Claudette Colvin And Rosa Parks: Video Analysis

In the video of Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, the narrator uses an ethos appeal in the way that she speaks. Although the video suggests she is drunk, she seems knowledgeable when telling the story. Growing up in school I was taught about Rosa Parks and how she refused to give her seat up to a white woman. I had never heard of Claudette Colvin, and how she did the same thing months before Rosa Parks did, starting the bus segregation protests. Claudette Colvin was only fifteen at the time of her arrest. Her pastor paid her bail to get her out of jail. Colvin was very scared that there would be a retaliation. “The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People briefly considered using Claudette Colvin’s case to challenge segregation laws, but they decided against it because of her age.” This could be the reason why some people, such as myself, have never heard of her. I now have learned that she is just as important as Rosa Parks, as she helped end segregation on public busses in Montgomery Alabama by serving as a plaintiff in the Browder V. Gayle case. Now hearing the story of Claudette Colvin, I believe it should be taught in schools along with the story of Rosa Parks.
The second video features a story from

history that I was also unaware of. This story explains that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson used negative campaigning in their favor during the election of 1800. “Back in 1776, the dynamic duo combined their powers to help claim America’s independence, and they had nothing but love and respect for each other.” “However, by 1800 party politics had so distanced the pair that for the first and last time a president found himself running against his vice president.” Things between the two candidates got very ugly, very fast. Thomas Jefferson went as far as to say that John Adams was a hermaphrodite, and Adams responded with a rumor that Jefferson was dead. What some people may not know is that Thomas Jefferson hired a hatchet man to do his smearing for him. John Adams however, considered himself to be above using those tactics. When you think of our founding fathers you do not typically think of them bad mouthing each other in order to get ahead in an election.
The third video features a ONN logo in the bottom right corner.

This means that it is from “The Onion” which is “an American digital media company and news satire organization that publishes articles on international, national, and local news.” The video is obviously a prime example of news satire, or a type of parody used to mimic a legitimate news source. These types of parodies have become very popular on the web for their sarcastic natured humor which some people seem to find entertaining. Although The Onion reports articles on both non-fictional and fictional current events, the news satire videos seem to discredit the non-fictional news reports. This video uses a logos appeal, as it is very illogical to believe that the video is legit

news.