Rhetoric Ethos, Pathos and Logos Wounds Will Never Heal

Consistent with Japanese propaganda the nationalist leaders held belief that Japan was “the leader, protector and light of Asia”. However, this perception of liberation from colonial rule was a façade as the civilians of occupied nations experienced harsher treatment under the Japanese than they did under the colonial authorities.

The core of the Japanese experience in Canada lies in the shameful and almost undemocratic suspension of human rights that the Canadian government committed during World War II. As a result, thousands of Japanese were uprooted to be imprisoned in internment camps miles away from their homes. While only a small percentage of the Japanese living in Canada were actually nationals of Japan, those who were Canadian born were, without any concrete evidence, continuously being associated with a country that was nothing but foreign to them. Branded as “enemy aliens”, the Japanese Canadians soon came to the realization that their beloved nation harboured so much hate and anti-Asian sentiments that Canada was becoming just as foreign to them as

On the 9th of February 1942, three divisions of Japanese soldiers landed in Singapore, which was at the time a major British military base and presence in the Pacific. Six days later, over 90 000 British, Australian and Indian troops were forced to surrender. It had been believed that Singapore guaranteed the security of Australia during the war, consequently, the fall of Singapore opened Australia to invasion. The fall of Singapore was significant in causing relations between Australia and the United States to increase as in lieu of Britain’s inability to provide economic and military assistance when it was required most, the United States’ capability to provide what Britain could not was instrumental in strengthening bonds.

In class, we have discussed rhetoric, discourse communities, and the importance of properly conveying a point. While my professor, Mr. Larry D. Huff, does not seem to believe in the “rhetorical triangle,” we have had successful discussions on the ways we can prove a point using ethos, pathos, and logos. I successfully joined a discourse community and learned its respective ethos, pathos and logos. My sophomore year of high school, I auditioned and was accepted to the theatre department of The High School for Performing and Visual Arts and joined a discourse community which changed my life. The bumper sticker stretches across the entire back window of my car. Regardless, I am proud to have it for what it represents. This essay will explain the importance behind my sticker.

Ethos is to convince someone of character or credibility of the persuader. It puts author

With a war against the Japanese was the trigger for racism in Australia. All throughout the novel elements of separation are presented. The

In this essay, I will closely examine the role of ethos, pathos, and logos as they were utilized in the 1992 Presidential Debate video clip. Throughout Clinton and Bush’s debates, they used the three options of persuasion effectively and discretely; however, it is evident that out of the three ways of persuasion, the candidates used ‘pathos’ because of the content they were providing. It was apparent that Bill Clinton was more prepared to display forms of persuasion than George H.W. Bush was because Clinton had prior experience dealing with lower income people. In the upcoming paragraphs, I will explain and analyze how each candidate made use of the three forms of persuasion: logos, pathos, and ethos.

‘We’re all Australians now’ draws the reader to see the war from a positive Australia home front perspective. Texts from

Japanese soldiers are widely remembered as being cruel and indifferent to the fate of Allied prisoners of war. Cruelty could take different forms, from extreme violence and torture to minor acts of physical punishment, humiliation and neglect. Some prisoners were made to hold a heavy stone above their heads for many hours. Others might be forced into small cells with little food or water.

The author John Dower of War without mercy gives a description of an ugly racial dimension of the civil strife in the Asian theatre of World War II and the consequences on the military as well as reconstruction policy in the Pacific. Dower argues that racial fear, as well as the hatred that existed between Japanese and Americans, castigated the cruel war since it was a determinant of how either side handled and dealt with the ‘inferior enemy’. I agree to the fact that Racism played a major role in how both sides viewed each other and influenced the actions that either side took as well. Basing on the various illustrations by the author, I could say that racial stereotyping that was displayed in the Pacific war led to an increase in war atrocities as evidenced by the various illustrations in the book.

The gradual decrease of Japanese pride is also emphasized with the fact that he sees himself as only half Japanese, since “one does not speak and…play and fight and see and hear in America among Americans...without becoming American and loving it” (16). He explains this uncertainty about his national identity as the reason behind why he refused to go serve in the army in the first place.

Prior to Commodore’s Expedition to Japan, there were preconceptions of the type of people they were. American sailors left stranded on the island of Japan were typically imprisoned. This inhumane treatment

Memoirs put a face to Japan and its citizens during a time when America wanted to do little more than collectively hate them. Memoirs depict the War from the perspective of Japanese citizens, a perspective that history does not seem to deem important; though Arthur Golden has successfully refuted. Memoirs of a Geisha brings up a shows the perspective of the average Japanese citizen. From America’s viewpoint all the Japanese where (potentially) vile and treacherous, this point of view affected the way the US treated its own Japanese citizens. American’s long standing views on racial inequality helped facilitate this opinion, and helped motivate the (occasionally controversial) actions taken against the Japanese. America’s long history of racial prejudice manifested itself in the Japanese internment camps it erected across the nation (JAPANESE-AMERICAN RELOCATION). Arthur Golden’s work humanizes the Japanese and questions the American perspective of them. America felt (and still feel) as if they were the victims of Japan because they were innocent. Memoirs of a Geisha depict the Japanese citizens as the innocent bystanders being held at the whims of the imperialistic Americans. This perspective makes it easier to comprehend the original reason for Japans goals of Asian domination. Japans originally wanted to gain control of China in order to supply Japan with natural resources that Japan could convert into

War without Mercy’s thesis is one that is not studied in some high schools. This is that the racism between the West and Asia made the war in the Pacific ruthless, inhumane and even heartless. John W. Dower substantiates this thesis from the beginning of the book all the way to the end. He first begins with explaining how "the Japanese were more hated than the Germans before as well as after Pearl Harbor... They were perceived as a race apart, even a species apart…" (8) Also how the "Japanese were perceived as animals, reptiles, or insects (monkeys, baboons, gorillas, dogs, mice and rats, vipers and rattlesnakes, cockroaches, vermin -- or, more indirectly, 'the Japanese herd' and the like...At the simplest level, they dehumanized the Japanese and enlarged the chasm between 'us'

Imagine being a British man or European man (or a close friend of one) in Singapore, 1941, living the luxurious life and having everything that one could dream of. One has an easy job and easy life, you are paid huge sums of money and you are filthy rich, you have servants to do your housework and best of all, all the girls flock to you whenever they can. However, imagine all of this is suddenly taken away when the Japanese decide to attack Singapore and people start realising that the Japanese are winning. Well this is exactly what happens to Claude, the main character in the book Breaking the Tongue by Vyvyane Loh. It is evident through their interaction with career choices, community that british have better jobs, higher social status than locals and the Singaporean Culture massively benefits the British and Europeans while discriminating against the locals. However, the way in which culture affects setting proves that the Japanese takes away everything from the British and are far superior to the British.