Category: Ethos

In this excerpt, Othello is watching Desdemona sleep and repeatedly telling himself that he has to go through with killing her. Othello uses the pronouns i and me to show that he is taking credit for all he is going to do. He will not state what his reason is but promises to not ruin…

The article Troublemakers by Malcolm Gladwell describes the story of a young child getting attacked by a dog followed by 2 more dogs in Ontario, Canada, which ultimately causes the the Ontario legislature to ban the ownership of pit bulls and pit bull-type dogs. The child was walking behind his parents on their way home…

Introduction On April 16, 1963, DR. Martin Luther King, Jr responded in the newspaper which had been written by some clergymen urging him to abandon the demonstrations which he was leading in Birmingham. In a letter, well known as the letter from a Birmingham jail, the King defended his organizations non-violent strategies through three major…

Douglass employs the idea that there are two different forms of Christianity, one real and one fake, which he illustrates in the text using rhetorical appeals such as logos through the characterization of the Auld family, pathos using strong diction such as master and sanction, and ethos through an ethical paradox that is Mr. Covey.…

The Civil Rights movement in the United States was a movement that happened for years, to administer Constitutional and legal Rights for African Americans. many events took place such as riots boycotting and sit-ins but what helped the most were the speeches that took place. Many speeches were told To help gain more people to…

Inequality around the world has been a huge problem for many people. Not many voices have been heard, but the people who dared to speak up about it like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did in his I Have a Dream speech given to Congress on August 28th, 1963. Like Dr. King, Malala Yousafzai spoke…

Since winning their independence and ratifying their Constitution, the United States began expanding across North America through purchase, conquest, forced migration, and genocide, bringing in new territories to the Union. Since its colonial times, America saw a huge trade in slaves from Africa as these people were bought and sold as property. After independence, states…

Introduction: On December 8, 1941, following the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his Address to the Nation, a speech that aimed to inform and rally the American people in the face of a national tragedy. In this essay, we will conduct a rhetorical analysis of the speech, focusing on the…

Rhetorical Analysis on In gun control debate, the logic goes out the window. This article talks about how the former president of America Barack Obama decided to take drastic action on the gun control measures and how Sen Dianne Feinstein introduced a ban on weapons. In the Aristotelian rhetoric model, Logos means to reason with…

The purpose of this essay is to break down how Leadership attributes play an essential role in shaping a good leader. Possessing a good leadership attribute will not only make a person stand out. Also setting the standard for which someone will like to follow. Leadership attributes can be broken down into three categories, character,…