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She herself mentions that she feels great shame when reflecting on the course of her life. She stated, “I was their age. I feel this deep shame, and that’s why in 1991 in Tanzania, I started a program that’s called Roots and Shoots,” (5). By using herself as a specific example, she reinforces her credibility. Additionally, by saying that she herself feels shamed makes the rest of the audience feel shameful. This is because many people look up to Goodall as an example of an important and an influential environmental scientist. Therefore, by stating she is shamed one cannot help but also feel shamed. This is specific evidence of an effective strategy of the use of pathos to invoke sympathy and commiseration amongst the …show more content…
She wants to narrow the margin of humanity feeling as though they are entirely separate from the animal kingdom. Literally, humans are a species of animal. Furthermore, chimpanzees happen to be our closest genetic relatives. Goodall takes a logical approach of describing how we are ethologically, behaviorally, similar. She does so by recounting an experience she had while in the Gombe, a state of Nigeria. Goodall and a colleague, David Greybeard, observed a chimpanzee male performing an unprecedented behavior. “I saw that he was picking little pieces of grass and using them to fish termites from their underground nest. And not only that -- he would sometimes pick a leafy twig and strip the leaves -- modifying an object to make it suitable for a specific purpose -- the beginning of tool-making” (2). Some people who know Goodall may recall that it was these observations and discoveries that allowed her rise to become a revered