How Does Dickerson Use Ethos Pathos Logos

• In Shirley Chisholm’s speech , she incorporates the rhetorical devices as persuasive devices to reveal her purpose. Her purpose is to show how not just black women are discriminated, but all women are discriminated. Shirley Chisholm is trying to persuade her point to House of Representatives for equal rights amendment. In this example, Shirley Chisholm uses the rhetorical device of ethos to reveal her purpose.

Aristotle came up with three appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos, all of which are found in all forms of writing, speeches, movies, television shows, and life within itself. Frederick Douglass used all three of these rhetoric devices in writing his narrative to tell about both his life as an American slave and his cause over ten decades ago. He uses these devices to identify himself to the readers, to bring emotion out of the readers, and to persuade the readers.

Some may wonder, does the use of rhetorical devices like logos, pathos, and ethos enhance an argument? Well, does a bear shit in the woods? William Apess fills “An Indian’s Looking-glass for the White Man” with all three forms of rhetoric, but perhaps the one of most significance is ethos. Apess spends a good deal of time using ethos to establish a connection between himself and the intended audience, white Christians; this collective identity that Apess forms allows him to make better use of pathos and ethos in his writing. Even though Apess’s ideas may not have presented well to his audience, his arguments based in logos and pathos would have gone over rather poorly had he not established a clear connection between himself and his

Using the appeals helps make an essay more persuasive. In Booker T. Washington’s The Atlanta Compromise, he used the appeal pathos. He relates the idea of hard work in the black community to a ship lost at sea. This metaphor helped heighten the language and achieved the appeal of pathos. Washington goes into a story of a ship lost at sea in distress. The

In Martin Luther King Jr.ʻs (MLK) “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” excessive use of rhetoric devices are used such as logos (logical), pathos (emotional) and ethos (ethical). Although all examples of rhetoric are present, some seem to appeal more than others. Some of the most effective rhetoric used in the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” are logos and pathos. While there are multiple examples of ethical (ethos) rhetoric and many more additional rhetorical devices, logical and emotional appliances seem to have an abundant amount of examples relative to these two devices. Therefore, in this prompt, I will further explore the meanings of these implements and examples referring to this topic.

To engage a large audience, Staples appeals to readers with his use to two different points of views throughout the essay: societal views and black views. Staples tries to connect with the readers by giving examples of unconscious thoughts that run through the minds of most people when in the same situation as the “white women.” In his opening sentence, Staples calls the women a “victim.” In her own eyes, she herself was “victim” due to the influence of generalized stereotypes presented in our culture. She becomes quick to judge based on Staples appearance: his skin tone. Because of his color, his every action becomes nothing but threats and anxiety on the women. “She casted a back worried glance. To her, the youngish black- broad six feet two inches with a beard and billowing hair, both hands shoved into the pockets of a

Martin Luther King Jr. had written the Letter from the Birmingham Jail in 1963. King was a well-known minister-- particularly throughout the southern region, and a great advocate who fought non-violently for justice and equality for the Negro. The use of the word “Negro” sets the timeline. King used every approach from the Aristotelian appeal in order to seize the moment while writing this letter. Immediately, the use of the rhetorical tools of logos, ethos, pathos, and kairos carried the words in his letter and credibly formed a discourse of morality, knowledge, and purpose. A valid, and credible argument was designed by using ethos-- for the most part in maintaining an assertive and persuasive tone, while simultaneously refuting the ideals of the opposing views and criticisms from the authority and his fellow white clergymen who also supposedly shared religious ideologies as Martin Luther King Jr.

The incorporation of pathos in an argument can form a strong structured reading or a make the reader feel emotionally taken advantage of. In Hooks argument she uses pathos effectively, without exploiting readers of her article. She states, "estrangement from nature and engagement in mind/body splits made it all the more possible for black people to internalize white-supremacist assumptions about black identity" (973). Hooks uses this sentence to appeal to those who have experienced a loss of identity to feel for the blacks. Also, the citation brings a desirable topic up of unity within different race and cultures, which adds more reason for the reader to be persuaded to her side of the argument: the emotional pull of how blacks were treated even away from their normal ways of living.

