In the movie,“The Hunting Ground,” by filmmakers, Kerby Dick and Amy Ziering, shows how many women have been raped. The women speak about their experience, being sexually assaulted on college and university campuses. The filmmakers communicate their message using pathos, ethos, and logos.
The filmmakers used pathos to deliver the emotions the victims and their parents now carry with them. One way Kerby Dick and Amy Ziering communicate their message is with pathos. The filmmakers used victim’s accounts to show the emotion the victims felt. This illustrates the impact that being sexually assaulted has on women. No one goes into college wanting to be sexually assaulted. Being raped affects the victims in a way no one can imagine, and seeing
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The filmmakers use ethos and provide facts from a clinical psychologist for credibility. Dick and Ziering interview David Lisak, because of the qualification of his studies. Lisak also provided facts about what women experience, and how it affects them. Lisak researches rape and why it happens, to inform the viewers, so they know to be aware. Another way Dick and Ziering communicate their message with ethos is by interviewing a former campus detective from Notre Dame. Speaking to Pat Cottrel, the former Notre Dame campus detective, illustrated how rapist athletes are protected by the colleges and universities. As the former campus detective was searching for a rape suspect, the athletic department claimed he could not be pulled from the athletic department’s property, and the detective was not allowed to question the suspect. When the audience hears a former security guard speak about the athletics department, and how they protected the suspect, it makes them wonder how many other schools protect rapists. Using ethos helps inform the viewers about sexual assault, especially because the filmmakers interviewed people who are qualified and understand what they are talking
Pathos is the writers attempt to appeal to the audience emotions. For instance, “In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. ‘“I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me,”’ the headline said” (Lukianoff and Haidt). The authors appeal to emotion paints a picture in the reader’s mind, further opening their eyes to make them feel how the professor was feeling. Also, naming the article “The Coddling of the American Mind” was a great was to represent how the problem was being addressed. The use of the word “coddling” reflected the way colleges were treating their students like babies. Enforcing trigger warnings to protect the students are not helping them for the future. This appeals to pathos because the audience gets a glimpse of what the after effect of “babying” has on
example of pathos because it plays with peoples emotions and they can more relate to this and
Pathos appeals to the reader’s emotions by using emotional stories and imagery. Pathos strategies are often used to grab and hold the reader’s attention. Emotional or personal stories give the reader an opportunity to emotionally relate to the story, and allows them to be emotionally connected. An emotionally connected reader is more interested in the story that a reader who is not emotionally connected.
In the book, Gaby Rodriguez uses pathos to get the reader's attention. In the book Rodriguez stated, “ We don’t win this battle by finger pointing and gossiping. We win by education, talking and lifting each other up. We win it by being decent to one another.” (Rodriguez 127). Rodriguez showed emotion to link back to show readers their own inner strength. The quote states that life is not about how others are, but if you respect others and make appropriate comments that will make people happy and lift them up. The strategy used is emotion. Emotions come in by the emotions Rodriguez faced during her fake pregnancy. During her time of being “pregnant”, Rodriguez faced a lot of bullying, but she always stayed strong, and knew her own inner strength. Another emotion was also used in “The Pregnancy Project”. According to Rodriguez, “No one had ever presented their boards speech in front of the whole school before, but the teacher thought it could impact someone's life” (Rodriguez 148). Rodriguez showed the readers that a presentation or an experiment that a person makes, can help someone feel like they are important, and for them to feel their own inner strength. The strategy she used is pathos. Pathos is shown by having stories of your own and telling someone about their process and how it impacted their lives, and
According to Alan G. Gross and Arthur E. Walzer, ethos is a type of ethical appeal establishing the speaker’s credibility or character and expertise as persuasive techniques (…). Throughout, Evicted Matthew Desmond employs ethos to gain and reinforce his knowledge and expertise on the subject, to prove his reliability as a
The incorporation of pathos in an argument can form a strong structured reading or a make the reader feel emotionally taken advantage of. In Hooks argument she uses pathos effectively, without exploiting readers of her article. She states, "estrangement from nature and engagement in mind/body splits made it all the more possible for black people to internalize white-supremacist assumptions about black identity" (973). Hooks uses this sentence to appeal to those who have experienced a loss of identity to feel for the blacks. Also, the citation brings a desirable topic up of unity within different race and cultures, which adds more reason for the reader to be persuaded to her side of the argument: the emotional pull of how blacks were treated even away from their normal ways of living.
The example that represent pathos in the beginning of the music video informs the readers on what the situation may be. The begining scene is of a mother sitting in her bedroom smoking while her daughter, Angela who appears to be the age of 6 or 7, is walking off to school by herself. As she walks alone, she observes another mother hugging her
Ethos, credibility of a source, is essential to the construction of an argument. During the film, several professors, activists, and scholars
Alice Sebold’s experience of rape not only caused damage to her own life but also triggered ripple-effect to her friends, her family and many other people in the community. They all played their roles in this event and reacted differently.
Rape can also have both physical and psychological effects on the victim. The physical effect of rape includes the transmission of STDs, pregnancy and suicidal tendency as stated in the article, What Are the Physical and Psychological Effects of Sexual Assault and Rape?, written by Roxanne Dryden-Edwards and edited by Melissa Conrad Stöppler. The same article also states the psychological effects of rape, which include, the developmental of nightmares, sleep disorders, loss of apatite, posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, substance abuse
Pathos is the persuave appeal to the audience emotion and in the article, "Stop calling an abortion a difficult decision",Jane Harris uses the appeal pathos the least in this article and instead relys mostly on logic and her creditability to persuade her audience that abortion isn't as difficult as it seems.
1. Define stereotypes as used in the textbook in chapter 3. Stereotypes are defined as cognitive portrayals of a group. Stereotypes are based on specific features that we believe individuals of particular groups may possess. 2.
History background and culture effect everyone is the 21th Century. In America, we are like a melting pot where we have different nationality and culture. Even though we are so used to different cultures, we might not understand the beliefs in each cultures. Stereotype occurred in the movie Wild Child several times. Wild Child is a movie that was filmed in 2008 is it a story about “a rebellious Malibu princess is shipped off to a strict English boarding school by her father.”
Analysis of “My Stroke of Insight” The TED talk “My Stroke of Insight” given by a neuroanatomist, Jill Bolte Taylor, is about the brain and how humans have different perceptions because of their left and right hemispheres. People who tend to think with their right hemisphere, are “energy-beings connected to one another through the consciousness of our right hemispheres as one human family.” People who think with their left hemisphere are responsible for thinking of themselves as single individuals “I am.” In this talk, she asks us an important question, “which side do you choose and when,” to answer this question Taylor uses the three rhetorical strategies and medium to connect to the audience and express her opinion on the side she would choose.
Think about the lives of men and women; think about who they are because of their past experiences. Experiences, whether positive or negative, shape every individual, making their lives and personalities unique. Marie Howe writes “In the Movies” to convey that sexual traumatic experiences permanently, and negatively, impact psychological well-being and security which leads to conflict in other areas of life such as relationships with friends and family. Society plays a huge role in how women’s identities have been altered. Culture and perception also influence women’s identities with the use of gender norms, specifically rape culture, as well as the normalization of rape.