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Kelly McGonigal “How to make stress your friend” Background: “Dr. Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University. As a pioneer in the field of "science-help," her mission is to translate insights from psychology and neuroscience into practical strategies that support personal well-being and strengthen communities.” “In her free time, she is a passionate advocate for animal rescue and volunteers as an adoption counselor for Best Friends Animal Society.” Your thesis: Stress is a major part of our life that may possibly hold us back from our full potential to become better in studies or, in general, life. Stress is a feeling that affects how you interpret a situation in a certain way. Whether it be a good feeling or bad feeling. Speakers Purpose: In the early moments of Kelly McGonigal 's speech, she says “I am a health psychologist and my …show more content…

Do they support and value community-building and deep conversation?
Could they be impacted by my TEDx event in a life-changing (or even world-changing) way?
Will they carry my event’s “ideas worth spreading” out into the world?” Ethos: She tries to convince her audience to take a stand against stress, and embrace it as a feeling that may help you in your work and life rather than a bad feeling that holds you down. Pathos: The only emotion that I have found within the speech, is that Kelly wants to help people change their life in a significant way by changing stress into a positive emotion. Logos: Kelly uses facts of people who have died by seeing stress as a bad thing versus people have seen stress as a helpful. She brought together charts to argue her presentation. Rhetorical Devices Used: I researched the different types of Rhetorical Devices, and I could not find any that related to Kelly McGonigals

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