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The writer makes excellent use of statistics and graphs numerous times throughout the article. “One N.F.L. player in 40 is arrested in a given year.” (Irwin 181) Neil Irwin starts off in his body paragraphs by giving the reader a sense of scale upon which the rest of the essay is built. His statistics also have a strong credibility to them, since they come from USA Today a well known and respected newspaper. “Some 28 percent of the arrests in the database were for driving under the influence, with 202 incidents. Other frequent categories of charges include assault and battery (88 cases) and drug-related offenses (82).” (Irwin 182) Here the writer also covers the amount of players arrested by crime, placing strong emphasis on the number of driving while intoxicated charges. In doing this, he breaks it down in a way which shows not all of these arrest are as serious as others. “The number of arrests by team range from a low of 11 (tie between the

Another example of pathos being used in the text is when Ms. Dillard says: “One naturalist refused to kill a weasel who was socketed into his hand deeply as a rattlesnake. The man could in no way pry

Player safety has been an issue for the National Football League since the start of the league, but has taken on a greater importance in recent years. Now, when a player is injured after a play, he must sit out for at least one play to allow the team’s trainer to assess his injury and make sure he is fit to return to play. Many say the NFL is very invested in player safety, and the protocols recently introduced have drastically changed the way athletes are assessed and eventually released to return to the field. These changes were necessary in order to protect players from serious injury and long-term health issues. There are many possible reasons the NFL has increased its emphasis on player safety, including, many people are disturbed by the violence of the game, fewer kids are playing football at the youth and high school levels, league sponsors are worried about bad publicity, and there are lawsuits against the NFL dealing with the long-term effects of brain damage. These reasons make many ponder, “Does the NFL really care about player safety, or are they just saving themselves from bad public relations, and the detrimental economic effects that may result from them?”

In the article “Does Football Have a Future?” Ben McGrath writes about an issue that has been plaguing football since the late 1800s. The issue is the controversy over the NFL and their football players’ health – both physically and mentally. It is most specifically over the concussion crisis. McGrath provides information from his experiences with the NFL, the players, and the doctors. Throughout the article, there are also many quotes from these experiences with the people who are involved with football. His overwhelming use of logos is what makes his position uncertain. This creates a fallacy because he does not compel the reader to have the same opinion as him. McGrath’s own opinion is unclear from the reader’s standpoint due to that fact that he presents evidence behind banning football, reforming football, and keeping football the same

Career achievements need to be based on professional conduct and milestones covered. However, the big sports associations such as Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Football League (NFL) and the National Basketball Association (NBA) tend to factor in other principles as well (Withers 147). For these leagues, certain behaviors off the field are keen indicators that determine how a player is viewed. With such efforts, these leagues aim to maintain a standard that professional athletes can use to guide their lives. However, there are questions that linger regarding the forms of conduct that are deemed to be unworthy of these athletes. The question is also posed to the wider society since these professionals are a part of it (Schrotenboer

Pathos is used very effectively in Seth Davis’s article. By using pathos he is helping to expose the purpose of the article in a way that you wouldn’t think of before. Davis states “As the father of three children under the age of eight, I can only pray that someone “exploits” my sons someday

Throughout the article Guindlen uses pathos in various forms, but she mainly enforces it on readers towards alcohol abuse. She uses pathos appeal to aware readers on

Even though Penrod uses very good examples that pertain to pathos, he is lacking the use of ethos in his paper. Penrod does not truly exercise the use of ethos, counterarguments, consideration of other positions, and convincing reasons or evidence in his paper. Throughout the essay, Penrod practically uses hasty generalizations. The reason I say this is due to the fact that he utilizes information and comments from online boards. Yes, the comments on these boards do in fact appeal to pathos, however, they are not very applicable to the appeal of ethos. Penrod does not use very credible websites when looking up his information and adding it to his paper. For example, he uses a website called “talkingcock.com.” This website is not very credible and consists of an online discussion board. Furthermore, Penrod uses information from a website called, “Angelfire.com” to talk about famous high school dropouts. Although this information may be valid, it does not mean that absolutely every single high school dropout is going to be successful. Penrod focuses solely on the famous high school dropouts without acknowledging that there are in fact high school dropouts that are not successful and rich like the celebrities he has brought up. Therefore, Penrod fails to acknowledge a counterargument at this time, as well as being logical. Also, tying into the fact

