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This Just In: Nuclear Power is Dangerous

Disclaimer: Whenever i put gifs in here it f's up the whole layout so ima figure that later but until then you can enjoy a collection of images by searching up "nuclear power" on google images. Upon reading through the selection a few times, certain points make themselves clear. To begin with, the speaker is Anne Applebaum, a concerned author for the Washington Post who thinks people care about her opinion. Obviously, the job of a persuasive writer is to convince their reader of a specific side, but Applebaum should be aware that it’s a vicious world out there, and readers will label her as a misguided activist if her article doesn’t use the perfect amount of logos, ethos, and pathos. The occasion is in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear event, in which the Fukushima nuclear reactor structures had to be filled with seawater in order to prevent an explosion or leak of radiation. This brings me to kairos, which is very convenient at the time of this passage being wr...

Car Accidents n stuff

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Find the perfect (or as perfect as possible) print ad and the perfect video ad. Post it on your blog and then turn in the link to the blog. In your blog explain how rhetorical appeals make this ad "perfect." Apologies in advance for the weird formatting, I have no idea why its all spread apart like that and I don't have the patience to figure it out This print ad uses pathos more effectively than any other ad I’ve ever seen. The message of the ad is driver safety, as you don’t want to be responsible for the death of a child or anyone after a car accident. The visual sticks in your head because it’s just so disturbing. It makes you imagine what a child might actually look like after a terrible car accident, which is clearly too graphic to be shown in an advertisement. Logos could be improved upon in this ad, for example, if a statistic was shown in the box, such as, “More than 90 people die in car accidents every day.” Where this ad lacks is in ethos. This could be m...