Rhetorical Analysis Of Lean On Me

The book, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, is written as a letter to his son. Coates cuts into the experience of the father as advice too the son. He writes this letter to his son to educate and awaken his son to the logic of white supremacy and the obstacles he will face as a black man this world. However, Ta-Nehisi’s son isn’t the only audience. He exposes the readers too the effect of racism on Black America, from history until present day. The purpose of this essay is to conduct a rhetorical analysis on Ta-Nehisi Coates’, Between the World and Me regarding his usage of ethos, pathos and logos to unveil the ongoing effect of the system of racism that continues to cause major problems to our society.

In the movie Lean On Me, Joe Clark persuades the staff and students that hard work is necessary in order to be successful through the use of ethos, logos and pathos.

This is ultimately a use of the pathos appeal, designed to generate either sympathy of a connection between the audience and the speaker. This device was used to shift the tone, although momentarily, from serious to concerned. Overall, this strategy coordinated a possible bonding moment between Malcolm X and the audience. If this bond was formed, the appeal served its purpose and the audience now feels closer to the

Most people can’t remember their commencement speeches or speakers, much less how it was delivered. Yet, year after year colleges get speakers to address the graduating class. The speakers are usually significant people of the community so the students can leave motivated and ready for the so-called “real world. “Through different uses of the rhetorical strategies pathos, ethos, and logos the speakers are able to connect and relate to the audience members. At the college of William and Mary, Mike Tomlin, a football coach delivers a speech that effectively uses ethos and pathos to acknowledge the graduating class.

Aristotle, a famous philosopher, came up with the three rhetorical devices. He divided the meanings of persuasion, and appeal into three categories, ethos, pathos, and logos. The article “This is Not About You,” written by Andrew Santella, is about how there are many narcissists in the world. They can be both children and adults. The article mentions three other famous articles that talk about narcissism and how it affects people.

Throughout the article, Henderson uses multiple examples of pathos to support her main claim in the article. The readers get a good idea on how

For example in the beginning of the movie, Joe Clark holds a meeting and kicks out the students behind him. This shows that he is appealing to the kids emotions by kicking out their friends and to the parents emotion because their kids can’t get a education anymore. Another example is when Joe Clark holds a teachers meeting and tells the teachers to raise both hands. He says that the students will raise their hands as well except in front of a barrel of a gun. This shows that he is appealing to the teachers emotion by saying that the students will be criminals if they don’t get a good education.

New Balance comes at its audience in this new ad on YouTube.com with intent of drawing in multiple groups of patrons to their gear with the simple message “Beta”. Beta is defined on the webpage of the commercial as, “Beta is a state of being. A choice to never stop. Driven by the relentless desire to improve. Beta means constantly innovating. Evolving. And Pushing. Beta means improving upon yesterday. And always being better tomorrow”(). The advertisement that sells the product of New Balance is effective because of its rhetorical appeals: logos, ethos, pathos, and its logical fallacies: bandwagon and weasel words.

In the movie Lean on Me, Joe Clark persuades the staff and students that hard work is necessary in order to be successful through the use of pathos. Mr. Clark does so by expelling everyone who sells/uses drugs and the students that have been at the school for five years. After kicking them all out in the assembly, Joe explained to the students that if they don't get their act together, they will be next. Therefore this emotionally connected the students with the fear of getting expelled. Mr. Clark also puts anger and fear into the teachers by threatening them to do everything he commands with no questions asked. For example, the music teacher refused to teach the school song to her class because they had an event in another state in a few weeks. So without hesitation, Joe immediately fired her and had her assistant teach the class the song and cancelled the event. Therefore Mr. Clark was able to persuade his students and teachers to work hard and do as told by using pathos.

Social psychologist, Amy Cuddy in her story, “Fake It till You Make It” argues that our power posture can tell who really we are and what we feel about ourselves and how our body language makes us powerful or less powerful by how we sit and stand. She supports her claim by first discussing in her speech “powerful people tend to be, not surprisingly, more assertive and more confident, more optimistic. They actually feel they're going to win even at games of chance. They also tend to be able to think more abstractly. So there are a lot of differences.

In the novel Go Tell It On The Mountain Baldwin explains Florence’s disconnects with certain people in her life. Baldwin uses flashbacks to elaborate on her disconnect with her brother named Gabriel.

In the speech Try Stop Me, by Inky Johnson, there are three highly important messages that he conveys to the listener. Those three messages being, the ability to never give up, the power to always have perseverance, and to never lie to yourself. The three messages provide us with great life skills that we can follow to become a prosperous/superior human being. Inky also goes into how he used these keys to help him in his life when he encountered a event that would usually turn out tragically to demonstrate that they were valuable necessities. How can these keys help you in life?

Resulting in this low score, most students will flunk out and have little choices what to do after than become a criminal, standing behind the barrel of a gun. Joe Clark’s final speech to his students before the actual exam can also be looked at through a pathos viewpoint. He tells them the actual words people accuse this school of being and it appeals to the students’ soul, and mind. It attacks their will to get better. Instead, it does not break them down more but builds them up to do better and score high on the

In the movie Lean on Me, Principal Joe Clark employs the persuasion techniques Ethos, playing for trust or credibility, Pathos, playing emotions, and Logos, the use of reasoning and facts, in his various speeches throughout the film. Within the movie, Principal Clark has 3 speeches, all 3 use the persuasion technique of Ethos. One instance of ethos is when Clark first arrives at the school after being appointed principal of East Side High School, a school that was ranked at the lowest in the state. In this scene, Clark expels all of the known drug dealers in the school.

    I’m here writing this  and you are there reading it well let’s get this straight we are not writing this to just pass at this point it is my hope that when you read this you feel and learn more than I ever did when writing it. Take two here we go today is the day that I learned that learning is not as simple as learning would seem when you live life differently from those that would seem to have it all figured out. Yes you guessed it i am able to appreciate the classroom set up of the NSLC more than you and your immediate judgements. Yes I know I am aging you to that day when you thought when it was shown to you. I recall thought like 1.well do they not all learn the same thing. 2. What is Mark talking about boys in girls