Month: February 2022

By Mel ZIlinki, Yana Walia, Moriah Gilmore

https://blogs.longwood.edu/visualswithjones/2015/09/22/post-7-visual-arguments/ 

By Mel ZIlinki, Yana Walia, Moriah Gilmore

Who: World Wildlife Fund

The photo published by the World Wildlife Fund is intended to convince everyone, especially those in urban areas, who may not be immediately affected by deforestation. The photo’s focal point is a cumulation of trees shaped to form a pair of lungs. With the assumption that viewers know lungs are vital in our survival, they allow us to breathe by oxidizing blood, which courses throughout our body. The bottom right corner of the lung is destroyed or dead, implying harm to the earth and, consequently, damage to all life forms dependent on oxygen. Notably, the absence of trees around the lungs addresses the problem of deforestation; trees are being harvested or removed at alarming rates without being replaced with new saplings. Green is also associated with “life”. The damaged part of the lung is brown, implying the absence of life, which may be the ultimate result of our pace of deforestation regarding climate change.

The photo displays a vast green forest, where the middle cluster of trees are in the shape of a lung. The absence or burnt section of the lower ‘lung’ symbolizes  a lung which is heavily impacted and harmed by the burning of trees. This is a visual way to instantly explain to the viewer how the cutting down of trees is harmful to their health, especially their respiratory system. The use of negative space in the picture is very smart too, it shows that even though there are greens, there aren’t many trees in those areas, because they were chopped down for industrial reasons. 

The persuasion tactics of ethos, pathos, and logos found in the visual argument are found in the deeper concept of life. For example, the ethos found in this article is that, without trees, forests die and many animals lose their homes. The bigger picture is that with no resources and oxygen, we will die. The understanding of pathos through this visual argument, would be the emotional appeal to feel bad for the animals that are being affected from deforestation, and the severity that if nothing is done, we will all be affected in the long run. And lastly, the logos is the logical appeal is that people are killing our rainforests which then kills people in the world because the trees and the plants give oxygen for us all to breathe. This is why the lungs are so symbolic and portray life. This symbolism also acts as a visual logos as it is very logical that absence of trees in the lungs is hurting the lungs hence to persuade the viewer to consider the harming effects of deforestation on their well being. The application of ethos in this image is done by the logo at the bottom right, it shows that this perspective and this message comes from a credible source i.e the world wide fund for nature.

Group members: Zushan Liu, Yana Walia

The article link:

https://www.startribune.com/george-floyd-death-ignited-protests-far-beyond-minneapolis-police-minnesota/569930771/

Narrative Paragraph 

The picture is of the Black lives matter movement, it shows the protestors facing the police.

There are some police officers and protestors who are standing up for what they believe in, and the police officers are there to stop their protesting and stop their fight for justice. This picture was taken in May of 2020, when the BLM protests were going on, and were sparked by George Floyd’s death due to a police officer’s racism. This photo was taken to capture the juxtaposition of  the police’s fight to stop the citizens from fighting for justice and the citizens’ never-breaking spirit to fight for justice.

Analysis Paragraph.

The picture is a perfect display of the dynamic between the police and the protestors, the protestors are in the spirit of justice which is evident from their expressions and body language,and even though the police’s expressions are not visible, their body language expresses their abomination towards the protestors. This picture works perfectly in the flow of the article as here the police officers are wearing gas masks as the protestors are in front of them, as in the next picture in the article, the police can be seen releasing gas cans onto the citizens.

Group members: Yana Walia, Xena Neira

Please read the following passages carefully and correct sentence fragments and run-on sentence mistakes; also, notice if there are other spelling and word choice issues. If you want to see additional explanations and examples based on our previous discussion, please go to (Thursday Activities, Week Two Module).

​​Passage 1:

A man from the city came to visit a small farm. He saw a farmer feeding pigs in a very strange way. The farmer would lift a pig up to a nearby apple tree, and the pig would eat the apples directly off the tree. The farmer would move the pig from one apple to another until the pig was full, and then he would start again with another pig.

