Gettysburg Speech And Glory Road Rhetorical Strategies

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What makes a speech effective? Using rhetoric, a person can appeal to others emotion and logic to persuade a person into doing a desired action. They can encourage a person into success or they can discourage a person into wanting to prove others wrong. The two speeches that will be discussed in this paper will be from Remember the Titans Gettysburg Speech and Glory Road Final game speech. The Gettysburg speech was made in the middle of movie. This speech happens after the football team run up the hill where battle at Gettysburg happen. The coach uses the battle to help illustrate the battle the team is facing with not only people within the team but with people wanting them to fail, the people who refuse for change. This speech was used to …show more content…

An effective rhetoric has the ability to persuade an audience using the three appeals: pathos, ethos, and logos. Using pathos, a writer is able to appear to its intended audience emotions. Whereas logos appeals to the logic side of a person. Ethos is the writer credibility. Using the Conscious Rhetorician by D. Bruce Lockerbie and Coming to Terms: Rhetoric by Brenda Lamb, this research will show how Remember the Titans and Glory Road uses effective Rhetoric to get the desire …show more content…

The team was divided from the start. He took his team up the hill to inspire them. “You listen. And you take a lesson from the dead. If we don 't come together, right now, on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed -- just like they were.” Coach Boone uses pathos to persuade the team to work together. He uses history and others failure to strike enough fear into the team to actually work together and not as two separate teams. He uses the past to help explain the reason why we work together. This is an example of logos. Coach Boone’s ethos is shown from his experience. He has coach football before and he uses that knowledge to help the team become