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In the article, Wicks and Lang-Dion effectively argue that women in Canadian politics are still searching for an equal voice and they use 3 rhetorical strategies logos, ethos and pathos to reinforce their argument. In the first part of the article, the writers use logos to tell readers how people think of or judge a female politician. For instance, the writers use Hillary Clinton as an example and say "Hillary Clinton was losing the male vote because of her nagging tone of voice". The writers also mention that people focus on outside of the female politician but not their knowledge and wisdom. For example, in the paragraph 4, the writers state, "the Ottawa Citizen recently reported that a female Member of Parliament 'looked stunning in a black gown with a plunging neckline'". Next, the writers uses ethos as rhetorical strategy to support their point of view. The writers analyze the political system in Sweden and then effectively compare to Canadian's in order to tell readers Canadian political system need to be changed in order to give more opportunities to women. For example, the writers point out that "Sweden uses a list system of proportional representation (PR) to elect members of the Riksdag. Political parties nominate 9 candidates per district". However, "in Canada and the United States, elects one representative per district". Lastly, the writers use pathos to appeal to everyone to take action, such as "all political parties need to make the decision on how to increase women's representation, and all parties have to identify processes that work for them".

Question: How do you think a female politician?

Two paragraphs 7 & 8 under section “How the Nasty Girl Emerged” talks about how the media over emphasized Virk’s death and makes people more wary of girls in general. The author uses newspaper and magazine headlines as examples: “Bad girls: A brutal B.C….” “Girls’ involvement ‘exacerbates rage’” and being a ‘slut’ can get you killed”. The media used serious words to describe girls which cause more panic in people. Another example, “the girl who is charged with second-degree murder,” we are told, “could be the babysitter who minds your children”. It’s common notion that almost every girl growing up has been a babysitter. When people see the two words "babysitter" and "children" they will be immediately scared because of their parental instinct.

In Stephen Lewis's article "Pandemic", he used a combination of logos, ethos and pathos, these 3 way for rhetorical appeals which give readers a clearly picture of how struggling African people is facing to because of AIDS. Reading his article likes we are having a trip with him in Africa, and he is not only taking us to different African countries but also giving us a historical lectures because his stories and examples are from 60s to 2005. He uses his real experiences and stories to show us how they made all the effort to Africa over and over again to help local people to fight against AIDS. In the article, Lewis uses lots of pathos which I think is the most effective way to the purpose of his writing. Like the example on page 383, Lewis described how plea people want food! "it was incomparably sad; I had no food to give them, but that's all they really wanted of me" and then following paragraph he tells us "the question of hunger becomes so much more critical in the presence of AIDS", "if the patient has nothing to eat; the body can't handle the drug without food". When I was reading this part I was picturing that how eagerly African people were asking food and how bad they would have to suffer from the drug without food for digestion. It makes readers have sympathy that not only medically help African people but also need to help them to solve food shortage. I think his article, "Pandemic" effectively gets readers' attention and I believe people who read this article will have more concerns for Africa and would like to support people there.

Discussion question: for us, as a student, do you think which way we can help or support African children?

Letter from Birmingham Jail and Adichie' Ted talk happened in different background. King's letter which was in 1963 and it was during the time that people was seeking for peace. In the letter, we saw lots of injustice to the black people. The whole letter is about how King was fighting human rights for colored people. They wanted equal rights as the white, they wanted respect, they wanted their children could be treated the same, etc. It showed civil contradiction. However, Adichie's speech happened in a peaceful time and she wants to tell everybody that judging a person or a country not by a single story. She uses her own story for an example showing how people think about Africa by just only knowing one single thing. She is trying to show us what a real Africa is and everybody should experience before judging.

Discussion question: sometimes when people has limited judgment, for example how Adichie's American roommate thinks of Africa, do you think it is also necessary for Africa to be more open to introduce themselves to the world so that people will know them more?