Meanings of Ethos, Pathos and Logos. Ethos, pathos and logos each have a different meaning: Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. Pathos is an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response.
Fort Hood: The largest US military base in the world. Fort Hood is the largest active-duty, armoured US military base in the world and at the time of the shooting housed around 65,000 people. A sprawling 340 square mile (878 square km) installation 50 miles south of Waco in northeastern Texas, It is the largest single employer in the state.
Adding to the bases inside U.S. territory, the total land area occupied by US military bases domestically within the US and internationally is of the order of 2,202,735 hectares, which makes the Pentagon one of the largest landowners worldwide (Gelman, J., 2007).ccording to Fig 1, the 396 billion dollars military budget proposed in 2003 has in fact reached 417.4 billion dollars, a 73% increase compared to 2000 (289 billion dollars). This outlay for 2003 was more than half of the total of the US discretionary budget.