E110 FA19 Class Blog

THESIS:  Consumers and businesses should choose between health and beauty when using nail products with methacrylates in them, as they have been found to have harmful side-effects.

ETHOS: Mya Soukaseum uses many examples of ethos throughout this essay.  One example is by using lots of information and examples based off of reliable research.  For example, “Their finding that three of the four women identified to have ACD tested positive for two types of methacrylates on their skin (DeKoven et al., 2017)”. As you can see, the author uses proper citations and reliable statistics.  Again, “Another technician showed progressed bronchial hyperresponsiveness and asthma of an occupational origin, which only developed one year into her work. (Sauni et al., 2008)”

PATHOS: The author uses pathos in multiple ways, one being discussing how the nail technicians are getting sick.  In addition, she discusses how customers are getting rashes as well. This is pathos because it is directed to make the reader feel emotional about what is happening to people.  The author basically says this can happen to anyone.

KAIROS: This author uses Kairos because the use of gel and acrylic nails has gone up 27% in the past decade. Not only are just older wealthy women getting their nails done, men and younger ladies have started in the past 10 years.  The kairos aspect of this essay is basically saying that the industry is at its height right now, and a change is necessary ASAP.

• Thesis
  • “Internet memes played a role in my depressive spiral.”
    • This really makes the writer’s point clear at the beginning of the paper, and it’s a strong, powerful way to do so
• Target Audience
  • Basically, anyone who is participating in meme “culture” in any way
  • Gen Z/college students, and a little older/younger as well
• Ethos
  • The author does a great job of sharing personal experiences, which helps to establish authority and show credibility
  • Also uses many relevant sources which help as well
    • Refers to these sources frequently, while also sharing their own opinion and thoughts
• Pathos
  • The memes and visual examples within the essay help to give the reader a better idea of what the author is talking about, and also provide something else to look at for a moment besides just words, which is nice
  • By sharing their personal experience(s), the author really does an excellent job of showing and conveying emotion throughout this paper
• Logos
  • By bringing the paper to a close with the statement “broadening awareness… healthier and happier Gen Z.” is a great way to close this paper, because it makes it obvious that there really is a change that needs to happen regarding memes and depression/sadness
  • The smooth integration of quotations from other works help to provide evidence and reinforce the author’s point but also flow very smoothly into the rest of the paper, which makes it easier to read for everyone else.
• Kairos
  • With how widespread memes are now, and how frequently Gen Z/college students encounter them, this paper is extremely relevant in today’s society
    • This is especially true when the rates of depression and suicidal thoughts of today’s youth and students are taken into consideration

Thesis:

The thesis for this article is located at the end of the first paragraph. Maya Walker explains  how memes were the main cause of her depression. She describes her own experience with mental health and how memes played a role.

Target audience:

Teens

People who struggle with mental health

Gen Z

Ethos:

She uses personal experiences, credible resources and presents her argument in a well-informed manner. Throughout her writing, she backs up her thesis with credible sources including the US department of Health and Human Services etc.

Pathos:

Appeals to emotions by describing her personal struggles with depression which causes the reader to be empathetic towards her. 

Logos:

She uses examples of memes that are harmful towards people She also uses statistics to back up her point. 

Kairos:

Memes are very relevant in today’s culture and are affecting teenagers’ mental health.

• Thesis: 

 “In the pursuit of unity in a deeply divided country, the United States opted to pardon figureheads of the Confederacy to help heal the wounds of the country rather than implicate them for their rebellion, and this decision is still affecting Americans today.”

• The thesis was placed where it was to direct the essay about its main point about why the confederate soldiers were pardoned, why they ended up being memorialized, and why they possibly lead to the uprise of hate.
• The audience for this essay is the American people who want to know why the Confederate soldiers are still being memorialized as statues……
• There is Logos when she repeatedly describes the historical context, explains Henry Wirz, 
• Ethos- when she quoted the artist and the historian at the end of her essay and they gave their opinions on the statues, she also quoted Robert E. Lee about his views on the south still idolizing the confederates. 
• Pathos- the “harrowing” effects these statues had and America’s apathy towards the rebels as the years passed.  

Diction- “It’s negative results, which are presenting themselves through white supremacy and violence, have come back to haunt Americans more than150 years later.”

THESIS: looks back on the history of injustice in African American education and introducing legislation that helped reform education, but still addresses the clear gap between African American and white education.

