GEICO -logos appeal

"If you want cheap car insurance with great service then GEICO is the company for you"
(line on geico.com)

This is an appeal to logic because it declares that GEICO has something that somebody (the consumer) wants. If you are that person- who wants cheap car insurance with great service (which GEICO places a good deal of hope on the fact that you are that type of person) then GEICO argues that logically you will want GEICO. presumably because they are the sort of company which has cheap car insurance with great service. It's an appeal to reason.

Anthropologie

Anthropologie
This picture presents an ethos and pathos argument. The emotional apeal shows in the fact that the only things for sale are the sweater and the white bracelet. (the store doesn't even sell men's clothing) yet the picture is of the man and women walking arm-and-arm through the forest. The whole picture itself is peaceful and beautiful- which sends the picture to our senses that buying/wearing the clothing will be peaceful and beautiful.
It also makes a ethos appeal because of the dark colors and fine way the picture is presented. clearly this store is not "limited- too" it leaves the impression that the store is more expensive- and a better quality. It's "charicter" argument is that anthropologie is about quality and subtlety.
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and plus i seriously seriously love anthropologie. but that isn't an argument:)

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Thoughts on Obama's speech to the schools

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[i]Originally posted by KelseyA[/i][br]Before I watched the speech, one of the news channels were interviewing some parents about their thoughts on the President talking to students. One woman said ''I send my children to school to be educated, not indoctrinated.''


Um... unneccessary?"


thank you so much! haha I read up on the controversy before hand and talked it over with a few people and when I read your thoughts on it I quite literally "laughed out loud".Just as those screaming for soviet-esq socialist reforms give liberals a bad name, those who heckle a president for encouraging thier kids to "stay in school" make conservatives look just as mentally off.It was, as was stated by my fellow classmates, an inspirational speech. I really did enjoy watching it because for a second I felt as if I wasn't being lied to, or manipulated, I felt like I could believe it. However much we agree or disagree with Obama's political points or even his belief in education inasmuch as he's probably not a huge fan of homeschoolers, I think we can agree that he was using his incredible influence to inspire students to work hard.The most compelling moments in the speech were when Obama spoke of his own childhood, the first lady's childhood and three other studends from all over the country. Obama's use of pathos was made truely effective when he cut through the usual "try hard" stuff and got to the heart of the issue- which is, of course, the heart of the student.most unaffected students who would detach themselves from his words simply because he's "the president" would have to reconsider when he began to reveal that he struggled in school and felt alone because his dad left him when he was 2. I think in Obama's speech he was sensitve to the fact that kids aren't won by statistics, they're won by something they can believe in, something they can relate to.I wouldn't say I'm Obama's #1 fan, but I was proud of him today.

bumper sticker argument assignment

This bumper sticker blames former President Bush for the War on Terror and more specifically American soldiers going to fight. It uses pathos- the pain and fear of a child or loved one leaving home to war. By using these very real fears and feelings it creates an emotional apeal to blame President Bush. I disagree with it because i believe President Bush is not single handedly responsible for American Soldiers going to war, and that it is a losely based emotional apeal.

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If Everything's An Arugment...

It's a movie review my family found around a year ago. We read it to each other every once in a while for the pure joy of it. Certainly the kind of argument I'm interested in.:)



After watching this movie, I just couldn't stop talking about it. Mind you, not in the since that someone can't stop talking about a great book or show, but more along the line of how someone can't stop talking about their colonoscopy during a diner conversation. In other words, after seeing this you can't help but try and remove the stain it left on your very soul by vomiting out the experience onto others.This movie entered with the tag line of being "written by two of the six writers of 'Scary Movie'!" What they forgot to mention is that the two who wrote it were only responsible for writing the credits and all the jokes deleted for the sake of not causing mass suicide. Put more delicately, this movie almost makes Pootie Tang look Oscar worthy, which ironically enough was made fun of in the last Scary Movie for being horrid. Coincidence? Yeah, not even some sort of Karma dealing fiend would wish this movie upon the world."So," you ask, "What makes it so bad?" I bet your thinking that all of the funny stuff was in the previews, right? No, actually there was no funny content in the previews at all, it just seemed that way when taken out of the context of the movie. Much the same way "Hogan's Heroes" was funny to people who weren't in Auschwitz during the Holocaust, the previews are funny to those who haven't seen the movie. When you actually see the movie, you start to ask, "Why was that funny in the preview?" The answer: You can see pretty flowers if you ignore the fact that they are growing from the corpse of a man who died during a freak green house accident.Do yourself a favor, rent a History channel documentary on the history of documentaries and hit yourself in the head with a hammer. It'll be twice as funny, make three times more sense, and be only a fifth as painful.