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    reporting use multiple fallacies. Media bias pertaining to GMOs can be seen in magazine articles. An article by Time magazine called “FOOD: GMOs Are Our Destiny” is biased towards GMOs (Jahren, 2016). The article uses the appeal to emotion, the attempt of persuasion through the use of emotion and feelings. For example, the author Hope Jahren states, “Yes, my best friend is a genetically modified organism; deliberate selection has

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    Lives Matter protests, and demonstrations outside Trump Tower would be much more effervescent—and effective!—if someone had just brought some soda” (Watercutter). Pepsi appeals to viewers via logos through logical fallacies. Specifically, they are using emotion, authority, and popularity to sell their soda. Pepsi appeals to emotion by making a protest a focal point of the commercial. Typically, anger and gladness drive protestors. The point of protesting is to voice an opinion and promote change

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    intriguing topic pulls the reader in, while the author’s excellent use of appeals solidifies her argument. Turkle’s exceptional employment of appeals strengthens the overall effect of her essay, leaving her audience with a strong argument. Turkle utilizes her title and accolades to establish herself as a credible source. Professor Turkle also enhances her argument by providing evidence and details from her studies to form a logical appeal. Finally, she tops her argument off with an emotional connection to

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    election, or simply a paper over a personal appeal. Humans take advantage of natural emotions to make the target audience feel a more personal connection to whatever the person might be arguing or selling. Many people assume it is hard to persuade a stranger, given that there is no personal ties to the person or group. Yet, it is important to reach target audiences through a heart-clenching claim that gathers their interest or seeps into their emotions, because without this the audience might simply

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    King bemoans the fact that “one hundred years” after the Emancipation Proclamation an the end to slavery, “the Negro still is not free.” This may not seem like a typical logical appeal at first because it appeals to emotion, but it also points out that the revered Emancipation Proclamation that supposedly freed African-Americans, in fact, only lengthened the chains that bound them. King also argues that despite the words written in the Declaration

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    USING EMOTIONAL, HUMOROUS AND THREATENING APPEAL IN ADVERTISING TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF SMOKING BY ADULTS Submitted to: Dr. Bal Rakshase Centre for Health Policy Planning and Management, School of Health Systems Studies, TISS, Mumbai. Submitted by: Pallavi Muraleedharan Enrollment Number: M2015HE018 Master of Health Administration (2015-17) Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai Date: 16/08/2016 ADVERTISING APPEALS Advertising Appeals tries to influence the way consumers view themselves

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    describes God as angry which probably struck fear into the hearts on many. To illustrate his own point that hell is unenviable without repentance Jonathan Edwards creates the idea of an angry God using intense similes, a harsh tone, and strong emotional appeal in “Sinners in the hand of an Angry God”. Jonathon Edwards maintains his audience’s attention by creating intense and meaningful similes. Edwards uses these similes as a way for his audience to understand the points he is making and adds dramatic

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    successfully used by both directors to create certain emotions or attitudes within the audience. The Electric Car overall contains a much stronger appeal to emotion or Pathos. One example is the first scene of the movie, which contains a funeral for the EV1. The movie continues to appeal to emotion mainly through interviews with people who previously owned an electric vehicle. Images of cars being crushed are overlaid with music evoking emotions of sadness and death. The interviews are

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    Association, that strived for more fair-minded hours, rather than the long, unhealthy, and tedious shifts thats children were put through overnight. Kelley utilizes both appeals to logic and appeals to emotion, in order to rally up her audience in joining her to fight for more rational, more healthy, and more just hours. Effective uses of appeals to logic are made through insightful parallel structure and an oxymoron, both of which demonstrate the unjust truth. Kelley ensures her audience that the growing

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    they’re in without giving a second thought to what might really be happening. That people tend to miss what’s real or important because, well, it’s not always that obvious to them. Wallace utilizes appeals to logic, value and emotion to effectively get his message across. When delivering his speech, Wallace appeals to logic through reasoning. To start off the speech he tells a story about two fish. “There are these two-fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who

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