The USS Kidd and Its Employment of Rhetorical Appeals

 Overall, the USS Kidd museum has established itself as an extremely significant and impactful location through its creators' employment of rhetorical appeals.  The presence of the museum upon the actual USS Kidd allows visitors to have the full experience, therefore appealing to their sense of ethos. Its creators have also appealed to visitors' senses of logos because the realness of the ship demonstrates to potential visitors that it is logical to visit the real location where so much action and so many important events have taken place. The creators knew that if visitors could only experience merely a replica of the ship, they would be significantly less impacted by it. Visitors are allowed to see all of the complex inner-workings of the ship and the machines which kept it in operation, therefore depending both the ship's credibility as a significant location of history and urging potential visitors to come and experience the real thing.The opportunity for visitors to explore both the places which housed the soldiers who used the ship in battle, the place where the soldiers would eat, and the gadgets which these soldiers had to use in order for the ship function appeal to a visitors sense of pathos because it allows them to see that real people actually called the ship home for so many years. Visitors are made to feel an emotional connection to these soldiers through the viewing and exploration of these spaces. These appeals to visitors' rhetorical senses deepen their appreciation and encourage their desire to learn even more about the USS Kidd and the importance of its role within United States history.