The Use Of Logos In Barack Obama's Speech

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The last form of appeal that Barak Obama uses and discusses in his speech is logos. Logos are reasoning, logic, or can be used as an argument. When Barack Obama explains race in his speech that is a form of a logo. When explaining about the topic of race he uses reasoning to solve the problems. Using logos throughout the speech Barack Obama is able to talk about the topic of race in his speech. An example that Barak Obama uses in his speech that is a logo is “Legalized discrimination, where blacks were prevented, often through violence, from owner’s property, or loans were not granted to African-American business owners, or black homeowners could not access FHA mortgages, or blacks were excluded from unions, or police force, or fire departments,

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