The example I selected from "Food Incorporated" that demonstrated good rhetoric was the part where a mother was telling her story about the death of her son. Her son died because the food he ate was contaminated from poor health standards at the meat factory. This brought the audience to an emotional level (pathos) because it pulls at your heart strings. by using a child the audience felt a greater sense of loss because his life had just begum. He was perfectly healthy and had so much to live for. They also used pathos by showing the same video of this happy child before he was sick over and over again to reiterate their point. Through repetition the expression of emotion was heightened and it was unlikely that their audience would forget that story. You wanted something to change so that this wouldn't happen to future children. You wanted the factories to have more restrictions and healthier standards.
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