On March 18, 2008, Barack Obama delivered a speech to the nation during his first presidential campaign. Known as the “A More Perfect Union” speech, it addressed race in America. Throughout the speech, Obama skillfully established his ethos and logo in many ways. Obama did an excellent job of establishing his ethos and painting himself in a significantly trustworthy and credible light. Using first-person pronouns such as “us” or “we”, he consistently emphasized the nation working together and making the country a better place. The candidate stated that his belief in forming a perfect nation came from his “unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the American people”. Obama also passionately commented that the American “people are part of me”. And they are part of America, this …show more content…
Another way he established his ethos was by sharing a detailed description of his biracial background. Obama addressed that his upbringing might be a story that “isn’t the most conventional of candidates”, but it is a story that has seared into Obama’s “genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts -- that out of many, we [the nation] are truly one”. By mentioning this, he put himself in a credible light once again. Obama also made sure to deny the assumption that he was using his racial background for his presidential campaign to his advantage. He not only rejected this assumption but also reminded the audience that his campaign “won victories in the states with some of the whitest populations in the country”. As a result of doing this, Obama made an excellent appeal to the audience’s ethos. Throughout the speech, Obama did an outstanding job establishing an ethos and appealing to the audience’s trust. Obama impressively established his logo by appealing to the audience’s logic and reason throughout the
President Barack H. Obama has been always using rhetorical strategies in his political speeches. He used these strategies to present important points and views of his in front of public. Delivering points and views properly and logically got him to be the president in the first place. President Obama used mostly ethos and pathos, yet some logos to deliver his inaugural and the state of union speeches. Being that, he was able to reach the audience emotionally and make the speech flow efficiently while
In the president Barack Obama’s speech on climate change, Barack Obama builds an argument that nations should join together in combat to impact on the climate change. Obama also use reasons why climate change is an urgent issue for all, what efforts have already been made, and what still need to be done to support his reasons and have a persuasive argument. Barack Obama also uses logos, pathos, and ethos to explain his argument. Obama even uses facts to support his reasons too. The
Senator Barack Obama speech, “Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: ‘ A More Perfect Union’ (2008),” President Barack Obama, addresses racial pressures, white privilege, race, and discrimination in the United States. He uses parallel constructions, as he includes the history of U.S. slavery and the trouble in the Middle East; allusion, by opening his speech with the first line of the U.S. Constitution; and also by including himself in his address as a character. His purpose of this speech is to denounce
In the beginning of the speech Barack Obama reflects back to where his parents and grandparents came from and what they did as their occupation. Obama shows pathos, logos and ethos many times throughout his 2004 keynote speech. He also spoke on why his mother and father gave him the name that they gave him. By doing so, Barack Obama showed pathos throughout the speech and got his audience to know him a bit before pursuing the Democratic Party to vote for John Kerry. He appeals to his audience by
Ramesh Pokharel ENGL 1304 6 October 2014 Obama on Syria Rhetorical Analysis The night before the anniversary of 9/11 in 2013, Barack Obama delivered a speech to the United States of America on the subject of Syria’s inhumane use of chemical weapons on its own citizens. The United States’ intelligence analysts estimated that more than 1,400 civilians were killed due to the chemical warheads that were launched on the area right outside of Damascus. In President Barack Obama’s address to the nation on Syria
frequently used by Barack Obama throughout his presidential election campaign. Barack Obama's political ads produced in 2008 against the opposing candidate John McCain were used to bring an affirmative tone to the commercials. He wanted to assure the working-class voters of America that he is someone that will support them and make a change in the economic struggles that are currently impacting America. The Barack Obama “Country I Love,” political ad skillfully utilizes pathos, ethos, logos, and kairos
A More Perfect Union “A More Perfect Union” was delivered by Barack Obama on March 18, 2008. At the time her gave the speech he was senator and running in the president election. Obama responded to his former pastor Jeremiah Wright, and also discussed the issue with race in America. This problem is important to us as a whole, because we went through plenty of racism in the past. He wants the prevent those incidents from according again. He did an excellent job using rhetoric tools to support his
Many people have heard of the rhetorical concepts of ‘pathos’, ‘ethos’ and ‘logos’ but only a few truly understand them. Aristotle, in his book ‘Rhetoric’, outlined the art of persuasion through using these concepts. ‘Pathos’ refers to how well the writer appeal to the readers’ emotions; ‘ethos’ refers to the credibility of the writer; and ‘logos’ refers to the use of logical reasoning and facts. I will use these rhetorical concepts in the preceding paragraphs to describe my thoughts and experience
Barack Obama was born in 1961 at Hawaii, his parents he described as a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. Obama studied to become a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago and eventually the state legislator. In the year 2004, Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, and in 2008 he was elected to be president of the United States being the first African American to ever hold office. Obama makes this speech so powerful by using the rhetoric tools ethos, logos, and
off his speech by saying “On behalf of the great state of Illinois, crossroads of a nation, Land of Lincoln, […]” (1). Some of these audience members have Democratic ideals, much like Obama and Kerry, and also relate to Obama due to similarities in their life. In an attempt to engage these similarities, Barack Obama shares anecdotes about his own family and how he, a biracial African-American man, was able to become a keynote speaker at the particular convention. He is able to relate his diversity
First Lady, Michelle Obama has resided in the White house for eight whole years, along with her husband, Barack Obama, her two children, Malia and Sasha Obama, and their two dogs, Bo and Sunny. Michelle Obama has been extremely active in the community surrounding adolescents and their health. She has developed programs like “Let’s Move!” to help keep children healthy and active. She also operates in the political community also. On July 25th, 2016 she spoke at the Democratic National Convention about
that continues to haunt us.” Barack Obama's, A More Perfect Union, speech was given on March 18th, 2008 at the Constitutional Center in Philadelphia. The speech was given in the primary phases of the election where the candidates of each party are competing to be the official party nominee for presidential elections, this speech would illustrate to the American voters how Obama would potentially attack the challenges he would face as president. The speaker is Barack Obama, a Democratic Senator representing
President Barack Obama delivered the speech announcing the death of the former leader of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden was responsible for thousands of deaths on the September 11th terrorist attacks in the US along with leaving children without a father or a mother for the rest of their lives. The speech was what Americans were waiting for after all the evil that bin Laden has done in the world. Throughout the speech, Obama uses rhetorical appeals such as ethos, pathos, and logos to address
In his “State of the Union” speech, President Barack Obama effectively uses the rhetorical devices of Ethos, Pathos and Logos to convey a more convincing message to the citizens of the United States to urge them to follow the example of the many people that have made their nation greater. Perhaps one of the most notable devices used is Logos, Obama does not speak of the state of the nation without calling out numbers and statistics of the positive effects that recent decisions have had in creating
used in persuading. Those principals, ethos, pathos, and logos are most commonly seen in the media. When being used in the media two of Aristotle’s principals become more useful, while one falls behind. Ethos, being the one that falls behind by not appealing to a wide variety of the public. While, in the media, pathos, the emotional appeal, and logos, the logical appeal, are the most effective. One of the more effective is the pathos appeal. When using pathos the media is hitting the broadest population