ETHOS: The author used Brown v. Board of Education to pull facts to back up their claims as well as other famous court rulings for educational reform.

PATHOS: author discusses the difference he noticed coming from a white suburban neighborhood adjacent to a less fortunate neighborhood. He states, “there exists a major rift in income, race distribution, and public school performance between my small middle class town and its neighboring city.” The author adds personal tones by explaining how he grew up witnessing the growing gap in the different public schools.

KARIOS: This essay is relevant because in intercity schools, we are still seeing major performance gaps as compared to suburban neighborhoods with heavily funded schools.

STRUCTURE: it’s structured almost like an essay for a professional journal. It goes in detail and pulls evidence from multiple credible sources. The minimal graphics except the authors also contributes to the feel of the piece.

• Thesis
  • Antibiotics have been misunderstood and have caused bacteria to evolve and latch onto humans, creating superbugs. These super bugs are extremely dangerous because they are killing many people that come into the hospital for something unrelated.
• Audience
  • The audience is intended to be the public and most likely doctors and scientists so that this issue is addressed, and this will no longer continue to happen.
• Pathos
  • The writer talks about a personal experience and what caused him to research these terrible incidents. It is used to help the reader have more of an understanding of the topic and helps the reader to sympathize. 
• Ethos
  • The writer uses very credible sources and his writing is very clear. He also shows a personal experience to cause the reader to feel as though he knows a lot about the situation.  
• Logos
  • The writer’s factual evidence and very clear statistics allows the readers to understand the severity of the situation. 
• Kairos
  • The writer uses his personal experience to create relevance to the situation. 

The Future of Health?

Thesis: In today’s society we mishandle the use of our medicine and as a result, bacteria is evolving to change to the adaptations with use in medicine. Occurs at then end of the first body paragraph to set up the rest of the paper.

Ethos

• Reliable sources
• Several different sources
• Organizes paper in cause and effect layout
• Diction isn’t too professional which makes the paper still appealing and interesting to a younger audience
• Explains scientific things more thoroughly for a clear explanation

Logos

• Asks the reader questions
• Provides statistical information
• Evidence comes after a statement to backup his opinion

Pathos

• Gives a personal story
• Also begins his paper with his anecdote
• The use of antibiotics in livestock and the government ruling

Kairos

• Very relatable
• Appeals to a wide variety of audiences
• Relevant in the world today (medicine&health)

Thesis: That antibiotics though are helpful and have saved millions of lives are used to frequently and can do a lot of harm by making new forms of bacteria that can not be killed.

Audience: The author is addressing most people in first world countries to change their mind about antibiotics and show how they can be harmful by creating new bacteria.

Ethos: The author conveys a very serious tone when addressing this issue. Uses evidence from very reliable medical sources to make the reader will take it more seriously.

Pathos: He makes the audience care about his point by using a personal example of how his dad died from one of these super bugs. Than makes it so that the reader believes that they could be the next to fall victim to one of these bugs the next time they visit a hospital.

Logos: The author uses multiple medical and numerical statistics from credible sources. The evidence is present through out the piece.

Kairos: Uses the personal story and the fact that it could happen to the reader to persuade them.

Morality: This argument is rational because it shows how that if our ways do not change it could end in more death than it has already.

Thesis:

• Photojournalism has become an ethical way of portraying humans
• It also compares photojournalism with art

Target Audience:

• The general public
• Anyone interested in the topic
• Wants to not only educate the audience but inform them of her opinion on photojournalism

Logos:

• The quotes cited throughout the passage from
  • NPAA
  • David Finklestein
  • Chris Vogner
  • Michael Kimmelman
  • Paolo Pellegrin
  • Tim O’Brien
• The pictures added to the passage
•  “Before there was language, there were drawings on cave walls. Then came written word, and eventually, we arrived at photography. Photography has revolutionized communication and the means by which we convey and share information.”

Ethos:

• Assertive in her use of evidence
• Diction used throughout the passage
• “Again, there is an emphasis on revealing truths about humanity but no mention on the role of art and aesthetics within these photographs. Informing the public seems to be the main purpose of photojournalism, but at what point does it become a form of art”

Pathos:

• Keeps reader invested with strongly worded views
• Can be see especially towards the end
• “There will be endless debate about the morality of photojournalism, but one thing is clear: no matter the manipulation, aestheticism, and exploitation, it is an image of real people and their realities, and viewers must always be mindful of that.”