...Assignment #3: Rhetorical Analysis Essay ENG: Section 1105 The Backwards Robe Phenomenon I believe almost everyone in the United States, and even other countries, have heard about the Snuggie (http://www.mysnuggiestore.com/). The Snuggie epidemic is definitely contagious, myself admitting that I even own one. Infomercials have been around for decades, but the Snuggie was definitely a game-changer in that world. From the many commercials that give most of us a few laughs, to seeing almost every living room with a Snuggie draped over their couch or recliner. It's safe to say that the Snuggie is one of the most successful infomercials today, acquiring around $400 million dollars in sales and ranking number 8 on the best seller list. The backwards robe does an amazing job in the commercial for advertisement, showing you that you can go anywhere in your Snuggie and you're able to keep your arms warm and functional, but is it really that necessary of a product? I believe that the goofiness of the infomercial is part of what has made it so successful. The product itself is silly as well, which makes it more memorable than the Slap-Chop or the Ove Glove. The infomercial still uses logos in knowing that it is soft fleece, and does have a reasonable refund date along with a reasonable price. While watching the commercial over again on the internet, I almost feel like they take it too far and it ends up just being cheesy. It seems very outdated, even though it isn't more than 10 years...
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...The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), founded by Henry Bergh in 1866, was the first humane society established in North America. The ASPCA outlines its goals in its mission statement: “to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States.” The ASPCA, a nonprofit organization, works to fulfill its mission by caring for pet parents and pets, providing positive outcomes for at-risk animals, and serving all victims of animal cruelty. The ASPCA utilizes both its website and its television advertisements to encourage people to participate in the organization either by donating or adopting. The ASPCA’s website’s organization, content, and layout work primarily to entice visitors to donate money. An examination of the webpage shows the site builders’ careful planning of the design elements. Visitors cannot avoid the large rectangle across the top of the page containing a slideshow of four different pictures. Each of the pictures, a close-up of a dog or cat that has been rescued by the organization, shows a pet with large and sad eyes, forcing the visitor to make eye contact with the pets. Three out of the four picture slides contain a large orange link that reads “Donate Today.” All of the slides also include the names of the dogs and cats shown, adding a personal touch to the pictures. Website viewers may feel guilty if they do not donate money after looking into the eyes of the neglected pets. The website...
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...time on the equality in politics for women. It appears that women are taken less seriously than men because the media would rather focus on the women’s personal life than their stances on political issues. Instead of reporting coverage on a woman politician’s economic policy, they would rather focus on what she wears and whether or not she has a good relationship with her husband. This campaign advertisement not only sends the message on how some men, like Donald Trump, view women, but also can send an underlying or implicit message on how women are treated in general in today’s society, especially women in power. Overall, I would say that this argument does exactly what it intended to do, to persuade. By using such a strong emotional rhetorical appeal, this advertisement is able to captivate a large audience and convince them that Donald Trump is not a good candidate for the presidency without having to use many claims or much evidence. Although the argument does contain logical fallacies, they appear to work in favor for this type of advertisement....
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...Brianna Harden English 214.05 Baldwin April 12th, 2013 Emotional Consequences Faced By Veterans and Their Families Many books, articles, or even essays that are read throughout one’s life, can at times be slightly unclear about what precisely the main idea is or what the authors true purpose is for writing that text. Most people do not understand that every writer uses rhetorical strategies throughout their writing to make their text clear and understandable for the reader. These rhetorical strategies are particularly important because they help with the clarity of complex ideas and assist the writer in getting their point across. In doing so, writers are able to make their text more effective for a wider range of people to read. In the article “Iraq, Afghanistan War Veterans Struggle With Combat Trauma,” by David Wood, and in the short story, “Gold Star,” by Siobhan Fallon, the authors use numerous amounts of rhetorical tools to help guide the reader through the text. While “Gold Star” is a short story about a wife who has lost her husband due to the war and “Iraq, Afghanistan War Veterans Struggle With Combat Trauma,” is an informative newspaper article about how the war can have severe consequences on not only the soldiers themselves but their loved ones back at home too, both text use emotive appeals that aim to inform the general public of the various emotional and psychological tolls faced by veterans and their families today. Furthermore, throughout both texts...
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...For my Benjamin Banneker rhetorical analysis essay, I would give myself a score of eight. I believe that I would have scored an eight because I have effectively explained the purpose of several logical rhetorical strategies using evidence. In my thesis, “Banneker’s unexpected eloquence combined with his political and historical allusions work to produce undeniable evidence that supports an argument Jefferson cannot refute,” I have incorporated the specific rhetoric strategies that I discuss in further detail in the following paragraphs. For instance, in discussing the logos of Banneker’s political allusions, I incorporated quotes that demonstrate the legitimacy of the Declaration of Independence, and explain that Banneker includes this reference...
