THE FINAL BLOG

In A More Perfect Union, Barack Obama uses ethical, logical and emotional appeals to talk about the controversies facing him and his campaign for president. The speech is more thoroughly embedded with emotional and ethical appeals, however there are some logical appeals. Mainly those in which he states historical facts of the constitution and slavery in the past. You can see his ethical appeal when he gains his credibility on the subject when he speaks of his parents, one white and one black. Also, when he talks about the commentators who dub him either “too black” or “not black enough”, clearly speaking of the racial tensions he deals with daily. However, his emotional appeal is stronger based on the way of his word choice and the way he talks about his own life experiences and others he has encountered along the way. All put together this speech is one of the most well-known and is used vastly in the educational world because of its use of all three appeals very well and its successful persuasion of the audience. In my opinion it is his ethical appeals that really were the selling point for me. In order to have a formidable argument ,one must have credibility in the subject. Unfortunately there are many people in todays society that talk about a topic that they nothing about. When you can prove that you are credible enough to talk about what you are talking about, then it is a lot easier to convince people. It allows for people to further look into your emotional and logical appeals and help them understand the topic or argument better. In terms of the issue , without unity in anything , nothing can be accomplished. No matter what it is , you must be able to work with others to obtain any type of success. This concludes my final blog post , now comment on this shit because I stayed up to do it , and may god be good to you on finals.