In the article “Women in Politics”  Wicks & Lang-Dion effectively argue that women in Canadian politics are still searching for an equal voice. The authors use logos, ethos and pathos as the rhetorical strategies to illustrate their arguments. Firstly, they use logos to explain how society and political forum think of the female politicians. The authors use American female political Hillary Clinton as an example. They say the reason Hillary was failed to be chosen as the next American president because that her tone of speeches make males feel boring. Also, the political scientists Linda Trimble and Jane Arscott state there is still a traditional opinion “persistent observation that women leaders just do not fit”. Then, the author use ethos to convince Canada system is unfair to female politicians, and they should provide more opportunities to women to achieve the gender equality. They compare the proportion of Sweden’s female national legislators with the proportion of Canada’s female national legislators, and we can clearly see there is an obvious gap between two counties in amounts of female national legislators. For instance, “47.3 percent of national legislators in Sweden female and compared with only 21.7 percent in Canada” this data effectively support the authors’ view that Canadian women are still fighting for the equal chance in the political platform. Finally, the authors use pathos to persuade readers to fight against the inequality of female and male. They use an example from the personal experience of Hillary Clinton; she was evaluated by her “dumpy pantsuit” rather than her political skills. They successfully uses logos, ethos, and pathos to reveals the problem of gender inequality that is still topical when it comes to politics. Canada as a country which is a representation of peace, multi-cultural, and equality should play a leading part in fighting against the gender inequality no matter in the political area or other areas.

Question: Which rhetorical strategy do you think it’s the most effectively one that make you agree with the authors’ point of view. 

  Baroon and Lacombe’s "Moral Panic and the Nasty Girl" indicates the society is constantly giving more freedom and power to women, but the media denounces this is making girls become violence and “nasty girl”. The media had portrayed violent females to be viewed as 'monsters' due to exaggeration and distortion, and had resulted in a moral panic. In order to argue with the media’s prejudice. Barron and Lacombe effectively use logos in the article to persuade the reader to think that "nasty girl" is an over serious word which is created by media, and it’s an incorrect attitude toward feminism. To prove their argument, they show evidences that "violent crime dropped 5% in 1999, signally a decline for the fourth year in a row" (Baroon&Lacombe 328). This criminal statistics clearly demonstrate their point that girls aren't getting more violent, and aren’t becoming “Nasty girl." Barron and Lacombe successfully use logos to deny the negative judgments toward girls such as “Nasty girl” and girls are violent. The society encourages gender equality, and provides chances and power to women, but it has no ability to change girls into cruel, violent monsters. We shouldn’t only base on the media’s prejudice to backlash against feminism.

Question: What examples of the Nasty Girl have you witnessed?

In Stephen Lewis’s Pandemic, I'm impressed by his using of Pathos appeal.

Pathos is an appeal to the reader’s emotions. Lewis is successfully using this strategy to strike my sympathy and sadness to the children in Africa. Lewis explains how HIV/AIDS has created concern in Africa and specifically on its people. For example, Parents are forced to watch their children die and do nothing. Also, children are forced to take care for their parents with illness and family even though they are only children. Those tragedy is playing every second in Africa. However, Lewis still holds strongly to his belief that hope is always there. With the attention and caring from all over the world, Africa is still going forward despite its fragility.

Question: Do u have another example of the using of Pathos appeal in Stephen Lewis’s Pandemic

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/chinese-community-gets-apology-from-b-c-for-historical-wrongs-1.2643938