Argument # 4 Appeal To Pity

When the movie first starts you really wonder what did this kid do to get Saturday detention. He appears to be a goody, goody like he wouldn't do anything to get in trouble. He was pretty much ignored by the others in

When we talk about appealing to emotions; another word that we can use is pathos. Which is usually apparent when the United States suffers a disaster. Yet, the nation is already upset and senses a great deal of emotions. Unfortunately, when dealing with a situation at this caliber, pathos is the toughest to grasp. Because rather than bringing up sadness – you are trying to control those emotions.

Emotional appeal is what draws an audience in, allowing the author to persuade them in agreeing with the argument. Pathos is the most powerful of the appeals, with an author being able to win their audience over completely through emotional effect. For example, Alexis Madrigal utilizes emotional appeal quite effectively in his article “Take the Data Out of Dating” where he explores the dangerous influence online dating sites have the privacy and matchmaking of the public. He first mentions the invasion of privacy by online dating companies as he states, “Date-mining software needs lots of tuning to create good matches, so the services track everything would-be lovebirds do”(424). This fact can provoke discomfort with an audience, giving them a reason to agree with the author. Then he explores the dangerous power of OkCupid’s matchmaking techniques as he states, “What if the dating sites had existed in the 1950s? How would they have dealt with interracial matches”(425). By using the what if technique to have the audience picture his perspective Mr.Madrigal excellently draws in the audience to create an awareness of the online dating site dangers to his

Child C is a seven year old boy. It is important at this stage of my intervention to be aware of the issues regarding the ways in which our society treats people at such a young age. It is difficult for a child’s voice to be heard; therefore it is essential that I listen and advocate on his behalf if necessary.

uses pathos throughout his essay to appeal to his audience's emotional side and their sympathy

They include emotional appeals, ethical appeals, and logical appeals. Emotional appeals can be used in a persuasive argument to sway the audience by using any kind of technique that appeals to feelings. However; it’s not always the most appropriate strategy related to your argument. Ethical appeals provide credibility to the author and make him/her seem more trustable to an audience. One way you can do that is to build common ground. By expressing some sort of relatability with your readers you will be more likely to be appreciated and heard. Logical appeals are more about being reasonable. These sorts of appeals have proven to be further effective because they involve factual statistics, studies, experiments, studies, and

Insufficient consideration of the Childs individual views and needs the voice of the child is not

Appeal to pathos: appeal to emotion, an appeal to feelings rather than to strict reason.

Being at the top of the social hierarchy has been a must for every American of past generations, but can lead to fatal damages for some trying to obtain that goal and a cause to ruin people’s lives. In a remarkably triumphant story on compassion, Harper Lee explored the horrors of racial prejudice in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Set in the 1930’s, the poor town of Maycomb, Alabama has been hit by the depression hard, which created a vast, complex social pyramid, with distinct families and lifestyles. At the Finch household, composed of a little nine year old girl, Scout, a twelve year old boy Jem, and their father Atticus, proceed through a whirlwind of events throughout the next few years. Atticus, a lawyer who is a hardworking, honest man at the top of the social hierarchy of Maycomb, has to defend a colored man by the name of Tom Robinson. This happened to be very unusual for the time period, as the family has to transcend through the struggles in a racial prejudice town and learn the raw nature of the worst in humans, thus trying to overcome these events through compassion. The author utilizes metaphor, characterization, and mood to describe the situation of Maycomb, it soon then becomes very clear that the dangers of ruining innocence can lead to a vast road of horrors and evils.

Go to Chicago, New York, Paris or Madrid, on every street corner you see a person less advantaged, poor, and desperate. Then go in a store, see others carrying expensive bags, swiping their credit card left and right. We live in a world of extreme poverty, balance seems nonexistent. Poverty can result in broken homes and in turn, broken lives. In the book Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Walter Mcmillian’s adult life, Trina Garnett’s childhood and Antonio Nuñez’s domestic life show that poverty was the cause of their incarceration and determined the success of their lives.

We have all wanted something really bad in our life and most likely you had to convince or persuade someone, and you probably used three persuasive appeals that Greek philosopher Aristotle mad which are ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos being an ethical appeal, logos being a logical appeal, and pathos being an emotional appeal. Believe it or not, these three persuasive appeals have been used by former U.S president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his famous “First Inaugural Address” speech, in which he plans on helping America end The Great Depression. That's not all, Dr Martin Luther King jr. also used these three appeals in his famous “I have a dream speech” which he talks about ending racism and the oppression on coloured people. Both these

I use emotional appeals during discussions with family members to persuade them to see things the way that I do fairly often. I used an emotional appeal when I was having a discussion about abortion with my husband. We were talking about this topic because an article was released about a woman’s right to have an abortion. I do not believe in abortion and I think that adoption is the better option, but that it what I would choose if I were in that situation. We were having this heated discussion because he didn’t see why I thought abortion wasn’t the right choice and why people should choose to put their children up for adoption instead. It was that moment that I told him the story about how I found a document that my mother had written

'Imagine a health problem that affects one in six of us, that has a deep and damaging impact on our family and working lives, where effective treatments are available, and yet where only about a quarter of people with this condition get any treatment.'

Empathy is the ability to understand and experience the feelings of others, particularly others’ suffering. Humanity’s gift of understanding complex emotions ushers in a new way of understanding ourselves and how we react to stimuli. This ultimately leads to questioning of everything, leading us to one strong notion: Does empathy guide or hinder moral action?