The man from the city was pretty puzzled. He watched for quite a while, and finally said, “What a strange way to feed pigs! It’s a waste of time! You could save a whole lot of time if you just shook the apples off the tree and let the pigs eat them from the ground!” The farmer looked puzzled and replied, “What’s time to a pig?”

 Passage 2:

A young man waiting in line at the bank developed a loud case of hiccups; they got worse and worse. By the time he got to the teller’s window, he could hardly talk. Handing the teller his check to cash.

The teller tapped numbers into the computer. In a moment looking up and frowning. “I can’t cash your check,” she said.

The man was shocked. “Why not?” he asked.

“The computer indicates you do not have sufficient funds to cover this amount,” she said. “In fact our records show that your account is overdrawn by more than $5000.00.”

“It can’t be! ” cried the man. “Youve got to be kidding!”

“You’re right. I am,” she smiled. She started counting out his cash. “You will notice that your hiccups are gone, though!”

By: Parker Qualls and Yana Walia

Tom Brady—football player

• Good: Nike, Adidas, Champion, Puma, Powerade, Gatorade
• Bad: Sephora, Best Buy, Cookies

Ellen DeGeneres—TV host, comedian

• Good:  Finding Dory: Disney advertisement, Gameshow, Comedy Nights for a restaurant
• Bad: Facebook, Coffee shop, Chick-Fil-A

Ariana Grande—singer

• Good: Pandora, Spotify (Music streaming services)
• Bad: Furniture stores, Target, Walmart

Emma Raducanu—tennis player

• Good: Wilson (tennis rackets), Penn (tennis balls), Nike, Adidas, Powerade, Gatorade, Dicks Sporting Goods
• Bad: Mcdonalds, Walmart, Grocery store

Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days | TED Talk

 

(Group members: Eugene Miller, Letizia Aquilino, Yana Walia)

 

ETHOS
The Speaker uses Ethos (establishing his credibility) by using several of his experiences with the 30 day challenge, like Cycling to work for 30 days, or No sugar for 30 days, or taking a picture everyday for 30 days, or writing a novel in 30 days . He uses these experiences to explain to the listeners how just by doing something for 30 days, he has expanded his horizons by gaining the achievement of being a novelist, or being fitter by adapting the habit of cycling to work everyday. He also uses his experience to explain to the listeners to start by something smaller than something radical by sharing his experience with the No sugar for 30 days challenge. He argued to the listeners how they shouldn’t start by taking up a huge challenge in the beginning as they would burn out quickly or it would be infeasible. This was backed by his own experience at the end of the no sugar challenge he gave up and indulged in candies and chocolates.

PATHOS: In his speech, Matt Cutts talked about his personal experience and generated emotions in the audience. He explains how this 30-day challenge completely changed his life for the better, while he felt like he was stuck in a rut. Therefore, the main purpose of the speech is to push the audience to try something new that they have always meant to do.

LOGOS: Matt stated in his Ted talk that thirty days will pass anyways; why not start it . He was implying that if the thirty days are going to pass, why not do something sustainable for the next thirty days. This was his way of persuading the listeners to Matt made a valuable point and expressed his logic on it well

Russel baker’s ‘Becoming a writer’ tells the story of the moment he decided to become a writer in highschool and his experience after it. He described the tecaher with the repetition of the word “Prim” in all its form, like “primly pointed tie”, “primley startched while shirt”, all in all to say he was stiffly formal and ‘proper’. Baker decides to go against the instruction given by the teacher given fro the first assingment, an informal essay. The thing that struck me most about this instance decribed by Baker is that he wanted to put pen to paper because HE wanted to, not to impress his teacher or to prove anything, put purely because of his love for writng. This quality of being purely motivated by passion is in my opinion one of the most important charactistics of a writing that every writing should have, because I believe that it is that passion that drives exellence in every human being and which will make their work excellent.

The same opinion of being motivated by passion instead of fear of failure is also reflected in Sherry’s ‘ In praise of the F word’. She also believes that the quality of writing is affected by the writer’s education. I also agree with that on some level as in my opinion, the writer’s level of intellect high impacts the quality of the content they are writing. A good writing must consist of expressive vocabulary or rhetoric language feature or feactures like ‘repetion’ or ‘ alliteration’ etc. as they make the readers more involved and enagaged with the text.

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