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Hot Tempered by Anamary Pelayo

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The essay that best fulfills its purpose is “Hot Tempered,” in the terms of process. Anamary Pelayo proves her point using information from experts as a form of ethos, or credentials. She uses a scene of her getting angry at the beginning of the essay to get her readers to feel for her, and imagine the situation for ourselves, and then compares her personal learning to her audience. As a way of using logos, she explains why Latinas react the way they do and steps to how someone can deal with a situation. In the essay “Hot Tempered”, Pelayo uses statistics from psychologists as her form of ethos. She informs us on why Latinas act the way they act, and then she uses quotes from many experts, such as Ester Shapiro Rok, Ph.D., Sally Stabb, Ph.D., Angharad Valdivia, Ph.D., and Ana Nogales, Ph.D., to answer some of her questions or thoughts. However, in “The Body Farm,” the essay is written about William Bass, but many credentials aren’t used, which causes it to lack the ethos factor. The only credentials that can be given in “The Body Farm” are that Bass is “a forensic anthropologist by training, began his career in the classroom, but over time began to help police departments across the United States identify bodies” (Smith 136). In “Hot Tempered,” it is proven that the women credited have degrees or have done specific studies in the area in which was discussed. Pelayo uses a scene at the beginning of the essay that shows her getting angry, but then she later begins to feel ashamed of the way she reacted, and she uses this scene as a form of pathos. Pelayo says “She apologized, and I scowled. A short while later, part of me was still upset (I was starving), but I was also ashamed of the way I’d lost my temper” (Pelayo 170). This quote shows that Pelayo wants her readers to imagine a situation where they may have caught themselves getting angry about something little and then feeling bad about it. This way

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