While David Lowery’s argument is made strong by his pathos and ethos. His logos or lack thereof pulls his argument down. On June 16th, 2012 Emily White published an article on how she had hardly ever purchased music, then on June 18 David Lowery respond to her article in a response that swept the nation, it lead him to a platform to speak on this topic and he is now one of the leading advocates for musicians’ rights. Lowery establishes his ethos in the fourth paragraph by stating that he teaches on the economics of the music business at the university of Georgia (Lowery 2). He will go on to later tell us that he is one of the founding members of a first-generation indie rock band. (Lowery 6) The strongest part of Lowery’s article is his …show more content…
He is continually appealing to the audience’s morals, stating “there are those asking us to change our morality and principles to fit the technological change” (Lowery 3) He uses the example of a business called the “net” in this scenario the store was never assigned to a police force, so no one will step in and stop looting from happening. In this fictional town, everyone has accepted the looting as fine because they will rarely get punished, large companies start to capitalize on it and in the end, everyone has gained something except the “Net.” (Lowery 4) He states that for hundreds of years artists have been allowed to treat their works as their own property getting to decided how it will be used and who will have access to it. (Lowery 4) He is challenging the readers to think of the moral question; is this right? He closes the article by telling Emily that if she were to donate the money she owes back to a musician supporting organization he would match it up to $500. (Lowery 8) which allows him to end on a happy, uplifting note. In all of this he is appealing to the audiences’ emotions trying to make them feel safe and trust him. Appealing to their moral side. Lowery’s pathos is based largely on appealing to people’s morals hoping that he can stir up a need for “justice.” That will cause each person to step up and act now. David Lowery has experience in the music industry, he has the passion to evoke emotions, what
“We can leave the mountain anytime we want but those with ALS are prisoners in their own body”-Alex Williams. People with ALS start losing their ability to move as the disease goes through their body. In the Book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Morrie Schwartz has ALS and he tries to give away all of his wisdom before he dies. Morrie teaches people to live life through showing love to family, not hiding or being scared of aging and accepting that Death is natural.
In paragraphs 29-31, Swift mentions several expedients, such as taxes, wearing homemade clothes, rejecting foreign luxury, curing vices among women, instilling the virtues of patriotism, taxing the absentees, and rejecting divisiveness while promoting honest, industry, and skill. Swift’s speaker stated at the end of all his expending, “How preceptors!” Swift’s rhetorical purpose is to make the reader realize that he is ironic as well as understand what he actually stands for. The reader learns that Swift is forced to resort to ironic tone to reveal his true intention, which would otherwise go unnoticed. Swift is ironic because there is no way his expedients could succeed in a time that Ireland was in, he was mainly trying to highly the economic problems affecting the county at the time.
Leonard Pitts’ piece was effective from the start even though his piece was written in a ranting manner. This is because the author pours opinionated pathos into the piece and it happened to be the feeling of everyone in the country at the moment. The author also dismisses his ethos as a paid column writer to say what the normal American with average communication skills would say. Most paid column writers would probably not use the words, ¨you monster. You beast. You unspeakable bastard¨ (Pitts). However, even though he is dismissing his credibility this works for him because it makes him a relatable speaker and makes the reader want to continue reading.
1a. Know and understand- to perceive as the fact or the truth; to grasp the meaning of an idea
Living in a country that provides access to great health care, one would expect the United States to have a sufficient supply of medical professionals such as doctors. After all, the country has a booming population and is home to many respected institutions with driven and compassionate medical students. However, in the March 3, 2015 edition of The Washington Post, Lenny Bernstein addresses a relatively new problem in healthcare. In the article, “U.S. Faces 90,000 Doctor Shortage by 2025, Medical School Association Warns”, Bernstein successfully creates a real sense of this crisis through his use of logos and diction to address the expected shortage of medical doctors.
