Powerful messages can easily be spread across a range of audiences when they include well supported details. During the 1992 presidential debate, an audience member asked the question, “How has national debt personally effected each of your lives? And if it hasn’t, how can you honestly find a cure for the economic problems of the common people if you have no experience in what ailing them?” for the candidates to answer. The candidates, Bill Clinton, and George Bush, were challenged to explain how they are credible enough to take on the USA’s national debt through personal experiences. In this essay, I will describe how each man used ethos, pathos, and logos in attempt to prove that they were a better candidate during the 1992 presidential debate. …show more content…
The ethos of the candidates was challenged, because if they aren’t experienced in dealing with the effects of the debt, they need to have other background that would help them solve the debt’s issues. Bush explained his sense of ethos through how much he cared for the community. Noticing the financial crisis across the US was Bush’s main response to how credible he is. Bush traveled throughout the states during the campaigns and noticed dramatic effects of the financial crisis across communities. He described how meeting families from broken homes that were struggling to stay financially stable made him feeling emotionally connected to their situations. Noticing conditions in poor neighborhoods and meeting people who were struggling are good examples of how the national debt has affected people around Bush. However, in his answer, Bush lacked to explain his own personal experience with the national debt. Describing that you care about the people that are impacted by the debt, is not a personal experience. Clinton expressed a stronger sense of ethos by describing a couple of his experiences as governor of Arkansas for twelve years. As governor, he dealt with …show more content…
Bush tried to fill the audience’s hearts with a sense of caring and belonging through describing his discussions he had with people who were financially struggling. He tried to persuade the crowd into basically believing that he felt bad for the people affected by the debt and the communities that were thus changing. However, he was not quite successful in persuading me that he truly related to anyone he’s talked to. Simply feeling bad for people who have financial burdens doesn’t create a sense of relatability to those people. The woman who was financially struggling did not seem emotionally persuaded by Bush’s response either. She wanted the candidates to prove that they relate to the public about what they are going through during that stressful time. Pathos could have been incredibly influential when discussing such a negative time for the nation. The woman who asked the topic question expressed pathos through discussing how tough it has been for her, and many family members, to make payments they used to be able to afford. Talking about how she personally knows people who could be losing their homes and cars evokes a saddening emotion from the audience. Sadness was also felt when Clinton began speaking to the woman. Clinton persuaded the audience to feel the sadness he had undergone during his time as a governor. Cutting local businesses and watching friends go
In the argument that college is not for everyone, Reeves establishes his ethos through both extrinsic and intrinsic support while maintaining clarity using the logos approach. Pathos, however, lacked the same amount of control. By using an excess amount of pathos while approaching rhetoric with a condescending tone, the author diminished the persuasiveness achieved by combining the techniques. This resulted in a limited audience due to the insulting nature of the closing remarks geared to the very audience he was trying to reach.
In a society dominated by visual activity it is not uncommon to be faced with images
Donald Trump’s presidential nomination acceptance speech relies heavily on the three rhetorical strategies of pathos, logos, and ethos. While Trump employs all three strategies in his speech, he primarily relies on pathos to garner support from the crowd.
Senator Barack Obama came to Germany to speak to the people of Berlin about the deep and enduring bonds Germany and America have with one another. Senator Obama’s speech was to use ethos and pathos to electrify and to motive hope to the audience. In Obama’s speech, presidential candidate Obama’s appeal to ethos is strengthened/ weakened by his appeal to pathos.
We are in contact with marketing tactics daily, even though we may not even realize it; from every print ad, commercial and even product placement in television shows and movies are used to subliminally to make people want it and need it. Per The Mercury Reader assembled by Maren Clegg Hyer, Ph.D. explains the Aristotle‘s art of effective persuasion and the Greek triangle mode of rhetoric of pathos, ethos and logos to determine that this ad is indeed effective. Ads can elicit many emotions and rely on our reactions to make sales quotas. It can send strong emotions to not be left out, and a hurry and join the crowd, it can emote a desire to come along and join the fun. In Perrier’s “Thirst for the Extraordinary” commercial by the directors Fluer & Manu, from You Tube is effective because and relies heavily on pathos and ethos, it lacks any logos although the commercial involves no logos, it has what is called the “bandwagon” fallacy, so it is very effective and extremely persuasive in its purpose to sell Perrier water.
