I need help writing an essay. I DO NOT want you to write it for me, I just need someone to bounce ideas on. I am applying for college, and I am choosing to write about discrimination. I have a hook, but I have hit a wall...Here is how it goes (so far) 7.647 billion people in the world. 579 in North America. 328 million in the United States. 118 million on the East coast. Of these people, only one of them is me; only one of them is you.

Read these excerpts. lincoln's "gettysburg address." it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. whitman's "o captain! my captain! ". exult, o shores, and ring, o bells! but i, with mournful tread, walk the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and dead. which rhetorical appeal do both excerpts use? logos: the use of logic to convince the audience pathos: the use of emotional appeals to affect the audience’s feelings brevity: writing or speaking that is short, brief, and to the point ethos: the use of authority to persuade the audience to act the right way