Rhetoric - Howell County - Greg Martin - Missouri Highway Patrol troop
Rhetoric is the art of improving the capability of the speakers or writers to convince and motivate the audience in a particular direction. There are three modes of persuasion that are used in rhetoric that is; ethos, pathos and logos. (Joyce & Robert 10) Ethos is achieved by the speaker or writer's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make the listener think the speaker is incredible. Pathos comes from the listeners, how the speech stirs their emotions. Logos, on the other hand, is achieved when the speech have some truth or prove. (Joyce & Robert 14)
The article contains all the three rhetoric devices. Appeals to ethos in the article appear first with Jason Long, who is a lieutenant with the Howell County Sherriff's office. His speech fits in ethos since he talks from experience since he is trained the officer. He says, “You have to pick your environment apart,” the teachers follow what he says since he is a profession at what he does.
Another case of ethos happens when Greg Martin, a former Missouri Highway Patrol troop. He is the founder of the Shield Solutions training school. He is a professional having served as a trooper at one time. His speech is from an expert point of view hence fits in ethos as method of persuasion. In his speech he says, “Districts should not rely on uniformed guards." From his expert point of view, he refers to uniformed guards as ‘soft targets' since they are the first people a gun man will shoot. He knows that police response cannot be relied on that is why he starts the shooting school to train the teachers. His opinion is from a professional point of view.
The article has instances with the appeal to pathos as a method of persuasion. The first case appears after an unnamed man says, “none of us would be here if we have not already answered that question.” The replies after the question of would the training teachers do if the shooter were a child. He replies out of his emotions in regards to shooter who is a child. As much as it is not right to shoot a child he knows he has to save other lives.
[...] Another case of ethos happens when Greg Martin, a former Missouri Highway Patrol troop. He is the founder of the Shield Solutions training school. He is a professional having served as a trooper at one time. His speech is from an expert point of view hence fits in ethos as method of persuasion. In his speech he says, “Districts should not rely on uniformed guards." From his expert point of view, he refers to uniformed guards as ‘soft targets' since they are the first people a gun man will shoot. [...]
[...] Amid An Epidemic of School Shootings, Some Teachers Are Being Trained To Shoot Back Rhetoric is the art of improving the capability of the speakers or writers to convince and motivate the audience in a particular direction. There are three modes of persuasion that are used in rhetoric that is; ethos, pathos and logos. (Joyce & Robert 10) Ethos is achieved by the speaker or writer's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make the listener think the speaker is incredible. [...]
[...] The bookkeeper brings out the logos aspect of persuasion. In her statement she says, “Most of the districts are small-they say they cannot afford security guards. A county deputy would have to race miles down winding and hilly blacktops to get to some of them we would be lucky if they could get there in 25 minutes.” All through her statement, she keeps on mentioning facts, for example, the terrain of the town she lives in and the approximate time the county deputy would take to reach the school. [...]
[...] Buie, a principle of Eudora High School in Kansas shows appealed to pathos when he showed how he felt about teachers having guns in their classes. In his speech he says, “though well intended, the proposals are folly at the core.” He feels that teachers having guns is not best as much as it is for a good course. His feelings are further expressed when he says, arming teachers could not be more wrongheaded, we would be asking school officials, trained as educators, to make a quick transition from teacher to SWAT member, arrive on the scene, assess the situation, overcome the sever nervousness that naturally accompanies a deadly force incident and take immediate action before blood is shed.” He does not like the idea of teachers with guns; he even compares the teachers with SWAT. [...]
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