Roosevelt uses pathos to make the nation feel united through the weight of our great loss. He also uses logos to establish that the attack was planned. One example of pathos is "I regret to tell you that very many american lives have been lost." (paragraph 5) I's not easy to face the
Logos a way for writers to use any form of mathical reasons, such as numbers, facts, or statistics, in their article or in their arguments. Goode provided facts and statistics throughout her article, and knowledged that mental health should be taken serious, because the issue is increasing every year. Goode logically support her information about the framework of the Precede-Proceed, and discussed the seriousness of school counselors and other school officials playing a major role in decreasing the chance of students having depression, stress, and high levels of anxiety.
In video “THE GIRL THAT SILENCED THE WORLD FOR 5 MINUTES” I believe that this speech had a perfect moderation of all three appeals. She included ethos and the way she presented it was great because she is talking about how destroying the environment and going to war will affect not only the children but the entire planet, in other words we aren't only messing it up for ourselves but for every other species on this planet. The girl herself is only a child but she can say that she is fighting for her own future because the adults that teach us so much forget that if there is no planet there is no us, this makes the speech credible. She also uses logos effectively because she gives examples of how the earth has been polluted so much already that
On September 20, 2001, president George W. Bush had made a speech about 9/11 attack. In this speech he used three main strategies that had a different roles: Logos, Ethos and Pathos. In this essay, Bush’s speech will be analyzed by the three different categories to know why and how his speech was effective. In the speech “After 9/11” by President Bush he had used Logos in order to show valuable facts or data about the situation. He also used Ethos to show his character or trustworthiness. He used a lot of pathos in his speech since this tragedy was about losing family member or friends. This essay will talk about the background, main analysis, and discussion on
Clinton and Sanders connected pathos to their speech by appealing to their audience’s emotions and through their diction; and used ethos by providing credentials and experience so the people know they can be trusted. It was necessary for these politicians to use pathos in order to fully and effectively connect with their audience and increase the chance of a vote. As well as using ethos to establish a sense of trust between the candidate and audience that they are capable as president to make them want to vote. The rhetorical approaches these politicians use can be applied to everyday life in order to convince people, so it is important to remember when and how people use these rhetorical
Advertising is one of the biggest industries in the world today. People and different businesses are trying to sell certain products to others. They spend billions of dollars trying to make an advertisement to influence them to buy what they are trying to sell. Advertisements are everywhere because there is a variety of ways to advertise a product. Whether it is on television, the radio, in a newspaper, or in a magazine, there is no way a person can escape them. Many of these companies use certain techniques to catch a person’s attention. One way experts get consumers’ attention is by dividing their strategies into three categories: pathos, ethos, and logos.
Argument (P. 88) – The point of an argument is to convince someone through using truth or logic, also known as logos: facts, evidence, reliable testimonies, common sense and determining probability. This does not require the presence of an opposing force to ague. If I were to write a paper on television being the leading cause for poor vision, that would be an argument.
As I vigilantly watched the ad called “Brutal: Sarah Palin’s Record on Aerial Wolf Hunting”, I seen so much alienation against her. By the end of the video, my attention was so far off of the idea of Sarah Palin being elected vice president, but only on the thought of why a person would support this kind of cruelty. The ad did accomplished one thing, which was to convince the audience that Sarah Palin is a bad person, and why citizens should not vote for her. While seeing so much hatred against one person, this paper will focus on analyzing how pathos, ethos, and logos were used in a tactical move to oppose Sarah Palin becoming vice president.
Throughout George W. Bush's political career he has implored the use of Aristotle's tripod, which we like to call it. This tripod is a rhetoric which implies that persuasion relies on three things, which are ethos, pathos, and logos. Logos is devoted solely to logic and reason. While on the other hand, pathos deals with attitudes and beliefs. Perhaps the most important one which pertains to George W. Bush is something called ethos, that is to say the branch of the tripod which deals with the personal strengths of the speaker and most importantly his character. Throughout his political journey he has showed the use of pathos, logos, and ethos time and time again, but the one of which he is commonly known for is ethos. The instances in which he has demonstrated them are countless, but I will recall but three. The first event took place on the day of September 14, 2001 at 'Ground Zero', three days after the attack of the World Trade Centers. The third instance was on September 20, 2001 during his Address to a Joint Session of Congress. Lastly, was the State of the Union Address in Washington D.C. Which was held on January 29, 2002.
President Obama’s memorial speech following the Tuscan shooting carefully utilized the Aristotelian appeal of pathos, or emotional appeals through his word choice, which aligned him with the American people while still conveying a sense of authority, and his use of biblical allusions, which drew his audience together on the basis of shared ideologies.