W. D. Ross

Pathos, logos, and ethos are all means of persuading others to take on a particular point of view. In the most recent presidential debate between Clinton and Trump, they both successfully utilized all the three appeals to convince the audience for their votes. By using pathos, logos, and ethos, the two presidential candidates were also able to argue their sides and propose plans for America’s future. Pathos is a significant and powerful tool of persuasion in arguments. For example, Clinton…

Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. is currently a Supreme Court justice and considered to have a rather conservative take on things. He is well known to lean towards making decisions that align with the ideals of a libertarian. On April 1, 1950, Samuel A. Alito Jr. was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He was raised in Hamilton, New Jersey. His father, Samuel A. Alito, emigrated from Italy and both of his parents were school teachers. Alito’s strong views on immigration originate from his father. Even through…

Sam Harris’ quote, “Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it,” clearly portrays the inhumanness of the Taliban. The Northern Alliance, also known as the United Front, was mainly an Afghan group that disagreed with the Taliban and its actions, and they pursued their beliefs and fought for what they believed to be right. Many cruel actions towards innocent citizens from the Taliban/Al-Qaeda sparked an upcoming of the Northern Alliance.…

Ted Cruz is back at it again making headlines again. Everyone believed that John Kasich would collaborate to bring down Mr. Trump. Be that as it may, to everybody's surprised Cruz formally named Carly Fiorina as his vice presidential running mate Wednesday a last-ditch move to regain momentum after being mathematically eliminated from winning the GOP presidential nomination outright. Fiorina joined the Texas senator on stage, and Cruz's staff changed the podium in between Cruz and Fiorina's…

“America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.” George W. Bush Oct. 8, 2002 Cincinnati, Ohio Much similar to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which in and of itself is a day of infamy, September 11, 2001 is a day of infamy that has yet to dwindle down and is referred to quite a lot in order to justify the actions being taken overseas against “terrorists”.…

In the Donald Trump's Revolt from The New York Times written by Eric Thayer, the author argues that “We know that by words and actions, he has shown himself to be temperamentally unfit to lead a diverse nation of 320 million people."In other words, Thayer believes Mr. Trump was unprepared to be a president of United States in a situation that America face right now . President Donald Trump, the unpredictable result for many, now became the future of America. The result of the election was mainly…

The 1992 election was an election that was full of surprises and events that still invoke people’s interest. However, in all that excitement the 1992 election is also a representation of the issues that the U.S. election process contains. Robert D. Loevy in “The Flawed Path to the Presidency 1992: Unfairness and Inequality in the Presidential Selection Process” outlines the 1992 election, in order to identify the issues with the United States’ election process and to introduce solutions for…

When a person wants to run for president election, they announce it before the primary elections. The primary elections help decide the future president and the vice president. There is a convention held in the summer of the election year, where the party would choose its candidates. Once the candidates have been chosen, that is when the they go around the country meeting people, making speeches and making promises about what they will do for the people while they are in office, they usually…

Healing the Mind of a Child Soldier “I didn’t feel a thing for him, didn’t think much what I was doing…The prisoner was simply another rebel who was responsible for the death of my family, as I had come to truly believe” (Beah 124). In the Memoir “a long way gone” by Ishmael Beah, sees 12-year-old Ishmael trying to survive in the war stricken country of Sierra Leone. Ishmael is just an ordinary boy when the RUF (Revolutionary United Front) attacks his home of Mattru Jong, while he is away in a…

On September 11,2001 the terrorist came into the United States and attacked the twin towers and the world trade center and it killed a lot of people so the us gave Saudi Arabia demands and if those requirement wasn’t met we were going to invade them and those requirements weren’t met so we came and invaded them. But the newspaper criticized our response about the 9/11 attacks and published it and made us look bad when the response wasn’t even so bad. After the 9/11 attacks the United States…