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    show statistics of the increase or decrease percentage of students who would buy the healthier food, and if it would benefit the district. If it didn’t, I would need to demonstrate that healthier foods are a beneficial investment. In order to build pathos, I could provide my own personal experiences in the cafeteria, explaining how the non-healthy food makes me feel tired in class, as well as using figurative language to help explain my…

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    and posting them to telephone poles. On the fliers there shows a picture of the puppy and the horse from a previous commercial strengthening the relationship between the two in the eyes of the viewer. The next scene shown has the greatest amount of pathos in the whole commercial and it creates such a powerfully sad image for whoever is viewing it. The scene shows the puppy inside of some metal shelter that he found slouched over while it is pouring down rain making anyone that has at least half…

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    through his eyes not from the outside. Elie Wiesel successfully shares his experience of the holocaust with his message that indifference becomes much worse than any sort of hate or anger. Wiesel also improves his speech with the use of ethos, logos, pathos, and creative writing style. Wiesel's main message is that you should not exclude or treat anyone worse because they believe in something different than you. He states many times that indifference becomes much worse…

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    good of the people. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, a 2011 Newsweek Article, and a U.S Army Marine Corps Photograph display this very idea. The authors built upon JFK's legacy with plenty of ethos and pathos by using his effect on people through his position as a previous senator and a new president. Pathos was also used in how he preyed on the people's pride and want of a common goal to advocate his purpose. They highlighted how he understood the people's fears and gave solutions…

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    and separating from Britain is exactly what’s best for them. If parents weren’t to do what was best for their kids, then later on they would feel like bad parents which is something no parent ever wants to be. Another literary device Paine uses is pathos: “the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem to lightly” (Paine 130). What Paine is trying to say is the war against Britain is going to be a long, arduous task, but the reward if we win will be…

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    had a fear for war and believed that there was hope even after the passing of the “Intolerable Acts” made the people have to accept to completely support British rule in order to get rid of this taxes. Patrick Henrys most persuasive technique was pathos which was persuasive because it helped people to start understanding that war could not be avoided and presented colonists/revolutionaries with fear tactics which helped to get them in the right mindset. In order for Patrick Henry…

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    “On Being Sane in Insane Places” by D.L. Rosenhan focuses on an experiment testing if sanity can be distinguished from insanity, how the labels of diagnoses stick, and depersonalization within the mental institutes. The experiment and the purpose of the experiment is set up in the first few paragraphs. The purpose of the experiment is to find if the sane are detectable within mental institutions. To test this they had eight pseudopatients get admitted into twelve different mental hospitals…

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    animal abuse, and ever since the topic has come to light, there have been commercials made by organizations who want to combat animal cruelty. The creators of an animal cruelty advertisement, BC SPCA and Sarah Mclachlan effectively create an aura of pathos, through the display of clips involving dog/cats who have undergone abuse as well as by implementing music that elicits guilt and sad emotions. My purpose for choosing this commercial is that I wanted to do a commercial related to…

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    Well Written Persuasion

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    Alder appeals to the reader’s emotion, or pathos, as well as logic, or logos, and he even provides several counter arguments for ethos, or ethical dilemmas, in this case dilemmas to marking in books. The Dr. implores pathos several times throughout the article, but one area in the very beginning of the article stands out the most. He begins discussing the differences in the two ways…

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    statement is considered a theory. It only became a theory through the use of ethos, pathos, and logos. No matter what articles always use some sort logos, ethos, and pathos. This is how we make theories and get reactions like we do because we use logic which is logos, emotion comes from pathos, and bring credibility to are writings is the use of ethos. This is why I 'm going to focus on logos, ethos, and pathos in my writing, because of how important it is. In this paper I will break down and…

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