Rhetoric

These are fragments of speeches and news published at sometime in the New York Times:

1. “We have to go ahead and recognize the strain on the military forces and give them the tasks that they can do so well,” said Mr. Reed, a former Army captain, “but within the capability of their resources and the best interests of the United States.”

• I would classify this quote as Ethos, beacuse the speaker is trying to convince the government of USA to take an action towards military forces and their needs and reputation. This segment of the speech is rhetorical beacasue Mr. Reed is trying to be persuasive about political issues that he thinks should be considered in a near future.

2. “We need a new direction that redeploys our troops from Iraq, rebuilds our military and refocuses on fighting terrorism across the world".

• This quote could be in the section of Ethos beasue she is trying to regain other peoples confodence and trustworthy. This is rhetorical beacuse she is stating her opinion in a very discrete way but at the same time is persuading people to stenghten military forces across the world.

3. "While the focus is to save lives and fight diseases, it is also important to address underlying risks, such as solid and liquid waste, industrial chemicals, sewage treatment and the salinization of drinking water. The damage to ports and industrial infrastructure may be severe, with untold risks to human health. Likewise, revitalizing local communities and their livelihoods will require rehabilitating and protecting vital natural ecosystems, in particular mangrove forests and coral reefs,” Mr. Toepfer said estos for nearly a year during a work project at the building.

• I classify this quote as pathos kind of retoric because it was part of a speech given by the United Nations Environmental programme , after 2004 tsunami. It was clearly moved by dessperation and the difficulty in helpin those thousands of people damaged, dead or sick because of the earthquake and the tsunami that came after it and killed almost 300.000 people.

4. Sept 11 2001, 1:15 p.m. – Bush departs conference room for Air Force One in a camouflaged Humvee. Talks to Cheney againen route to Nebraska air force base and schedules a 4 p.m. meeting of his national security staff. Also talks toNew York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Gov. George Pataki. "I know your heart is broken and your city is strainedand anything we can do, let me know," Bush says.

• This is part of the speech given by the President of the United States 9/11/2001 it can be classified as pathos because it was driven by emotions of grief, impotence and anger caused by the terrorist attacks that killed almost 3000 thousand people, these word were told to Rudoplh Giuliani , mayor of New York at that time.

5.Today we know that most ulcers are caused by Helicobacter infection. A chronic infection that involves the entire stomach also increases the risk of stomach cancer, the second most common of all forms of cancer. People are infected in their early childhood years and then carry the infection throughout their life. Half of humanity is infected, but luckily most people have no symptoms of the infection. Helicobacter pylori lives only in the human stomach. From the standpoint of both the bacterium and its human host, ulcer disease, cancer and death are to be regarded as a failure in an otherwise long and relatively harmonious relationship.

• This is a fragment of the Medicine Nobel Prize winner in 2005, explaining the audience ofthe importance of studying peptic ulcer disease and one of its complications caused by a germ called Helycobacter Pylori. This fits in a logos type of retoric because uses logic and scientific method to convince the listeners of what he is talking about and its relevance for science and mankind.