Gettysburg address

     This is a brief analysis of the gettyburg address. The Gettyburg address is a speech made by Abraham Lincoln, the president of the United States during the Civil War, immediately following the battle of Gettysburg. Many men died during this battle and Lincoln used this in his speech to increase the dedication of the people of the union to winning the war. The speech primarily relies upon pathos. The speech talks about the sacrifice of the men who died there and how to not win the war would be for them to have died in vain. He also mentions liberty and freedom throughout the speech, giving the feeling that winning the war would be essential for the liberty of the United States. He does not give exact statistics or logical arguments but uses the emotional effect to great advantage. He does not appeal to ethos in his speech. In fact, he discredits his own speech in order to put more emphasis on the men by saying how people would forget the speech but never forget the men who died in the battle. 

Brief analysis of the declaration of the rights of man and the citizen

The document is The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. This document was written soon after a French Revolution in which the people rose up because they were being oppressed. This document was written by Marquis de Lafayette with the help of Thomas Jefferson, both of whom supported in the American Revolution and the ideals of natural rights proposed in it.  It was written to try and prevent future political corruption and public calamities. The document appears to try to appeal primarily to logos by saying a right and mentioning certain treatments that should be expected due to that right but it refers to the rights as self-evident and does not really prove it in any fashion and seems to rely on pathos to make this point. Their appeal to ethos is that they are under the presence and auspices of the supreme being, God.

Watson and Crick

       The article proposes the double helix structure for DNA. This article was published in 1953 by Watson and Crick in Nature, a scientific journal. Watson and Crick published their paper early, without large amounts of detail, because they wanted to first to discover the structure of DNA. This worked and they won a Nobel Prize for their work. They wrote to the scientific community in order to propose their structure for DNA and mention that their structure suggests how DNA replicates.
The article focuses on logos, and is fairly devoid of pathos. First Watson and Crick dismissed the previous models of DNA as ill defined or not completely following the laws of chemistry. When they discuss their model they insure it does not have such problems and reference experimental data and rules of chemistry that helped them come to their conclusion. They do not have many strong appeals to ethos, but they do mention the work of many other people who helped them come to their conclusions. This appeals the their credibility because it shows how their work was based upon other scientists.