Ethos Pathos Logos

In Neil Postman’s novel, Amusing Ourselves to Death, he argues that rationality in America has become dictated by television. Through the use of ethos, pathos, and logos, Postman demonstrates that his claim is valid and reliable. These are three forms of persuasion that are used to influence others to agree with a particular point of view. Ethos, or ethical appeal, is used to build an author’s image. Ethos establishes a sense of credibility and good character for the author (Henning). Pathos, or emotional appeal, involves engaging “an audience's sense of identity, their self-interest, their emotions” (Henning). If done correctly, the power of emotions can allow the reader to be swayed to agree with the author. Logos, or logical appeal,

The use of LEGOs is an extraordinary thing, but it is shocking to see exactly how controversial a small toy can become. People of all ages have been found to enjoy this toy. Companies and organizations such as MIT and NASA have even found a use for them. The toy has become known as a child’s imagination tool and has not been exclusively used for adults. The documentary shows that adults come together to compete in competitions on who can create the greatest LEGO sculpture. Many people may not know just how big this toy is used around the world.

Ethos, pathos, and logos are all devices that Barbara Ehrenreich effectively uses throughout her novel Nickel and Dimed to prove that America needs to address the commonly overlooked issue of poverty within every community. It is important that she uses all three devices because they help support her argument by increasing her credibility, connecting to the readers’ emotions, and appealing to their sense of logic. The combination of these devices puts a sense of urgency on the problem Ehrenreich is addressing and therefore creates an effective argument.

The claim of this article is that policies that prohibit college students from drinking are lethal. To prove this claim, the article starts by using logos. They bring statistics from the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, which proves their credibility as a source for this research. The article also goes into detail about the tragedies that happen to college kids who drink illegally. By describing the situations graphically and in detail, the author of the article is using pathos to scare the reader into supporting their claim. If a parent is reading the article they don’t want their daughter in college far away to be assaulted like the other 97,000 sexual assaults among college students that are attributed to drinking each

“I bet most of us have experienced at some point the joys of less: college-- in your dorm, traveling-- in a hotel room, camping-- rig up basically nothing, maybe a boat”. Graham Hill, a TED Talk speaker said “Less Stuff, More Happiness.” Today people disagree with that, they believe the more someone has, the more joyful their life will be. But Hill voices his opinion to say the more items people have, the less happy they could truly become. What people truly need in life, is the simple things. Graham Hill used ethos, formal language, and hasty generalization to persuade the audience of his beliefs.

What is the most important message in the movie? From my point of view the memories we have, form an important part of us our life without memories feels like an empty life, have memories let us grow as a humans and as a persons. Furthermore if we decide to erase some memories we also erase the learning who come whit the memories, in the way I see life every little thing than happens to us have his importance for the rest of our days, the movie raises the idea if the humanity have the capacity to erase some memories, like a an amnesia the some thoughts we don’t want.

I find logos from the text, it is in the beginning of the text. The author talks about how many books that her writes and it also has specific years and name on the text. In my opinion, the most obvious example of the ethos is the sentences that the author’s writing, because the author is the professional person in the writing area, so that I think she has the power to let reader believes what she said and what she think. There also have some instances to firm the main idea. In the third paragraph, the author uses the feeling of people to represent sometimes people wants to be the person like them, for example “people tend to look at …… they have to tell” some of people desire to be the writer because they think they can get lots of money.

Technology and the way it’s being utilized has changed rapidly in the past decade. Phone, tablets, and computers have become more accessible, which changed the way simple tasks are completed. Phones largely have revolutionized the daily lives of everyone, to a degree where it has begun to affect our posture and demeanor. In Jane E Brody's editorial, "Posture Affects Standing, and Not Just the Physical Kind", she clearly informs readers on the negative effects of electronics on everyday life; effectively using ethos, pathos, and logos in her explanation.

The logo I created is designed to be used for a school letter or reminders that can be sent out to parents and students. In order for me to identify myself with this logo I had to add images, colors that represent me. In this logo I decided to use school pencils as the border to my paper, the reason for this was to involve my desire of one day becoming a teacher. The yellow pencils definitely remind me of school. In my logo I also included a picture of a teacher which also connects to my dream job and my passion for drawing. Drawing to me is a big part of life, however I’m not the best artist. My drawing usually come out to be like the picture I selected, to the point, but at the same time very simple.

