Essays on Logos

Analysis of Michael Pollan’s essay “Why Bother?” Michael Pollan, in his essay “Why bother” published last April 20, 2008 in the New York Times  ,  is convincing the public to do their own individual   share of averting climate change by bothering to do what they may think as insignificant activities yet nevertheless would help decrease…

The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea traces the journeys of twenty-six men traveling across the border through one of the most treacherous deserts known to man “The Devil’s Highway. ” The author’s purpose was to let the world be aware of the events going on all around, with the simple modes of persuasion (pathos,…

Summary of “Grades and Money” by Steven Vogel When someone asks you why earning a higher grade in class is important to receive, your first response might be to help increase your grade point average (GPA). But why is a high GPA so coveted? Is it to get into a good post graduate school? But…

Frederick Douglass is an orator, newspaper editor, and significant civil rights activists in the nineteenth century. Douglass provides a glimpse inside the true depth and extent of slavery in the excerpt “Learning to Read”. Douglass uses three modes of persuasion to connect to his audience as he gives a first-hand account of the struggles he…

In his speed chi, Brutes proved the better of the two when employing logos he says, “Had you rather Caesar were living and ii all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men? ” (Act 3, Scene 2 , page 2) This sentence puts a powerful image inside the listeners’ heads, making…

How many dilemmas a day do you stumble across, that given a solution would just make life easier? The ad for Mentos featuring Albert Einstein reads, “I eat Mentos, do you? Mentos. Helping People Get Ideas”, implying Mentos can help increase intelligence to a level comparable to Albert’s. In advertisements from Mentos ordinary individuals find…

Proactiv in 1995, Dr. Kathy Fields and Dr. Katie Rodan launched the Proactiv Solution skin-care line. Proactiv is an acne system that sells products to cleanse the skin. Proactiv is an over-the-counter treatment that contains the active ingredient, benzoyl peroxide. The purpose of this analysis on Proactiv is to explain why this advertisement is persuasive….

Boom! Suppose a terrorist in custody has hidden a bomb in a very populated city, it is scheduled to go off in an hour and he is the only one that knows the location. He will not disclose the location unless his outrageous demands are met, it would be left to the assumption there is…

Turn each of the following statements into an arguable claim—i.e., a point that is debatable and shows (or implies) your analysis of or opinion about the topic of your essay or a particular paragraph. To be an effective thesis statement, the claim must be narrow enough to allow you to fully support it within the…