Illegal immigration has become a popular issue in America today. In 2011, Alabama passed a law making illegal immigrants want to leave the state. The law was called Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act, or House Bill 56, and it is one of the harshest anti-immigration laws. HB56 made illegal immigrants flee Alabama because they were afraid to live there. While the government thought passing the law would help the state, it also has done some major damage to the economy. The news channel VICE sent Thomas Morton to Alabama to investigate what it would it be like without illegals in the segment “Sweet Home Alabama.” VICE is aiming their broadcastings to a younger audience and they use Morton to help them by dressing casually …show more content…
They do not use pathos as much because it is a news source, therefore the audience is not looking for much emotion. One use of pathos in the video is the footage of the abandoned run down trailer park. This footage shows Morton talks to locals in the area about how the law affected the park, which will make audience members feel something for the immigrants. It affects parents’ emotions because it makes them picture what it would be like if their family had been in this situation. Another use of pathos was when the camera showed the rotting fruit and how the farmers suffered. This appeals to the audience because it shows the hardships of how the farmers lost all of their workers which resulted in rotting fruits and vegetables. Even when Morton was talking to the farmers, the audience can see that the farmers lost not only the workers but money due to HB-56. With their workers gone, they could not produce the produce they needed to make their living. Pathos is not overwhelming present during this video, but it still plays a key part in the rhetorical …show more content…
The first person the audiences sees and hears from is Shane Smith who is the founder of VICE. Smith is more connected to the audiences because he dresses like an everyday person instead of a suit like other founders of companies. He starts the video off by giving the audience some background information on the topic (“Sweet Home Alabama” 00:01:09-00:02:04). Next they show Thomas Morton, the on-site reporter, and how he has credibility because he relates to the audience. Morton relates because the camera shows him dressed casually. Also, the way he talks in his interviews he is very laid back and not as professional as normal reporters (“Sweet Home Alabama” 00:02:13-00:03:02:30). VICE uses the way both Smith and Morton are dressed and talk to relate to the audience. Normal news sources would have their founders and reporters dressed in business attire and speak like they are important. By having the founder and a reporter not act like that shows the audience that VICE is more like the average people therefore, giving them good
Critics such as columnist Bob Confer is stating that unemployment would be much lower if illegal immigrants would not take jobs from American citizens. He is considering that jobs such as construction and maintenance held by illegal immigrants are skilled positions. According to the Pew Research Center, they do not categorize those jobs as skilled. Furthermore, the study presents that 26% of unauthorized employees are working in farming and fishing industries, 17% in cleaning and maintenance industries, and only 14% in construction (Passel and Cohn). When Alabama passed a new law, many legal and illegal immigrant left the state, leaving farmers with unpicked crop and unclean fish. In 2011 in Alabama, 211,000 were unemployed. Republican Governor Robert Bentley said that immigrants had stolen jobs from Americans. However, native-born Americans did not run to fill in those positions. One farmer said that he could not find 158 employees who would take the jobs those immigrants had previously performed (Dwoskin). Therefore, immigrants do not take Americans jobs; they contribute by doing work that Americans do not want to
In the “180” movie Ray Comfort outstandingly used rhetorical appeal throughout his argument in a thorough way to further grasp his audience’s attention. He used pathos, ethos, and logos during the course of his dispute of abortion and the Holocaust. Comfort uses pathos more frequently than the other two appeals, to plea to the audience’s heart strings. An example of when pathos was used was when
Kelley uses pathos to highlight the need for change and get her point across to the audience. Kelley uses pathos to stress the need for change. To show the severity of the problem Kelley writes “Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills, all the night through, in the deafening noise of the spindles and the looms spinning and weaving cotton and wool, silks and ribbons for us to buy. ”(18-22) This demonstrates pathos by using “little girls” for the readers imagine a fragile small child doing laborious work in a factory for hours to come.
Pathos: is an approach that appeals to the audience’s emotions. Including specific examples showing how tragedies have been avoided thanks to first responders being trained. Also, included in Pathos are examples on how tragedies have happen due to the misunderstanding
Pathos is to illustrate emotions and it is to evoke emotions from the audience and this commercial is a perfect example. Because when watching this the sentimental feeling comes to the viewer and seeing how the customers are in a happy mood right away and how they react to the kindness that the employees are providing. Because when you watch this it makes you feel inspired. It was neat to see how the families reacted and hugged each other.
Owens and Sawhill use pathos to evoke the feelings of their readers. This method establishes
Pathos is a quality of an experience in life or a work of art that stirs up emotions of pity, sympathy, and sorrow. She uses this to connect to the people by bringing up her personal experiences in life. As shown in the speech, “My friends, we’ve come to Philadelphia- the birthplace of our nation- because what happened in this city 240 years ago still has something to teach us today” (Line 35-36).. Hillary says “my friends” as referring to the American people, she considers everyone as important and this causes people to feel good about themselves. Also, she uses allusion to show how the past still impacts our world today. Another device uses is point of view, “Teachers who change lives. Entrepreneurs who see possibilities in every problem. Mothers who lost children to violence and are building a movement to keep other kids safe” (Lines 104-106). The point of view is used in third person, and emphasizes her point that she is trying to make. This quotes is also pathos, she is connecting to real people and what they go through in everyday life. Pathos is one appeal that touches the heart of general people.