Adam shows audiences how to move from theory to action, no matter who they are or what role they perform. He has an
The rhetorical analysis I composed was written on an article called,“The confessions of a liberal gun owner,”by Justin Cronin. This type of writing opened me up to a new style of composing that I am not familiar with. I really enjoyed being able to show my view of whether I thought that this article was effective. Critisizing the writer for doing certain things was very interesting and made me feel more independent and powerful. I did not like that I could not use my personal opinion but could use what I thought as the audience of the paper. This confused me at first but I eventually understood the reasoning behind it. Telling my personal opinon would dismay readers and disregard my credibility. By stating facts it made my paper sound more
With technology growing more and more each day, it is no surprise that the music industry is transitioning to rely more and more on online sales. However, problems can arise from this when artists are taken advantage of by people who illegally download their music off of the internet for free. When one college radio host publically stated that she illegally downloaded her music, a professor by the name of David Lowery saw a problem with this and decided to speak up about it. He wrote a letter addressed to the college radio host, Emily, called “Letter to Emily White at NPR All Songs Considered”. With this, he also addresses the general public and calls them to make a change in their music buying, or lack thereof, habits. He explains that illegally downloading music is not a harmless task and we must understand the effects that it has on the artists as well as the music industry as a whole. While Lowery has strong uses of ethos, logos, and pathos, his conversational and
The rhetorical situation refers to “a situation in which people’s understanding can be changed through messages.” (Zarefsky, 12). The rhetorical situation analysis consists of four elements: audience, occasion, speaker and speech, each assessing the quality of speech. In this essay, I will analyze the rhetorical situation of the historical speech “The Challenger Address” delivered by the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan.
“I’ve written so much music and found my style and I can put my experience in my music now there's so many things that go into it that people don’t know and it’s made me grow as a person,” B said.
Lucian Charles Grainge, born on February 29, 1960, is the present chairman and chief executive officer of Universal Music Group, the most famous music corporation in the world that also owns one of the largest publishing companies around. I have decided to conduct my research on this particular person of interest because of his recent work that has inspired a generation of artists and music lovers. Over the course of his career he has worked with artists such as Amy Winehouse, ABBA, Rihanna, Sam Smith, and The Rolling Stones. Grainge has been in the music business for his entire career and in 2013, 2015, and 2016 he topped Billboard’s magazine “Power 100” list as the most powerful person in the music business (the first to ever win this award
Philanthropy & Social Activism of Celebrity MusiciansThe true artist, like the scientist and the philosopher, will not fail to grapple with the complexity - often frightening - of the techniques he has to employ, for only thus can he express in a new way, the novelty of what cannot but be new, if it is to be a valid message to society. It is then in technical invention, and in the act of freedom it incarnates, that there lies the mean term between artistic and human freedom, between the commitment of the artist and social responsibility. The responsible musician is the one who challenges the established order on the plane of music, challenging by this very fact the established order on the social plane, and thus working in his own way towards the goal of a free society. (Leibowitz and Abel, Page 684)
There are people in here who care about music, who work hard to improve, and give the best performance they can.”
Why Robert Cray Band “Our Last Time” explains reason between music performers relationships while playing for shows, and how the top ten Tools of the invention and critical analysis explain this, by using three of the top ten tools; definition, comparison, relationship, and testimony. Before I begin discussing the song and the four of the tools, I want to talk a bit about some background of the Robert Cray Band. Especially, Robert Cray, he has been playing and making music with various genres such as blues, soul, and R&B, He's also gone along and has made 20 acclaimed albums, and has won various awards yet I want to point out that I was unable to find a lot of information behind the song “our last time” and that this essay is mainly opinion orientated.
Music is an industry that has a number of aspiring artists wishing to be mainstream musicians. The road from aspirations to the establishment as a mainstream artist is often marred with a lot of problems. These problems are failure to attract record labels with demos; failure to have one’s songs reviewed in local and national newspapers and magazines; failure to attract people to one’s show; meeting con promoters, who are not serious about developing one and one’s work, and running out of money in the course one’s struggles. Successful aspiring artists