A Pathos Packed Argument: A Rhetorical Analysis of
Jane Orient’s “Testimony on the Influence of Private
Foundations on Public Policy” The instinct to stay alive is built into all of us. Therefore, the healthcare debate is such a hot topic. It is such a complex, expensive and consequential debate that we will never have an answer that satisfies all the current flaws in our health care system. Jane Orient offers some insight to the current issue of tax-exempt foundations influencing public policy through grantmaking in her article named “Testimony on the influence of private foundations on public policy” published during 2010 in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. She argues how organizations tax-exempt, lobby-like organizations …show more content…
Although, depending on the audience reading this article, her political stance could have strong pathos appeal to her readers. The Clintons have always been a very public and influential family. Meaning that American’s are likely to have some emotional responds to the family. The author also uses words like corporate socialism and fascism to help explain RWJF’s agenda. This article geared to an American population that is quite diverse is likely to have some of its members directly affected by fascism. Calling these entities fascist institutions can certainly be deemed an ethos, logos, and/or a pathos writing appeal. Unfortunately, the destructive force of fascism has an incredible body count and has affected so many people. This is the way it has such a strong emotional appeal. People from all types of backgrounds know about the destruction caused by Nazi fascism and large group of them have been directly affected by it. Now calling and organization such as the RWJF a fascist institution, hell bent on destroying the American way is a bit far-fetched. These blatant truths stretching statements make it hard as a reader to take the author seriously. It makes her sound blinded by anger, very well due by future court dates. The author too strongly adds her personal emotions into her pathos argument. This hurts the paper’s credibility but, helped lifted by the authors experience and position in the medical …show more content…
Orients has some very strong ethos appeal. She has a B.A in chemistry, a B.S in mathematics and is an M.D from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY. Dr. Orient high level of schooling shows she is smart and hardworking. Having the extensive studies of a M.D as well as chemistry and mathematics Cleary indicate that she is extremely brilliant. From an ethos standpoint, this could really go both ways. People with this level of intelligence are frequently out of touch with needs of the general population. Hurting her credibility to the middle-class
Jane Orient’s “Testimony on the Influence of Private
Foundations on Public Policy” The instinct to stay alive is built into all of us. Therefore, the healthcare debate is such a hot topic. It is such a complex, expensive and consequential debate that we will never have an answer that satisfies all the current flaws in our health care system. Jane Orient offers some insight to the current issue of tax-exempt foundations influencing public policy through grantmaking in her article named “Testimony on the influence of private foundations on public policy” published during 2010 in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. She argues how organizations tax-exempt, lobby-like organizations …show more content…
Although, depending on the audience reading this article, her political stance could have strong pathos appeal to her readers. The Clintons have always been a very public and influential family. Meaning that American’s are likely to have some emotional responds to the family. The author also uses words like corporate socialism and fascism to help explain RWJF’s agenda. This article geared to an American population that is quite diverse is likely to have some of its members directly affected by fascism. Calling these entities fascist institutions can certainly be deemed an ethos, logos, and/or a pathos writing appeal. Unfortunately, the destructive force of fascism has an incredible body count and has affected so many people. This is the way it has such a strong emotional appeal. People from all types of backgrounds know about the destruction caused by Nazi fascism and large group of them have been directly affected by it. Now calling and organization such as the RWJF a fascist institution, hell bent on destroying the American way is a bit far-fetched. These blatant truths stretching statements make it hard as a reader to take the author seriously. It makes her sound blinded by anger, very well due by future court dates. The author too strongly adds her personal emotions into her pathos argument. This hurts the paper’s credibility but, helped lifted by the authors experience and position in the medical …show more content…
Orients has some very strong ethos appeal. She has a B.A in chemistry, a B.S in mathematics and is an M.D from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY. Dr. Orient high level of schooling shows she is smart and hardworking. Having the extensive studies of a M.D as well as chemistry and mathematics Cleary indicate that she is extremely brilliant. From an ethos standpoint, this could really go both ways. People with this level of intelligence are frequently out of touch with needs of the general population. Hurting her credibility to the middle-class