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    In “Life is Not Measured by Grade-Point Averages” by H. Bruce Miller, Miller announces that a young lady named Gabrielle Napolitano was suing the University for accusing her of plagiarism in her paper. Napolitano hired a lawyer and built the case stating that the so called “plagiarism” was just a, quote “technical error” (Miller, par.2). Miller announces this problem but doesn’t get his true argument out until the last few paragraphs of his paper, stating that students need to stop worrying about

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    The advertisement contains the fallacy of the appeal to emotion. This is because the advertisement strongly relies on pathos to persuade the audience to purchase the products. By including the images of children in the advertisement, the authors are able to effectively play on the audience’s emotions and convince them that they need to buy their product. Another fallacy the authors incorporated was the fallacy called the appeal to fear. This is using the concept of fear to persuade someone

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    he lost such a good friend. Antony persuaded the audience by telling the commoners what he wanted to do, was to keep his promise with Brutus and that was to say nothing bad about him. What examples of appeals to emotion did Brutus use? What examples did Antony use? Who handled the appeal to emotion

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    are trying to sell. Thus the correct term for the types of misleading ads and television commercials is called informal fallacies. The purpose of an informal fallacy can be to enact reactions from the audience, used to discredit a person or lastly appeal to a certain outlook. They mainly lack the validity in order to prove their argument. The media provides us with many scenarios using different forms of informal fallacies. I will provide three notable examples of informal fallacies by explaining

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    Evaluating the Relationship between Logical Advertising Appeals, Consumers’ Cognitive Information Processing Styles, and Advertising Effectiveness In the present competitive era, all company communicators seek to put some information in their contacts or customers ' mind that affect their decision to purchase. Companies’ efforts to create attention to their messages on the one hand and the increasing advertising messages, on the other hand, have created a significant paradox in the field of advertising

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    Whether you are watching T.V., listening to the radio, scrolling through on the internet, or reading a magazine, there will be advertisements. Businesses have started using ads in different ways, to add certain appeals and ideas. Most enterprises will add an emotional, logical, and ethical appeal to their ads to lure people in. A 2016 Sport Illustrated magazine, had included several different types of advertisements, tobacco being one. Tobacco Unfiltered, a campaign for tobacco free kids, uploaded

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    Music videos bring songs to life through its storylines and captivating visuals. They illustrate the song`s lyrics and can sometimes introduce a new perception to the meaning of the song. In this short film like music video, the storyline overpowers the song and intensifies its theme and tone. The suspense and bold images made it impossible to look away from the screen. Its characters demonstrated that people seek revenge for the things they find valuable to maintain or gain power. The title and

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    giving him money for food, providing him with shelter and a car. The NCAA, however ruled that Shariff must pay him back, even though he had no means to raise that money. The story of Shariff Floyd appeals to the emotional side of people, giving this proposal the support it would need. Emotional appeals have a great deal to do with how people will react. For the second mode, I chose to record a video. Instead of arguing for the NCAA to implement a salary cap, I used the video to propose the idea

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    King's strengths. In the twenty-second paragraph, King again uses logical appeal. He states that, "In your statement you asserted that our actions, even though peaceful, must be condemned because they precipitate violence. But can this assertion be logically made? Isn't this like condemning the robbed man because his possession of money precipitated the evil act of robbery?" This statement is a direct logical appeal to the readers and by using the example of a man robbed of his money places

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    peace. He effectively builds this claim by using the following: ethical and emotional appeals, as well as tricolon and anaphora. One way Kennedy builds his claim is by using ethical appeal. He says, ”United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do- for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder” (7). This is an example of ethical appeal because it plays on the morals of common man to work together. Without working together

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