Jackson's three points about the context of Jordan's argument are as follows:
-Instead stating Jordan wanted the President to become impeached, she instead established her credit and decided to let the audience decide based on the facts that she had provided.
-Jordan also had to convince the audience she was making her aurgument based on something other than her political offiliation.
-Lastly, Jordan added personal insight by starting her aurgument by showing the Constitution was not perfect and followed it by how she has a citizen's responsibility to protect it.
The following are Jordan's three points about the text of Jordan's argument:
-Jackson reads Jordan's faith in the constitution "is whole, it is complete, it is total." This gives the reader knowledge of her thoughts about the constitution.
-He also reads Jordan's fact about impeachment stating "if the President is connected in any suspicious manner with any person and there be grounds to believe that he will shelter that person, he may be impeached. This draws out clear-cut reasoning to draw a conclusion to the issue.
-By ending her argument with a leading question, which the answer will give ample status to whether the President should be impeached, she keeps to not picking a side to the issue and again provides facts to determine a conclusion.
In context, Jordan's use of ethos by just making sure to give a very formal introduction to Mr. Chairman was an expected move from any person speaking to a higher authority. Expected, but still develops good ethos.
ReplyDeleteIn text, Jordan's use of the word bridle in paragraph six gives a strong image of making the high executive person just as low as anyone else. No matter who it is, when something is restrained just like a horse, that person does not seem as high up as they were.