Last year More Than A Game took their second trip overseas to the country of Panama. Tim Fanning, President of the organization, and Marshall Murray (founder), led a group of players and coaches on a mission to better a small poverty stricken village, Bongo. The group of players and coaches worked with the community officials and locals to construct a baseball field. The organization received donations from Turface Athletics, Rawlings, and Warner’s Athletic Construction. The group of players and coaches included Tim Fanning, Marshall Murray, Will Stillwell, Austin Allison, and Joey Lewis. This group of five individuals took land full of rock and debris and transformed it into a playable field with a backstop, foul poles, bases, a pitching rubber, clay, and dirt. While More than A Game published this video (Mission Panama) to inform their supporters on what’s happening within the organization, they are also making an argument for more money and more support. Someone familiar with rhetoric would call this an argument by emotion or as Aristotle calls it pathos. In “Thank You For Arguing” the author Jay Heinrichs describes Aristotle’s three bases of argument. These bases are argument by character, argument by logic, and argument by emotion, or as Aristotle called them ethos, logos, and pathos. Heinrichs explains how Aristotle compares the pathos argument to an argument of the heart by appealing to one’s emotion and feelings. There are many examples of pathos being used in this video to sway viewers’ feelings. Whether donating or simply getting involved, you feel compelled to help this organization by seeing the work they have done and the lives they have changed. For those involved in this mission it was more than giving back this small village of Bongo. Another form of argument being made in this video is by logic. When Phil Stillwell goes on to say in the video “quite frankly I got more out of the trip than I gave”, he makes a logical argument for self fulfillment. The argument that More Than A Game is trying to make in this video is that they can not continue to do great things in different communities without the help of people giving their support, getting involved, and donating money. This video can be viewed here https://vimeo.com/85451420
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9/27/2015 05:11:25 pm
I think this sounds like a great organization. It is great that this group is helping out people who don't have their own resources to sports equipment and things like that. I think by giving these people in poverty access to something so little it changes their lives so much. I think this can definitely tug on people's heart strings and emotions.
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9/27/2015 07:16:58 pm
I am really enjoying hearing about this organization. They are really cool and really striving to make a difference in the world. But also you put together this blog really well. I feel like I now have a better understanding of a pathos argument
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