Adidas, the iconic sporting goods powerhouse that has been in action since the 1920’s, is widely known throughout the entire world. Whether you view them as fashionable, sporty, or the icon of Russia, it’s likely you’ve seen someone wearing a piece of Adidas clothing somewhere. Due to the size of their company and the high …
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Class Participation, October 8 2019
I have learned a lot about rhetoric in the past few weeks due to the numerous articles and assignments we have had on it. I can explain one about the three most basic forms of rhetoric: logos appealing to logic, pathos appealing to emotion, and ethos appealing to context and validity. I also know how …
Rhetorical Meme Analysis
My meme primarily uses two forms of rhetoric, that being logos and pathos. My meme is meant to lampoon people who exploit pathos by comparing their opponent’s argument to someone who committed terrible atrocities such as Hitler or Stalin without actually having anything to back that opinion up. I’m saying in this meme people are …
Kevin Sweeney’s “The Climate Crisis Is a Human Issue” Response
The article The Climate Crisis Is a Human Issue by Bill McKibben is a persuasive article filled with lots of rhetoric. Containing ethos, pathos, and logos, McKibben is able to make a convincing argument of why we as humans need to fight climate change. Its intended audience seems to be the younger generation, in this …
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Class Participation 9/19/19
1.) Anything by PETA will usually use pathos to try turn people vegan, in some cases they have used false cases of logos such as the time they claimed cow’s milk causes autism though sometimes true statistics about how many animals are killed each year. They primarily use pathos though by showing pictures of abused …
Class Participation 9/24/19
In paragraph three, we are taught about pathos, or rhetoric through emotional appeal. In this paragraph, Carroll then uses a fantastic example of when someone or some group might use pathos, The rhetoric in this group uses people’s stories of their struggles to obtain affordable health care. These stories, which are often heart-wrenching, use emotion …
Kevin Sweeney’s “Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps toward Rhetorical Analysis” Response
In the essay, Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps toward Rhetorical Analysis by Laura Bolin Carroll, we are taught all about the importance and versatile uses of rhetoric and how we can analyze it. Carroll uses lots of ethos and logos to show us how rhetoric is used to persuade us into feeling certain ways and doing …
Geography
In the National Geographic encyclopedia aptly titled Geography, we learn about the past, present, and different types of geography. I learned a lot about its intriguing history along with the different ways geography can be interpreted depending on how you want to look at it. Geography has always been an interest of mine so this …
Challenging Adversity (The Cleanest Line)
The article Challenging Adversity by Kitty Calhoun is a truly inspirational post about handicapped women overcoming not only rocks, icy climates, and mountains, but the fear, anxiety and stigmas of having a disability. The author talks about how she knows she can do anything when she lead an amputee with ice climbing in Ouray, Colorado …
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What is “Academic” Writing?
In What is “Academic” Writing by L. Lennie Irvin, we learn how to write, format, and proofread a proper academic paper. Through demystification of what makes a good and bad essay, we learn that writing an essay isn’t as daunting as we might have initially thought. The paper starts off with getting rid of some …
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