Pathos is used in the article to “tug at the heartstrings” of those who watch football and do not know of the effects it has on the players or their families. It is also used to inform others of C.T.E and how it effects the body. Pathos is defined as, “frequently translated as some variation of ‘emotional appeal’, but it originally referred to the elements of speech that appealed to any of an audience’s sensibilities.” (Sproat, 2012) An example of this is when The Editorial Board refers to the families of people with C.T.E and the children that have an interest in playing tackle football. “As tens of thousands of football players, from professionals to peewee league children, head to summer training camps across the nation, there is new and compelling evidence linking the

According to Anthony Schmidt and Kevin Coe, they have brought up previous studies generally find that commentators stereotype black athletes as naturally gifted in terms ability to jump, run, and physical appearance, and born athletes, as for “white athletes, they are more often described as having superior intelligence and determination.” Most televised sports comments are predominantly made by white commentators on television. “Sports television producers and commentators appeared to make an effort, though not always successful, to treat all athletes fairly regardless of race or ethnicity” (Derse). The problem is there are not many black people that work for media institute. According to Derse, he mentioned the lack of minorities in the sports media business, when he stated that whites accounted for about 89 percent, blacks accounted for 10.5 percent while Asians and Hispanics accounted for less than 1 percent in sports media. This is further backed up by Dexter Rogers when he showed that 94, 88, and 87 percent of the sports editors, columnists and reporters are white males. Also in Arnett article, a recent study in 2006 by The Institute on Diversity and Ethics in Sports found “whites made up 94 percent of sports editors, 89 percent of assistant sports editors, 88 percent of sports columnists, and 87 percent of sports reporters at the time.”

When I read this text I do not have any emotional connection, which is why I believe this article does not use pathos.

Knowing that this will provoke the reader's emotions and pull them in. She relies on using pathos, because she knows that if she reaches out to the audience's heart that she will be able to persuade them easier. Another area where she used pathos is when she claims“the horror of creeping depression or delusions that of peer derision, the sound of the C word in the hallways: crazy, man, he’s crazy, haven’t you seen him, didn’t you hear?” speaking of how us and others respond to mental illnesses. She uses the rhetorical device of pathos to make her claim seem more convincing and

Writers and speakers use pathos to present a feeling they have towards a certain event that is occurring, like demonstrating their displeasure with injustice. Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton use pathos in their work to make their argument stronger by inspiring their readers to take action on the injustices that are being committed.

Some examples of this pathos include the words spread across the screen claiming, “What you see on the news is a story 150 years in the making” (“13th, Trailer”). This is to say that African Americans have been fighting for freedom for longer than most think or assume, and this documentary is going to get to the bottom of that. This is the same way that the video uses Kalief Browder’s personal testimony to bring the audience to tears and just feel what Browder feels, emotionally binding you to the documentary and causing you to want to see it to empower this man who committed suicide to escape police brutality. Adding to this idea, pictures of the brutality and unjust treatment add to this pathological tempt. It forces the viewer to want to watch the documentary because it makes the viewer feel that bad for all of the people shown in the documentary simply because of how they are being treated. Thus, pathos is an effective tool used to convey the message of the documentary and draws readers

The points where Goldberg should have a strong pathos presence was when he was discussing World War Two, which he did for a large portion of the article. Also, it would have brought more success if he were to talk about what terrible things Antifa had done in America to highlight why this organization is not one to support and to have that mental image of the violent acts committed by Antifa engraved in his audience’s head. Having pathos when talking about the war is a prime opportunity to appeal to his audience’s emotion. War is a horrible event that effected so many people and had a significant impact of the world. When starting his Antifa/Communist comparison, he should have incorporated more emotion into the article to not only make his readers lose support for this organization, but to make them feel something. Bringing that emotion in would have made the reader more passionate about rejecting support for Antifa because of the heinous acts the communist party committed – making is article more successful in persuading the audience to give up their support to Antifa.