Pg 80

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/18/terrorism-gun-control-immigration-refugee

Pg. 100 Questions

1. It is clear the topic matters to Katherine Spriggs and she has done a good job at convincing me that it matters through use of statistics and logic. Spriggs establishes the importance of her topic through tying it to things such as global warming and local economies that most readers will find very important.
2. She considers the view that food she bought from where it best grows because it saves time and energy and she agrees that is true in some cases but that people should strive to buy as much food locally before buying food from elsewhere.
3. When Spriggs says "If strawberries were sold only in the summer, they would be more specfial and we might even enjoy them more," her argument is rather ineffective because it has no real support or logic to it. Whether or not we would enjoy them more or see them as more special is completely subjective, the best evidence she could provide for this would be anecdotal.
4. For example, the two pictures that feature a poly culture and mono culture farm, respectively, do a good job at contrasting the two styles. While the mono culture farm appears lifeless and boring the poly culture farm has people outside and a close up of the crops, making it far more interesting and casting poly culture as a much more humane and relate-able system.

Pg. 70 Question

Recently in my English 101 class I was required to write an essay the analyses 3 ads. The motivation for writing and my position are made very clear. In the introduction I have a well defined thesis that outlines the message of the essay. This thesis is then supported and reiterated throughout the rest of the essay. Finally in the conclusion I once again restate the thesis to make clear what motivates writing and my position.

Yes We Can Blog Post

Taking snippets of Obama's Yes We Can speech and having them repeated and sang not only brought them back to the watchers mind multiple times during the video, but even after the video finishes the messages replay in the form of a catchy song. Written words like "Hope" and "Yes we Can" helped to solidify the message the video was sending. The black and white color scheme added to the atmosphere and the addition of more people singing as the video goes on contributed to the theme of people coming together to complete their goals.

Argument Topic Ideas

Whether or not Universal Health Care should be incorporated into America

Which candidate should become president

Whether or not free college should be incorporated into America

Whether or not women should be banned from certain US military combat roles

Whether or not women should have stricter or looser physical tests for joining the military

Two Sisters Tragedy In Class Lab Summary

From the video about the Two Sister Tragic, it had an emotional appeal because in the first line it established that the video was about grief. Secondly, they establish an emotional aspect to it they always have the parents “red-faced” with tears with the dog and with clips from their childhood. This video also had a logical appeal because the bottom line is that drunk driving kills and promotes driving lessons and they provide free transportation to insure safe driving throughout teenagers. This video showed ethos through the use of the video clips of their childhood to show that these people are just average and normal people, and that this can happen to anyone.

Two Sisters Tragic Story Summary and Analysis

In the video the Parents of Shauna and Megan Murphy detail the tragedy that happened to their daughters. They explain that they had gone to a party and gotten drunk, afterwards deciding to drive while incapacitated. The two sisters and their friend got into a car crash, only the friend survived. Finally they promote their organization that gives free rides to drunk people in order to promote safe driving.

This video was designed with the purpose of persuading watchers to never drink and drive and to also make sure their family and friends do the same. The video mostly utilizes Pathos in order to sway the hearts of the watchers. Some examples are how the parents are always on the verge of tears, a sad looking dog sits between the two parents, the only survivor appearing regretful, and dramatic black and white transitions. Ethos is also used to make the two sisters seem more real to the watchers, making their story seem like it can happen to even the average person. Ethos is built through anecdotes on the sisters, home videos of them as children, and photographs of them not long before the crash. All of these make the sisters seem like people you could have known, making the tragedy seem like it could happen to you and those around you. Some Logos was also included at the end when  describing their company. They explained that it gave free rides, no questions asked, in order to keep drunk people from driving and putting people's lives in danger.