Annie's Presentation!

Great presentation! Annie used a lot of rhetorical strategies throughout her presentation. She definitely used a lot of logos. Firstly, in naming specific brands of guns and how they worked, and secondly by showing statistics on how many people are fatally injured by tazer guns in comparison to other, more deadly weapons, principally guns. In addition to the visual rhetoric of this comparative graph, she also showed a clip of a tazer gun in use in order to show its power. She played another clip too, in which a tazer gun was being used by a police officer to stun a possibly dangerous criminal. It made it very obvious that the guns are used primarily as weapons of defense, rather than with an intent to kill. She did a good job of disputing the opposing viewpoint, which is that there is a possibility of the tazer guns being abused by police officers. She pointed out that there are ways to track the number of times a gun has been used, so that this possible problem could be prevented (again, a good use of logos!). She established her ethos by using quotes from actual police officers from all over the nation who were in support of tazer guns. The presentation was also heavily pathos-based- especially the end- as she culminated by showing a picture of her father and his fellow police officers. She said that she “feels safer knowing that her daddy is protected.” Come on… is that the epitome of pathos or what?! =)