Logos, Pathos, And Ethos In The Video 'Drunk History'

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Social media has consumed our lives and makes the world comical one day at a time. In the three videos, Drunk History: Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, Drunk History Thomas Jefferson, and Some Bullshit Happening, all use Logos, Pathos, and Ethos by appealing to logic, emotions, and creditability.

In the Drunk History video: Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, Comedy Central create comical ways to reenact history, in the interest of younger audiences and social media sites. The story starts off by telling the coming about how Claudette Colvin was taking a bus ride home from school with her friend. A white woman then got on the bus demanding a seat, Colvin refused. The bus driver demanded her to get up from the seat and she still refused, saying she paid her fare and it was her constitutional right. The NAACP received a large number of letters saying how brave Colvin was to refuse her seat. Secretary of the NAACP Rosa Parks reviewed the letters and incepted by the NAACP to become the spokesperson of the NAACP's bus boycott and Anti-Segregation movement. I honestly had never heard of Claudette Colvin until watching the Drunk History video. The added humor …show more content…

Thomas Jefferson, the setting is similar to the Claudette Colvin video. The purpose of this video was to create comical reenactment of Adams vs. Jefferson Election. This video setting is the election of 1800 Founding Fathers and best friends John Adams and Thomas Jefferson turn into enemies during election. The impaired storyteller used a lot of profanity but I believe that’s what made the video comical. In a traditional history setting I could not imagine the language the story teller used in Drunk History. The storyteller focuses on libel in the election by word of mouth and in the newspaper. The video somewhat reminds me of the most recent election in which there was a lot of libel and slander on social media sites such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook

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