Jan. 16, 2013. The president of the United States had a very unique gun control speech at the White House. The vice president Joe Biden, children, teachers, parents, and journalists attended the speech. In the speech, President Obama constantly mentioned several families, these families would become the protagonist of the speech. Because, December 14, 2012. A shocking gun shooting occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. A 20 years old young man shot 20 children and 6 adult school staff members. This is the terrible tragedy happened to these innocent families. Thus, Jan. 16 President Obama gave his highly-anticipated gun control speech to his nation that a Gun Control legislation was imminent in the United States. But first he needs to convince the Congress. In order to have the Congress’s attention. His speech will not be the same as usual. In the speech, president Obama respectively used Ethos, Pathos, and Logos to create a strong, convincing speech, through by
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In order to persuade congress more efficiently, president Obama began to use the Logos in his speech, he offered a very shocking crime data to his audiences, “In the month since 20 precious children......, more than 900 fellow Americans have reportedly died at the end of a gun -- 900 in past mouth”(Gun Control). Indeed, the data just like a massive canyon cannot possibly be crossed. He knew only if he could give the truth to the audiences, the audiences would finally realize the thing happened on these families was also so close to them. From then on, President Obama took control of the speech, he knew what he only need was a little push. So, he followed that up and said, “ we can’t put this off any longer”, “ every day we wait the number will keep growing”(Gun Control). Here, he used simple generalization to tell the Congress the bill cannot wait any
In order to persuade congress more efficiently, president Obama began to use the Logos in his speech, he offered a very shocking crime data to his audiences, “In the month since 20 precious children......, more than 900 fellow Americans have reportedly died at the end of a gun -- 900 in past mouth”(Gun Control). Indeed, the data just like a massive canyon cannot possibly be crossed. He knew only if he could give the truth to the audiences, the audiences would finally realize the thing happened on these families was also so close to them. From then on, President Obama took control of the speech, he knew what he only need was a little push. So, he followed that up and said, “ we can’t put this off any longer”, “ every day we wait the number will keep growing”(Gun Control). Here, he used simple generalization to tell the Congress the bill cannot wait any