' Time And Distance Overcome, By Eula Bliss

Phones are a major innovation to being able to communicate to anyone around the world within seconds ruining the idea of distance. Paul Goldberger's states in his essay “Disconnected

Carr relies heavily on the use of ethos, pathos, and logos throughout his essay. His ethos is mainly focused on connecting with the reader as a fellow human being. His logos is mainly comprised of quoting experiments and referencing historical

In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch includes many examples of ethos, pathos, and logos in his closing argument. It is most likely that the best device that would be used to sway the jury would be logos. Because the facts in the Ewell’s testimony do not add up in accordance to the testimony of Tom Robinson, using more reasonable evidence would be more persuading to the jury. Although logos is a very crucial part of this trial, the devices ethos and pathos are also important.

Telephone popularity saw an increase in the early 1900's. The telephone began to appear all over the place. The telephone began to be looked upon as a necessity, "By this time the telephone was settling into national consciousness as a fixed and permanent part of American life."2 The telephone allowed people to interact with other types of individuals, and this ability intrigued the American public. The telephone made it possible for contact to take place with people who normally can not because of being apart by large distances. People want to communicate quickly with others, and the telephone makes this happen. By this time the telephone was not a luxury good, but necessary for survival. Cities especially, saw the telephone as an essential part of society; "Literally telephone service is a life-and-death matter to the citizens of every urban community in America."3 Although the telephone was popular in cities, it was surprisingly popular in the rural Midwest. The telephone created a need to know what took place in the world. The Midwest was not as densely populated and the telephone developed an excellent way to communicate the news of the day amongst surrounding communities. Before, one would have to rely on the news spreading via word

There are many things in life that can influence the way one acts and decision making to become who one is today. Like the people one surrounds oneself with, the area one lives in, the parents, and last but not least the culture one is from. Although the cultural experience of poverty might have an important influence on the opportunities one gets, our surroundings while growing up also form a stereotypical part of our identity, but the influence from our parents or good role model also teach us valuable experiences. Like in the novel The Distance Between us by Reyna Grande and, the film A Better Life directed by Chris Weitz shows how people can be influenced by their cultural experiences, their surroundings, and their parents actions.

Martin Luther King Jr. used logos in a beneficial way at the start of the text. King stated that; I think I should indicate why I am here in Birmingham, since you have been influenced by the view which argues against outsiders coming in. (King 1) He answers this statement by saying; I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference… So I along with several members of my staff, am here because I was invited here. I am here because I have organizational ties here. (King 2)

In the opening essay “Time and Distance Overcome” of her book Notes from No Man’s Land, Eula Biss implicitly equates two iconic American inventions – the telephone and racial lynching. The lynching of African Americans started to appear at the same time with Bell’s invention and was transmitted throughout the country. Essentially, all public areas in the U.S. were covered with wires, attached to a nominal “crucifixes” – telephone poles. Those poles became a symbolic emblem of white racial violence against blacks and their bodies. “Black men were lynched for crimes real and imagined...”(7), for approximately a century from a remarkable Bell’s creation. Biss wrote her essay in a twenty-first century in order to demonstrate how complex and deep-seated

Frederick Douglass, the author of his biography “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass”, uses rhetoric in order to persuade his readers towards his ideas. Frederick Douglass uses Ethos in order to convince the author that he knows what he is talking about and how he himself is a credible source for the information he is delivering to thee reader. He uses Pathos to emotionally connect the reader to the text with relatability and through a manipulation of emotions. Lastly Frederick Douglass uses Logos in order to convince the reader and persuade them with factual information.

In this quote I will be showing one of many examples of logos found in MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail. “I think I should indicate why I am here in Birmingham, since you have been influenced by the view which argues against “outsiders coming in.”” I chose this quote because MLK clearly states that people in America during the 1960s were being corrupted by this thought that African-American were inferior to normal Americans. But in the letter from Birmingham jail MLK not only used logos, but he also used pathos, to try and show just how miserably the African-American was treated at the time. Here is a quote where MLK tries to explain how the African-Americans were becoming an exception to our constitution. “As the weeks and months went by, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.”(273 King) This quote effectively uses pathos because MLK is stating how the negro became a victim of a cruel and unjust system that was prominent in

Logos is an argument based on coherence and philosophy. Throughout the novel, Douglass tells many stories of how a slave was treated. “The frequency of this has had the effect to establish among the slaves the maxim, that a still tongue makes a wise head” (Douglass 24). All the slaves, within themselves, knew when they were asked a question he or she would be more fortunate to not say a word in response. It was evident the difference between freedmen and slaves. They were treated in a discrepant way. “I speak this advisedly,- that killing a slave, or any colored person, in Talbot county, Maryland, is not treated as a crime, either by

Lincoln uses pathos, ethos, and logos in order to persuade his audience. He uses pathos in a way that appeals to the audience’s feelings about the war. Lincoln also uses logos to show facts and details, an example would be “one eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the union, but localized in the southern part of it. Then Lincoln uses ethos for credibility to give people an even better reason to listen to him, and his credibility is that he is the president.

Ever wonder how logos and pathos are used in writings and compared? We you can always learn how when reading MLK speeches and letters. “I Have a Dream” spoken by Martin Luther King in front of the Lincoln Memorial with thousands of black and whites listening. “Letter From Birmingham Jail” written by Martin Luther King in Birmingham jail to eight clergymen. In this paper I will compare how Martin Luther King uses logos and pathos from his letter and speech.

This summer, I chose to read A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah for my nonfiction book. I chose to read this book for a very good purpose. My entire life, I have been told that I am very fortunate to have the luxuries that I have every day. I knew this was true and that I was very lucky, but I never really understood the full truth of how the other people lived; the people that were not as fortunate as me. This book gave me a very good insight to the daily struggles of living in a poor, dangerous environment.

Once there was a man who tried to stand up for what he believed was right for his race. His name was Martin Luther King Jr. He then wrote a letter that was titled “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. In his letter, it describes rhetorical devices that are proved to be effective. The rhetorical device that was most effective in the letter was logos.

This essay really does appeal to all three of the ethos, logos, and pathos. He talks about so many different things that appeal to people in different ways. He uses ethos when he talks about his position in the United States. He talks about logos when he talks about why we need peace and all of the points also appeal to logos. Finally it appeals to pathos by talking about why we entered the war and the point of all of this.