Our class these past few weeks mainly focused around these three images, and I felt that the image overhead was the most important as it held all the persuasive appeals.
What do you think was the most important/interesting image, and why? For the people in Communications or speech class, we are familiar with these 3 techniques and have gone quite in depth. For this image specifically there is a lot of Logos going on. There are many words, which mostly contain facts and other such logical appeals. However what I think is the most persuasive role in the image is most certainly the black man just sitting there doing nothing. I feel that this paper is trying to make emotional appeal through this man. At that people were used to seeing the opposite of this happening. Never was the black man not working or being put into unpaid labor. Now they have literally reversed the conditions making the people of America feel emotion. The emotion of desire. To desire equality after all of this hardship we put ourselves through. We fought through slavery and now all we want is equality, even if the black man should deserve more at this time. I KNOW that equality for all is better.
What do you think about the in-fighting of the republicans?
In terms of the infighting, I believe that it was the last thing that the country needed at the time. It seems like, in an age of post-war, stability in the government would be essential. The splitting into two groups could have been avoided, in my opinion, is Stevens had not died at the time and if Grant had not introduced his moderate viewpoint.
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