as it turns out, the pics are in reverse order. sorry for the confusion!

This is an example of pathos, because it uses a visually stimulating method of expressing an ideal to touch the audience’s emotions. The labeled hearts play upon a well-known cliché-that in our hearts, we are all exactly the same-but in a new way that takes the audience a second to comprehend what is going on, but is interesting enough to compel the audience to look further.


This ad shows a good example of logos, because it uses logic to show that this particular brand of paper towel is better than all the other brands, because of its “strength and added softness to handle any mess.” This plays on our human tendencies to want the biggest and best deal there is for our daily lives. The hero shot of the messy baby also has an appeal to pathos, because it makes us want to clean up the baby.

These Nike Jordan tennis shoes appeal to ethos, because they present the argument, that if you buy Michael Jordan’s tennis shoes, you will be able to play basketball more like Michael Jordan. It does not directly imply this, but the emphasis on the tennis shoes being “Michael Jordan brand” shoes designed specifically for basketball places the importance of the shoes on the fact that Michael Jordan wears them, not because they are great shoes. This is called an appeal to authority, and is a widely used tool for marketing.

President Obama’s speech was inspiring when he stated that the future of the country rested on young people, and when he said that everyone had something they were good at, but they might not know it until they do it for school. This was interesting to me, because it put school in the light of a place to discover what your talents are, rather than a place to learn boring facts about numbers and letters and words and people that died a billion years ago. It was very interesting.
The goals that president Obama inspired me to set this year are to complete the most classes I can get college credit for, so I can get those out of the way, to never move to Hawaii for more than a year, because it might make me want to go to law school, and to take up as many opportunities as I can to play with other people and for other people. I also want to look at colleges in a more realistic way, and try to narrow down the list of schools I want to go to.
Some great things I might like to do with my life would definitely have to do with music in some form. Sometime in my life, I want to do an extensive study on music and be able to understand fully what’s going on in the most complicated pieces, and to hopefully progress that science. The end result, then, would be able to inspire other guitarists (and all musicians) with my music.

This bumper sticker found handily on Facebook uses an interesting technique to convey its argument-it refers to a known fact about a famous person, and uses it to make an argument against this person in general-in this case, George Bush, and the fact that he was born in Texas. It dosent specify what policies or actions former president Bush did that the creators of this bumper sticker didn’t agree with, which is an example of ad hominem-to the man, in Latin. This means that the creator of this bumper sticker is attacking his opponent’s(in this case, George Bush) character or heritage, or motives for believing something or taking a certain action, instead of disproving a certain argument.

sorry about that-the earlier post was in a black font, and didnt show up!

This bumper sticker found handily on Facebook uses an interesting technique to convey its argument-it refers to a known fact about a famous person, and uses it to make an argument against this person in general-in this case, George Bush, and the fact that he was born in Texas. It dosent specify what policies or actions former president Bush did that the creators of this bumper sticker didn’t agree with, which is an example of ad hominem-to the man, in Latin. This means that the creator of this bumper sticker is attacking his opponent’s(in this case, George Bush) character or heritage, or motives for believing something or taking a certain action, instead of disproving a certain argument.