The commercial that I found inspired me in a multitude of different ways. It’s a moving ad because it mainly uses pathos and appeals to a person’s emotions. The commercial is starts off with a father as the narrator describing his relationship with his son. As the speaker is talking, the audience sees that the relationship between the father and son is not strong. It begins with the father taking the son to school on his first day and simply handing the son his bag without hugging him or reassuring him that everything will be ok like most parents do. Then we move on to the father trying to teach the son how to ride a bike and when the son falls the father simply tells the son to be a man and get up. Later the father and son have diner and are in the car together and in both situations neither of them are talking indicating that the relationship is not a close/open one. Later on, the son is now a teenager and is interested in music and playing the guitar. He witnesses other parents supporting their kids and he feels even more alone. The next scene the son gets into a fight with his father and the father ends up kicking him out of his home. The son and father go on their separate ways and the son eventually becomes famous enough to hold concerts and the father shows his remorse. While the father is thinking about his son in the car, he gets hit by a truck and a flashback of all the scenes are shown except with the being supportive and having a good relationship with his son. This commercial is very thought provoking and can hit home with a lot of people who’ve not only had bad relationships with their parents or children, but with anyone in general. Everyone lives with at least a few regrets and many of us would love to have more time or an opportunity to relive some experiences. The commercial really hit home with me and it used pathos to really capture the audience’s attention.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Political Cartoon
After looking through many different political cartoons, I finally found one that really interested me. It used limited verbal rhetoric and focused mainly on the visuals. The picture is a spin-off of the famous wooden horse used in the Trojan War. On the side of the Trojan horse, the words “Health-Care Reform” are written. However, the wooden horse is open and men in black suits are walking out and on all their briefcases the acronym IRS is written. Universal health care was a huge debate over this past year but it did eventually get passed through congress after dozens of revisions. The cartoon artist obviously disagrees with having universal health care getting passed because he believes that this is simply a way that the IRS is going to tax the people. In a way, I agree with the author that health care being passed isn’t a good thing for our country but for different reasons. I have family in Canada and they say their universal health care system is awful. My aunt is also a doctor and she believes that this is simply going to hurt the general population’s ability to get their medical needs taken care of. The author doesn’t focus too much on using pathos and ethos, but focus’ on using logos to get us to agree with him. He’s using a historical reference and also saying that the IRS can tax us more to pay for universal health care which is true. Either way, this cartoon is a good one to look at.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Tigers everywhere
Wherever I go I can't help but see a tiger; whether it's on a t-shirt, a statue, or a tiger paw, they're everywhere. I’m from D.C. and it’s significantly bigger than Clemson. The school pride down here is unparalleled to anything from back home, even though the suburbs that I come from is a community similar to this one. I have to have dozens of shirts that have my high school name on them, whether it is from football, lacrosse, or just a general shirt. Our football team went 8-2 this year and we set a record for the biggest turnaround ever in our district; we gained the loyalty of what had to be a couple thousand fans, but that school pride still can’t match the one found here. Granted that that was high school and this is college, but even other colleges in my area such as UVA and Virginia tech don’t have the same amount of school pride as Clemson does. Clemson has thousands of alumni, tigers are everywhere, most of the people living in the surrounding area went to Clemson, and the entire town is in support of this school. Even though the amount of orange and purple I see can sometimes get obnoxious, I’m falling in love with the college town feel and the sense of a strong, close-knitted community that I’ve found here. I’m happy to call this my new home and proud to be a tiger.
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