![]() ![]() Many journalists include pathos, logos, and ethos not only to keep their reader interested, but to make an article factual. How gullible is our society?Ĭredibility can be shown by several factors, for example: the journalist who wrote it, the website it was published on, facts included in articles, and unbiased information. Distributing information is just one click away. What separates a journalist from a blogger? They both have the capability to write an article. ![]() We are now able to share events, ideologies, and even document our surroundings. Since technology and the internet have become accessible to everyone, we now seem to have the world in the palm of our hand. 2016.Ī keyboard is mightier than the sword. “In Beyonce’s ‘Formation,’ A Glorification Of ‘Bama’ Blackness.” NPR. “Getting in Line: Working Through Beyonce’s “Formation”.” Red Clay Scholar. From expressing her roots, to a young boy portraying Trayvon Martin, to expressing social injustice, Beyoncé uses pathos, logos, and ethos to create a picture for the viewers of the past and the present in the video.īradley, Regina. ![]() She provides past and present events that have happened that affected not only Americans but more particularly the African-American community. Therefore, with all the success of Beyoncé she had still manage to express her roots, background and issues happening today such as police brutality. According to Jesmyn Ward’s “In Beyoncé’s ‘Formation,’ A Glorification Of ‘Bama’ Blackness” she explains, “ She sings to those of us who grew up black in the American South, who swam through Hurricane Katrina, who watched the world sink, who starved for two weeks after the eye passed, who left our dead floating in our houses.” Beyoncé helps express the representation of the past that makes up New Orleans today. ![]() For example, she shows images of post Hurricane Katrina with houses, streets all under water, also Beyoncé is shown on top of police car then drowns in it at the end her video. Halfway through the video, Beyoncé uses the appeal to logic and proof in logos to express the images she shows in the video. In the song she also expresses her roots, “I got a hot sauce in my bag, swag.” Beyoncé shows her country girl like attitude from her roots carrying hot sauce in her purse wherever it might be of need. ” Beyoncé portrays her pride in her roots in where had came from she proves she is the credit ability for her background and where she came from. You mix that Negro with that Creole makes a Texas bama. She uses ethos in her quotes saying, “My daddy Alabama, Momma Louisiana. With all the tragedies happening with young black men, Beyoncé addresses in her video with the police surrendering to the resurrection of a Trayvon Martin like young boy.īeyoncé also addresses ethos within her video, showcasing an authority like inher video and in her quotes as well. Gaskins offers a reading of the boy as Ghede Nibo, the spirit of a young man violently murdered and in death serves as a leader of the dead.” The young boy in the hoodie represents not only Martin but also all the young black men that have been killed by the police, and within the video the tables turn with the police having their hands up. According to Red Clay Scholar, they explain more clearly about the young boy in the hoodie, “ Undeniably a signifier of Trayvon Martin – who would’ve celebrated his 21 st birthday on February 5 th, Dr. For instance, in the video it shows a young African-American with a hoodie dancing in front of a line of police portraying Trayvon Martin. In the formation video, Beyoncé uses pathos to provoke an emotional tone to explain the police brutality against the black community. Through the use of pathos, logos, and ethos, Beyoncé explores through police brutality, the background of where she and her parents are from. Beyoncé’s controversial video, “Formation,” provides viewers a picture of the world through the black community’s view. Certain events have been negatively targeting the black community such as police brutality. Police brutality, the southern life, and the black community have become an importance for Beyoncé within her video. ![]()
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