Ethos Pathos Logos

Two American politicians have made speeches about what direction they want their country to take. In this task, I am going to point out what language features and literary devices the politicians use to persuade the ones who listen to their speech. Speech 1 is made by Craig Johnson, and speech 2 is made by Susan Kilpatrick.
When writing argumentative and persuasive texts, the purpose is to make someone believe you. Argumentative and persuasive texts overlap each other to a certain point, but when an argumentative text uses facts, a persuasive text also uses three different appeals. Those three appeals belong to the subject of rhetoric and they are called ethos, logos and pathos. Ethos is the appeal to credibility, and to why you should be

Black, poor and criminal people have all been faced with impediments regarding the right to vote. Several amendments and acts have been made over the years since the end of the civil war to strengthen equal voting rights, regardless of race, gender, or age, but state laws has often came in between.
After the American civil war ended in 1865, the 13th Amendment was approved and added to the Constitution, and with that, all slavery and forced servitude, except for as punishment for crimes, were abolished. The black slaves were freed, and in 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified and it granted American citizenship to everyone who was born or naturalized in the United States. The 14th Amendment gave the previous slaves their freedom, but many states in the south did not favor this, and they created their own state laws that restricted African-Americans freedom. These laws were called “Black Codes”. With the Black Codes, black peoples working conditions, gatherings, movements and several civil rights were controlled. In some of the states, Black Codes even prohibited black men from

They voted and gained several offices by the end of the 19th century. To stop this development, and obstruct them from gaining political power, white democrats worked to remove African-Americans and poor whites’ right to vote. To make this happen, they made sure that registering to vote became extremely difficult. Some of these requirements was that they had to pay poll taxes, the timing to register was complicated, and they had to perform a literacy test. In the literacy test, the voter had to prove to a white voter registrar that he could read and write English. Even black people with high education were told that they had failed the test, and therefore denied the right to vote. Ten of the confederate states brought these laws and requirements into use, these different requirements made it difficult to vote, and it therefore excluded both blacks, and poor whites from voting. Up until 1941, more whites than blacks had lost their right to