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How Does Gary Mason Use Ethos Pathos Logos

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Persuasive Techniques Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
The author Gary Mason uses mostly logos in this essay to show us statistics and data about oil dependency and how Denmark reduced theirs significantly since 1973 because of the Arab oil embargo. He mentions Denmark because they relied on oil and reduced its consumption from different reason unlike Canada and many more countries that waited for signs of possible global warming. This author focuses on logos persuasive techniques and avoids pathos as much as possible, because he doesn’t want to use emotions because this topic is about dependency on oil and not something that can relate emotionally to people. He mentions that Canada/ North Americas will find a way to lower our dependency on foreign oil by creating new forms of power like electricity (Clouse and Wall, Work of Mason pg. 409) in this paragraph he uses pathos with ethos together to bring his point across to get empathy and belief of his knowledge. …show more content…

Thomas Friedman’s experience from when he was at a hotel arctic in Ilulissat, Greenland. He mentions how it was an amazing experience and the way that the hotel is very efficient and uses many new technologies, like toilets with advanced flushing systems and many more. According to the hotel it uses 20 percent less electricity, 25 per cent less energy for heating and 27 per cent less water per guest than most hotels in North America. (Clouse and Wall, Work of Mason pg. 408). Here the author heavily relies on logos because he uses Mr. Friedman as an example and he uses the hotels statistics which are compared to North American hotels, the authors use of logos is very persuasive because the statistics support his argument which make the audience or readers agree with his argument that Canada could decrease its dependency and make new ways for

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