Judy Rebick is guilty of fallacious reasoning in her article. She starts out with an appeal to pity when she writes about how she thought she was getting ill, but then realized that she “hadn’t taken a day off in more than six weeks.” When stating this fact, she is attempting to elicit a reaction from the reader, getting them to have pity for her and how exhausted she is. She also appeals to the fears of readers when she is looking at some of the facts related to the subject of overwork. She indicates that “family breakup is three to eight times more likely in couples with children if one parent works nights or does shift work.” Family life and sustainability is on the mind of men and woman alike in society today. With ever increasing
How many times have you dropped those swimming classes? When was last time you put off in getting that enrollment for the gym? “Unlimited” ads campaign by Nike, appeals to its audience by showing people who even having certain difficulties, go after what they want and push their limits as much as they can, which is not a little. The ads feature a grown Sister competing in a triathlon, a transgender who runs with the National men’s team and a climber with no extremities. Nike didn’t choose these actors for its ads by accident, they are source of inspiration for all those athletes that always put the best of themselves in whichever the activity that passionate them is. People who would be the main target for this campaign.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is a government website that provides information about various diseases, disabilities, disorders, etc.. The CDC provides multiple webpages about Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) that list and provide information about causes, treatments, variations, and signs/symptoms of the disorder. On their informative pages, they use rhetorical devices to better portray their message. The CDC effectively uses the three rhetorical devices, pathos, ethos, and logos, to reach their goal of informing their target audience and providing a clear perspective on Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
Family by Faith Wilson, shows at first glance a waiting family on the pier but closer inspection reviles more. The focus with this picture is being put on a middle class, modern family spending time together on the pier. However with the fathers inattentiveness with spending more time staring at his "phone" and the mothers squared angry posture while looking over the son to also look at the phone and also the son trying to gain the attention of the inattentive father. I feel with the cloudy moody sky, it gives this picture an ominous sad feeling. This photo gives the feeling that the father may have a mistress that he can’t stop being in contact with even on family outings and the mothers squared posture seems to indicate that she too knows
“Shitty First Drafts” by Anne Lamott, is a hilarious must read for junior high school students and any other aspiring writers. Her essay inspires comfort and confidence in writing a first draft. It concretes that all writers experience the “shitty” first draft. Anne Lamott wrote this instructional information in 1995, but it is timeless information. She blows the idea of writing an immaculate first draft out of the water. Anne supports the idea that bad first drafts will almost always lead to better second, third and final drafts. She symbolizes the first draft to be like a child. Where you put all your thoughts and emotions out there in words on paper, you go all over the place, you say all kinds of ridiculous things, and all with the
A college education is valuable and its quality is of the highest importance to most Americans. In his essay, “On the Uses of a Liberal Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students,” Mark Edmundson utilizes ethos, pathos, and logos to effectively deliver his argument that the current educational system, especially in college, revolves around consumerism which in turn has negatively impacted students, teachers, and universities in general. However, although Edmundson presents an overall logically sound argument, there are few instances throughout the article that may hinder the reliability of his claims to the audience.
