Domestic Violence Rhetorical Analysis

Domestic Violence October is domestic violence awareness month and a purple ribbon represents this cause and states, “recognize it, report it, prevent it”. McKenzi Walker is a passionate college student who has a heart to help survivors in domestic violence. She is currently finishing her masters in criminology and has a minor in women studies. This passion began when she attended a class regarding domestic violence and through this she realized that she had been in domestic violence relationship herself. She was in a manipulating relationship and had not even acknowledge that it could be called abuse. Walker stated that it was after five years that she finally came to the realization that she needed to get out of the relationship. Now she personally …show more content…
It is through this she established ethos, but only did she share this if you asked afterwards what was her driving force to be an advocate for domestic violence. One of the first questions that Walker imposes upon the audience is, “What do you picture when you hear domestic violence?”. Her approach to the whole lecture contained many rhetorical questions to engage the audience. By doing this, she also hit on anecdotal and empirical evidence, compare and contrast, pathos, logos, and ethos. Numerous times, she even called domestic violence intimate partner violence, but did inform the audience that domestic violence does not discriminate. By using empirical evidence and statistics, she validates her claim that domestic violence, in fact, can affect anyone at any time and this abuse happens where someone might least expect it. One in seven women, one in five teenagers, and one and eighteen men have experienced some type of domestic violence in their lifetime. Either it is through fear, harm, or even the threat of death to the victim in the relationship. Domestic violence is a cycle that begins with trust or love, and then turns the victim to isolating one selves, and