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...“The Rhetorical Analysis of Gary Soto Essay” In his autobiographical narrative, Gary Soto recreates an experience with his guilty six-year-old self. Ultimately, he shares a story with his audience about how his younger self lost his innocence through stealing a pie. Through the effective use of rhetorical devices, Gary Soto achieves his purpose. Pacing was one of the most useful rhetorical strategies used in his essay. In the beginning of the narrative, a slow pace was implied as Soto explained his “boredom” as he sat “underneath the house… looking for something to do”. He then felt anxious as the “juice of guilt” began to “[wet his] underarms” while he tried to decide which pie to steal. The pace drops to a moderate level after Soto is relieved that he was able to steal the pie and “no one saw” him do so. Soto’s relief was short lived as he went into a panic assuming that his neighbors were...
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...Rhetorical Analysis Vintage Ad Essay Crystal Cash DeVry University Rhetorical Analysis Vintage Ad Essay This Palmolive soap advertisement’s headline reads: "Let your beauty be seen.” While looking at this headline from a modern prospective, one might find such claims absurd. When one considers the context of the ad, and that this advertisement targeted the female demographic in America during the 1950’s it kind of makes sense that the ad may have been persuasive. The 50’s can be regarded as one of the happiest decades in American history, it was the end of World War two and the economy was expanding to a global standard. There were two forms of advertising in the 50’s era, pathos and logos. Looking at it from the 50’s perspective, the housewife wants to use this product to look appealing to her husband because in that time the women stayed at home and looked after the home while the men worked. In this ad, Palmolive targets the growing population of suburban women and uses rhetorical strategies that will appeal to emotion and logic. The primary focus of the ad is Palmolive’s appeal to emotion. The depiction of the housewife looking very beautiful with a flawless complexion and the doting husband apparently hanging on her shoulder admiring her beautiful complexion suggests that with this product you “too” can have an adoring husband admiring your new flawless complexion when you use Palmolive soap. In the text of the ad, it states how Palmolive’s beauty plan brings exciting...
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...Rhetorical Analysis Essay The early 1900s married a time of child labor reformers and women's rights activists, as America reeled with children in the work force from the rapid industrialization during the Gilded Age and women advocating for their rights as Progressivism swept across the country. Florence Kelley, a women’s rights activist, delivered a passionate speech confronting the inhumane character of child labor employing rhetorical questions to guide the listener’s thoughts, parallelism and repetition to emphasize significant points in her argument, and current examples to provide a logical foundation on which she constructs her speech. Like many other women’s rights activists, Kelley readily took a stand against child labor when she...
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...Rhetorical Analysis Essay My argument about direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs is that, it should be changed to something better. My reasons for making this argument is that Elizabeth Almasi and Randall Staffords showed a lot pathos and logos but did not show any ethos. Peter Mansfield argues about replacing the DTCA with something new also showing a solution to the problem. Richard Kravitz uses a lot of all three pathos, logos, and ethos, in his argument about regulating it. Some background about the debate on whether the DTCA should be banned, regulated, or changed is which one is going to be beneficial for the public. The first viewpoint, Elizabeth Almasi and Randall Staffords, shows that advertising prescription medicines could trigger a placebo effect. The effect is serious given that one-third of patients reported that the had relief from coughs, headaches, depressions while given a placebo. There are two models that explain the placebo phenomenon, the first model classical conditioning which is a learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired. “According to this theory, prior experiences with effective medical treatments “condition” the patient to associate pills, syringes, and authoritative medical options with imminent pain relief, eliciting a response similar to the active agent” (Almasi 107). Second...
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...In The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli outlines the specific paths that any new or aspiring prince must take in order to be a successful juxtaposition leader. Since he naturally provides numerous historical examples for both successful and unsuccessful approaches, their is perhaps the most effective rhetorical strategy on display in this text. As such, it is only logical that we examine the most successful example of a prince, that being Ferdinand of Aragon, so as to illuminate Machiavelli’s argument in greater detail. The most striking element of Ferdinand’s success seems to be the successful management of time. That is, Ferdinand seems to appreciate the role that management of time plays in general distraction, and in quelling any potential...
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...popular online news and entertainment source, BuzzFeed, is a huge success. But what is the fuel that keeps this site so popular with returning viewers? Known for its mindless quizzes and fun numbered lists, BuzzFeed goes beyond ordinary news websites that contain articles merely on news and current events. BuzzFeed expands on new subject areas by producing informative and humorous content on popular culture and entertainment. This news and entertainment site has a unique approach that appeals to a younger and more technology-advanced audience. By taking into account the mixture of content and target audience, BuzzFeed continues to form loyal viewers and transform the way people receive news and entertainment. BuzzFeed makes successful rhetorical choices that work together to create a strong attraction to its audience, persuading them to engage with pop culture in a meaningful way. BuzzFeed ‘s...
