Rhetorical Analysis: Who's The Real Terrorism

Rhetorical Analysis: Who’s The Real Terrorist
Andres Martinez
English 1301
10/3/14
Mr. Gomez
Rhetorical Analysis: Who’s The Real Terrorist
Introduction
When it comes to the topic of terrorism most of us Americans will readily agree that our own country does not take part of terrorism. The Classroom debate scene from the movie Kurbaan, uses rhetorical strategies such as pathos, ethos, and logos consequently to appeal its target audience. The discussion takes place among the students, simply on who the real terrorist are being either the United States or the Middle East and what truly is the definition of terrorism. In the video they make strong arguments on what terrorism is and who are the terrorist. The video does indeed reach its audience
As soon as the instructor finishes one of the students exclaims “if Islam truly is a religion that preaches peace how come they have the world’s most trouble spots like the west bank, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran there all plagued with Islamic terrorism.” (Kurbaan-Classroom Debate Scene, .37 seconds). The student uses a faulty deduction in here statement, she uses composition. She is assuming that all terrorist are Muslims by generalizing that the world most trouble spots are all thanks to Islamic terrorism. Threw out the movie scene there is quite a lot of logical appeal. The video shows its logical appeal in various ways. They persuade the audience by exposing the United States and claiming that the US is only in the Middle East for the oil and that the Talban was a creation of the CIA in other words it can be characterized as a lie since there really is no proof or it can also be an appeal to anonymous authority. Despite that, the video gives numbers and compare how more people die in Afghanistan bombing than in 9-11. The student compares how much people have died in Afghanistan bombing being which was more than 15,000 while 9-11 had around 3000.The logical appeal is clearly valid and effective to the audience since they support their statements and provide information. To sum it up at the end of the video the
You can see the anger in the student who argues how American’s are the real terrorist oppose to the other students who are against the Islam religion, they show an expression of being worn out of the argument. The student showing his anger convinces the audience in the way of how tired he is of Americans showing there hypocrisy on how the terrorist are Islam religion. While the student who are expressing themselves as worn out help out the argument even more by showing how he has exposed them, which truly will impact the audiences . The video ends with the pro Muslim student showing his anger. His expression makes it look like all Muslims are fed up with Americans stepping in their soil and taking advantage and just bombing there country. The student makes the argument more emotional and appealing as well as the depressing background