Rhetorical Analysis: Man Landing On The Moon

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1969 Apollo 11

The purpose of the article on Times newspaper about man landing on the moon, is to inform the readers of the facts and details of the landing. The article contains some inspiring rhetoric and emphasizes human success focusing, on logical information for the readers. The commentary by Rand inspires the audience and promotes patriotism, and reaching men’s highers potential. The article “man takes first step on the moon” uses appeals to both logos and pathos to provide information about the moon landed success for the audience. The newspaper’s renown name across the world gives the article automatic ethos. This helps all the appeals to logos because the reader will believe that the facts presented by the times are true. It also uses many appeals to logos. The article is meant to be informative and uses specific details and helps everything stays focus. Facts are simple into the point which allows the article to reach wider audience of those who knew about the event and those who didn’t know about it. Appeals to pathos are use very little. The speaker uses appeals to ethos to build trust between the peace and the audience because
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Safire did this in many ways. First the occasion has already established pathos with the audience because any American who knew about the failure would had feelings either for the death of the astronauts or the failure of the American mission. He also labels their death as for mankind's novel goals: the search for truth and understanding. This appeals to the pathos of those mourning. He ends the speech with an appeal to pathos that offers a connection from the astronauts death to human pride and espirit using the phrases “ This men were first, and they will remind the foremost in our hearts”. The writer reflects on the astronauts lives with a tone of thanks and also sadness that leads to a theme of a proud in tragic

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