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...Krugman utilizes a plethora of rhetorical techniques to build his credibility as an inditer. He opens this chapter with an anecdote about his life, explicating that “The America I grew up in was a relatively equal middle-class society” , giving insight into his experience in the past, as well as exhibiting the distinguishment between America then and America now. He transitions into the crux of his paper with the utilization of hypophora, asking “Why should we care about high and elevating inequality?”, setting himself up to answer this question and referring back to it throughout his work. In conjunction with his setup of experience this question frames the rest of the chapter to develop in to giving reason to care about inequality. Proceeding with his argument, Krugman commences by building a logical structure that rejects what his opponents have verbalized on the topic of inequality. This is efficacious because he not only considers what the opposition verbally expresses, but utilizes this as a commencement to tell the audience why inequality is paramount. An example of this is when he frames his argument by asserting, “One of the best arguments I've ever optically discerned... emanated from a kineticism conservative endeavoring to argue the...
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...Prompt 3 Edna Pontellier is losing her mind. During her summer vacation at the Grand Isle, she accidentally discovers that she may not be who she thought she was. As the author of The Awakening, Kate Chopin is masterful in the way she writes; whether it was intentional or not, she makes use of many literary devices to adequately convey the gravity of Edna’s situation to the reader. In just four paragraphs near the end of chapter thirteen, Chopin signals an important shift in the story. Chapter thirteen begins with disorientation- during a church service, Mrs. Pontellier is overcome by drowsiness and must retire; however, being in an unfamiliar environment, she must rely on Robert, her companion, to find her a place to rest. Edna ends up at the house of a stranger, and in this dreamlike chapter, Mrs. Pontellier and her friend find rest within one another. After setting up the perfect situation, she uses intentional language, sensory imagery, and symbolism to indicate that the reader has reached a point of metamorphosis in the story. Firstly, Chopin’s use of intentional language helps to convey the unfamiliarity of Edna’s situation. The narrator describes Edna’s surroundings vividly- they dissect everything around them and most importantly, Edna herself. As Mrs. Pontellier begins to relax, she starts to feel at home in her body- she runs her fingers through her hair and inspects her arms, each as novel as the room she’s in. Her “strong limbs ached,” and she regarded herself as...
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... Freedom of education prevents people from being enslaved to ignorance. Education gives people a sense of freedom, and it also gives them the option of “deciding what has meaning and what doesn’t” in their life. In David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech, The Water, he argues that education should teach us how to be well adjusted, deciding on how to think and what to pay attention to instead of going to our default setting of negativity. David Foster Wallace is right because he thinks that real education is learning to be well adjusted. Freedom of education teaches us how to decide what has and what does not have meaning in our lives, it should teach us how to think not what to think, it should be able to help us develop our critical and creative thinking, our kindness to others, and awareness to the people and the world around us. In Ethiopia, almost all of the subjects were math, science, and language related, the courses were all taught in both English and Amharic. The school never gave us the freedom of electives, so we couldn’t explore our artistic/creative side of ourselves. The schedules were made for a class/grade not for each person, however, if we were lucky enough we would have physical education, music or even drama added to our schedule. But sometimes we didn’t have teachers who taught those classes so we would just have free periods. The reason for this connection is that there is an education system that teaches students only a certain subject, restricting our...
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...Brianna Henderson Professor Katherine Kincer ENGL 1101 21 October 2014 She Couldn’t Say No Entering college comes with a new sense of freedom to do whatever a person wants. Partying and drinking, be it legal or illegal, is one of these freedoms. Its common, even encouraged and pressured that while out we partake in drinking and getting “wasted”. This has become a common stigma about college, and binge drinking has become a serious problem on all U.S. college campus. In an attempt to bring awareness of consequences of binge drinking Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board released a series of Public Service Announcements and launched a website to educate its target young audience to be careful while drinking. The public service announcements use very specific image and text placement, typography, and color to make their message evident in the still PSAs. In general when a person looks at something they scan left to right, top to bottom, or at least primarily in English speaking areas, as that is how we read. With this being so, the first things our eyes sees is (what appears to be) a young woman’s bare legs, slightly separated from knee down, and her underwear around her ankles. She is placed in a vulnerable looking position on a bathroom floor to express the terrible act that just happen. This image is large and takes up most of the ad’s space. The designer of this clearly wants the image to be seen as important and a driving point in the PSA. However, what appears to be the...
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