makes use of logos by including statistics, an expert’s research in the field of minimum wage, and historical data to attack Obama’s decision to raising the minimum wage. He includes pathos to create a sense of disappointment and hopelessness in Obama’s decision effectively to convince his mainly conservative audience. In comparison, Khan also makes use of logos by mainly focusing on historical and some statistical data to convince his more liberal target audience. He also makes use of pathos to instill
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heal faster.” The skit in this commercial provided great imagery and a scenario that was actually true, making this commercial very effective. Thanks to this charity, more children are capable of healing faster and reaching better health. The pathos of this commercial was heavily illustrated throughout the entire commercial, starting with the big, bright smiles of the mature individuals. These smiles of hope create the emotional effect, which help to capture the attention of the viewer. The
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Eng/215 October 12, 2013 Mr. Iwuchukwu What the Waters Revealed2 In the essay “What the Waters Revealed” written by Jim Wallis, Jim Wallis uses all three classical principals, ethos, pathos, and logos in his argument about Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster that everyone in the United States will always remember. During the Hurricane there was so much water that was produced that the levees around New Orleans could
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to establish that sweatshops are an “escalator out of poverty.” His second goal is to educate his audience on what improving labor standards would equate for these poor nations. By establishing ethos, and appealing to both logic and emotions, Kristoff succeeds in writing an interesting and informative
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donations from outside sources, to achieve their goals. The ASPCA organization utilizes their websites homepage and emotionally riveting commercials to encourage their audience by using numerous rhetorical devices, especially the rhetorical appeal pathos, in order to evoke to emotions within the audience. The ASPCA’s website layout, their content and
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August, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial. The human activist, King, delivered the speech with emotion, passion, rhetoric, and logic. He employs three powerful rhetorical skills; ethos, pathos, and logos. King’s most powerful tool throughout his speech was his ability to capture his audience’s emotions, otherwise known as pathos. In the beginning of his speech, he lists the hardships of African American citizens living in 1960’s America. King’s speech was delivered in the most strategic way because
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another vehicle with a husband, wife, and daughter in the car and killed them. In the Public Service Announcement (PSA),”Drunk Driving Kills”produced by the Governor's Council on Impaired Driving, the councils presentation of pathos prevail over ethos and logos, but ethos and logos is shown in the PSA. The emotion that the PSA, “Drunk Driving Kills” gave off to the audience was powerful. The video showed a family in a car. The husband, wife, and their daughter.
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Reduce the Risk Background Heart disease has been around for a long period of time but without the resources and technology we have today it was not identified. To be more specific according to an article by Carmen Chai during the 1960 the doctors were still getting the idea of what was the meaning of heart disease. They had no idea what caused it or how to treat it. Heart disease is the main cause of death between men and women. More than 600,000 million Americans die annually by heart disease
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He used pathos such as using the bible to get emotional reactions, with logos he gave real life situations as examples, and ethos he used what people thought and knew about Abraham Lincoln. This were just a few examples of what he said in his speech. King bought to the attention of the American people that our country was founded upon freedom and as a democracy we have the right to change laws and institute new laws if it will benefit society as a whole. Dr. King use of pathos is incredible
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purpose of analysis for claim, counterclaim, and refutation. Students will be specifically using this text in order to write their own argumentative body paragraph featuring a claim, counterclaim, and refutation. In Lesson 2, text excerpts which feature ethos,
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