President Nixon Ethos Pathos Logos

Ethos is an appeal to ethics, which gives the author credibility to persuade their attended audience. For instance, both Lukianoff and Haidt give a little insight about who they are, “Greg Lukianoff is a constitutional lawyer and the president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which defends free speech and academic freedom on campus, and has advocated for students and faculty involved in many of the incidents this article describes; Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist who studies the American culture wars.” (Lukianoff and Haidt). Using this rhetorical strategy to start their argument off was a strong approach to persuading their attended audience because it provides credibility to the readers to prove to them that the authors know what they’re talking about and it makes the argument much more effective. Another example of ethos that the authors provide is, “Today, what we call the Socratic method is a way of teaching that fosters critical thinking, in part by encouraging students to question their own unexamined beliefs, as well as the received wisdom of those around them… But vindictive protectiveness teaches students to think in a very different way… A campus culture devoted to policing speech and punishing speakers is likely to engender patterns of thought that are surprisingly similar to those long identified by cognitive behavioral therapists as causes

President Roosevelt?s speech establishes a few different examples of pathos. Pathos was the most reoccurring appeal in his speech. At the very beginning of the speech the president says, ?Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 ? a date which will live in infamy ? the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by navel and air forces of the Empire of Japan.? The fact that this day will forever be remembered by all citizens of the United States definitely appeals to people?s emotions. President Roosevelt also mentions, ?The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost.? This is an effective appeal to pathos because death affects your emotions. Thousands of people were affected by this tragic event and I?m sure it touched many people?s emotions. In the middle of the speech president Roosevelt says that Japan also attacked Malaya, Hong Kong, Guam, the Philippine Islands, Wake Island, and Midway Island. This definitely appeals to the audiences emotions, especially if anyone had family or knew someone who lived over there.

Ethos is the credibility, moral character, and experience of the speaker. In Mary Fisher’s speech she uses ethos to show her involvement and passion for AIDS. Mary Fisher was infected with the AIDS virus and her son contracted the virus at birth. In telling the viewers this she illustrated why she is so passionate about the cause. Another way she builds ethos is through her moral character. She does this by telling the audience she is concerned with the future of all

Ethos is a strategy used to assure the audience of the author’s integrity and character. To begin the speech, Wiesel says “Mr. President, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, friends”, he is putting himself and the listeners who were not specifically specified onto the same level, to connect better with them (Wiesel, 1999/16, p. 76). He is showing the audience that he is human and respects everyone, but furthermore does not want anyone to

The way a person speaks can cause an audience to have an emotional response. This ties the reader or listener in and persuades them. Pathos occurs throughout Richard Nixon’s speech several times. First off, Nixon’s wife was present throughout the speech as he painted this picture of a family man who adores his wife. The camera often veered off of him and onto her. She looked in love and her admiration of her husband tugged at the heartstrings. Nixon spoke about his wife throughout the speech. He talked about her career and how hard working she was. This made the working women all over America relate to her. He portrayed himself on a money standpoint that his money status is the same as everyone else’s trying to persuade the audience that he isn’t different. He wanted to use pathos as a connection to show himself as a typical

Pathos is defined as being the emotional appeal of a text, so it is no wonder that many believe this. After all, pathos is the main thing in the text that personifies the author and links them to the audience in a way they can understand and relate to—emotionally. One of the biggest reasons FDR’s speech was so successful is because it gripped the crowd by appealing to their emotional sides. Perhaps the best example of this is toward the end of his speech, saying “Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.” This sentence was very effective in gaining the attention of FDR’s audience because it created a sense of loss, unity, and hope, which are all powerful

He also includes a lot of emotional parts throughout the speech this is effective as it may get an emotional response from the audience this happens when he says “Your loved ones were daring and brave” and “It is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen” this is a good use of pathos as it does connect to the emotional feelings of the viewer.

Throughout history people have been oppressed, discriminated against, and mistreated because of what they looked like, who they are, and where they come from. Jews have been discriminated against because of their beliefs and put into concentration camps. Blacks have been oppressed because of their skin color. Native Americans were viewed as uncivilized and were subject to mistreatment. In "Civilize Them with a Stick", Mary Crow Dog writes about her experiences as a child in an Indian Boarding School.

It is January 28th, 1986, seven members of the Challenger Space Shuttle take off for an exploration of a lifetime, but never return. The entire United States is watching this tragedy unfold. Later that evening Ronald Reagan, the president, gets on national television to deliver the State of the Union Address. Instead, he gives the “Speech on the Challenger Disaster.” President Reagan uses tone, rhetorical appeals, and rhetorical tools, to commend and mourn the seven with the Nation.

When people want to persuade their audience, they try to prove they can be trusted, play with the audience’s emotions, or they try to provide straight truth. People commonly know these ways as ethos, pathos, and logos. Anybody can find ethos, pathos, or logos when they are reading something or watching an advertisement. Companies, authors, speakers, etc. always use these methods of persuasion when they want to get anybody’s attention. Back in the American Revolutionary period, for an actual revolution to occur, people have to persuade others. Two men, Thomas Paine in The Crisis and Patrick Henry in his “Speech to the Second Virginia Convention”, both persuade the people of future America with their works by using ethos, pathos, and logos.

Pathos is a tool of rhetoric which powerfully influences our rational judgements and captures the emotions of the audience. The Vietnam War, from 1954 to 1975 was the conflict between the government of North Vietnam, its allies the Viet Cong in the South, against the South Vietnam government and America. The Vietnam War is a classic example of the media’s use of specific words and language in headlines, images and articles to generate emotional reactions such as anger, pity, fear and their opposites. The following quotes illustrate

Pathos is the appeals to emotion. In President Bush’s speech he explained how not everyone gets the opportunity to have freedom and peace. “People everywhere prefer freedom to slavery: prosperity to squalor; self-government to the rule of terror and torture. In Henry’s speech, he uses the fear of slavery and submission to persuade the colonist to fight. “There is no retreat but in submission and slavery” (Henry).**Some may say that this is not a form of pathos because it is facts that people do not want slavery, but they do want peace and freedom.

John F Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States in 1961 and was unfortunately assassinated in 1963. Most Americans considered him to be one of the greatest presidents we had, and admired his humor. In September of 1962 he made a speech called, “Going to the Moon” at a university in Texas to support NASA in launching people on the moon for the first time ever in history. His speech illustrates many examples of rhetorical strategies, one being repetition. This is very common to find and comes up frequently.

To build ethos a speaker must be both credible and truthful. Both Johnson and Valvano show the usage of ethos in their speeches. In Jimmy Valvano’s speech at the first-ever E.S.P.Y awards, he said, “I coached...for 15 years, and I always have to think about what’s important in

Ethos is defined in our textbook as, “showing that you know what you are talking about exerts an ethical appeal, as does emphasizing that you share values with and respect your audience” (Lunsford and Ruskiewic, Page 26). Martin Luther King, Jr., is a man that can be described as an typical American, we know this due to his “I Have A Dream” speech centered around equality. “My Dear Fellow Clergymen” ("Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]").