Aung San Suu Kyi is a politician who is known for her "worldwide leadership and commitment to human rights in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma." Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested and sentenced to nearly 20 years under house arrest by the Burmese military rulers. Like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Aung San Suu Kyi led a nonviolent movement in Burma against the government. The Burmese government is known as being one of the most oppressive, dictatorial governments of the 21st century. Myanmar has been militarily ruled, therefore the people are, in most cases, living in poverty and oppression. Just recently, Myanmar has become a non-military government, and the country has elected their first civillian as leader of their government.
The article was written by Jack Healey, who is the director of the Human Rights Action Center, and Dan Adler who is a producer and new media entrepreneur. Both men use pathos to make you feel how horrible life was in Myanmar, and more importantly, to make you understand what a difficult life Aung San Suu Kyi had. The author uses pathos to allow the audience to fully understand everything that Aung San Suu Kyi, and the people of burma, went through. Pathos allows the audience to have an emotional connection to the story, and often think, "what if?" which allows them to put the text into their own perspective.
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