Biographical Analysis, Harold McMaster

            There is one name that does not come as a household name like Henry Ford, but this one man had quite a great influence on the world today. Without this man, the use of tempered glass in the modern era would not be the same. For my writing class, I went and analyzed how people wrote about Harold McMaster (his biographies). From what the University of Toledo and the Ohio State University has to write about him, it seems very positive. OSU even gave him an honorary doctorate years back for his work. I notice that between these biographies, they both follow a logical order. They report his life chronologically and use dates and numbers to display his timeline. Both of the biographies I read contained no images, but pathos was still conveyed in the wording of the biographies. As the writers go from start to finish, they take the reader on an emotional journey. They make you feel his failures and successes by making you feel bad about the failures and making you happy for the successes. The writers both focus more on the successes over the failures and gives the reader a sense of accomplishment even though the biography is not even about them. The credibility (ethos) is also accomplished in this article by the use of primary sourcing. They give dates, explain logically what happened, and gain trust from the reader. I think both of these biographies done well by keeping a logical order, accuracy to their information, and giving the reader a sense of being proud of other people. They give an equal balance to logos, ethos, and pathos which gives the touch to a biography about a person that well deserves it. I want to add that the reason I chose to write about Harold McMasters is that he was a close partner and friend to Norman Nitschke, my grandpa up until his death a few years ago. Glasstech, an incorporation that still exists today, was created through the extraordinary partnership of McMaster and my grandpa. McMaster is well accomplished with over 100 patents in both the glass tempering field as well as in combustion engines. He has a truly brilliant mind.