Six blogs later...

1. The thesis is for "Searching for an Identity in a Society Full of Labels" by Laurie Hrydziuszko is, "Searching for an identity in a society that seeks to place a label on each individual is a difficult task, especially for people of multicultural ancestry." She makes this point her thesis because the whole text continuously comes back to the fact that Anna Raya had a difficult time fitting in due to the fact that she is an American with a Mexican and Puerto Rican background. She also eventually ties this thesis to her own life, as she is Polish and Mexican.

2. The majority of the source credibility belongs to Anna Raya's "It's Hard Enough Being Me." The reason I say this is because the whole text Lauriee makes references to Raya's situation. She uses her as a direct comparison and feels that the two of them have a lot in common in today's society. The other sources used in the text though are simply good quotes and information used to increase the level of credibility for this text. They are no where near as significant as the information used from Raya.

3. I would say that all three rhetorical appeals are used in this text. I found plenty of Ethos when noticing that the author herself was multicultural and faced the same problems as Anna Raya. If she was only one culture and had only written about Raya, then I would have just figured that she knew nothing of the issue. Logos can be found in this when looking through all of the sources used for the completion of the text. The uses of Raya's text especially makes it seem like Laurie knows what she is talking about. A lot of people could say that Pathos is used in this, but it is not as noticeable as the previous two. The author uses the tragedies faced by Raya and herself to, in an essence, make the reader feel bad for her. I would say that it worked on me, for the most part, so that it why I say that this text includes Pathos.