Reflection NOV 2012

Reflection:                                                                                     Sophie Steckerl

In my Op-Ed article I had some positives in my rubric. After all the practice we have had this year about commas, compound-complex sentences, spelling, and capitalization in Mr. Ferrebee’s class, I got a 3.5 in that bench mark. I have improved my grammaticism extremely over the past couple of months. Now I understand why we spent so much time practicing our grammar. Thank you Mr. Ferrebee, I am greatly appreciative.

*An example of a plus in my article would be:

In my opinion a human rights group has all the “right” to go into countries like Russia, that haven’t had a good history with human rights and, try to change and observe what is going on in that country. 

I also had negatives in my Op-Ed article. I didn’t use pathos, ethos and logos as strongly as I should of. My title, structure, and arguments were also lacking strength. Sometime I was off topic, for example in my introduction: We have been learning and discussing topics like: women’s rights, fear, power, politics, religion, torture, revolution, capital punishment, human rights, government oppression, globalization, family, and education. With ever negative in life there is a lesson. I would like to raise my grade because I know I am capable of much more than a 2.5. 

PATHOS

Pathos, Pathos is feeling, emotion, and reliability. Weather it is being in a happy, bubbly and positive way; or in a heartbreaking, I-need-to-give-back kind of way. In the picture above you can see how the Nike logo is stamped on a child’s foot. He looks beat up, tired, and chained down. The caption is also impacting.  You feel sorrow, remorse and heartbreak by just looking at this ad. You also feel that you should never buy from Nike again. This is what pathos is, trying to make the audience feel an emotion in order to buy a product, believe in a cause, etc. 

LOGOS

The advertisement above shows Verizon and AT&T trying to show which companies has better 3G. You can see that this is logos, but it is not clear logos. Logos is the logic the fact. Verizon published an ad saying they had about 99% of the 3G in the United States, and AT&T had only 1%. Then AT&T published a picture showing they had about 65-70% of the 3G in the United States. The logic in these ads is simply not there. It makes no sense, either one is lying or both of them are. Which makes Verizon and AT&T both unreliable sources (ethos). 

ETHOS

You can see the use of ethos in this advertisement. This ad is telling you to obviously donate money. Sometimes donating money to organizations or charity can be “shady”. You might not now were your money is going or if it really is going to help people in need. That’s were ethos come in to play, a “credible source”.  UNICEF is known all around the world to help people in need. By donating to a reliable organization like UNICEF you know your money is going to a good cause.