Part 1: Ethos: Is the ethical approach using personal experience and credibility to convince the audience. Ex: A dentist recommending a toothpaste due to his knowledge on oral hygiene. Audience: People who prefer someone with experience giving them advice, by having someone who is an expert regarding the question there begins to form a sense of trust. Pathos: Is a way to persuade the reader to agree with you by using their emotions to your advantage. Ex: using sad images and facts about animals to persuade you to adopt Audience: aimed towards people who are easily controlled by their emotions, using someone’s emotions against them blinds them from making clear minded decisions. Emotions could be used to hurt or help you. Logos: Is using facts and evidence to support your argument. Ex: Using album sales to argue who is the more popular music artist. Audience: this is aimed for those who are not easily convinced and prefer hard evidence rather than word of mouth. This allows so biasness when discussing a topic. Part 2: Our Barbies, Ourselves: Growing up I never could begin to imagine the impact a “Barbie doll” could have on a developing child. A child’s mind is so frail and easily manipulated, having a woman of such high caliber portrayed in doll form actually made kids deem women who look like this more attractive. This gave young girls growing up false hope, they imagined they’d look like Barbie when they grew up. Once reality set in they realized the goal they’ve been waiting for was just false hope. Even for young men growing up, their standards were raised just based about how a famous doll looked, completely unfair to all the other women. Pathos was used within the passage to demonstrate how this high female standards due to barbies build made developing children feel about women. The author wanted to shed light on this and show us how this affected the world, the dolls fame and popularity caused it to be on everyone’s mind and due to this people were given unrealistic expectations. Ethos was represented by the children describing how it felt seeing all this transpire in front of their very eyes, we have first-hand proof to how this affected the community. Logos was used when they pinpointed what exactly the dolls had that made them out of the norm, they compared body chrematistics to actual human beings. Society placed cruel expectations for both genders by giving kids unrealistic expectations and crushing them once they didn’t live up to it. And logos by simply stating companies give us the option of either coming up with the money or steal it, which is an undeniable fact. Should We Seek Out Alien Life: What comes to mind when I first read this passage is just pure and utter amusement. The fact that aliens could really be out there is just mind boggling, since a kid I’ve always been fascinated with the possibility that they could be real. This was most definitely an example for pathos, especially for readers like myself who actually are interested in the question “are they real?’ it definitely hit a special place in my heart. It’s just the possibility of life being just outside of our reach just amazes me, with all the research that’s been done I can’t wait for what the universe has in store for us. The audience intended in my opinion aims at people who are interested in space, also people who love conspiracy theories. An example of logos within the passage was when it was said that all the history, we have about earth is still only one-millionth of the planets past. There’s so much left to know about the universe that is still in question, questions we might not ever get an answer to. Ethos is demonstrated by the author showing he’s a fanboy and by doing that he shows us he is someway knowledgeable about the subject and he attracts the attention of other fans of the universe. The author made it clear how fascinated he is with the world and how much out there is to know about the universe. It was an interesting read that planted new questions in my mind. Why I Love Shop Lifting: This article honestly just amuses me, it puts a grin on my face. The author is justifying their fascination with stealing, it also seems like an addiction. Never have I read anything quite like this, it reminds me of my friends growing up. Pathos is used here because of the fact the author is using his emotions and his love for for stealing to grab your attention, because most won’t admit to loving something like that and it’s so off the wall it grabs your attention. Honestly the fact that people who have mindsets like this and aren’t in jail amazes me. I can see the authors point, but it does not justify stealing what doesn’t belong to you. This is simply just from the perspective of a thief who’s trying to convince others he isn’t doing anything wrong. He does sound like a good thief and his reasoning of stealing to stop his hunger shows us an example of ethos since his personal experience helped me fight hunger.
