Do Doctors Commit Suicide?

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

Pathos is the written art of persuasion that is used to invoke emotion, and action in an audience. The CDC effectively pulls the emotions out of its audience with the picture of innocent little children displayed with a very troublesome disorder (ADHD, 2013). The author reaches within, to invoke the audience into action. Invoking emotions such as pity, sympathy, sadness, and even anger, which are certain to get people to set up and take notice. These photos of the children effectively use emotions to show how the disorder of ADHD works. There is one photo that speaks the loudest of the disorder of ADHD. That photo shows the distraught look of a child, as his parents are talking with the doctor (ADHD, 2013). The CDC very effectively caught the scene with its camera lens, capturing that distraught look in the child’s eyes, helping the audience see the actions of ADHD. The smile on the face of the parents and the doctor, will bring the audience into a sense of comfort and hope, pertaining to the

This paper analyzes the types, forms, and effectiveness of the author's use of pathos to evoke emotion from their audience to persuade them to support the purpose of their message. Defined in the course pack as "using emotion to persuade" (Heasley et al. 128) pathos is a technique rhetorists use to garner an emotion response from their audience through one of four methods. These five methods are word choice, vivid examples, personal experience, scare tactics and sensory details; authors can employ these methods individually or in conjunction with one another to invoke a pathetic response from their audience.

Pathos is the writers attempt to appeal to the audience emotions. For instance, “In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. ‘“I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me,”’ the headline said” (Lukianoff and Haidt). The authors appeal to emotion paints a picture in the reader’s mind, further opening their eyes to make them feel how the professor was feeling. Also, naming the article “The Coddling of the American Mind” was a great was to represent how the problem was being addressed. The use of the word “coddling” reflected the way colleges were treating their students like babies. Enforcing trigger warnings to protect the students are not helping them for the future. This appeals to pathos because the audience gets a glimpse of what the after effect of “babying” has on

Pathos is another word for sympathy. In the speech “People and Peace, not Profits and War,” Chisholm states in lines 5-8, “As a teacher, and as a woman, I do not think I will ever understand what kind of values can be involved in spending $9 billion -- and more, I am sure -- on elaborate, unnecessary, and impractical weapons when several thousand disadvantaged children in the nation’s capital get nothing” (39). Chisholm uses pathos to show her feelings about the children. In his Vietnam speech, Martin Luther King Jr. states, “We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. We have destroyed their land and their crops. We have cooperated in the crushing of the nation’s only non communist revolutionary political force, the unified Buddhist Church. We have supported the enemies of the peasants of Saigon. We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men” (156). King uses pathos so that the readers agree with his opinions on the Vietnam War. In “Let America be America Again” by Langston Hughes, he calls himself the farmer, the worker, the negro, and the people (1). Hughes wants people to realize how unfortunate he is and he wants people to sympathize with his feelings. Pathos triggers the reader’s emotions. They begin to sympathize with whoever is displaying their feelings. Authors may use this device to help the readers see the situation in their point of

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

Pathos appeals to the reader’s emotions by using emotional stories and imagery. Pathos strategies are often used to grab and hold the reader’s attention. Emotional or personal stories give the reader an opportunity to emotionally relate to the story, and allows them to be emotionally connected. An emotionally connected reader is more interested in the story that a reader who is not emotionally connected.

Pathos: emotion/value, a way of convincing an audience of an argument by an emotional response

Because of this, the audience understands that the arguments presented do not originate from personal opinion. Thirdly, pathos involves the words used by an author to petition to the emotional aspect of readers. Carson pleas to the emotions of the audience by mentioning that risks are presented to future generations unless a solution is found on the use of harmful pesticide and insecticides. In this aspect, Carson arouses the feelings of the audience towards the future generations by presenting the hardships future generations might

The beginning of any thought provoking essay will hook its audience using a form of pathos. “Two of his sons returned home from the battlefield whole and healthy. The third, however, came home suffering multiple seizures a day”-(Rorabacher). The quote generates sympathy within us making us yearn to see a welcoming outcome and leaving the audience hooked. Eli Hager’s article follows a similar route informing us that “The state of Missouri sent Harris to the penitentiary in Boonvilee, 250 miles from his home and baby daughter”-(Hager). Again we sympathize with the loss of a family, but not all of the articles used grievance to hook us. In the “Quiet Alarm” the audience is informed of a vaudeville performer who performed deadly stunts involving hatchets, pins, and guns on himself to generate shockwaves in the audience. From these examples we identify how our emotions lure us into these texts.

Pathos: emotion/value, a way of convincing an audience of an argument by an emotional response

ii. Topic Sentence – Pathos is referred to as the literature’s emotional appeal to the audience’s senses or imagination.

Bagchi uses many examples of pathos throughout the essay to appeal to the reader’s emotions. For instance, he incorporates humor by advising the students to ignore the “Instagram alerts of kids postponing higher education to travel” (Bagchi, 2017, p. 1). This can bring a smile to the readers face because they understand exactly how it feels to

Pathos: It is the use of emotion and affect to persuade the audience. In this appeal, the author creates an emotional statement: “ an overworked single mother may find herself over stressed and fatigued at the end of the day, making

Doctor assisted suicide is a topic that has recently become a much larger debated issue than before. A timeline put together by Michael Manning and Ian Dowbigging shows that prior to Christianity, doctor assisted suicide was something that was tolerated, and was not heavily questioned (2). Yet, in the 13th century, Thomas Aquinas had made a statement about suicide as well as doctor assisted suicide, and his words shaped the Catholic teaching on suicide into what they teach today. Beginning in the 17th century, Common Law tradition frowned upon suicide, as well as assisting in suicide, and the colonies had adopted the Common Law principles. (2) In 1828, New York passed a law completely outlawing the assistance of suicide, and made it to where whomever assisted in the suicide could be tried for murder. In 1976, California became the first state to allow patients to withdrawal themselves from life saving medicines, and this Natural Death Act was seen as a gateway to assisted suicide. (3-7) As controversy about California 's Natural Death Act increased, Pope John Paul II released a statement in 1980 which opposed to killing someone out of mercy, but allowed the increased use of painkillers (8). Although, in 1994 Oregon passed their Death with Dignity act, and with it came incredible amounts of backlash. Yet, in 2008 Washington state passed the same act to legalize doctor assisted suicide. (10-12)