Ethos, Pathos, & Logos

In, Fannie Lou Hamer’s speech, she presents a lot of ethos and pathos. Her ethos combines the way she presents herself right at the beginning of the speech, stating her address and exactly why she is there. And also the fact that all of her speech is a first person eye-witness account. Which definitely contributes to her ethos. Her speech also contains quite a bit of pathos when she vividly describes when she was beaten. It causes the reader or the listener to picture the action, and to feel sympathy for Fannie. Stokely Carmichael’s speech is almost the complete opposite. His speech is more hostile and determined. His ethos is almost more negative because of the way he presents it, almost shouting. But then his pathos is better because he cracks a lot of jokes so it appeals to people’s humor and makes them listen to the speech more. His speech was almost a form of entertainment. The most dominant form of the three appeals, I would have to say would be pathos. Pathos has more of a broad definition than the other two. It can be anything that appeals to emotions, which really can be anything: a picture, text, videos, just about anything.

My beliefs

I believe in unrequited love. I believe in living life to the fullest. I believe in dancing till the sun comes up. I believe in reality and fantasy. I believe in honesty no matter what. I believe in eating healthy but having a slice of pizza or french fries once in a while. I believe in sleeping all day. I believe that all of our troops should come home immediately before more die. I believe everyone deserves a second chance. I believe music can cure the soul. I believe Ben Gibbard is the best. I believe in cuddling on the couch with my mom when I am sad. I believe in God and Jesus and always will. I believe people should have the right to worship or not to worship whomever they want. I believe it is the woman’s choice. I believe that people should be able to marry whomever they want no matter the gender. I believe Obama should be the next president. I believe in writing when you just can’t seem to tell anyone what you are feeling. I believe in watching the sun come up, talking on the phone all night, and ballets in New York City one day. I believe in crackerjacks at a baseball game and that the Red Sox are the best at it.

Protest

Protests seem to be an important part of political issues. They either get the issue addressed, changed, or maybe even passed as a law. Protests happen because someone doesn't like something and isn't just going to sit around and let it happen; they are going to let everyone know in a way of their choosing. To be considered a protest, the action needs to be informative and involving people somehow. A protest can sometimes be very small, but it will definitely get more attention with a great number of a people. Although, it can sometimes make a big impact with only one person. Such as the monk who burned himself while protesting Vietnam; no one will ever forget that picture. So the size really doesn’t matter, it is issue at hand or the action that is used to get attention. The protest itself does not have to be big to be successful, but the action of the protest or the issue itself should be attention grabbing. There could be no results from a protest, but hopefully it would have changed society for the better. Well actually there are always results, at least the protestors enlightened some people of their opinions of the issue.