Has I look at the image of our American Flag being raised from ground zero, all I can think about was how life changing, scary and horrific we as a country went through as one on September 11, 2001. However, one thing I do remember about this day was George W. Bush’s address of the 9/11 events. I remember I had to do something similar to this in High School as well, and I wrote about how Bush addresses the 9/11 attacks and how Bush used ethos, pathos and logos or as we know Aristotle’s tools of persuasion in his address. So when researching Bush’s address I found an article by CNN titled The text of President Bush's address Tuesday night, after terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. When reading it you can see that his goal was to address: the attack that had been done on The United States, provide a response and direction …show more content…
As we progress in Bush’s address we can see his can easily find the Logos, Pathos and Ethos he used. For Ethos he says, "And on behalf of the American people, I thank the world for its outpouring of support" (George W. Bush (CNN)). Next his Pathos is, "We have seen the state of our Union in the endurance of rescuers, working past exhaustion. We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers -- in English, Hebrew, and Arabic. We have seen the decency of a loving and giving people who have made the grief of strangers their own." then continues to say, "Americans have known wars -- but for the past 136 years, they have been wars on foreign soil, except for one Sunday in 1941. Americans have known the casualties