Essays on Logos

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…

To summarize the essay, Crack in the Box, you have to understand the writer andwhat he is saying, or the point he is trying to make. In the article Crack inthe Box The writer Pete Hammil compares the difference between Television andthe common street drug known as Crack Cocaine. The essay starts with a story…

Frederick Douglass, an orator, newspaper editor, and prominent civil rights activist in the nineteenth century, offers insight into the harrowing reality of slavery in his excerpt “Learning to Read”. Douglass employs ethos, logos, and pathos to connect with his audience, recounting his personal struggle to emancipate himself both mentally and physically from slavery. Thus, he…

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…

A horrific event occurred on the morning of January 28 in 1986. NASA’s space shuttle, The Orbiter Challenger, took flight, and broke down nearly 73 seconds afterwards Seven crew members that consisted of, five NASA astronauts and two Payload Specialists (one being a school teacher), were victims of this incident, It was broadcasted on national…

This paper evaluates Dn Martin Luther King’s famous political “I Have A Dream” speech through rhetorical analysis. The driving heuristic will be the examination of the various paradigms and social constructions that this speech entails. Furthermore, what the rhetor is saying in relation to the historical context of the civil rights movement as well as…

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….

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…

Analysis of Michael Pollan’s essay Why Bother?” Michael Pollan, in his essay Why Bother,” published on 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 are insignificant activities, yet nevertheless would help decrease the…

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,…