Henry's Junior Year Blog

          Could you ever imagine having someone murder someone close to you and then completely get away without consequence? As unimaginable a situation that might seem, it unfortunately happened in August, when Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US intelligence officer, hit and killed 19 year old Harry Dunn while driving on the wrong side of the road in Britain. Mrs. Sacoolas quickly claimed diplomatic immunity and fled back to the US, causing quite the commotion, as she escaped the situation without any legal consequence.            Now could you picture even further, the President of the United States deciding that she won’t be sent back to the UK to face consequences for the grisly murder she committed? Well that’s exactly what happened today when it was revealed in Trump’s press release notes,  which you can read right here , declared that in the event it was brought up, he would reveal that there were absolutely no plans to send Mrs. Sacoolas back to face justice, a move that has put

     Ethos, pathos, and logos are often used throughout a piece of writing to appeal to the reader in various ways, whether its using pathos to emotionally draw the reader in, ethos to appeal to the audience via the author’s character, or logos to appeal to the logical side of the audience. Pathos is often used by Frederick Douglass in his writing to try and include the reader in the story on an emotional level, discussing all his hardships and day to day experiences so that they can attempt to just slightly better comprehend the hellish day to day world he lived in. Pathos is used heavily especially in chapter 2, when Douglass is describing his life as a slave on a plantation, and dealing with being treated as if they were livestock; this scene best illustrates this as Douglass discusses the sleeping situation on the plantation, “...on one common bed, - the cold, damp floor, - each covering himself or herself in their miserable blankets; and here they sleep till they are summoned to