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Tune Out Persuasive Speech

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Introduction: With technology advancing everyday it makes it increasing easier for one to be able to listen to music at any place and anytime. Now-a-days we don’t have to carry around big bulky CD Players or walkman just to listen to our favorite song. This gives people the opportunity to listen to music while they are walking to class or work. The Pedestrian Council of Australia demonstrates the dangers of walking and listening to your music at the same time. The ad does this by showing their audience an image of a teenage girl lying lifeless on the pavement with big bold broken up text underneath her saying “Don’t Tune Out.” Underneath those words there are smaller Arial Narrow font words that read “Stop, Look, Listen, Think”. In this ad there is also a little yellow pedestrian sign with the words “Pedestrian Council of Australia and walk.com.au” underneath the sign in little black text. The Pedestrian Council of Australia is promoting that people pay attention when they are walking with headphones in their ear and listening to music because it is easier to be unaware of when a …show more content…

Just by looking at the advertisement and not even going to their website the advertisement still leave me with questions. Like how many pedestrians have been victims of getting hit by cars because they were listening to music. If this advertisement provided their audience with more statistics or facts in the actual advertisement it would have been more effective in its appeal of logos. By showing their audience staggering numbers or just numbers period would have made their audience go out the next day and actually do what the ad promotes them to do which is “Stop, Look, Listen, Think” and “Don’t Tune Out” while walking. Without the statistics or facts the audience is left to believe that this situation doesn’t happen that often so this is less likely to help to

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