In "Resistance to Civil Government," Henry David Thoreau uses ethos in order to help his audience gain trust in him. Thoreau uses his own personal experience in order to demonstrate his knowledge of his topic and his own personal connection to it. By using ethos in this rhetorical situation, Thoreau is attempting to inspire trust in his readers and establish his own credibility.
<span>To
protect plant form insect damage, I will make it into a transgenic plant.
Transgenic plant are called genetically modified organisms (GMO) because there
is a gene added or removed in the original plant to obtain a set of
characteristic such as insect damage.</span>
