Ethos and Pathos in This is Water Essay

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    Vasquez and three other immigrant teenagers, Lorenzo Santillain, Cristian Arcega, and Louis Aranada. Davis uses strong pathos as he presents the hardships that young Oscar and his three friends face, showing that all the boys truly want is just fit in and survive. The non-fiction book captures the hard work and dedication these students have in school and in life. Davis also uses ethos when setting the scene, describing Arizona’s strong beliefs against illegal immigration. Davis personalizes…

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    Alex Steffen is a very powerful speaker, he uses logic and reason to grab the attention of the audience, and keeps them hooked by using ethos, pathos, and logos to draw them in. Steffen’s voice is very powerful and you can tell he is a very seasoned speaker. The speech he gave is about the choices that humanity is going to have to make in the future. He started off with a lot of comedic ideas to connect to the audience, for example he said “About a million years ago monkeys fell out of trees,…

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    to try and persuade the Virginia Burgesses. These three facets are called Ethos,Logos, and Pathos. Ethos means that there is credibility. Patrick Henry had to be credible and fair to his audience. He had to prove to his audience that he could be trusted. Logos shows reasonable time and thought was put in. Patrick Henry made sure his audience knew that he put a great deal of time and thought toward his speech. Lastly, Pathos gives positive feelings toward the audience. Patrick Henry had to make…

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    lasted just 17 minutes, but in that 17 minutes he was able to influence the actions of generations to come. King carefully structures his speech to appeal to the different types of audience, supporting it with the three rhetorical modes of logos, pathos, and ethos which are covered with different rhetorical tropes and schemes, marking King’s name in history books. “I have a dream” was intended for 3 different audiences. First was the average black male that was being discriminated…

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    is that of using rhetorical strategies in order to further one’s argument with elements specifically to cater to an audience, adversary, or both. This very method has long been used as a meter or sorts to gauge the effectiveness of each facet of a standpoint in an argument. In the book Eating Animals, the author Jonathan…

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    Instead of presenting her thesis up front, Caitlin Flanagan uses the strategy of pathos to provoke sympathy from the audience by devoting much of the first part of her argument looking at the issue from the perspective of a foreign immigrant worker. She tells the reader to “Imagine” themselves “as a young and desperately poor Mexican man” who “made the dangerous and illegal journey to California to work in the fields” (Flanagan 418). To introduce her topic, she goes on to explain, that what made…

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    flames spread like water on the ground. The fire even created its own weather head, causing it to roll across the rangeland at 45 miles per hour. Fires of this…

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    a lot of neurology in this latter claim is still either false or fuzzy” (204). By stating this in his article, he shows what the opposing side has and how it may be wrong or has some falseness to it. Displaying the opposing side’s argument, makes his article stronger considering not only does he discuss his argument, however he discusses the argument against him as well. By doing so, it displays credibility because he is willing to show the argument that is against his. This allows consumers of…

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    Rhetoric is defined as “the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing.” This technique, when used correctly, can be a very powerful tool for politicians. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare demonstrates that a person’s ability to use theatrics and rhetoric effectively can influence their level of support, policies, and political relationships, both positively and negatively. In his speech at Caesar’s funeral, Mark Antony makes his speeches more powerful by using…

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    the Republican nominee. While the Democratic nominee is the first woman ever nominated— Hillary R. Clinton. Despite the lack of ads in this election compared to previous years, the rhetorical strategies still focus on discrediting the other opponent. Hillary Clinton’s advertisements are no exception. Hillary targets parents in, “Role Models”, using pathos and ethos to formulate her argument. She uses imagery of the home and children to set the scene, music to set the mood, and Donald J. Trump’s…

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