Ethos Pathos Logos Analysis

Ethos, Pathos, and Logos, these are the three ways of public speaking. Ethos is involving the credibility of the speaker to the public. Pathos is involving the emotional connection to the audience. And Logos involves the logical argument of the speaker. These three ways of public speaking are covered in the following three videos.
In Drunk History – Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks provided by Comedy Central the public speaker, whose name is using the form of public speaking form of Ethos. Her reference to Claudette Colvin is very accurate. She stated that Claudette Colvin was a fifteen-year-old pregnant teenager who refused to give up her seat to a white woman back in the Civil Rights Era. In The De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn't Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew the speaker is credited for Claudette being the woman who started the bus boycott. The speaker also has credibility because in the same textbook it stated that Claudette was no eligible to be chosen as the face of the movement because of her being pregnant. Claudette also did as the speaker states nine months before Rosa Parks got arrested for the same incident. This is a good example of using Ethos because it can be …show more content…
Thomas Jefferson provided by Comedy Central the speaker, Patrick Walsh, makes use of Pathos. Most people would believe, and practice avidly to this day, freedom of speech. Most people would agree with Thomas Jefferson in the video that a country without the freedom of speech is a tyrannical country. If it wasn’t for freedom of speech, we would not be able to write this rhetoric in the manner that we choose. The video also uses Ethos mildly. In The American Presidents, Washington to Tyler: What They Did, What They Said, What Was Said About Them, with Full Source Notes Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to James Madison which stated “I like everything about Adams except his politics” which implies that the two were in fact friends as stated in the