peculiar things started coming together. Not only that, but I found them to be quite humorous! Some of them ranged from my family life all the way down to my useless ability to count how many letters are in a word extremely fast. (Seriously, that is probably the most worthless skill I could ever retain).

So. I found my random power.

What’s yours?

~by Olivia Newfarmer