John Grisham uses personal experience and cause and effect strategies for emotional appeals or also known as pathos to show the audience how movies greatly influence people and their decisions.
Ehrenreich gets a job as a waitress and one of the first times she uses pathos is when she explains what she had to go through to get the job. " if you want to stack Cheerios boxes or vacuum hotel rooms in chemically fascist America, you have to be willing to squat down and pee in front of a health worker(who has no doubt had to do the same thing herself.)(Barbara Ehrenreich, 14) In this appeal Ehrenreich is stating that all lo...
For example, the emotion is felt when Kozol speaks to a student from a New York, Bronx high school, “Think of it this way,” said a sixteen-year-old girl. “If people in New York woke up one day and learned that we were gone…how would they feel? Then when asking how she thought the people of New York would feel she replied, “I think they’d be relieved” (Kozol 205). By mentioning the thoughts and emotions of individuals involved with the issues of school system segregation and inequality his reader cannot help but develop a feeling of empathy for children that feel as if no one cares about them and their issue. Kozol also uses pathos effectively by reading letters to his reader he received from young elementary school children that are not afforded the same amenities as other children in wealthier school systems, amenities such as toilet paper or the appropriate amount of restrooms. Which causes students to hold the urge to relieve themselves out of fear of being late for class (Kozol 214). With the proper use of pathos, Kozol places the reader in the same situation and assistances the reader with an understanding of his reason for conveying a concern to help children in this unfortunate situation. Another example of Pathos is when he speaks of the letters that came from third-grade children asking for help with getting them better things. He mentions a letter that had the most affected on him that came from a girl named Elizabeth, “It is not fair that other kids have a garden and new things. But we don’t have that.” (Kozol 206). This example being only one example of the few things mentioned in the letter. The tone of the little girl from when Kozol reads gives a pitiful and sad feeling. By stating this, it acts on the reader’s emotional state which creates a sense of wanting to resolve the problem of
She mentions how one’s ACE score directly affects their life. Information via pathos is not in statistics, but rather just words and how it is brought across the audience. Her word choice is strong throughout her talk, giving a question to the audience in the beginning of her talk asking, “How many of you know/knew someone has/had a mental illness when growing up.” This appeal to emotion grabs the audience’s attention as Harris attempts to relate her talk to everyone there. Harris’s logos are directly related to her pathos as her logos backs up her pathos. Without logos, Harris’s pathos would have been nothing as no supportive information would be
...ebates and reform have been mainly coming from the federal level, several measures have been passed the state level. Some states have been trying to pass restrictive laws that limit illegal immigration such as Arizona’s SB1070. This law imposes criminal punishments on illegal aliens and also those who harbor, employ or transport them. In 2010, the Supreme Court challenged Arizona’s strict laws and dismissed three out of the four major parts of the law. The only thing they upheld was the ability to ask for proof of citizenship. Other programs such as the Secure Communities program began as an volunteer process. Some states disliked the program and attempted to opt-out only to be denied. The program has now stated that participation within the 50 states is mandatory, which stirred protests to local governments. However the program has had no legal challenges to date.
Illegal immigration was an issue in the past and is a pressing problem in the present. The U.S. Government has been trying to find a resolution to this issue for years. The United States approved the Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986, which allowed the American Government to punish American companies that consciously employed illegal immigrants (Nadadur 1037-1052). The United States’ Government Immigration Reform and Control Act has been unsuccessful in controlling illegal immigration. It is estimated that illegal immigration into the U.S. has a yearly interval of three hundred fifty thousand people (Rousmaniere 24-25). It is apparent that the 1986 act was not able to keep a handle on illegal immigration. Illegal immigration continues due to the fact that immigrants only take the jobs available to them, which in turn helps support the United States’ economy, so measures should not be taken to halt immigration.
Pathos was use often in this story to show his compassion to those affected victims, and his disagreement toward the opposing individuals of the death penalty. In the article, the writer put sentences that had emotion that the writer convoke to the audience. For example, in the last two paragraphs he mentions the case of a murder victim that is not help. At the beginning, Koch showed sadness, then toward the end, he displayed the madness he felt toward those who did not do something to help. He believes that the opposing group toward death penalty are the same as the people that did not do anything to help. With this emotion, the author was able to make the reader thoughtful whether not supporting death penalty makes justice of the inoffensive victim. Although the writer uses a considerable amount of emotion, he does not go to an extreme, which would made his argument emotional for the reader to lost interest of
Pathos, is used in commercials to create a convincing argument about this product by showing emotion and has connecting with other. As you can see, a man does not feel lonely, the relationships between the father, son and friends have good time.