Over the years, innocent lives have been taken by bullets. Although, death by gun is not the number one cause of death. Gun violence is still an issue. That is why I have chosen to analyze the rhetorical situation within two videos, Brave New Voices “Shots Fired” and Sandy Hook Promise: Gun Violence Warning Signs. By appealing to pathos, ethos, and kairos both videos claim that gun violence is an unexpected encounter that can be prevented.
In 2014 at the Brave New Voices Finals the Los Angeles Team said a powerful poem called “Shots Fired”. Brave New Voices is an event by the organization Youth Speaks, which is a spoken word, education, and youth development program. The purpose of the Los Angeles Team’s performance was to make people aware of the innocent lives taken by gun violence. However, the poem was meant for the people with guns and the people that have lost a loved one to bullets.
The appeal that is utilized the most in the Sandy Hook Promise video is kairos. The video uses this appeal, because of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The author also uses pathos in the video. In the beginning, the music played makes the audience feel calm and the actions portrayed makes them feel curious enough to keep watch. However, towards the end the video overwhelms the audience with a sense of shock and sadness. Using both of these appeals the Sandy Hook Promise hopes to persuade the viewer to help prevent gun violence, by recognizing the warning signs.
The rhetorical appeal used most in the Brave New Voices video is pathos. The sense of sorrow demonstrated in the video can make the audience feel sad. The words said throughout performance, as well as the tone of their voices, really reels the audience in. In which, pathos is used throughout the poem. Ethos is also used throughout the video. Each person states a name of one on the victims of a shooting, which as a big impact on the audience. The Los Angeles team of the Brave New Voices Final used these appeals to inform the audience of the lives taken by gun violence.
In 2016 Sandy Hook Promise made a video named “Gun Violence Warning Signs” to prevent shootings. Sandy Hook Promise is an organization that help to prevent gun violence, it was made after the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. The motivation of the video was the shooting that happened at the Sandy Hook Elementary school, in Newtown, Connecticut. The video was meant for the people, to emphasize the signs of gun violence. However, the targeted audience was the student, teacher, staff, and parents at Sandy Hook Elementary.
In conclusion, both videos use pathos to grab the audience's attention. Sandy Hook uses kairos to inform the viewer of the shooting event, while Brave New Voices uses ethos to inform them of the lives taken. Both the Sandy Hook Promise and the Brave New Voices Los Angeles Team videos used the rhetorical appeals and situation help prevent and stop gun violence.
Citations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qyD7vjVfLI&list=PL40wa2qCF-zJuPV3aNiuvawZCduswi0oD&index=3 - Sandy Hook Promise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3YRJl2DjtM&list=PL40wa2qCF-zJuPV3aNiuvawZCduswi0oD&index=2 - Brave New Voices Finals
http://youthspeaks.org/bravenewvoices/ Oct.6, 2017
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Rivers of Death
Rivers bring water the element essential to all life on Earth but wherever rivers flow they also bring death surprise attacks Savage kills and brutal fights every day is a battle for survival on these rivers of [Applause] death I'm under the African Sun Staying Alive is hot thirsty work and among the ranks of animals jostling to get a drink lurk Killers waiting to strike but while Lions may be fearsome and the huge Nile crocodiles ruthless Predators one of the continent's deadliest River Killers is mostly vegetarian renowned wallowers spending up to 16 hours a day lounging in the water hippos could be mistaken for relaxed creatures and yet the river horse as their name translates from ancient Greek can be a very angry pony indeed with tusks up to a foot and a half long hippos are literally armed to the teeth and a charging bull Hipp can impact with the weight force of a pickup truck what's more hippos May brutally defend their territory an Impala has been chased into a muddy Watering Hole by a lion it's stuck but for fortunately for the stricken analou the lion is reluctant to follow it into the Meer unfortunately it finds itself in the domain of a hippo ill disposed to uninvited guests the hippo's not stealing the watching Lion's meal she's most likely just aggressively defending her calf and the Impala pays the ultimate price for crossing a doting mother hippos are thought to kill more people each year than the rest of Africa's most dangerous animals combined and during mating season their ruthless aggression is directed at other hippos two bulls square up the pod's dominant male and a Challenger at stake the Riverbanks Prime mating territory and a Herm of females the dominant male puts on an aggressive display posturing to show he will not yield but the interloper Demands a fight finally the dominant male is Victorious the Conqueror celebrates with a dung shower marking the border of the territory he has successfully defended while the vanquished suffers more than just the agony of defeat his back is carved open and by Sunset the crocodiles are watching closely they'd be unlikely to take on a bull in rude Health but now they Circle an expectation the hippo breathes his last the price of insurrection is life his Hulk will not go to waste the crocodiles move in swiftly to Feast on the corpse for these voracious Predators it's a considerable meal but one dead hippo is a mere snack compared with the annual Feast provided by a particular African river each year the serengetti vast grass Plains filled to the Horizon with grazing animals taking part in one of Nature's greatest spectacles around 1 and2 million wilder beast join 700,000 other herbivores on the Great Migration around 1 in six of these migrants will die before completing the 500 M circuit many are outrun and taken down down by Africa's formidable array of Savannah carnivores their Journey coming to a Grizzly end but one of the deadliest single obstacles the vast herds must Traverse is the mara River after 3 months on the move the wilderbeast are exhausted and emaciated all that separates them from the Fresh pastures of the msai mara is the width of the river and a whole bunch of huge ravit Nile crocodiles despite the chilling threat posed by these powerful Predators some of the herd are either oblivious to the danger or so thirsty they dare to take a drink anyway for an unlucky few it will be their last and these witless victims merely wet the Croc's appetite the true Feast begins when the first of the herd Braves the river in the crush and Chaos of the crossing the 16t Crocs grabs scores of victims when 1,600 lb of musc futile the marus Crocs survive on meager rations for most of the year so take full advantage of the great migrations time of Plenty they Gorge themselves eating up to half their body weight in one sitting and with so many different species crossing the river the banquet is as varied as it is Bountiful but not all Africa's Crocs have such an easy meal ticket on the banks of this Kenyon River a Croc has got too close to a pack of feeding Lions a move it's about to regret it's a fierce attack but the Crocs skin is covered in bony armor plating eventually the Lion's Uninvited Guest Retreats having taught the Crocs and dinner manners the big cats return to the carcass the Amazon is a giant of a river and and conceal some monstrous Predators which kill with a crush and in a bloody frenzy draining a lowland Basin of close to 3 million square miles around 1/5 of the water that runs off the earth's surface is carried by the Amazon this giant of a river is renowned for its oversized residence both prey and Predator around 4 ft long and and weighing as much as an adult human capibara are the world's largest rodent they're
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