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Desmond Tutu and Partnership/ Intertwined? Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace prize for his leadership and efforts to end apartheid, first black Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and continuous civil and social rights activist (Berger, M. 2021), spoke on a spring day to the 2006 graduating class of William & Mary University. Tutu used his trademark wit and humor to acknowledge the students and those that supported them in their efforts to graduate, gently mock himself and his fame, engaged us in the idea that we could be a partner with God to improve this world, and edified the spirit of those that heard him. As an experience orator, Tutu was able to weave ethos, pathos, and logos together seamlessly leading the listener (or reader) to feel that their contributions in life can make a difference and has a purpose. While the speech is heavy on the pathos, it is done well so it never feels overwrought, and it builds and supports ethos effectively. The logos element is out of the three used lightly, but its effects are still noted in the structure of the speech and the comparisons used to make points that have been wrapped up by Tutu’s use …show more content…

These comparisons endeavor to elicit feelings of purpose and is a great use of pathos using the facet of credibility that has been built up with ethos and pathos from earlier in the speech, so that when he whole heartedly states “God says you young people, you’re just fabulous. You are in the forefront of the campaign to make poverty history. You are part of the exhilarating movements for peace.” (2006) It doesn't come across as cliché, instead because of his experience as a religious and civil rights leader, his belief that young people can affect change, comes across as

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Sam Quinones utilizes ethos,pathos and logos in order to fight against false information with his credibility and logic as a journalist,to sway their opinion and channel their emotions to help rebuild the community and fight addiction. communities have suffered from the false salvation of using drugs for treatments against addiction when it only fuels the fire. He uses logos to convey this by laying out facts about addiction.one thing the author stated was “The U.S. medical system is good at fighting disease, Cahana believes, and awful at leading people to wellness. ”― Sam Quinones, Dreamland. He said this because he has witnessed communities that were already falling apart be ripped down by government funded opium replacements also known as oxycodone.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has long been a symbol of nonviolence not only in America, but in the World as a whole. The article written by Cesar Chavez establishes ethos, pathos, and logos as rhetorical devices in order to convey his opinion. First, Cesar Chavez establishes a sense of ethos in his article. As a civil rights leader, it is clear that Chavez has a lot of knowledge on the topic of choosing between violence and nonviolence to get a point across. Another way that ethos is established within the article is by giving reference to ideas that Dr. King himself had.

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One of the best ways a speaker can use to communicate his or her message is by using rhetorical appeals, President Roosevelt used pathos to be successful with his purpose. He used pathos because he wanted to make his audience get emotional to the event that had just happened, therefore his audience would listen carefully to understand the message that President Roosevelt was about to communicate. For example, president Roosevelt said, “The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. Very many American lives have been lost”. Based on this evidence, President Roosevelt intentions on including this not only had the purpose of informing his audience about the pass event, the attack by

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Throughout this speech, a couple of things stood out to me which were kind of weird. Pathos, Ethos, and Logos are all expressed into this speech. Pathos was used in the beginning of the speech when Obama described scenarios of sad situations. For example, he used the imagery of an empty dinner table. Kids growing up without their mother or father.

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The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. devastated a large majority of people around the world. His works of nonviolent acts against racism motivated many, including civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, to solve matters without resorting to inhumane behaviors. Inspired by Dr. King Jr.’s work, Chavez and his union of labor workers devoted themselves to helping those in need through peaceful protests. Similar methods are proven to be successful; Mahatma Gandhi, for instance, gained a great deal of supporters because of his pacifism and tranquil methods of boycotting against British domination. Despite brutal and savage methods of persuasion slowly gaining support, Chavez proves that nonviolent actions are superior; he does so by using ethos in order to uphold moral standards, logos (in reference to the past), and pathos to appeal to the emotions of his audience.

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The 60's was the height of the Civil Rights Movement in America, and Dr. Martin Luther King was one of the most prominent leaders of the movement. The philosophy of fighting back against oppression through nonviolent protest, something that was soon adapted by many different activists for different causes at this time once it began to be proved effective. Cesar Chavez writes this article in remembrance of Dr. King, as well as to gain the support of many Christians to his protest of the treatment of many Mexicans migrants in America. In his article Cesar Chavez uses rhetorical devices such as compare and contrast, ethos, and references to pursue his religious audience that nonviolent protest will help get the best outcome as oppose to violence. Chavez uses contrast to convince his audience that supporting his cause is the right thing to do by stating the outcome of nonviolence as opposed to violence many times throughout the article.

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To begin with Dr. King used logos in his speech to educate the people and give them evidence and logic. Dr. King used both logos and pathos in his speech here is an example of logos used in his speech. “ Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, Signed the Emancipation Proclamation. ”(King 261) is the quote that Dr. King wrote in his speech. He is telling them that the African Americans have been free for five hundred years and that was a great point in history but the African Americans aren’t treated equally or fairly.

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