Rhetoric In Drunken History

Use of Rhetoric with drunken history Rhetoric it something used all over the world and most are not even aware of the world. People use rhetoric so often it become second nature for most in everyday life even children use rhetoric to get what they want. Rhetoric is the use of world in persuasive speech, and writing. Letting the recipient of the speech or paper persuade the emotions or believes sway common reasoning to what author or speaker wants. When someone is using persuasion they need to use three basic principles Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. With the videos provided an in depths look on how rhetoric use all three of these principals. “Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks” is the first of the videos shown, and in the first few moments we see Ethos shown in the video. Ethos is show by the fithteen year old girl that deiced not to give up her seat to a white woman. The result right may not have been the best for the young African American girl, but what came next made it worth it. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People came up with an amazing idea. To do the same thing but with a lighter and older
Thomas Jefferson” the second of the given videos this video use Logos instead of Ethos. In the video John Adams and Thomas Jefferson are both running for president of the newly formed United States. While the video is a dramatization the point was still made, both side were trying to steal votes using Logos. John Adams saying things like, if Jefferson is elected murder will happen all the time, and incesst. While Thomas Jefferson was saying things like, Adams has prositutes form over seas, and he even called him a hermaphrodite. While these comments were on said with in the content of the video it does not change the main point. These men were say all this to appeal to the voter making the other sound much worse than them self. Even know a days during election presidential candidates will still use slur campaigns to win