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This an example of ineffective visual rhetoric. I remember when these ads came out there was a lot of backlash on target and did the opposite of the purpose of trying to persuade people to buy their swimsuits.

It's creepy to me how much they feel they need to photoshop these girls. I agree its definitely ineffective visual rhetoric.

Since we are getting into research of subcultures, I thought this list was pretty interesting!

I think the last tip is very helpful. Using a source as a "gateway" to more credible sources could be very helpful.

This article gives you good advise on how to choose the best topic for your research paper. I liked how it gave you a list of things that a good research topic should have.

This rhetor is using pathos and ethos to show her disapproval of standardized tests.

She is also creating kairos in this article because of how she says that she want to quit now. She states that it is now that these standardized tests have to be removed because otherwise you might lose good teachers.

This woman who was born with a condition that gives her an advantage over "normal" women (so she is kind of a "freak" in that sense) but her case is resulting in lots of rhetoric that tests our ideas of the boundaries/definitions of gender and sex.

Looking through this article actually surprised me. It is her natural self, it's not like she took testosterone meds to get to that state. Even if it is an advantage, there are plenty of aspects that people can have an advantage in but just because she has hyperandrogenism doesn't mean she should be banned from competing. Athletes take performance enhancing drugs, whereas this is a natural event.

This piece of visual rhetoric appeals to pathos in the way that it is supposed to make you feel like Facebook will make you happier because now your friends are your fans.

I really like this example of visual rhetoric. It also pursuades you to get a Facebook because then you can have "fans"

This article talks about a piece of visual rhetoric found in NY. The rhetoric has pretty good kairos, because the Edward Snowden incident happened fairly recently.

Brittany Maynard says she will commit suicide under Oregon's Death With Dignity Act on Nov. 1, one day after her husband's birthday, at home in bed to escape the burden of her terminal brain cancer. Her story is trying to inform people of the Death with Dignity Act and trying to get people to support this Act. There is definite pathos to try and get the reader to feel bad for her.

This is also a very contingent issue in the United States with her argument that assisted should be legal. There is also a bit of an enthymeme being that with that if you are in a lot of pain that you should be able to die. The middle section left out being that the pain makes you life not worth living, which is the debated issue.

This is a very contingent issue in the United States. The rhetor is trying to persuade to legalize marijuana, believing it would improve the economy. This visual rhetoric is an enthymeme.

I thought this was really cool and creative way to show an opinion on a current contingent issue. Also, the karios on it is also affective being its published at a time where the US's economy isn't doing so great and marijuana being legalized is also an argued issue.

I agree with the above statements. The kairotic approach of this article is shown in that many states are on the edge about following Colorado and Washington in legalizing Marijuana. They show how Colorado is using this new market to aid their states financial situation

I focused a lot on the first ad, the Denver water ad. This ad uses Ethos appeals because its from the Denver Water company, so they know what they are talking about. Also, the timing of it is current and affective due to a lot of the "green" campaigns (Karios).

The second post from 3M users invented ethos by physically displaying the capabilities and assuring that the glass will not break despite everyone trying to get at the money inside. Very effective way of showing off their product

This is a letter to Brittany Maynard from another cancer patient. The exigence the rhetor, Kara Tippets' is responding to, is the story of Brittany Maynard. This article is very kairotic because Kara is writing this letter right in time for Brittany Maynard and the world to read it before Brittany makes her decision to die. Kara also persuades using ethos by telling her story and showing that she is also suffering and pathos to make the reader feel hopeful. I loved this article.

The rhetor of this Pepsi ad is clearly directing this ad towards the audience of Pepsi drinkers. I could assume that the exigence for writing this ad is to get less people to drink Pepsi because it is showing that when you drink Pepsi it makes you fat. That being said I think that we could also assume that this ad is coming from a competing soda company such as Coke.

The rhetor was using pathos to make you see what could potentially happen if you keep drinking Pepsi.

When I first saw this I actual thought the rhetor could be someone that believes and agrees with the statistics that soda in general is one of the leading causes of obesity. Pepsi is a big brand soda company and they just chose this brand randomly to get their point across. Then maybe their audience is any soda drinker and they are informing them that soda can be a big cause in weight gain.

So you are looking for a puppy, maybe you're a first time dog owner. You have heard about puppy mills and know they are bad. But what you don't know is how to make sure you don't accidentally buy from one. This article is definitely trying to persuade you to make sure that you are not buying from Puppy Mills and it uses pathos to sort of scare the reader into not getting a puppy if it is from one of these situations and people already sort of feel something from the mention of puppy mills because they are not looked at as good things in our society because of the mistreatment of the animals.

This article speaks to persuade more than anything. It is rehoric for taking a continent issue and picking a side of what the rector thinks congress should do. and in this case it is to authorize ISIL airstrikes