Rhetoric Techniques Used In Girl Talk

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The third and final example of their use of the rhetoric device pathos is during the scene were the record producer of Girl Talk named Gregg Michael Gillis talks about his work in medicine. This scene in the film was a very well executed use of pathos in many ways. For one they show us that medicine could be much further than it is now but because of the patents that companies have on the most basic of ideas, they cannot use the information that was found to add to their own personal idea. This touches us because there are so many illnesses in the world but because of these patents on the ideas nothing can be done with these ideas except for by the holder of the ideas. Then Gregg begins to tell us “so many things aren’t developed because people

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