In February of 2014, the biggest Ebola outbreak in history occurred in West Africa. This outbreak eventually spread to other countries, and attracted attention from people all over the world. The United States experienced a few cases of Ebola and as a result, Americans became very worried, and began to fear that there would be a big outbreak in the US. However, there were only 4 cases including one fatality. Despite having few cases occur in America, the Ebola awareness was blown out of proportion. In the cartoon Ebola!, Jack Ohman was trying to argue that Americans were worrying too much about the Ebola outbreak, and overlooking all the problems that are going on here, within the borders. Ohman does this by showing the different things that
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Logos is an appeal to logic. Ohman accomplishes this by stating the statistics of the deaths caused by the various “addictions” that are a part of Americans’ every day routine. Ohman uses these statistics to show that there are bigger problems than the Ebola outbreak. He is arguing that America as a country consumes way too much unhealthy food, tobacco, and alcohol per year, and that it has negative effects on not only individuals, but the country as whole. At the time of the outbreak, America’s focus went solely to Ebola. The media promoted it, and a lot of people started to worry and fret about Ebola. During that time, people were still overeating, smoking too much, and drinking too much. Ohman supports his claim with logos, by saying that no one wanted to be sick or die from Ebola, but everyone was still doing things to their bodies that can hurt and potentially kill them. The author uses logos through the statistics in the visual to support the …show more content…
During this time Americans became very worried that the disease would make its way to America. Jack Ohman used logos, ethos, pathos and kairos in his visual Ebola!, to help support his claim. The argument was that Americans were overlooking issues that cause a lot of deaths, and putting too much emphasis on the Ebola outbreak. However, 4 people did actually get diagnosed with Ebola in America. With that being said, only 1 fatality occurred. The man in the visual is supposed to represent the United States. From his facial expression, it is clear that he is worried about Ebola spreading and becoming a serious matter. When the Ebola outbreak happened, a lot of Americans feared that many would die from this disease. However, many people in America die each year from obesity, tobacco use, and alcohol use. There are 300,000 deaths from obesity, 450,000 deaths from tobacco, and 88,000 deaths from alcohol each year. Despite these facts, the majority of Americans are guilty of either overeating, or using tobacco or alcohol. Ohman used the picture, statistics, and the four modes of persuasion in his cartoon, and did a good job making his
Logos is an appeal to logic. Ohman accomplishes this by stating the statistics of the deaths caused by the various “addictions” that are a part of Americans’ every day routine. Ohman uses these statistics to show that there are bigger problems than the Ebola outbreak. He is arguing that America as a country consumes way too much unhealthy food, tobacco, and alcohol per year, and that it has negative effects on not only individuals, but the country as whole. At the time of the outbreak, America’s focus went solely to Ebola. The media promoted it, and a lot of people started to worry and fret about Ebola. During that time, people were still overeating, smoking too much, and drinking too much. Ohman supports his claim with logos, by saying that no one wanted to be sick or die from Ebola, but everyone was still doing things to their bodies that can hurt and potentially kill them. The author uses logos through the statistics in the visual to support the …show more content…
During this time Americans became very worried that the disease would make its way to America. Jack Ohman used logos, ethos, pathos and kairos in his visual Ebola!, to help support his claim. The argument was that Americans were overlooking issues that cause a lot of deaths, and putting too much emphasis on the Ebola outbreak. However, 4 people did actually get diagnosed with Ebola in America. With that being said, only 1 fatality occurred. The man in the visual is supposed to represent the United States. From his facial expression, it is clear that he is worried about Ebola spreading and becoming a serious matter. When the Ebola outbreak happened, a lot of Americans feared that many would die from this disease. However, many people in America die each year from obesity, tobacco use, and alcohol use. There are 300,000 deaths from obesity, 450,000 deaths from tobacco, and 88,000 deaths from alcohol each year. Despite these facts, the majority of Americans are guilty of either overeating, or using tobacco or alcohol. Ohman used the picture, statistics, and the four modes of persuasion in his cartoon, and did a good job making his