Visual rhetoric

conceived in denial of the natural order which then acts to initiate and promote disharmony in the universe.” (Ani, P. xxviii) I used that term quite often in my piece entitled #CompassionMatters and used it to discuss how challenging a movement’s rhetoric to apply your own is often problematic because it takes away from the overall agency and empowerment a movement is supposed to…

Over many years the art of persuasion has been mastered and has given individuals the ability to persuade the common man. Around 2,000 years ago a Greek philosopher discovered three key methods to persuading anyone. These three methods are known as pathos, ethos and logos. Ethos refers to the image of the speaker that is trying to persuade the audience. Pathos is relating to the emotion of the audience that is receiving the information from the speaker. Lastly, logos refers to the logical appeal…

In response to Combat High by Sebastian Junger, he describes how a platoon of soldiers lived in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan. He tells the reader what one soldier see 's and feel 's by showing the soldiers negative emotions towards what is going on during war at a village in Afghanistan and how it impacts that soldier. One of the soldiers that Sebastian Junger talks about is stationed at the village in Afghanistan and shows his emotional point of view of what the soldier is going through…

when people are out of control on the road, they will drift the road, and will crash into an accident. BMW Company wants to show that human parts are not as appealing as the car parts, yet human-flesh is barely possible to be made. Therefore, the visual of this image allows the audience to be emotionally have a pity for people with disabilities and recognize the risk of drunk…

In the Article “There is More to Life Than Being Happy”, the Author explains how happiness all depends on the attitude of the person who is in the situation. Smith argues that any people have wrong ideas of happiness and where to find it and that reflects on their current life situations. She uses Viktor Frankl’s, a Jewish psychiatrist, experience inside of a concentration camp and what he found once he released to prove her viewpoint. The author uses Smith writes using rhetorical devices pathos…

Have you spent your life on things that make it worth living? Are you simply existing in this life or are you living in it? Anna Quindlen in her Commencement Address at Villanova College forces us to ask ourselves these questions as she leaves long lasting imprints in the minds of the attendees and graduates. Quindlen’s use of rhetorical devices, personal stories, and quotes helps her express her main points, that one must make their life worth living and that life should never be taken for…

Poet Aesop once said, “Persuasion is often more effectual than force.” Marketers today rely heavily on the art of persuasion, so much so that they have it narrowed down to a sort of science. For example, how many people have been persuaded to buy a weight loss pill? The commercials are very convincing, promising consumers to lose a crazy amount of weight with their pill, and even showing examples of people who lost a great deal of weight while taking the pill. What the advertisers fail to…

From Money to Nets to Lives Humans often take their own lives for granted; never thinking too much of those who may be less fortunate. We go about our daily lives worried about celebrities, or sports; rather than food or uncontrolled diseases in our country. Many others do not get that luxury. Rick Reilly writes his article, “Nothing But Nets,” on the back page of popular sports magazine, Sports Illustrated, to request money from his audience, so that mosquito nets may be purchased for African…

On February 8th of 1951, the immortality of HeLa cells was discovered. Such breakthrough caused an outburst in scientific development and the release of ways to cure millions of diseases, including, but not limited to, polio, cancer, leukemia, and hemophilia. Following this further, Rebecca Skloot is able to describe the person behind the HeLa cells and the interminable process that she had to go through in order to attain enough information to write about Henrietta Lacks and her immortal cells.…

In her Article, “Lower the Drinking Age Back to 18: We Don 't Have Students Teach Each Other to Drive, Why Is Alcohol Different?” Elizabeth Glass Geltman describes why the legal drinking age should be reduced from 21 to 18. According to Geltman, both students and parents alike feel the frustration of the law; parents aren’t able to lawfully educate their children and students aren’t able to responsibly know their limits. The article comes after one University chose to ban hard liqueur on campus…