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One of major reasons the "I Have a Dream" address by Martin Luther King Jr. leaves such an enduring imprint on everyone's ears is the fact that it contains an excellent balance of ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos you could call a credibility so to speak, they demonstrate that they are trustworthy. Mr. king draws on three well known people of power for this particular speech. Abraham Lincoln, US Declaration of Independence, as well as the Bible. He begins by implying Abraham Lincoln and his statue, before which he forwarded the address. He alludes to the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln's declaration that the chattel in the South were free, to institutes the rights of blacks in America. He then quotes from the Declaration's assertion of "the …show more content…

King's analogy of the "promissory note" drawn on the American "bank of justice" is a seemingly compellable appeal. Blacks, especially slaves, did not at first lend a hand in the guarantees of the Constitution and the Declaration, as King notes in the following statement: "It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note inasmuch as her civilians of color are concerned." Referring to this blatant failure, King uses a logos appeal. Later, when he refers to the police brutality as well as inability as a black person to get a damn room at a hotel, he is speaking facts to buoy his argument. With reason though, it points out cause and effect, the explanation, "In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrong deeds," uses a logos appeal as well. Pathos, or a bid to emotion, is probably the most substantial appeal in King's speech. King's figurative language, elevated diction, as well as repetition all elevate the emotional connection with his listeners. The phrases "I have a dream" and "let freedom ring," executed perfectly and ascending to a apex carry the listener's emotions along with the

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Assignment #1 good use of rhetoric (ethos, pathos, logos) most effectively portrays pathos and is trying to help us understand why we should care about social situations like this through emotions, credibility, and logic Logos • footnotes at the bottom adds calculations in intelligence and to support her arguments (notes to readers what she is telling us is not anecdotal evidence but rather experts agree minimum pay wage is not feasible to living) • uses of many footnotes to give statistical facts that are evidence to support the information/argument she states • Ex) "in 1991 there were forty-seven affordable rental units available to every one hundred low-income families, while by 1997 there were only thirty-six such units for every one hundred

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Aristotelian Rhetoric consist of three elements Pathos, Ethos, Logos. Pathos exploit an audience's emotions, evoking pity from the crowd. Ethos appeals to ethics of an audience, convincing listeners of the speaker credibility. Logos use two different approaches, inductive, and deductive logic in an argument. Inductive logic gives the audience similar examples, then draw a general proposition.

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King wrote during his time in Birmingham City Jail, he used three rhetorical appeals, one of which was logos. Logos is the logical and reasonable thinking behind an action. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. uses this rhetorical appeal to help the audience of the letter understand the exact reasoning behind his analytic cogitation. For example, Dr. King states, “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed” (King 582). He uses a common sequence in the path of oppression that explains why he and other activists must act on their ideals of freedom and equality.

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1963, time of the Civil Rights Movement, and the world was one of chaos and the fight for equality was at its end. 250,000 people congregated at Washington D.C. to listen to Martin Luther King Jr. express his and his followers views on the issue of racial injustice. His words persuaded and inspired many to not only end inequality, but to expose of it. However, none of this would of been possible if good ole rhetorical devices didn’t come into play. His superb usage of ethos, logos, and pathos quite possibly changed the outcome of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Some Contemporary Issues is an article found on Gale database with an unknown author and with an unknown intended audience. The article seems to inform the audience about Native American issues he or she would not know prior to reading. The unknown author effectively uses many tactics to pursue the audience to his or her point of view. The two that stand out the most are pathos and logos.

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Advertisements are the key way to get a buyer's attention. The seller has to be able to put out a quick message, to make the buyer want and need the product which they are trying to tell. Now looking at types of advertisements such as Pathos, and Ethos, we often see these in a lot of ads and billboards. Pathos building that emotions in the buyer, and Ethos telling someone's character, of that person and building their trust.  

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Singer and songwriter Colbie Caillat's new video Try, is sending a powerful message to women about their appearance and society's expectations of beauty. The song effectively persuades women that she can still look gorgeous by letting their natural and inner beauty shine. It creates pure magic with the story, the visuals, the music and the emotion. Watch the faces, actions, and passions of the people in the story and listen to the music. They draw you in to the emotion.

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Rhetorical Analysis In “What Is a Rhetorical Analysis?” rhetoric is defined as the use of “text” in order to properly persuade one’s audience. That is to say, the context of what is being said has no effect unless the audience is captivated by how the information is relayed. The use of Logos, Pathos, and Ethos varies in “Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere,” “Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks,” and “John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson,” nor is every component present.

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A Time to Kill is a remembered experience that brings up the question, “Is a father justified to kill the young men who raped his daughter?” There are many fallacies used throughout this trial, such as, Appeals to Trial, Ad Hominem, Authoritative Warrant, Hasty Generalization, Claim of Fact and many others. The trial also used Ethos, Pathos and Logos to get its point across. If there were no fallacies, ethos, pathos or logos used, then the trial wouldn’t have been as strong as it was illustrated to be in the movie.

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King’s speech is remember through decades because he says things like, “...dark and desolate…” (King 48). King uses alliteration of these imagery words to make his sentence have strength and give you imagery of the sentence. Another way king used devices to expand his speech is by stating, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character” (King 50). This is a contrast made clear by using contrasting language.

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Context, Purpose and Audience Text one, a charity advertisement created by World Vision, displays the lengthy walk that young children take every day to collect dirty water. It has a worldwide context that is used to raise awareness for the deprived children living in third world countries and it is clearly identified in the short film that they are an organisation that have been shaped around supporting individuals that live with disadvantages and are exposed to horrific conditions on a daily basis. Text two is a leaflet published by the Salvation Army in relation to homeless people living on the streets in winter. The Australian context of this pamphlet is acknowledged through the website specified and the text saying, “Tonight, as many

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In 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a document that granted African American slaves their freedom, but after one hundred years, they still were not given the freedom that was promised in the Declaration of Independence. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. uses his “I Have a Dream” speech and “Letter From Birmingham Jail” to compel people to make a change in the way African Americans are treated. Dr. King makes use of the persuasive language of logical and emotional appeal in his writings to defend African Americans’ freedom as well as to embetter the treatment of them. In Dr. King’s speech “I Have a Dream,” the rhetorical devices of logical appeal, otherwise known as logos, and emotional appeal, known as pathos, are utilized

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King references the Gettysburg Address and Emancipation Proclamation is to show how much time it’s been since it’s been signed. This document states how all men should be equal. The documents held the promise of equality, yet 100 years later and there's still racism. Dr. King cleverly reminds his audience of this to highlight how long it’s been without much change. One example of an analogy in this speech is when Dr. King talks about checks and banks.

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The “I Have a Dream” speech is well known throughout history to be one of the most famous speeches to be on the subject of civil rights. Throughout the entirety of “I Have a Dream”, Dr. King uses pathos more than logos. “We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.”

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To achieve this, he used rhetorical strategies such as appeal to pathos and repetition. His passionate tone flowed through these strategies, increasing their persuasive power on the people and encouraging them to follow/listen to his message on racial injustice. While pathos elicits an emotional response from the audience to make them more accepting of King’s ideas, repetition structures the speech and emphasizes key ideas for the audience to take away from listening. These two techniques played a crucial role in furthering his purpose and in provoking a powerful response from the audience that made this speech memorable and awe-inspiring. To this day, King’s speech remains one of the most famous and influential speeches in

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