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A 6 page paper which examines Marcus
Garvey’s New York, NY speech from August 1, 1924 and discusses its focus on
persuasion. The paper examines its content regarding pathos, logos, and ethos.
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American to stand up for their rights and not truly believe the promises of the white man. His speech, like many speeches, uses many tools to gain the support and
attention of the listeners. As one author notes, rhetoric, which is "the art of speaking or writing effectively," is, according to Aristotle, "the ability, in each particular case, to see
the available means of persuasion" (The Art of Rhetoric: Learning How to Use the Three Main Rhetorical Styles, 2003). It was Aristotle who put forth the three forms of rhetoric,
those being ethos, pathos, and logos. The following paper examines the use of pathos, logos, and ethos present in Garveys speech. Pathos "Pathos is appeal based on emotion.
Advertisements tend to be pathos-driven" (The Art of Rhetoric: Learning How to Use the Three Main Rhetorical Styles, 2003). There are those who argue that such emotional pleas need to
be focused on the real emotions, not the made up emotions, as stated by Terada (2000) who discusses the allegories of pathos and examines one individual who "connects pathos to
the popular-epistemological assumption that keenly affecting texts must be based in the real--in real, not fictive, emotions" (27). With this in mind we turn to the speech of Garvey and
present an examination of his emotional appeals. Near the beginning of the speech Garvey brings in very obvious emotions, arguing that the Negro is not happy. There is no
doubt that he is directly addressing the emotions of the listeners in this: "The Negro is not happy, but, to the contrary, is extremely miserable. He is miserable because
the world is closing fast around him, and if he does not strike out now for his own preservation, it is only a question of a few more decades when
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