Tionne Chambers President Obama’s Use of Pathos in His Tuscan Shooting Memorial Speech Speech is the expression or the ability to express thoughts and feelings by articulate sounds. Rhetoric is a useful strategy to utilize in speech making. President Obama used rhetorical appeals in presenting his message to his audience by showing sympathy and compassion. President Obama’s memorial speech following the Tuscan shooting on January 8, 2011 he carefully used the Aristotelian appeal of pathos through his word choice, which drew his audience together based on shared ideas. In President Obama’s opening lines, he showed his compassion for the victims of the shouting stating: “I have come here tonight as an American who, like all Americans kneels to pray with you today, and will stand by you tomorrow. These words allowed Obama to align himself with the American people, showing empathy and comforting the people by saying “I will be here for...
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The essay Cutting and Pasting: A Senior Thesis by Brent Staples is about the prevalence of cheating and plagiarism in high school and college. Students tend to view these two academic dishonesty with indifference. Observers brought together some reasons for the prevalence of plagiarism. One which is new technologies that allows access to different sites,another which is the result of declining personal morality and the unavoidable consequence of the pressures students may feel. Schools have responded to the problems by taking actions. One such action is by using turnitin.com to scan students essays for plagiarism. Brent Staples stated that when young individuals think of writing they don't think of making original sentences a complete thought, instead they think of making a collage of found passages from the internet. In essence Brent Staples is posing a question whether parents,teachers, and policy makers can keep the methods through which education at its best teaches people to ...