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How Does Eric Westervelt Use Ethos For Homeless People

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‘Treat others the way you want to be treated’ has been etched into our brains since grade school and yet, somehow many people have forgotten this golden rule. As we pass the poor on the streets, do we stop to take a second look? Or do we keep walking, because we know we’ll never see them again. Around the world, people beg for food or money due to losing their job or home. The highest population of homeless people on our earth resides in Budapest, Hungary. Both Raluca Besliu and Eric Westervelt have created articles that state the rising population of homeless people in Budapest and what is being done to help them. “Homeless in Budapest” by Raluca Besliu and “Homelessness Becomes A Crime In Hungary,” by Eric Westervelt includes information …show more content…

On the other hand, Eric Westervelt includes all the research he has found on how much the government is willing to do to help those in need. Besliu has gathered a large amount of information to show ethos, but mostly uses pathos through the eyes of a person that is in need of help. Westervelt does similar to this by using pathos and explaining the life of a homeless person, but includes many statistics and percentages to show his argument with logos. Even though Eric Westervelt included many approved statistics in his argument, Raluca Besliu gets her point across to the reader with her firmly placed reasonings that are made by the combination of pathos and logos. Though poverty is all over the world, there are many ways for one to help decrease the population of those in …show more content…

As Besliu explains the issues the homeless are going through, she rarely states her knowledge of what she knows from what she has seen. Even though there are only a few ethos statements included in this article, she covers a fact that can contribute to helping those that are in need. According to Raluca Besliu in “Homeless in Budapest: Limited Nonprofit Support Strives to Address Governmental and Social Indifference” (2016) “Despite the fact that so many people are living on the streets of Budapest, there are tens of thousands of vacant apartments in the city that could be renovated and transformed into social apartments or social institutions, such as shelters for abused women and mothers. This would be beneficial even for the private owners of buildings that are currently empty and simply rotting away” (para. 7). Besliu demonstrates that by fixing up the homes that are rotting away, homes open up to become a living space for those that need it. Throughout Budapest, there are many vacant homes and there are people that certainly could use them as

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