North America Ethos Pathos Logos

Black Hawk was an Indian warrior who fought hard and long to keep his nation's territory free of white men. When the white men realized that Black Hawk would be a problem when stealing their land, they decided to imprison him. While in prison, Black Hawk wrote his famous Surrender Speech, using ethos, logos, and pathos to appeal to those who heard or read it and convince them that the white men were dangerous.

A way ethos is portrayed in this editorial is when adolescents are brought into the drinking, drug, and party phase at such a young age. More and more American children are smoking cigarettes, using marijuana, and different kinds of inhalants, at the youngest ages ever in the history of America. “Between 1992 and 1996, the proportion of eighth graders who reported smoking in the past month increased from 15.5% to 21% and from 1992 to 1995, the proportion of eighth graders who said they had used marijuana during or before seventh grade rose from 7.7% to 12.7%” these facts are used to make the reader feel creditable for these young people’s actions. Adults will look at this insert and think, “Wow! Kids are spinning out of control. What could

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.

In Neil Postman’s novel, Amusing Ourselves to Death, he argues that rationality in America has become dictated by television. Through the use of ethos, pathos, and logos, Postman demonstrates that his claim is valid and reliable. These are three forms of persuasion that are used to influence others to agree with a particular point of view. Ethos, or ethical appeal, is used to build an author’s image. Ethos establishes a sense of credibility and good character for the author (Henning). Pathos, or emotional appeal, involves engaging “an audience's sense of identity, their self-interest, their emotions” (Henning). If done correctly, the power of emotions can allow the reader to be swayed to agree with the author. Logos, or logical appeal,

THESIS: In Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" vivid imagery is utilized through ethos, logos, and pathos in an attemt to sway the acts of sinners to be morally correct."

As Meredith Grey, my fictional idol from Grey’s anatomy would say, “Progress looks like a bunch of failures”. A main focus of this semester was learning our audience, and convincing people of things through writing and or visuals using ethos pathos and or logos. I did not see the connections of any of my papers from the first to second semester at first. But my memoir from the first semester and my campaign project from this semester both use pathos, emotion. For me it was easiest to write about the pathos, but the ethos and logos part was out of my reach. I left some of my comfort writing the campaign paper using all 3 and it gave me a better understanding as a writer to keep in mind who am I talking to, what message am I trying to get across

The ability to challenge and question texts continuously is a skill that is essential to have as a student. From an academic perspective, analyzing written works is often done by recognizing the ethos, pathos, and logos that is commonly embedded by the author in an argumentative piece. This method of writing is frequently used to persuade the audience to believe in a specific side of an argument. Authors use ethos to gain trust from an audience by establishing credibility. Pathos is used in text to sway the audience by using tugging at the emotions of the audience and lastly, logos is integrated into writing with the purpose of using facts, research, and statistics in the argument. The text that will be analyzed in this essay is written by

Question 1: Scott Russell Sanders uses the appeal of logos throughout the passage, Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World, by appealing to logic, persuading the audience based on sense and reason. In this direct example from the text, “From the beginning, our heroes have been sailors, explorers, cowboys, prospectors, speculators, backwoods ramblers, rainbow-chasers, vagabonds of every stripe,” logos is introduced through excessive detail, giving more than plenty of examples in which we create our heroes to be free-spirits. This detail creates a sense of reason in which it’s logical to assume Americans like to move around based off the list of heroes presented. “In our national mythology, the worst fate is to be trapped on a farm, in

Between the three rhetorical devices, ethos, pathos, and logos, I believe that the most influential and effective technique is pathos. This is because both ethos and logos rely on the idea that the audience has equal or similar moral standards or thought processes. Pathos appeals to the deepest emotions humans feel, whether they be positive or negative, and makes them seem even stronger. While ethos and logos build good arguments, pathos makes those arguments seem irrefutable, even if they are objectively weak.

The documentary "Gasland" by Josh Fox is about hydraulic fracturing, a controversial method, because of the dangers that come with it. Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is a technique of extracting natural gas by fracturing the rock with pressurized liquid. Throughout the duration of the documentary, the film uses logos, pathos, and ethos to help build upon the argument but still lacks in some areas to fully enhance the argument.

As I began to read this article I noticed that logos was definitely used as one of the rhetorical appeals. The author attempts to persuade his audience by making a claim and providing some type of proof after each claim. For example, “Papa John’s says it has been pulling advertising associated with the NFL. The league, it says, has given some feature spots in return.” This quote was provided after the author mentions how, “Papa John’s is no longer going to advertise with the NFL.” The first example of how he makes a logical appeal. At the end of the article he also mentioned race, stating that “Most whites are not racist,” and how “To accuse so many of it is to see those fans simply walk away from the game.” That is a pathos appeal or in other

Thesis Statement: A weapon developed for a nation’s defense is the envy of other nation’s conquest.

The first paragraph reflects a tone of disbelief and confusion. Disbelief is expressed in this line, “I had never thought that a person’s ethnicity was ever important in this country”. It expresses disbelief as the narrator never thought ethnicity was important in today’s world and it turned out that it was important. This next line expresses confusion, “I don’t know exactly how to take those comments”. It expressed confusion over the statements made back at the narrator as the narrator is not sure how to take these comments.

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.

Right off the bat, our logo proudly represents our event, which is a game of Flag Football. We recognize that the students of R.H. King are involved in heavily academic semesters, and this means that they operate on a very tight schedule. In accordance with this, we have designed our logo to be simple, yet attractive and meaningful, in order to provide students with the crucial information of our event and what we represent. This logo ensures that students do not have to provide an in-depth analysis to understand it, which would in fact, deter more students than attract. Regarding the colour choices in this logo, we aimed to keep our colours simple, yet contrasting, in order to capture the attention of individuals who come across our logo.