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    This document analyzes Dan Gross's speech "Why Gun Violence Can't be our New Normal" given at TED2016. The analysis finds that Gross effectively uses pathos, ethos, and logos to engage the audience. He uses pathos by presenting disturbing facts about gun deaths to elicit an emotional response. Ethos is established through citing credible sources that back up his arguments. Logos is demonstrated through logical cause-and-effect reasoning. Gross also keeps the intended adult audience in mind by using examples like hunting that people can relate to personally. Overall, the analysis concludes Gross gave an outstanding speech through skillfully employing rhetorical devices and considering his audience.

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    This document analyzes Dan Gross's speech "Why Gun Violence Can't be our New Normal" given at TED2016. The analysis finds that Gross effectively uses pathos, ethos, and logos to engage the audience. He uses pathos by presenting disturbing facts about gun deaths to elicit an emotional response. Ethos is established through citing credible sources that back up his arguments. Logos is demonstrated through logical cause-and-effect reasoning. Gross also keeps the intended adult audience in mind by using examples like hunting that people can relate to personally. Overall, the analysis concludes Gross gave an outstanding speech through skillfully employing rhetorical devices and considering his audience.

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    This document analyzes Dan Gross's speech "Why Gun Violence Can't be our New Normal" given at TED2016. The analysis finds that Gross effectively uses pathos, ethos, and logos to engage the audience. He uses pathos by presenting disturbing facts about gun deaths to elicit an emotional response. Ethos is established through citing credible sources that back up his arguments. Logos is demonstrated through logical cause-and-effect reasoning. Gross also keeps the intended adult audience in mind by using examples like hunting that people can relate to personally. Overall, the analysis concludes Gross gave an outstanding speech through skillfully employing rhetorical devices and considering his audience.

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    Alex White

    Professor VanGrimbergen

    English Comp 1

    Friday, October 19 2018

    White 1

    Dan Gross and Why Gun Violence Can’t be our New Normal

    Have you ever listened to a speech that moved you? Not literally but mentally of course.

    While listening to the speech you fell a rush of emotions inside you. In the beginning you are

    captivated and are wanting more. The speaker introduces you to the speech and welcomes you to

    hear their opinion. The middle of the speech makes you angry, happy, and sad. You get wrapped

    up in the feelings with the speaker and feel for them and the people involved in the speech. Then

    the conclusion makes you feel inspired and wanting a change. It leaves with not wanting more

    but wanting to get out of your chair and rush around town to tell people all about this problem,

    and you want to make the change and you want to make it now. That is exactly what Dan Gross

    did with his speech “Why Gun Violence Can’t be our New Normal” at TED2016. This analysis

    will look into his speech to see if he used pathos, ethos, logic, and played off of his intend

    audience perfectly in his speech which will lead to an overall outstanding speech.

    Pathos, the appeal to emotion, which creates an emotional response. By listening to his

    speech Dan Gross achieved this by speaking the truth. By telling the people what they needed to

    hear not what they wanted. By saying that 900 children a year take their life with a gun. Letting

    the people know that nine people every day die in the US because of gun use. Telling the people

    that those nine gun deaths a day usually go unnoticed. Talking to the people about the fact that

    guns don’t actually keep your home safe. That the home security thing is just a big lie that has

    been told enough times that people start to believe it. Reading over those facts you felt some
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    Professor VanGrimbergen

    English Comp 1

    Friday, October 19 2018

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    emotion. It could have been disbelief, shock, sadness, or even anger. Or after reading that

    sentence do you now believe you felt emotion but actually didn’t? Now you are feeling confused.

    Dan Gross does this all throughout his speech and it keeps the listener engaged and wanting

    more. You are eager to know more and wishing he would speed up his talking so you get the

    information faster. He doesn’t just use pathos to engage the reader though.

    Dan Gross also uses ethos, which is the appeal to ethics. While listening to his speech

    Dan Gross uses credibility from multiple sources to back up his reasoning. He backs up his

    reasoning that home security by a gun is all a lie by saying that the corporate gun lobby has spent

    billions of dollars blocking the CDC from doing research into the public health epidemic of gun

    violence. By this being block it prevents pediatricians from talking to parents about the dangers

    of guns in the home. Which in a long term prevents kids from learning smart-gun technology that

    would prevent kids from firing a parents’ gun. He also uses reasoning and backing up all

    throughout his speech which lets you know he is credible and is reliable. Dan Gross has so far

    used pathos and ethos in his speech but will he use logo?

    Logo is the appeal to logic. You can achieve this by using reason to persuade the

    audience. While listening to Dan Gross’ speech I can tell he does this exactly. He does this by

    cause and effect. He states in his speech “some period TV show will depict the terrible nightmare

    of gun violence...” then the effect is “...future generation of children might only be able to

    imagine how terrible it must have been (to use guns)”. He does this again when he says, “…how
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    Professor VanGrimbergen

    English Comp 1

    Friday, October 19 2018

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    all those behaviors that were once considered commonplace or normal…” then the effect to this

    cause is “…have become stigmatized in just a generation or two…” This helps build the effect of

    rapid time loss and how quickly we have developed. In his speech, Dan Gross has so far used

    paths, ethos, and logo but will he keep in mind his intended audience?

    Dan Gross’ intended audience while delivering this speech are men and woman in their

    adult hood either seeking advice, wanting to solve a problem, or wanting to be inspired. They all

    sat down in their seats wishing and hoping for something to change in their head. Dan Gross has

    to keep this in mind when writing and giving his speech. He can make the audience be captivated

    and be able to relate by using statistics and examples of events that have recently happened. He

    does this by talking about hunting, which is a sport that everyone knows and can somewhat

    relate to. By talking about hunting he captivates the audience and they are able to relate to the

    topic and think of firsthand what they would do. Now he has the audience thinking which will

    keep them engaged and listening. In the long run Dan Gross keeps his intended audience in mind

    when writing and giving his speech.

    To conclude, Dan Gross creates a wonderful speech by using pathos, ethos, logo, and

    keeping his intended audience in mind. He uses pathos by telling us the truth and creating

    emotion, uses ethos by using credibility from multiple sources to back up his reasoning, uses

    logo by cause and effect, and uses his intended audience by using events that they can relate to.

    By listening to amazing speeches you can be inspired to want to help solve a problem or change
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    Professor VanGrimbergen

    English Comp 1

    Friday, October 19 2018

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    something in your everyday life. You could even be inspired to want to write your own speech

    and get your voice out there. The question isn’t what is the problem? The question is, what needs

    to be solved?

    Works Cited

    Gross, Dan. “Why Gun Violence Can’t be our New Normal.” Speech at TED2016

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