Hillary Clinton is an American politician whom is a current candidate in the 2016 presidential election. Many people like to neglect the fact that she was the former secretary of this country, and this is why her ethos is unappealed to in a lot of people. In my opinion, I believe that Clinton's speech is extremely effective in appealing to her audience through the use of ethos, pathos and logos. She was the former secretary of the country, as well as being the wife of the former president of this country, Bill Clinton. This is the basis of Hillary Clinton's own ethos, but she also established her own ethos in her presidenital speech when she said, " To all of you whose hard work brought us here tonight and to those of you who joined this campaign this week, thank you". Clinton is establishing her own ethos by putting the fact out there that she has a campaign that funds several different industries, which has raised approximately 516 million dollars, which is truly impressive. Not only that, but she thanks a lot of people throughout the text, such as Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders, therefore whoever supports those famous politicians, then they'll support Hillary as well. Throughout Clinton's speech, she incorporated an abundance of pathos within the text. For instance, Clinton said, "Powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart. Bonds of trust and respect are fraying". This quote from the speech indicates the havoc the United States is currently facing, and how it is affecting our country and our nation. She wants to appeal to the audience by connecting with their emotions, to get them to be melancholic about the situation at hand. By stating the wrongs that are happening, she wants to appeal to the citizens' hearts. Lastly, Clinton uses logos to appeal to her audience effectively. For example, she stated, "Look at what happened in Dallas after the assassinations of five brave police officers...Nearly 500 people applied in just 12 days". With this factual information, Clinton uses statistics to draw her audience closer. This makes her have more morality, as the audience would know that she is not a type of person to lie, and that she is someone who honestly knows what is going on in America, therefore she'd be a suitable president. With this being said, Hillary Clinton was clever in her presidential speech as she uses these three rhetorical devices in order to persuade her audience.
~Jessica Wong
Former president George W. Bush was the leader of the United States of America for two terms. His presidency extended from January 20, 2001, all the way to January 20, 2009. He was the president during the attack towards the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Using three rhetorical strategies; ethos, pathos and logos, With a speech, George W. Bush attempts to appeal to the country in order to unify the nation. For one thing, this man has credibility, since he was the president. Later afterwards, he made an attempt to appeal to the citizen's emotions by expressing, "The victims were in airplanes or in their offices..." (Line 5). This quote expresses how he was relating to everyone's feelings by giving them his condolences, as for he sounds grieved about those who have passed. By stating some of the fields the deceased were located in, he tries to touch the people's hearts by stating such. Also, he stated, "filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and a quiet, unyielding anger" (Line 10). This is George W. Bush empathizing with everyone, as for he depicts the emotions of everyone. This sets the mood as tragic and sorrowful. Using facts, Bush pointeed out, "pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing" (Line 9). With the use of logos, he stated what happened throughout that way using descriptive words and in detail. He admittedly stated what happened so that everyone could recall how brutal the situation truly was. Later on, pathos is used again, as for our former president attempted to unify the nation by saying that the country is strong, and that no matter what happens, everyone can get through this together. In my opinion, Bush was unsuccessful in delivering his speech. Just because he has the ability to use descriptive words and that he was able to set the mood of the listeners, does not mean that his words are pure. He may sound depressed about the attack, but he could also be deceiving the people as well, in order to receive respect. I believe that Bush should not be recalling the past events, but he should have be grieving the lost lives more, as for one's life is priceless.~Jessica Wong
Greetings, my name is Jessica Wong. I have the ability to type 160 words per minute maximum and 130 words per minute on average on a mechanical keyboard. I love to play video games such as League of Legends, Overwatch, Counter Strike, Minecraft, etc. I broke my Macbook Air about four years ago. It makes me feel uncomfortable when the mouse sensitivity is extremely low.
I am really good at HTML and CSS, so basically, I like to code and program.
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