Mia Hamm

I started to think about someone who I look up to. With that in mind I thought about Mia Hamm, one of the greatest female soccer players. A light bulb wen toff in my head and I realized that she too is a great speaker. No only is she passionate about soccer, but about the points she tries to get across to her listeners. The one of her voice tells a story in itself. When she starts off speaker her "attention getter" is almost always something funny. Which to me will always get an audiences attention. She does a great job in giving us an overall idea of what she will be discussing and she gives stories to back up what she is saying. usually the stories are personal experiences, which to be is one of the most affect ways to get an audience to listen. Her speaking abilities as many others that I have come across derive from ethos, pathos and logos. I already look up to Mia Hamm and respect her so for me she is already credible (ethos). Her passion for what she is saying and tone of voice gives her an emotional control over the audience (pathos). She always, always gives logic to what she is saying by examples and own life experiences (logos).
I, like Mia Hamm when speaking take it very seriously. My abilities to be persuasive comes from the passion of wanting to make an effect on whoever is listening. I believe that's a personal quality I have. I want to be able to touch someone when I speak. I don't want them to walk away thinking, "That's 10 minutes of my life I am never getting back". I want them to walk away with, "Wow, I never really thought about that before". For that to happen I believe that you have to convince the audience you are passionate and trustworthy. That they can respect you and that you do have emotion too. Putting your own life experiences in what you are saying makes you human too. Overall I believe that Aristotle's classification scheme works for her (Mia Hamm) as well as myself.