Rhetorical Analysis on an Alcohol Advertisment

The advertisement here is clearly trying to persuade its on lookers to purchase their alcohol. They are most defiantly using pathos in this advertisement. They use and attractive women in a flash outfit to convince male on lookers that it is a suitable drink for them. I think by putting her in a martini glass, it somewhat symbolizes a sense of cuteness. I think this appeals to the female audience. The author of this advertisement is obviously three olives vodka. The audience for this piece would be any consumers of alcohol. This picture has a sense of classiness to it, so I think it also appeals to those who want to consume an alcohol of higher class. The purpose of this advertisement is to persuade its on lookers to want to drink this beverage. Once again by using this clever picture of an attractive women the martini class, its attracting both men and women.

I think Animal Rights needs to be made stronger in the US. Now I am not arguing that they should have the same rights has humans for instance, I just think their rights need to be more humane. First of all I think animals should be treated with full respect. I don’t think they deserve to be hit or tortured in any manner. Recently, on Mar 11, 2008 Cullman County sanitation employees took care of several injured puppies that were found severely beaten and covered in blood, and in a dog food bag in front of a residence garbage pickup (The Cullman Times). If this were a case involving human babies it would have been handled more seriously. There would be teams of police force looking for the criminal that committed this crime. Considering, how this incident was involving only animals a report was filed by the Sheriff and the puppies were just nursed to health. There was no further investigation on who committed this act leaving the criminal free to injuring more innocent animals. I also find it very inhuman to eat animals. I understand that people may argue that they were put on earth for us to eat them, but what makes us as people any different. It is against the law for humans to eat other humans. Also, you don’t commonly see people going around eating cats and dogs because they have feelings, well so do cows, chickens, pigs and even fish. Animal testing is also another huge matter that needs to be addressed. People who have new products tested on them are compensated for their bodies, but animals have no choice. Scientists constantly use animals as test subjects giving the innocent creature no choice. If the product is faulty or dangerous, it could result in death for the animal. Could you ever see a scientist doing that to a human? In general, I think Animal Rights needs to be perfected in the United States, giving animals a safe and beneficial life.

Gay Marriage Should Be Legal In The US

I think that gay marriages should be legal in every state across the US. America, is said to be a free country, but by restricting a person on who they are allowed to marry, its taking away from that freedom. By making gay marriage legal it would ensure that all citizens enjoy full human rights. I personally don’t understand how allowing to people of the same sex to be legally bonded together, could cause harm to our country. Its a choice made by two individuals that should have no affect on the people around them. All though people may argue that by allowing gay marriages in the US it would be breaking all the traditional values and traditional forms of family life. But, right now America seems to be all about change, I mean for the first time ever we have an African American man running for the President of our country. If America is about change right now, they should be more excepting of gay marriages. I also think that if gay marriages were legalized they should receive the same celebration and benefits that all married couples receive. They should receive all employee benefits being offered to people with domestic partners. I personally think that the reason gay marriages have been illegal for such a long time, is because people in America are too scared to open up to change and except something new. I think if the values of loving everyone for the person that they are not matter what, was taught to people early in life, people in this country would become a lot more excepting to a plethora of matters including gay marriages.

Synthsis Idea Propsal :)

For my synthesis paper I would like to pick apart the story, The Allegory of The Cave and synthesize it with the song I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash. Although both very different purposed they do surprisingly share some common similarities. The Allegory of The Cave is simply about prisoners being contained in a cave. They know nothing about the world outside of their cave, they can see shadows of objects projected on the cave walls in front of them, and since knowing nothing else they believe what they see is reality. One day a prisoner become free of the cave and is liberated to see the outside world. He then becomes enlightened seeing that the world outside is much different than the silhouettes he was introduced to on the walls of the cave. The song I Can See Clearly Now could have different meanings to different people. Johnny Nash basically talks about how a person has overcome pain and suffering and obstacles in their life, and there now able to see clearly. To me this song and relate to the story The Allegory of The Cave in two ways. For one these people are chained into a cave, I feel that they would experience some kind of suffering or confusion, maybe frustration to understand, that what they see on the walls could be reality. Then when the prisoner who is able to free himself out of the cave, he gets through the pain and suffering, he can “see clearly now”, he is free from all costs and is able to experience the outside world for himself without holding back.

Synthesizing Joy

Joy is defined by the dictionary as being the emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying; keen pleasure; elation; but to me and Kristin its something much more.

“I believe that joy is your own personal feeling of happiness, only you yourself know what joy feels like to you.” Myself

“Joy, to me, is doing something that makes me happy.” Kristin

Kristin + Myself = “ Joy is a very internal feeling, it is something that you do for your own personal sentiment.”

Joy...?

When I hear the word joy i instantly think of bliss. I believe that joy is your own personal feeling of happiness, only you yourself know what joy feels like to you. Joy is what makes you feel good and only you are able to know what that is. I think joy is a very personal feeling, but is easily displayed publicly by smiling, laughter or just being in a whimsical mood.

Reality TV... Allegory of The Cave

In the dictionary the word allegory is defined as a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another. To my understanding this means a person believes what they are shown. In Plato’s The Allegory of The Cave, the prisoners have never seen outside their cave; but they are shown silhouettes of different objects on the cave walls and they are told that the shadow specifically is that object, the prisoners of course believe this not knowing anything else. I think in today’s society there are many representations of allegory happening right before our eyes. The biggest example that I could think of is reality TV. Every night millions of satisfied people tune their TVs to their favorite reality TV shows; sitting their soaking up every bit of action and drama preformed by the people on the show. One of the most popular reality TV shows I can think of is the Real World. The show consists of seven complete strangers thrown together in a house to live and work together. The show is filled with romances, affairs, fights and of course tons of drama, it keeps the viewers hooked. But why is this allegory? Well it is simple, as the viewers sit there and watch this so called reality TV show, they believe that everything they are seeing is real; I mean it is reality TV. For all we know these people could be professional actors; maybe not even actors, they could be real people, but they could be reading off of a script. And how are we supposed to even know if the show is really taking place where they say it is, one season they were supposedly living in Australia, but we would never have known if it really took place in California. Allegory is convincing us of something we are not completely sure of, like the prisoners in the cave believed what they were being shown was actual, we believe all the drama on reality TV shows is real.