In Barack Obama speech, A More Perfect Union he uses many forms of ethos to get his point across, as well making a connection to his pastor’s criticism. The word ethos is moral virtues, and ethnical appeals. He uses this appeal because he wants to get his audience to listen to him and understand what he is saying to them. There are many different ways Barack Obama uses ethos in his speech. He starts his speech off by using ethos. The ways Barak Obama uses the form of ethos is by giving the audience factorial information. In his text his gives and introduces historical positions. In his speech, an example of an ethos is “Segregated schools were, and are, inferior schools; we still haven’t fixed them, fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, …show more content…
Barack Obama uses pathos in parts of his speech to gets to audience emotional appeals and feelings. Pathos appeal is when the writer shows sympathy or emotion in their text. The way Barack Obama tries to get his audience to understand his pathos appeal is through storytelling. He talks about the topics of race as a pathos and how race brings up so much emotions. When Barack Obama talks about his own American story that is a form of a pathos appeal because he is making a personal connection with his audience. An example of a pathos from his speech is when he uses the emotional story of about a young girl named Ashley. In his speech is says that Ashley, who is a young white girl helped a black man vote, meaning that race should not matter. By having Barack Obama talk about emotional story it lets the audience connect with the speaker. Another example of a pathos is when his talks about his white grandmother and how she has feared walking down the street when passing a black a man and how she has voiced racial and cultural stereotypes that made Barack Obama upset. Also when Barak Obama states in his speech about segregated schools and the Brown vs. the Board of Education this can be viewed as an emotional appeal because he is showing the issues that America is having issues
Another way Clinton uses pathos is when he tries to comfort the people who have lost loved ones by saying, “You have lost too much, but you have not lost everything.” Clinton lets the audience know that they have people that will help them through this hard time and they have the nation behind them: “You have certainly not lost America, for we will stand with you for as many tomorrows as it takes.” Clinton ultimately reaches his goal of comforting his audience by using ethos and pathos strategies throughout his speech.
President Obama frequently used pathos as his tactic in persuading the audience that this is an act they should support. Near the beginning of his speech, he tells a heart
Pathos, which is a term used to describe when a speaker uses stories, quotes, or vivid language to pursue the audience to do something. A great example of when Michelle Obama uses pathos is when she says, “Many of you probably grew up like I did – in a community that wasn’t rich, not even middle class, but where people knew
Ethos is an appeal to ethics in writing to convince the audience of the speaker’s character. In the start of the speech, King tells about a hypothetical journey through the ages of time. He mentions the Great Depression and uses the famous words, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” a paraphrased line from John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address. The use of JFK’s words gives credibility to King by mentioning and remembering a popular past President. Another example of King’s use of ethos is in this quote, “Somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.” Martin Luther King Jr. says this because these are all amendments in the Constitution that were not being applied to African Americans even though these are
Ethos means credibility. In this speech there are a lot of things Martin Luther King Jr. used to make it credible and trustworthy. He uses the Bible, the Gettysburg Address, and
President Bush uses many pathos, which is the persuasion through emotion, throughout his speech to prove his point. President Bush calls out the victims of 9/11 who were “moms and dads” (Bush 1) and “friends and neighbors” (Bush 1). This is a persuasion through pathos because President Bush emphasizes the importance of these victims’ lives to other people. President Bush uses these names to influence his viewers to understand that many people loss very important people who cannot be replaced by any means. President Bush uses pathos again when he paints an image in our head of “airplanes flying into buildings [and] huge buildings collapsing” (Bush 1), which has “filled [this country] with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger” (Bush 1). This is pathos because Bush tries to influence the feeling of those who was not there and to help them understand. President Bush uses pathos in the form of imagery to persuade the nation how devastating this event is and how it has affect the emotions of many Americans. President Bush tries to appeal to the heart of the nation by using pathos to explain how terrible 9/11 was and its effects on the people.
Pathos involves the emotional effect on the audience. The speaker must appeal to an audience’s emotions, placing them in the proper state of mind to persuade them.
Ethos is convincing the audience of the author’s credibility. King uses ethos within his speech by establishing credibility in his self. He starts his speech by bringing up The Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation is a document issued by
There is not one rhetorical strategy used in this speech as ethos, pathos, and logos are all seen. Obama appeals to emotion well, reaching people affected by racial issues. Obama successfully uses allusion and repetition, along with personal anecdotes to relate to the audience. Ethos is a rhetorical strategy used
In Bush’s speech, he uses pathos. Pathos is the use of emotional strategies. It’s important that Bush used pathos because it helps draw the receiver in by expressing emotions like anger towards the terrorists and sadness towards the nation. Bush expresses anger by saying “We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.”
The rhetorical appeals that were set forth in this speech were mainly, logos (logical thinking), ethos (ethics and moral connections) and pathos (focus on sadness and tragedy). First off, logos were all about logical thinking and the only logical thinking is that there are problems in American, major problems, that need to be addressed in order for us to live in harmony with each other in this nation. Ethos is the ethics and morals of the American people that if we fix the root of the problem, which Obama sees it as a one nation type problem, but in all reality that it’s not just one rooted problem, it branches upon branches of problems that stemmed from our racial background as immigrants to North America. Obama displays pathos situations a lot in this article he produced. Pathos comes down to playing on the heart strings of America to try and relate that our
The strongest of Obama’s points reside in his use of pathos, or emotional appeal, to connect with his audience. The audience and appeal are blatant from the beginning of the essay to the final word. Americans. Due to the loss of American lives, the emotional charge within the audience is almost palpable. Obama highlights this when he states:
In Obama’s speech “A More Perfect Union”, he emphasizes the importance of unity among Americans. He wants people to overlook their ethnic backgrounds and join together as one. This speech brought out many points that Americans should take into consideration. That even though we are all from different backgrounds, we should overlook our differences to make us a stronger nation. Obama’s speech was inspiring in some aspects, but in a way his speech also is controversial.
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
Clinton uses ethos in her speech to persuade her audience by showing them your credibility. Ethos is an effective way to persuade an audience. This helps to show the audience that the speaker knows what they’re talking about. As First Lady and Senator, Clinton shows she has credibility on the topic by saying “Over the past 25 years, I have worked persistently on issues relating to women, children, and families. Over the past two and a half years. I’ve has the opportunity to learn more about the challenges facing women in my own country and around the world” (Clinton 2).