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Bernie Sanders Character Analysis Essay

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Candidate character sketch Bernie Sanders Today I decided to talk about Bernie Sanders. This because I feel that he is one of the most popular candidates and I want to know more about him including his voice and his values and causes that he supports and pursues. Bernie is also a Democratic Socialist which confuses people. I see that Bernie Sanders has a very powerful voice his tone is mostly serious and he is always facing the camera and his viewers this makes him be a man of authority who is listened. His voice is always changing in terms of volume he raises it when he is finishing a sentence and this makes his speech more enjoyable; it’s not monotone at all. He also stops himself at times, this I believe he does to add more power and meaning to his words. Bernie is a strong backer of the environment he wants to invest more money into renewable energies so we can live a habitable planet for the future generations. Sanders has good body language, he is always moving his arms and hands to indicate the gravity of a problem or the degree of the problem he shows how big or impactful a problem is with his body language especially his hands, …show more content…

One such case is when he was asked: what would he do if a conflict or war come to the United states? To which he responded that he has talked about this issue before and advised other presidents to act. In this example he is ignoring the question and referenced an isolated example which would be an anecdotal fallacy. Bernie also appealed to emotion in some of his statements. He said that if we didn’t help ourselves and help the middle class the “millionaires and billionaires” would take matters into their own hands ruining the lives of our families. Another logical fallacy that Bernie committed is ad hominem, what he did is that he stated that he is the only one of the candidates that is not a millionaire and that he did much more. He attacked his rivals with

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