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Disabled Person Ethos Pathos Logos

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What is the purpose of the work? To inform, persuade, entertain, describe, or analyze? The purpose of this work is to inform the public about what it is really like for people with disabilities both inside and outside the United States. For example he talks about how during research that the Human Rights Watch conducted, they “found that some school administrators refuse to admit children with disabilities because they believe these children are unable to learn, unsafe around other children, or engage in disruptive behavior” which is a harsh reality for disabled kids around the world because they are seen as inept, or unable to do the same as the kids without disabilities. What is the writer’s point of view? What does the writer want …show more content…

For example he writes “yet as a legally blind third-grader, I was fortunate to learn in a standard classroom, although my teachers had to adjust some of their lesson plans and practices” because he’s showing the reader that he understands what it’s like to be disabled because he is disabled. What appeals or persuasive techniques are used? Many persuasive writers use a combination of pathos, logos, and ethos to sway their audience. (QUOTE SANDWICH) The writer uses a lot of logos and ethos in his writing. An example of logos would be when he writes “international treaties such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, both ratified by more than 150 nations, require all children to receive an education” as a fact from either his own knowledge or as a fact gained from research. An example of ethos would be when he writes “my enlarged books, devoid of color, and nearly double the size of a standard textbook, were among the accommodations I received as a legally blind child in a public school in Waltham, Mass” as a way to show the readers that he is disabled and that he understands what special needs kids go

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