Rhetorical Analysis Of Chief Joseph

Chief Joseph’s speech predominately employs statements of pathos to convey his message. To use the appeal of pathos means to evoke the audience’s emotions. Chief Joseph begins to gain pity from the readers by saying, “The little children are freezing to death.” In their voyage, they are left with limited supplies, which explains why the children are freezing. This is a example of pathos because for most readers, it is sad to think about small children freezing to death. He draws you in, by speaking to your emotions. Chief Joseph then talks about the members of the tribe who have fled away without any any supplies. “ My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are— perhaps freezing to death.” This quote is very similar to

Can you imagine leading 800 people on a 1,100 mile journey? Chief Joseph was a leader of the Nez Perce, a Native American tribe. The Nez Perce were ordered to a reservation specifically for Native Americans. Chief Joseph did not like this idea and attempted to lead his tribe to Canada. During this trip, the U.S. Army was simultaneously fighting them, making the trip even harder than expected. Rather than making it to Canada, they got trapped about forty miles from Canada and after a five day fight the Nez Perce were defeated. These events ultimately led up to Chief Joseph writing this somber, grim surrender. Chief Joseph uses Pathos, Logos, and Ethos to provide emotion, logic and ethics throughout his speech.

Pathos, or appealing to the emotions is the greatest part of this speech. Douglas appealed to people’s emotions by talking about the fore fathers and all of their accomplishments. This really seems to bring out the nationalism in people. He also appeals to pathos when he talks about how the Fourth of July is theirs, and not his; and the fact they are having him speak there is just ridiculous. Another way Douglas appeals to pathos is he recites a powerful poem. This poem illustrates how slaves feel and they so desperately wish to be free. This really resonates with black people and makes white people really think about how not everyone is equal. Also the poem infers that it is God’s will that all men be equal and so it shall be that way. Using words like God really gets people emotional and gets them to listen.

Antony gave the most effective funeral speech to thoroughly convince the Roman people to side with him and rebel against the conspirators. In order to accomplish this, Antony uses the persuasive techniques logos, ethos, and pathos.

A leader has many responsibilities as a role model and caretaker for their people. Facing hard challenges and knowing how to deal with them is a part of being a great leader all of which are Chief Powhatan showed. Chief Powhatan whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh, was the superior chief of Tsenacommacah, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Virginia Indians in the Tidewater region of Virginia at the time English settlers landed at Jamestown in 1607. In his address to Captain John Smith Chief Powhatan expresses how he desires peace between the settlers and the Tsenacommacah. He utilizes distinct rhetorical elements such as rhetorical questions, diction and argumentation to further support his view on what he desired to occur between his people and the English settlers.

He explains that the world isn't perfect and that is true because there are people that want to see you do nothing but fail. Failing is hard and painful, but trying over and over, and eventually succeeding, feels even better. At the beginning of his speech he seems a little harsh because he wants to get his point across, but at the end of his speech he lightens up. He does this because he doesn’t want his son to think he is being hard on him, he just wants his son to know he understands what he is going through.

The purpose of this speech is to comfort the other boys and eliminate the fear.  He wants them to turn their focus away from fear towards the fire and rescue.

This is the poem that Jim Northrup wrote about war. I am going to Explicate the poem and

Sometimes whats ideal in a situation is not what the truth of the situation and can cause your ideals to be lost. In William Golding’s novel, “Lord of the Flies”, he demonstrates a shift in some of the characters from the thought of idealism to the reality and truth of the world. Ralph is a good example of this shift, he starts out thinking the island will be a fun place and they’ll have fun waiting to be rescued, but soon he realizes that there is going to be more hardship and struggles to keep up the moral and hope of rescue. In the book Ralph wanted to keep everyone safe and get them off the island, but Jack wants to be a leader and messes up his plans, making it so that Ralph is alone in his plan to get rescued.

In the article written by Vincent Barnett, he explains the different reasons that Machiavelli might have written “The Prince”. He also mentions the lasting effects of” The prince” and also mentioned how Machiavelli was ridiculed and judged for his brutally honest writing. Barnett mentioned that Machiavelli had lost his job as the secretary to the chancery in Florence. After losing his job he was arrested, tortured, and became extremely bitter. One of the possible motives for writing “The Prince” was that Machiavelli was trying to get reinstated back into his old job. Machiavelli could have also intended” The Prince” to hit the audience as satirical. Possibly to poke fun at all the failures of the political leaders and to make them look unintelligent.

Nicholas Carr used many Rethorical Analysis tools to give his article a closer connection between his readers and the text itself. He gave examples of each tool to better understand identifying and using them. Each tool takes part in strengthening, weakening, or even developing Carr’s argument differently towards the reader.

On page 147 of Slouching Towards Bethlehem, there is a passage that I think describes a solution to the problem of sympathy versus empathy. The passage basically states that if we see the value in ourselves, we will be able to discriminate, to love, and to remain indifferent toward others. However, if we do not come to this realization, we will hate those who cannot give to us and will only help others to improve our own image. I agree with the idea that we must come to some realization of who we are in order to reach out and help others for the sake of the good in it. I agree with this because if we do not understand who we are or how we fit into the world, then we will be insecure. This will cause us to seek ways to sure ourselves up and

Logos is defined as an appeal to logic. I feel like he uses this the most out of all of the other ones because this speech is meant to appeal to logic because it is reasons on why we need to end the war. The first time he uses logos is when he starts talking about why we are in need of peace. In the speech he says “We entered this war because violations of our right had occured…” (1). I feel like this is a logical explanation as to why people go to war and why this war had begun. Therefore, it appeals to your logic.

Logos means reason. Martin Luther King Jr. uses logos to show why he is delivering this speech and why he wants things to change. He is delivering this speech to show how many blacks and other races, that weren’t being treated equally, really didn’t have freedom like they should. “It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro.” (King, M. L. Jr. (1963, Aug.28) Para 6) “Instead of honoring the sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’” (King, M. L. Jr. (1963, Aug.28) Para 5) These quotes are just a couple of the logos quotes Martin Luther King said in his speech.

6). The narrator was not looking forward to the battle due to not caring much for the other guys who would be fighting. Little did he know the other fighters would be the least of his worries, nor would they be the ones to prolong his opportunity to deliver his speech.