Logos article!

I choice an article from the newspaper titled "Decline in teen suicides has leveled, date suggests" for my logos argument.  Clearly, from the title alone, this is an article which is backed up by facts and statistics; which is what an argument from logos entails.  The article starts out by stating that data from 2005 suggested that the long-term decline in teen suicide rates throughout the 1990s and the early part of this decade may be nearing an end.  However, that prediction has been far from definitive.  The article remarks that from 1996 to 2003 suicide rates sloped downward.  Therefore, predictions were made that teen suicide rates were going to continue to go down.  However, the predicted rate of teen suicide was 3.8 deaths per 100,000 people; the actual rate was 4.49 deaths per 100,000 people.  In 2004 the predicted deaths was 3.96 per 100,000 people but was actually 4.74 deaths per 100,000 people.  While this article used mainly logos, or facts, to create an argument, there is also a certain amount of pathos being used in this article because speaking of teen suicides is going to, obviously, emit an emotional response as well.  The article furthers goes on to say that Food and Drug Administrations were ordered to place a "black box" warning on certain medications because experts speculated that anti-depressants could increase suicidal thoughts.