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On April 12, 1964 Malcolm X gave his “Ballot or Bullet” speech at King Solomon Baptist church in Detroit, where two thousand people were in attendance. At this time President Lyndon Johnson was running for reelection which was the fuel to the fire for Malcom's speech. Malcolm X used the ethos approach to educate, convince, and encourage black people to get more involved in their communities to expand “Black Nationalism”, which I don’t think was successful because at the time it was not easily attainable. Ethos allows Malcolm X to convince the audience that he knows what he is talking about which persuades them to believe that what he is saying is true. In this case he is trying to convince the large crowd that “Black Nationalism”
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In Booker T. Washington’s, “A Protest Against the Burning and Lynching of Negroes”, he inspects racial injustice through pathos and logos. Firstly, Washington gives a pathos statement by expressing his views on the unreasonable burning and lynching. “These brutal and inhuman crimes are leading us,”(Washington 1904). Furthermore, they happened regularly and were insane therefore he showed his emotions towards them.

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On an important day in 1961, John F. Kennedy delivered a speech to the people all over the US and around the world that still gets quoted today. He made this speech to unite and make everyone come together. In his speech he used various examples of ethos, pathos and logos that really helped the speech and people come together. He as president would write the speeches himself and wouldn’t let others write it for him and is praised by many people because of that. John F. Kennedy didn’t use a lot of ethos but the ones he used were very good because it got the point across clearly.

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The Civil Rights Movement, occurring in the mid-20th century, proved to be a time of intense struggle and injustice for the black community as they clamored with systematic oppression. Malcolm X, a prominent leader in the movement, innovated the values and philosophies of America. X had a verifiable mastery of the English language, which granted him the upper hand amongst other activists. “The Ballot or the Bullet,” one of X’s most famous speeches given in Detroit, Michigan on 12 April 1964, teems with a flabbergasting amount of rhetorical devices. Malcolm X uses matured rhetoric, such as anaphora, contrasting ideas, and repetition, to manipulate the masses into a position in which they will muster behind his means of attaining racial equity.

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One of the best ways a speaker can use to communicate his or her message is by using rhetorical appeals, President Roosevelt used pathos to be successful with his purpose. He used pathos because he wanted to make his audience get emotional to the event that had just happened, therefore his audience would listen carefully to understand the message that President Roosevelt was about to communicate. For example, president Roosevelt said, “The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. Very many American lives have been lost”. Based on this evidence, President Roosevelt intentions on including this not only had the purpose of informing his audience about the pass event, the attack by

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The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. devastated a large majority of people around the world. His works of nonviolent acts against racism motivated many, including civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, to solve matters without resorting to inhumane behaviors. Inspired by Dr. King Jr.’s work, Chavez and his union of labor workers devoted themselves to helping those in need through peaceful protests. Similar methods are proven to be successful; Mahatma Gandhi, for instance, gained a great deal of supporters because of his pacifism and tranquil methods of boycotting against British domination. Despite brutal and savage methods of persuasion slowly gaining support, Chavez proves that nonviolent actions are superior; he does so by using ethos in order to uphold moral standards, logos (in reference to the past), and pathos to appeal to the emotions of his audience.

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Barack Obama, the 44th US president, was in deep with controversy when the reverend of his church had been revealed to make numerous ‘anti-american’ statements. The skill of oration and speech would aid him in a rhetorical dismissal of alleged guilt of anti patriotism that was extended from Reverend Wright, Obama’s reverend, to the president himself. In his defense, the president used allusions to the civil rights movement and to christianity, to which the audience can remember and respect and forgive the president’s friend’s flaws. Appeals to logos, ethos pathos, with emphasis on the former, establish a structured argument and a powerful counterargument to many of the audience’s objections to his staying loyal to his friend, while politely

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During 1964 President John F. Kennedy suggested that the whole nation should act upon treating all blacks equally he achieved this goal by passing a bill to end segregation. Before this bill was passed it was up for debate. As a Black Nationalist freedom fighter Malcolm X gave a powerful speech. Malcolm X led the Black Nationalism which was a political and social movement to help blacks acquire racial equality in the economy. Malcolm X the Ballot or The Bullet states that every single black faced the same problem being the only ones who can fix it.

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We know that in order to create an effective message whether on speech or paper, the three rhetorical appeals are essential. The Ballot or the Bullet by Malcolm X demonstrates all three appeals superbly. Malcolm X himself builds ethos very well, as well as displays his automatic ethos. He also appeals to logos through an ample amount of solid reasoning and several facts. In this speech pathos is extremely well present and effective.

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In April 1964, in the midst of a 54 day Senate filibuster of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, Malcolm X gave his famous speech, “The Ballot or the Bullet”. In “The Ballot or the Bullet”, Malcolm X advocates for racial, economic, and social justice through the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, more black voting control, and more black local control through any means possible, including violence and the threat of it. Throughout the entire speech, the metaphor of “the ballot or the bullet” is repeatedly used. X states this phrase constantly throughout the speech, even repeating it multiple times in succession. He uses this anaphora to emphasize the importance of this to his audience.

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Malcolm X and his ideals are arguably a representation of the transition from the early 1950 's non-violent movement for integration to a more aggressive black power movement. Evidence of this is shown through powerful strands of his novel “The Ballot or the Bullet” including when he writes, “I don 't mean go out and get violent, but at the same time you should never be non-violent unless you run into some non-violence.” (Malcolm 439). In writing that members of the civil rights movement should never be non-violent he does so facetiously. This excerpt indicates a call for violence as a more powerful method for achieving the equality he feels they deserve.

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This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace.” Those are the inspiring words of president George W. Bush in his 9/11 address after the horrific terrorist attacks on the American citizens. The address was given on 9/11/01, and Bush was assuring the American people that something is being done about the attacks and that they were not left unnoticed. Bush’s address was highly effective even though it relied predominantly on the aid of ethos and pathos, and logos was primarily overlooked.

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