Which excerpt from Fast Food Nation best illustrates the use of the rhetorical appeal pathos?

1. Teenagers have long provided the fast food industry with the bulk of its workforce.

2. The strict regimentation at fast food restaurants creates standardized products.

3. Although Richard and Mac McDonald introduced the division of labor to the restaurant business, it was a McDonald's executive named Fred Turner who created a production system of unusual thoroughness and attention to detail.

4. But the stance of the fast food industry on issues involving employee training, the minimum wage, labor unions, and overtime pay strongly suggests that its motives in hiring the young, the poor, and the handicapped are hardly altruistic.

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Dillon Palmer

14 December, 08:21

Which excerpt from Fast Food Nation best illustrates the use of the rhetorical appeal pathos?

1. Teenagers have long provided the fast food industry with the bulk of its workforce.

2. The strict regimentation at fast food restaurants creates standardized products.

3. Although Richard and Mac McDonald introduced the division of labor to the restaurant business, it was a McDonald's executive named Fred Turner who created a production system of unusual thoroughness and attention to detail.

4. But the stance of the fast food industry on issues involving employee training, the minimum wage, labor unions, and overtime pay strongly suggests that its motives in hiring the young, the poor, and the handicapped are hardly altruistic.

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Victoria Harding · Answer 1

The fourth excerpt from Fast Food Nation best illustrates the use of the rhetorical appeal pathos. There are three types of rhetorical appeal or approach that could be done by a person for persuading someone. Ethos, pathos, and logos are these three types of rhetorical appeal. Rhetorical appeal pathos used for persuading someone by making that person feel a certain emotion. The fourth excerpt makes readers felt pity about the Fast Food Restaurant's workers.