I am writing in response to your request that I analyze an excerpt pertaining Malcolm X’s opinion on the March on Washington from his autobiography. In the early ‘60s, America was experiencing the Civil Rights Movement, in which Malcolm X was a well-known leader and an advocate for the rights of black people. During this movement, there was a March on Washington where more than 200,000 demonstrators were apart of and successful in pressuring the administration of John F. Kennedy to initiate a strong federal civil rights bill in Congress. X was highly opinionated on the March on Washington, which he calls the “Farce on Washington”. Later when X wrote his autobiography, he included this opinion and used rhetorical appeals to support his point. His purpose of including this opinion was to persuade the reader to believe that black and white people should not be integrated as white people ruin the black man’s cause. In this excerpt, Malcolm X uses the rhetorical appeals of logos, pathos, and ethos to persuade his readers. But who genuinely cares? Who besides me has a stake in this claim? At the very least those interested in X’s opinion should be swayed one way or another due to their new found knowledge of his use of rhetorical appeals. You may be asking so what? Why is this important? Although this may seem of concern to only the group of people who want to be informed of X’s use of rhetoric in his autobiography, it, in fact, concerns all of those who are wanting to persuade an

Brent Staples uses rhetorical appeals throughout his essay. He uses the appeals to get across his point that he feels racism and prejudice things happen. He uses interesting words like he describes the people who show racism towards him as the victims when really he is the one being victimized because of the color of his skin. The words he uses makes the cases he write about catch your attention . Like in the first case when he says the lady he was within an uninflammatory distance from the woman and she was soon running. The details he uses show us that even though he wasn’t as close as she made it seem her judgement of how he look led her to run and try to get as far away as possible from him. He uses onomatopoeia to also get his point

In the text about problems that adolescent girls face, the author uses pathos, ethos, and logos and elements of language to support her claim. The author claims that once adolescent girls reach fifteen they change for the worst. I am going to prove her claim by discussing how she uses different elements of language along with pathos, ethos, and logos. I used allusion and imagery to prove pathos, I used allusion to prove ethos, and I used diction to prove logos.

The least effective text is “Handwriting Matters; Cursive Doesn’t” by Kate Gladstone. In the text the method of appeal that is used most effectively in the text is logos. Kate Gladstone used logos the most throughout the passage and she didn’t use ethos and pathos as much. The three methods of appeal weren’t balanced throughout the passage which made her text less effective. A piece of evidence that demonstrates this is found towards the middle of the passage, “Adults increasingly abandon cursive. In 2012, handwriting teachers were surveyed at a conference hosted by Zaner-Bloser, a publisher of cursive textbooks. Only 37 percent wrote in cursive; another 8 percent printed. The majority, 55 percent, wrote a hybrid; some elements resembling print-writing,

The logo I created is designed to be used for a school letter or reminders that can be sent out to parents and students. In order for me to identify myself with this logo I had to add images, colors that represent me. In this logo I decided to use school pencils as the border to my paper, the reason for this was to involve my desire of one day becoming a teacher. The yellow pencils definitely remind me of school. In my logo I also included a picture of a teacher which also connects to my dream job and my passion for drawing. Drawing to me is a big part of life, however I’m not the best artist. My drawing usually come out to be like the picture I selected, to the point, but at the same time very simple.

The main idea of my story, “An autobiography of an ex-colored man”, is about a young man who is mixed between African american and White. He doesn't know that he is mixed until his principle ask all the white children to stand in the middle of class and when he proceeded to stand the principal told him to sit because he was Black. After this dreadful day of discovering that he was part African American, the young boy started to view the world a lot different as he aged. The author uses pathos and ethos to really get the main idea across. The author uses pathos by expressing the feelings of the boy as he was discovering how the world treated African Americans.

This was my favorite writing assignment, because it was a fun topic. In this essay, we were allowed to analysis a text for its rhetorical appeals. I chose to write about a song. I chose this because to me music is universal, music can change your mood, and music can change your perspective. Ethos, logos and pathos where the big three in this paper and when writing the paper, you had to show how the writer builds these rhetorical appeals. I chose the song What I Love About The South by Rodney Atkins. Before writing this time I wanted to make sure I had a firm understanding of what I needed to write about, so I read the book about the three things that make a good rhetorical triangle, asked question and worked really hard on all of the in class activities. Ethos is the use of persuasive language that appeals to the character of the reader/listener. Pathos is the use of language to appeal to the reader/listener emotionally in terms of beliefs. Logos is the use of language to appeal to the reader/listener on a logical level. Ethos, Pathos, and Logos all made me immediately thing of the song What I Love About The South. While writing this paper the first time, I just knew that I had an “A” paper. I felt I had a great understanding of a rhetorical analysis. I wrote about how Rodney builds his rhetorical appeal. I noted within the paper where you could find ethos “Grew up down here