The Susan G. Komen Foundation of Greater Atlanta’s goal is to reduce mortality of African American breast cancer by 25% in the next 5 years (Susan G. Komen Atlanta, 2017). In order to reach this goal, Komen has created many local outreach programs to educate the community about breast health and breast cancer screening (Susan G. Komen Greater Atlanta, 2017). Educational programs like these can have significant impacts on breast cancer mortality rates (Asuquo and Olajide, 2015). However, they may need to focus on certain racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic groups (Herndon, et al., 2013). Worship in Pink is one of Komen’s educational outreach programs that provides breast health and screening information to participating religious organizations (Susan G. Komen, 2017).

People all over the world are affected by cancer everyday. It is estimated that every day of 2015, 68 Canadian women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Breast cancer affects people of all ages in a direct or indirect way. Every 23 seconds someone gets breast cancer, and every 69 seconds someone dies from breast cancer. Breast cancer is a very large topic around the world with support from people and companies in hopes to find a cure.

A pink ribbon symbolizes breast cancer awareness for women. Their first appearance occurred in 1979 when a wife, whose husband has been taken to Iran started to tie yellow ribbons around the trees in her front yard, her dream was to see her husband come home again. The second appearance occurred 11 years later when an AID activist looked at the yellow ribbons that represented the soldiers fighting in the war, he turned the ribbons bright red representing blood. In 1990, the first breast cancer survivor launched a campaign named ‘Komen for the Cure’. They launched a race and all the survivors wore printed black and white buttons, the design was an abstract female runner outlined in a pink ribbon. Later that year, the program developed and the

“Charlotte Hayley, who had battled breast cancer, introduced the concept of a peach coloured breast cancer awareness ribbon. She attached them to cards saying, ‘The National Cancer Institute’s annual budget is 1.8 billion US dollars, and only 5 percent goes to cancer prevention. Help us wake up our legislators and America by wearing this ribbon.’” (Ribbon, n.d.) Charlotte Hayley did not start the pink ribbon movement, but was more of a catalyst to the movement. “The peach colored ribbon of Hayley aroused interest from Alexandra Penney, editor in chief of Self magazine, who was working on Self magazine‘s 1992 National Breast Cancer Awareness Month issue.” (Ribbon, n.d.) But Charlotte was not interested in working alongside Self magazine, and wanted to remain a grassroots movement. Due to legal matters Alexandra Penney had to give up on the peach colored ribbon, but still wanted to use the ribbon in promoting breast cancer awareness. So they did the next best thing, go with pink. “The cosmetics industry got on board in 1991 to promote breast cancer awareness with the help of Evelyn Lauder of Estée Lauder Cosmetics and Alexander Penney, the editor-in-chief of Self magazine. When Evelyn Lauder and Alexander Penney were working on their breast cancer awareness promotion, they liked Charlotte Hayley’s concept of giving ribbons to promote the support of breast cancer awareness. Lauder, Penney, and Hayley worked

The experience of breast cancer today is different of any other illness. 'Pink culture' and has shaped the nature of breast cancer activism along with the experience of breast cancer for the rising number of women diagnosed with the disease and can be seen in a variety of ways. First, looking at how corporations have effectively drained and deflected meaningful activism through the ‘pink-washing’ and commodification of breast cancer shows how easy it is to overlook the real issues with nice packaging and presentation. Building on this culture, there are reinforced gendered expectations regarding how women are expected to deal with the illness; disallowing expressions of suffering that would typically be associated with a life-threatening disease. Finally, the way breast cancer activism and the experience of the disease have been framed has created a detrimental survivor discourse, which has done little to actually empower women with breast cancer. These phenomena, as seen in the film Pink Ribbons, Inc. and beyond, show how ‘pink culture' has become a distraction from meaningful progress by creating a superficial sense of awareness and activism though marketing and commodification.

In the United States, 1-in-8 women are diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetime (thebrayonline). It's the most common cancer in woman and is also the second leading cause of cancer death among women (NationalBreastCancer.org). Every year it's estimated that over 252,710 women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer and more than 40,500 will die (NationalBreastCancer.org). Women are diagnosed with breast cancer every 2 minutes and 1 woman will die from breast cancer every 13 minutes (NationalBreastCancer.org). Breast cancers tend to mostly affect woman but men can also develop breast cancer. Breast cancer affects thousands of people every year, so it's really important to raise awareness about this disease (Healthline.com). Breast cancer is such a dangerous disease that affects millions of people, companies and organizations want to help raise awareness and educate people about breast cancer. To do so, they will have an inundation of pink items that you can buy to raise money to help raise awareness and fight breast cancer. You can also make charitable donations to various organizations and charities to help fight the disease. However, they have drawn the ire of many researchers, academics, educators, survivors, and victims' families for trying to make money on something important as breast cancer. People are also angry that the items their selling is contributing to cancer.