In South Central, Los Angeles, there is a food epidemic taking place among the population. For miles and miles, the only easily attainable food source is fast food; causing the overconsumption of un-nutritious, greasy, and fattening food. This is the problem brought to the public’s attention by speaker Ron Finley in his Ted Talks speech, “A Guerilla Gardener in South Central L.A.” Finley explains how everywhere he looks in his native South Central, all he sees are fast food chains and Dialysis clinics opened due to the lack of nutritious food. Finley views the lack of a healthy food source as a serious problem, and brings up
In the essay, “What You Eat is Your Business”, Radley Balko writes to tell his audience about how the government is trying to control people’s health and eating habits by restricting food, taxing high calorie food, and considering menu labeling. Balko includes in his essay that government restricting diets and having socialist insurance is not helping the obesity problem, but it is only making it worse because it not allowing people to take their health in to their own hands so they have no drive to lose weight or eat healthy. In his essay, Balko is targeting society, including those who may be obese, he is trying to show them that the laws our
Many people in today’s society tend to believe that a good education is the fastest way to move up the ladder in their chosen. People believe that those who seek further education at a college or university are more intelligent. Indeed, a college education is a basic requirement for many white collar, and some blue collar, jobs. In an effort to persuade his audience that intelligence cannot be measured by the amount of education a person has Mike Rose wrote an article entitled “Blue Collar Brilliance”. The article that appeared in the American Scholar, a quarterly literary magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, established in 1932. The American Scholar audience includes, Company’s , Employees,
A child’s teacher has taken the child’s parents aside to talk about concerns taking place in the classroom related to the child’s ability to pay attention in class. When hearing news such as this it can be devastating to a parent or caregiver. For this reason, among others, it is important to have a reliable and easily understood source for information. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one such source available for information seekers that readily providers a source of truth. Their sites include informational webpages about important and impactful topics such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This site leverages information sharing using ETHOS, PATHOS, and
In ‘Here’s Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense’, Alex Newhouse, a lawyer who resides in the area of Sunnyside, Washington addresses the controversial issue of the legalization of cannabis. The sole purpose of Newhouse’s article is to persuade readers and voters that marijuana should be legalized. Throughout his article, Newhouse focuses on the use of ethos and logos, while also slightly focusing on the use of pathos, to help persuade his audience. The incorporation of such rhetoric strategies allows Newhouse to change the opinions of individuals with views opposing the opinions he, himself, holds.
Logos: It is an appeal to the mind with the use of logic, rationality and critical reasoning to persuade the audience. The author uses logos in his article to make a logical connection with the topic. For example, the author uses the explanation of ideas in the article and employs lots of diagrams in each parts of the topic to show the visualization to support his evidence which is very informative because the visuals give lots of information about what the article is about and that to get attention of the audience.
Abraham Lincoln’s “Second Inaugural Address” and Emily Dickinson’s “Success is Counted Sweet,” are two inspirational pieces of art that fall under two different types of discourses. The “Second Inaugural Address,” is a great example and definition of what Rhetoric is. It encompasses all four resources of languages- argument, appeal, arrangement, and artistic devices. “Success is Counted Sweet,” doesn’t cover the four resources of language that apply to rhetoric; therefore, it is categorized as a poem.
Chapter 4 — The Way the Buddha Analytically Answers the Question of the Kālāmas. This chapter discussed on a well-known sutta, AN 3.56. The discourse has shown a situation, the Kālāmas has being confused by different teachings (from the brahmins and ascetics). They having approached the Buddha and asked to help solve the problem of whom speak truth and who speak false. The Buddha having giving them advice by saying do not go upon the ten knowledge: “…repeated hearing, …tradition, …rumor, …scripture, …surmise, … axiom, …specious reasoning, …bias towards a notion pondered over, … another’s seeming ability, …the consideration ‘The monk is our teacher,’” if they lead to suffering and harm. On the counter, only to abide in them if they are helpful
In “EU will not go soft on Gibraltar issue in Brexit talks, diplomats say” by Daniel Boffey, Anushka Asthana and Jennifer Rankin, Boffey et al. takes an informative approach to develop an expository rhetoric strategy. In the article Boffey et al. sets out to explain the situation that is occurring between the EU and Spain on deals involving the Gibraltar with respect to negotiations between London and Brussels. The article is expresses this by its expository rhetoric that is demonstrated with its tone and point of view. The tone establishes the informative approach to the information by using political figures and statistics to refer to the situation, allowing Boffey et al. to show creditability. Furthermore, the point of view taken forms
What I have realized this year is that some people are choosing work over their own family. I believe that this can bring family issues and consequences especially on kids because they will feel neglected from their parents. Shellenbarger wrote in her article that she was working when her son came from skiing and asked her if she saw him. She later wrote, “Dissapointed that I wasn’t watching out the window, he leaves.” (Shellenbarger par.5)