Rhetorical Appeals to Smoking Advertisement

This advertisement is trying to persuade women to smoke. It states that women have been smoking forever and that it is very pleasurable. This ad in particular is to get women to smoke chesterfield cigarettes due to the milder pleasing taste than regular cigarettes. It just kind of states that women should smoke if they want to not because society thinks that only men can smoke. The company is trying to widen their customer base to increase revenue. This advertisement is probably published in a well respected women's magazine and the cigarettes are a major name brand of cigarettes. Pathos is used by showing that even the upper class women of society from the picture are able to smoke and look cool. It is OK for women to smoke. It seems that I can still look in the upper class of society if I smoke or I can look like I am in the upper class of society if I smoke chesterfields. Logos is used quite well it show that other women are smoking and all types of women are doing it. Why aren't you smoking women?

Rhetorical Appeals of Nikon Advertisement

What does this advertisement say? This advertisement says you should go with the camera with more megapixels and the image will pop out at you. It will be an outstandingly better picture. By buying a Nikon Camera you will still have very high quality pictures but the higher the quality camera from them will yield better results. Megapixels in Cameras do make a difference. Nikon gives the advertisement Ethos. Nikon has been known for making quality cameras for a long time and a well respected camera manufacturing company. Pathos is fairly obvious in this piece. We all know a guy looking at this picture would want to buy the coolpix3100 instead of the coolpix2100. Logos it does seem logical that the higher the resolution in megapixels the better the picture will turn out. At the bottom of the picture it says Nikon No1 so we know the cameras have to bee good and we know which one is better by the image. In the image the lady on the left seems to be looking down in defeat while the lady on the right seems to be looking a little up and happier. Which camera would you choose?

1984 Apple Advertisment Analyzed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8

Rhetorically Analyzed

In this 1984 commercial is for Apple Computers release for Macintosh their new operating program. The commercial is a very credible source. Apple has been making quality computers since 1976 so the company has already has a customer base and is known for producing quality computer by 1984. The use of logos is very effective. The video portrays a type of brainwashed communistic state being freed by a woman who throws a hammer through the competitor brainwashing video. My guess is that the brainwashed people have been using the Microsoft the other large competitor to apple. So free yourself from the un-user friendly operating system and get an apple and be free to do what you want. It appeals to the emotions in that wait if I am not using an Apple system I am nothing but a mindless drone and in the wake of communism this is a bad thing and the basis on America is that I am free to do what I want not be in a communistic state like the soviet union was. This use of apple being the rebel to free everyone from the mindless drone state is very effective. Apple become the savior and the good guy while making the competitor look bad. Apple also uses the text at the end to say that the future will never be the same due to the release of this new operating system.

Texts to Synthesize

I will synthesis The Arab Image by Jack Shaheen and The Movie Crash.

The Text The Arab Image discusses the ability of hollywood to portray different races and religions as whatever they want in this particular case Arabs as Terrorists and Nutjobs. The text also discusses racial stereotypes. In the Movie Crash racial stereotypes are portryaed in real life and describes where and how differnt events take place in LA. Both discuss the idea of racial steryotypes and hate crimes.

Joy Synthesis

"JOY is another word for happiness. When people have no troubles and can spend their time laughing and smiling, like the baby in the picture above".-Andrea

What is Joy? What is it that make us feel Joy? I think that Joy is the ability to be happy and have fun. To be able to find happiness in everything and exploit it for everyone and everything. Your personal happiness in an excited state.-Graham

Joy Synthesis

Joy is when people spend their time always laughing and smiling discovering happiness in everything and exploiting the happiness for the benefit of everyone.

Joy

What is Joy? What is it that make us feel Joy? I think that Joy is the ability to be happy and have fun. To be able to find happiness in everything and exploit it for everyone and everything. Your personal happiness in an excited state.

Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckwiweDMgeQ

The link above is to a somewhat modern day allegory of the cave by Plato. In the video above it is called the allegory of the garage. The person inside is in a garage playing video games and that is all he knows. The video games offer the only view of the world he sees. Video games are an alternative to the real life but seem life like. For example games like Grand Theft Auto you are a character running gangs in a large city except when you die you come back to life. Many kids these days take video games as a real life thing and if you die or your friend dies they come back. Things do not work this way in the real world. In the video eventually the character gets tired of the video games and his mind wanders thus he discovers the outside world. When the character discovers the real world he ventures outside and discovers many things. When he ventures back to the garage or cave he looks at what he thought was the real world and realizes it was only a lie and stays in the real world. This depiction of an alternate reality of video games applies to today’s kids and lives. It is a modern day illusion of life for kids it is almost scary at what video games do to today’s kids. We need to get outside and see the real world and stop watching TV and playing video games and wanting to have an alternative reality.

Gender Roles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgOVwoC72e8


The above link is to a 1955 film on women in the United States and their roles in society. It starts as a girl selecting her High School classes for next semester and what she wants to take. She then asks a teacher what the class Home Economics is and what she will learn. The Teacher then states that a woman is supposed to be a Homemaker and the tasks that a Homemaker will do. Which being the woman will include tasks such as making clothes, food preparation and nutrition, money management, raising children, and protecting the family relationship and wellbeing.
The teacher also states that women who take Home Economics in High School are more likely to find college more interesting. As well as be able to take more advanced classes in Home Economics in College. A woman with a college degree in Home Economics can get a job as a school teacher, social worker, or work on cooking shows.
The video states that men are to design houses, pick colors for the house, and manage money. The video is a very stereotypical of men and women’s roles in the household during 1955. Women are to stay at home and clean the house, cook, raise children etc… while the men go to work and make money and support the family while the women build and raise the family. This was the standard in the 1950’s today the standard has changed some women are taking more corporate jobs and getting educations in different things other than Home Economics. Women are doing jobs that were once reserved for men.

Rhetorical Advertisment

The Author is Oldsmobile which is know for making good vehicles and they are trying to sell a fast car by saying it is like a rocket and will go faster and get you ahead of the competitor’s car. The audience or target of the article is anyone in the car market and it is trying to persuade them to buy the vehicle. If they buy the vehicle they are assured they car will be better than the competitor’s car. Once you drive this car you will never be able to drive another car again. It has superior speed on straight-aways. It is almost as if it is powered by a rocket engine. The logic is that I will be able to go faster in this car than any other car on the market. The article makes clear connections with the times. During the 1950’s in the United States was in the beginnings of the rocket era. Oldsmobile was trying to make connections in with shooting to the moon and the speed of the car. It does make sense that Oldsmobile would try this strategy to sell a car. Also from the picture it appears that from the rocket you hat will be blown off and you will have to hold on in order to drive this car. It is the perfect car for Americans to buy husbands returning from war would want a car that is fast and they could show off and Oldsmobile will give them this in this specific car.

Shitty First Drafts

My writing process is different. I am not a big fan of First Drafts I am the person who just wants to get it done really and just writes and writes till the paper is done. I then check it for spelling and sentence structure and paragraphs etc... I tend not to like the long drawn out revision process of writing. I don’t do the second draft part of the writing process she describes I just skip to the third part of the process. I would however say that my writing is long drawn out and sloppy. I can usually get a decent paper out in a short time but sometimes I just get writers block. I can get it all on paper but I am not very good at organizing my thoughts or revising my papers. I tend to just put it how it is and that is it. I think the revision process is long and tedious and kind or boring. I consider myself a good writer. I just have trouble making it a great writing. I think I will try the method to begin that she describes in the last paragraph of her essay. I will just silence everything a put it in jars and start my writing from there. I think this technique will help me a lot in the future if not I will just start where I usually do just throw it out there and go for it.