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Examples Of Ethos In A More Perfect Union

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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

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