Which is an example of using pathos as part of an argument for funding more children's cancer research?

a) listing the names of top cancer research scientists today

b) interviewing the parents of a child who has died of cancer
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c) presenting budgets from various cancer research organizations

d) providing statistics on how many children died of cancer each year

Answer- B) interviewing the parents of a child who has died of cancer.

B) interviewing the parents of a child who has died of cancer

Explanation:

Pathos is the greek word used to make reference to the use of emotions and appeal to the feelings of the audience in order to convince them of doing something, so from the options the only one that would use pathos, or an appeal to the emotions and feelings of the audience to cause a response, would be an interview with parents of a child that died of cancer.

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government is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.