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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.

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.

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

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 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

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

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.

In this article the rhetor is focusing on an audience that would like to cook, because they are sharing tips on what pumpkin spice can be added to. She uses logos in that she sets up the article so it talks about fall and the pumpkin spice latte before diving into other recipes that it can be added to. There is also good Kairos because fall just started and its the perfect time for pumpkin spiced dishes.

This is rhetoric because it is persuading people to switch to Mac instead of Windows. It leaves room for debate on the bottom of the page and is asking for a response.

In response to a Tumblr post Taylor Swift wore a No Its Becky shirt that she made to make a point. This is Rhetoric because it was definitely planned and definitely responsive and asks for a response. When Taylor Swift made this shirt and wore it in New York City she would have known that she would get a response.

The Article is an example or rhetoric because it is carefully planned to be very opinionated and convincing. It is responsive to the question of if humans are the cause to global warming. It definitely seeks to persuade the audience to believe that the thought of humans not being at fault for global warming is unacceptable. And it addresses a continent issue that has been debated back and fourth for years.

This article is actually claiming that those who think humans are causing global warming are overreacting -- it's saying that environmentalists are using "reckless" scare tactics and rhetoric to make the situation seem worse than it is. Read carefully!

This is rhetorical because it was planned, laci green is using persuasion, she's addressing a big issue, and she invited a response because she put it on YouTube.

I find the picture on this website pretty funny and the description of Goth culture is very informative.

I really liked the descriptions of a Goth culture and the quotations by Goths.

"The mentality is, 'I want to be left alone but I want to be seen. I want to see the shock on other peoples' faces." -- that sounds remarkably similar to the pose of "confident alienation" mentioned as part of the results from the Gross study cited by Hine.