Who is the author?
The Author of "The First Charter of Virginia" is King James in 1606.Who is his/her audience?
This piece was written for the settlers that were ordered to establish colonies in the New World and those people who were involved in the Virginia Company.
What was the tone of the document (vocabulary)?
The tone was formal, informative, some what persuasive, and negative.
What was the purpose and context of the piece?
The purposed was to establish the boundaries, rules, and benefits in the New World given by Kind James, and they were supposed to follow these as ordered.
How is it persuasive?
Ethos: The emotions involved in this document are selfishness and fraud. The reason being that they are talking about land that doesn't even belong to the Europeans, yet they start taking over the lands, soil, rivers, mines, etc. In reality the land belongs to the Natives.
Pathos: The credibility is that King James wrote it. Clearly the people believed him, otherwise they wouldn't have moved to the New World. What also makes this piece credible is the source we received it from and that this document can be found by multiple reliable sources.
Logos: The logic isn't completely there because King James didn't really own that land that he was promising to people, so it wasn't his to be giving out and it's not like he came to the New World and took control of this area. But the system and the method of determining boundaries and such things was logical.
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