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    In chapter 9, our textbook discusses one of the most essential critical points for supporting an argument—Credibility. According to the book, credibility was first defined by Aristotle as “one of the three forms of proof (ethos), whenever the speech is spoken in such a way to make the speaker worthy of credence.” Characteristic of credibility contains competence and trustworthiness, goodwill and dynamic, homophily (similarity). I will peruse there is male a cat nihilistic candidate Meow to make an example to show my understanding of these three characteristics of credibility.  
To emphasized Meow’s competence and trustworthiness: Meow is a cat who came all the way from the bottom. He was born in a dumpster in St. Louis, Illinois, 2012. He joined Crip Kitty (the most renown cat gang in the U.S., the core value of Crip Kitty is “everything is empty”) Unfortunately, in a street war Meow was founded by his first owner, Katy, she brought him home and took Meow to sterilization. Meow said, “When I was trying to remember how I got caught by Katy, my memory of that part always disconnects each other, maybe there’s no Katy, maybe I don’t have balls from the beginning, maybe there’s nothing exist.” After three years, Meow escaped from Katy and joined the Cat Nihilistic Association of America and made all the way through the chairman. This special experience created Meow as an authentic nihilistic influencer, and the fact that Meow made from a small staff to the chairman of CNAA (Cat Nihilistic Association of America) shows his excellent capacity a work. Moreover, meow’s friends, family, and co-worker identified Meow as “the most trustworthy cat I’ve ever met.”
Goodwill and dynamic: Meow’s slogan for the election is “Make America empty again,” which shows Meow’s decent aspiration in politics. Says his colleges Prprpr, the former chairman of CNAA:” In Meow’s whole work life, I always see him encourage people beside him. Every day I see him at work, he always filled with enthusiasm, confidence, and Nihilistic thoughts.”
Homophily (similarity): Meow is as Nihilistic as every cat. He doesn’t care about anything. He has been through street life with no income, wealthy growth with Katy, and struggle life-fighting for his politics will. Meow is everybody; Meow is authentic, he is legit!

      

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