MotherJones is an online magazine website that features news reporting on politics, the environment, human rights and culture. Motherjones often post articles that are argumentative and are relevant to the general reader. I recently read an article titled “Black Deaths Matter”. I believe that this article should be published on MotherJones because it is a topic that is relevant to what’s going on in the world today. This article is about the lack of good policing in low income neighborhoods and how black families struggle for justice when a family member is murdered. This article is good in the culture category for MotherJones because it is a big issue in African American communities. Police Brutality and Black on Black crime have been tracing …show more content…
After each story in the article, the authors then relate these stories to statistics and facts. This allows the audience to stay engaged in the article, while also gaining trust and realness from the authors because they back up each of their stories and opinions. The authors give background on the city of Chester. They explain how Chester once prospered from factories, and steel mills, but once the companies started to leave the city became known for its crime and drug trafficking. The authors then explains how “75 percent of Chester’s residents are African American, a third live below the poverty line, and unemployment is at 7.5 percent, nearly 2 point higher than the national average.” The statistics are used to explain why so many crimes take place in this city. Reverend Williams, the Father of a son who was shot and killed explained that, “When brothers and sisters can’t get jobs, or this little guy is trying to take care of his mother, he’s going to find a way.” This means that, that child will commit whatever crime they have to to keep their family alive. There are also many facts and references to other articles and news reporters that have done research on the issue of crimes in low income neighborhoods. These statistics and facts gives the readers a sense of reliable source and allows the readers to gain trust in this article, which also shows the use of …show more content…
Pathos is shown by giving details on personal stories involving homicides and expressing the problems in low income neighborhoods. Logos is shown by supporting these stories and facts with statistics and quotes from researchers. This allows Ethos to take place because the use of Pathos and Logos allows the author to gain credibility and trustworthiness from the audience. The statistics shown through Logos shows that the Authors have done deep research and are not just speaking on a topic that they have not read enough on. The authors reference many personal stories ,which means they have read many news articles , or have interviewed families in these neighborhoods personally. The authors also use statistics which shows they have done their research. This allows the audience to believe this article is a reliable
Pathos is commonly related to diction and tone, which collaboratively invoke an emotional response from the audience. Strong wording helps persuade the readers because diction and tone, if done correctly, can induce an extreme emotion; thus, making the audience feel passionate about the topic. To exemplify ethos, logos, and pathos, let us explore a recent discussion in my political policy class: performance enhancement
Ethos is used to introduce Zoe Melissa Polk who is the writer of this article and director of policy at the San Francisco Human Rights commission.it increases the credibility of article and gains trust of readers. The article uses pathos to make the readers think according to her way. It is more convincing than just giving examples. Also, she is giving examples to explain and convince
Content analysis of news articles, video’s, surveys, and interviews with the Chief of Police in Sherwood, North Little Rock, and Sheriff of Pulaski County is the methodology used in this research. I have read many articles online so far about police shootings on African Americans. My frame of study for my research is going to be the past 10 years. All of the articles that are used for my research analysis that the local police departments are racist and the shootings of African American males are race related. There will be roughly 200 articles that will be used for this study.
Census Bureau in 2014 stated that 48 percent of black children in Sandtown live in poverty compared to 22 percent of all black children. They also report impoverished black children are much more likely to live in a household headed by a single mother. It is estimated this number is as high as 78 percent in Sandtown and when a father is present, it drops to 13 percent (Bureau). Locals compare their daily life to the horrors experienced by blacks in Hurricane Katrina, except there is no national outcry to help them (Glover). No one is coming to save them, they are left in this maze of desperation to make less money and die younger.
In recent news we have seen massive riots following the killings of African American men by caucasian police officers. These all follow after one of the most prominent not guilty verdicts of the 21st century on the Rodney King beating. With these riots we see the words of Teju Cole begin to take life.
Recently the media has been covering stories of the amount of black lives being taken by the police. Statistics have shown that is not the case, that the loss of black lives are due to “black-on-black crime.” In this article, the mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu makes an effect to understand the root of this problem, of why African Americans are killing each other. The problem of race has been a continuous issue in America. New Orleans happens to be one of the top city in America with high rate of murder.
In America, a teenager can be easily drawn into witnessing a family member being stabbed to death, trafficked into drug/gang cults, or receive severe damages to his/her physical body. Commonly, these kinds of circumstances call the responsible leaders in our community to action, but in the forgotten part of America, they continue uninterrupted. During the late 1980’s, the United States ranked as a developed nation with a competitive capitalist economy and better living standards for the higher social class. Their promises to defend critical human rights remained unrivaled around the globe; yet the United States still possessed areas with lower class people compressed into high rise projects and who struggled to overcome poverty, violence, and prejudice. The lower class people were often given very little to no resources or the
As Tom Arlen exclaimed that he has “lived here twenty years, and I’ve never known a gunman in Underhill to walk away that easy, no matter the circumstances” Underhill serves as the figurehead for all neighborhoods that the world has lost hope on and has been left to fend for itself. When one is raised in such an environment where murder and theft are so heavily occurring. It is nearly impossible to focus on the important things that help you develop into a mature young
Many of the boys pretended that negative interactions and stereotyping did not affect them, but their bravo personas only masked the fear inside. Fear made the boys feel weaker and less masculine, so they would deviate from social norms to regain respect and dignity among their peers and for themselves. Routine patterns of punishment eventually lead the boys to develop an altered view of thoughts, beliefs, and ways of behaving in order to survive the tough life set them. Chapter two concentrates on the history of Oakland, incarceration rates, youth systems of control, and the boy’s resistance to punishment and brutalization. The Oakland ghetto consists of a multiracial community, predominantly African-American and Latino, that are equally targeted and brutalized by police
The writers accurately depict ethos because they represent multiple viewpoints and they have connected themselves to the topic. Pathos is used in the document because they expressed their emotions for
Police Brutality played a big role in the mass murders of the African American population as a whole. Cases like Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Freddie Gray and others like Philando Castile and Sandra Bland and many more are killed by police officers because of them being African American or because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Police brutality has
The street affected every African American in Harlem. • Further, to what extent are African American children’s life chances today, especially in urban areas, better than Bub’s? According to Joanna Penn, Journalists Resource- Harvard Study Resource, “children from high-and low-income families tended to be worse growing up in urban areas, particularly those with concentrated poverty, compared with those in suburban or rural areas.
I found it particularly disgusting when the L.A. police chief tried to blame the deaths of black men on their anatomy, and how if they were normal they would’ve been fine. This essay was very eye opening for me, and will change the way I look at law enforcement, and even my own family
Short Summary: Chapter 2 of The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison was about how the way society sees crime can be distorted by the media, the justice system, and the information we are presented with about what crime really is. It points out that medical neglect, known environmental hazards, dangerous workplace conditions, and poverty cause more injuries yearly than murders, assaults, and robberies. Most people see the latter as “crime,” but not the former. Long Summary: Chapter 2 of The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison discusses people’s skewed perspective when it comes to what they think crime really is. The reader is asked to do an exercise regarding their own reason.
Pathos relate more to the emotional standpoint. Logos are attached to the logical view such as statistics and facts. Ethos is direct from the author. In the article “Culture Of Thin Bites Fiji Teens” Ellen Goodman exhibits all three senses of writing to elaborate on how television shows are affecting teens in Fiji. Goodwin utilizes pathos to prove how television corrupted Fiji.