Ice Bucket Challenge By Felix Salmon

Fridman relies on logos to appeal to the sense of logic of the readers of the New York Times for them to value smart individuals instead of degrading them. His application of values logos reveals American society’s evaluation

Roger Ebert continues to critique the movie The Raid: Redemption, and uses logical reasoning to persuade the audience. Ebert’s argument is effective throughout the article. In Ebert’s augmentative article, he emphasizes the problems and what the movie could have improved. He did that by using logos. Logos means appealing to logic by reason to persuade. In his article,

Approximately half way through reading the article a red flag goes up. One of the major features of an argumentative article are the facts and citations. Other than citing the two pictures used in the article, only one statement can be traced to a credible source. Jones quotes Melanie Moore, a psychologist to provide a strong piece of evidence. Even though this is the only outside source used it is powerful given her background in psychology. Logos play a major roll in giving the article credibility. Whilst a reader is seeing a lack of evidence from outside sources to back up an argument, they assume it is just made up and not reliable. Granting Jones seems to use only one source for his article, that does not necessarily mean he does not state any evidence or logos.

In his article “Bag Ban Bad for Freedom and Environment.” Adam b Summers makes logic and facts his ally to persuade readers that plastic bags do not ruin the climate as much as people think. However, he does jot build an emotional or ethical connection with his audience. In fact, his only attempt to seem like an environmentalist comes off as callous and insensitive. Some readers might say that his logic and facts make up for this though. Adam Summers makes writes to educate readers with facts and logic but does not really attempt to build any pathos or ethos.

Quindlen uses logos in her speech to give it structure and to help the audience understand her points. Logos is a statement, sentence or argument used to convince or persuade the audience by using logic or reason. In the introduction, the author explains how throughout her whole college career, she strived to be perfect, but it soon turned into a burden. In the body, the author focuses on

This adds a deeper level of relatability to a topic that is typically seen as complicated and full of confusing data analysis too complicated for the average person. One of her few uses of logos is to push the point that most people can understand climate change without needing to understand the data. She recounts a time the Canadian government tried to deny the disappearing sea ice through data manipulation (reference). Through her use of pathos she urges people to support climate change without getting caught up in statistical details. Atwood uses metaphors less sparingly then Wallace to describe human’s foolish and idiotic attempts to deal with climate change, such as burying our heads in sand in order to filter what we hear. (reference Atwood). She goes on to compare two possible futures; an environmental utopia where humans are self-sufficient, and a horrible dystopia where humans are forced to eat their pet dogs (Atwood reference). This serves as a rhetorical question as no one would willingly wish to live in the apocalyptic society she describes. The dark themes of her essay are masked with the use of satire and comedy which serves to soften the heavy tone and make light of foolish humans

The second is that this is precisely the kind of project that climate science tells us can no longer be tolerated” (McKibben). This allows the reader to follow McKibben’s thoughts into a deeper explanation and understanding of the issue on the Keystone

Many authors discuss the logos qualities of a text to refer to how strong the logic or reasoning of their argument is (Sproat, Discoll, Brizee, E 2012, April 27). Comfort used logos by drawing their understanding on historical events, political events, and personal decisions. Ray Comfort also uses logos throughout his interview by asking people that if they were held at gunpoint to kill Jews, if they would do it, some people said no. He then asked if they are for abortion and then they say yes. He stated “why are you for killing a baby in the womb, but are not ok with killing Jews” (180 movie 2011). He uses logical situations to compare the two, and get people thinking about their opinions on the two situations. He used a great logical reasoning when discussing the two topics with people on the street (180 movie 2011). He asked a few of them if they were believers and, if they said yes. He then went on and asked then about the sixth commandment which states “Thou shall not kill.” Abortion is just one of many sins that everyone is capable of, whether one believes he or she is a respectable person or not. He went on and asked them “It is satisfactory to kill a baby in the womb…” (180 movie 2011). After sometime the people that said it was a mother’s choice to kill a baby and different perspective after taking time

The use of ethos and logos is seen throughout this column. The article has ethos because Blow is a well-known New York Times columnist, the paper’s graphics director, and received a B.A. in mass communications and graduated magna cum laude from Grambling State University in Louisiana. The author uses statistical evidence to express logical appeal.

The author presented a strong appeal to logos, with many facts and logical progressions of ideas. The history and facts of the play creates a direct voice of logic. Once given all of the details, one can only feel a certain way. There was no type of bias in the writing to persuade the reader to feel any type of way, which goes back to what I said about Gopnik not showing any clear signs of any claims of policy. He did a great job of telling his thoughts and feelings on the play, all without contradicting the reader’s own.

The thesis of the film “Chasing Ice” is to portray the extreme climate change we are facing today. The film has a clear goal of showing visually the danger we are causing our planet by denying climate change. The aim of the film is to show us visually that climate change does exist and it is happening at a rapid rate. The film does a good job at providing evidence that climate change is happening, by capturing footage of the changes occurring over short periods of time. These videos captured by James Balog’s recording devices make it almost impossible to deny climate change and that is precisely the purpose of the film.

An example of logos is when she states, “Chris Ofili, painter of the Sensation exhibition’s much maligned Holy Virgin Mary, claims that Mr. Giuliani (New York Mayor) falsely assigned deprecatory motives to his work.” Another example is the image of Holy Virgin Mary included in the article. Images, especially for visual learners like me, are helpful and attention grabbing. As for ethos, Mack does not mention her experience or authority to write about this topic, but she does an excelling job at qualifying all claims reasonably, such as “…Picardo Venus? Must she be rejected… Did not Botticelli’s immortal The Birth of Venus also glorify fertility?”, improving her trustworthiness. Although Mack includes both logos and ethos, she lacks the pathos appeals. She is concentrated on reasoning and proving that she does not seem to consider persuading her audience through emotions. This lack of pathos does not affect her article because her logos and ethos are very well

Environmental issues such as climate change affect life on Earth every day. As Leonardo DiCaprio discusses in his speech during the Paris Agreement for Climate Change Signing at the United Nations, the only way to diminish global warming, one of the most critical issues of this generation, is to take unprecedented action. By informing the audience with an effective strategy, DiCaprio persuades the delegates to make the right decision that will mold the future. His evidence compliments the coherent use of ethos, logos, and pathos. Climate change is a universal matter that can either persist, or be put to an end.

Great post this week Jennifer, I completely agree with most of the points you bought up in our post. I also think that McKibben’s proposal is a great idea, I think if we use this method that more people would pay more attention to what is happening with the climate because they would benefit from it. Think if we were able to educate the Disengaged, Concerned and the Cautious and show all of them how they can benefit from using McKibben’s proposal with them being able to make money from his proposal I think they would follow it because of peoples love for money. Do you think that these people would change their minds when they see they will make

Whenever I try to look back about how I discovered about the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, a video of my topless Mestizo high school classmate immediately comes to my mind. Being a dormer, I had no clue about ALS or the ice bucket challenge or whatever what was happening outside the four-walls of our room prior to watching the said video. All I know is that it is ridiculous, weird and just down-right irrelevant. I mean, what is the purpose of throwing a bucket filled with ice over your head and posting it on your social networking accounts afterwards? Have people of the 21st century become that desperate to gain attention and become an overnight online sensation?