Internet

OK, this may seem like an ironic topic to post about online. But there is a paper published this year, that discusses What are the consequences of Internet usage and video games on risky behavior? This paper differs from my previous analysis, simply because the writers of the paper are addressing a scholarly audience. The choice of this audience is such because the writers needed to use statistics to show a point, and scholars have the best amount of knowledge to interpret statistics As such, the paper uses almost solely statistics to prove that video games are correlated with negative self worth and risky behaviors.

Statistical scientific papers are an interesting element of prose in that the paper initially has to assume there is no effect, until they do a study. This paper has to persuade us to believe the result of the study is correct, rather than taking a side independent of the study.

In this paper, the researchers started by reviewing past research on internet and video game usage, an attempt to show their results will be consistent with other people who have studied these issues. This is an appeal to logic, as a good logical mechanism is to build on common knowledge. This building on common knowledge allows the results of the study to be more clear. This is typical of a paper.

The researchers then explain their study, and the methods they said. They stated who they surveyed, and the kinds of questions that were asked for the survey. They explained where their sample comes from, in order to give credibility to their report.

They then of course present their results and analysis of the conclusion of the survey... They find that video games are indeed associated with poor relationships, as the main conclusion.

This paper is mostly effective for its audience. Most of its efforts is for convincing that their study is valid and consistent with past information given, but it makes things more helpful for those who read it.

Prayer

So I recently wrote a paper on the impact prayer has on the daily life of college students. This paper, while on a topic which is important to me, is one I’ve been struggling with, so I’m going to write down some thoughts about the paper from an outsider’s point of view.

This paper asks the question: What are the consequences of making prayer a habit on the busy lives of a college student?

The author claims that prayer will lead to a happier life as college students. He says this is so because prayer will increase your focus and enable you to gain help from God. The audience for this paper was college students who don’t care about religion. It is important for this paper to pick those who are nether religious (who pray anyways) or those who are atheistic.

This paper is trying to get the students to increase prayer in order that they can have a better life as college students. It does this by saying they could get focus in life.

The author develops a feeling of emotion through the story of how he helped his friend. The story is effective, but his emotional feeling lacks the logic behind it that would lead to change for an average college student. Anyone can claim a miracle from God, and that is hard to prove in the minds of some people the reality—simply because an experience can always be termed a coincidence, As a college student, it lacks the facts and figures needed to show that prayer really does improve focus and helps improve lifestyle

The information expressed in the paper is typical of the kind of argument made by those who propose this point of view. However, it feels like it was written to help those who already believe, instead of the indifferent.

This paper is not that effective. While it accurately asserts a point of view and clearly takes a stand, it doesn’t take it far enough. It gets lost in the logistics of arguing a point and doesn’t end up making a very effective argument

Hillary

For my next blog post, I have chosen to analyze a speech given by then-First Lady Hillary Clinton.

Her audience were delegates gathered to discuss women's lives in modern society. I can guess some of them agree with her, and almost all of them agree to some of her points. Some, however. would have worked to contradict her. What were the consequences of this talk on her listeners?

Mrs. Clinton starts off by recognizing there are some who disagree with her. She simply accepted that fact in opening, in order to state the reasons behind this conference.

Her reasons were, among others

1. The women around the world are wanting rights.

2. We want to prohibit violence against women. We also want to encourage women to walk above the lifestyle they came from.

3. statistically speaking, women are abused much more often.

Reason (1) is a authoritative reason

She tries to establish authority for herself by saying she is representing the women of the world, which simply gives her more authority then simply her position as First Lady would give her. This lets her speak as though all women felt this way.

Reason (2) is an emotional reason. Her stories of violence are negative, drawing out emotions of anger, which leads to action. Her stories of hope from Indonesia allow audiences to believe differences can be made without issues.

Reason (3) appeals to those who are logically minded, who may need proof that things are wrong. Mrs. Clinton draws out statistics to show what she is talking about is a genuine problem, which everyone should pay attention to.

I consider this to be an effective speech. Mrs. Clinton appealed to emotions, through tragic stories, and logic, through sad statistics, and authority thus allowing this to be a more effective speech. This speech probably influenced her target audience effectively.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/hillaryclintonbeijingspeech.htm

Toy Story 3 Trailer

This post will examine a important part of moviemaking: the good movie trailer. In specific, it will ask What are the consequences of the third trailer for Toy Story 3 on audience’s likeliness to view a movie?

The goal of this trailer is to convince the audience the movie will be funny, which will likely make audiences more likely to see the movie.(this is the implicit assumption)

One essential thing to look at to begin with is the audience. This trailer’s main demographic would be little kids through preteens and their parents.

This trailer must appeal to emotion in order to appeal to children. We see clearly the use of emotion throughout this trailer.

Key uses of emotion:

-The trailer uses the concept that Andy is abandoning the toys, in order to attract interest in the movie. This is a attempt to portray suspense. Similar suspense occurs at hints of something wrong at the day care center, which suspense is not resolved (to find out, you have to see the movie).

-The trailer uses many slapstick jokes to attempt to attract all parts of the audiences

-The trailer uses pre-teenlike romantic techniques to attract playful interest from the older set of the youth portion of the audience, which leads to humor. This will not likely appeal to an older crowd, leading to an issue in attracting adults.

The trailer also had some logical features to it:

-Despite being a sequel, It still referenced two recent movies, “Wall-E” and “Up.” Since some audiences may forget liking Toy Story 2, the makers say: “Because we did the past movies, we will do well with this movie.”

-There is also a limited appeal to logic in the revelation of the plot line. The Logic is “you want to see what happens”

This trailer has an huge appeal to authority. The Pixar logo represents the studio that has made 10 well-liked movies. This is something that both the pre-teen and adult crowd would like, as they would likely have seen past Pixar movies.

All in all, I find this trailer mostly effective. It fails to appeal to the adult audience emotionally, which could be an issue. It does not appeal to authority or logic for the younger audiences, but that is probably hard to accomplish. I would improve this trailer by adding in jokes that mean more to an older crowd.

“Look Forward” Mormonad

In the New Era for April, there is a advertisement for temple marriage called “Look Forward.” In this ad, while obviously appealing to the spiritually-minded, there are secular elements that make this a good advertisement.

This advertisement was in an issue of the new era specifically on dating. This makes it clear that it’ll be focused on youth (and even some Young Single Adults) interested in dating, but who may not be as focused on eternal marriage. The focus of the picture is the temple. This is an appeal to logic, emotion and authority.

-The temple appeals to logic because it says if you wait longer, you can have something better. It thus makes logical sense to have the temple in your sights, so to speak. Another link to logic is one that yields the text and reference at the bottom

-The temple appeals to emotion because the spirit is felt in the temple, and the spirit is often linked to strong emotional feelings. Similar feelings could be felt as one looks at the ad.

-The temple appeals to authority because the temple is the house of God, and as such is the ultimate appeal to authority. The argument “God says so”, holds weight to those who believe.

Thus, the use of the temple is important to this ad. The ad uses text and binoculars to show that the promises are yet “Afar off” (Hebrews 11), and sympathizes with the emotions of the readers.

This argument is also a typical one. Mormonads are frequent in the New Era. The formatting is typical, and Mormonads are frequently popular, so the readers anticipate it and may have been drawn to it.

This ad is a wonderful ad. While it appeals spiritually, it also portrays many needed effects, leading it to be effective.

http://www.lds.org/images/Magazines/NewEra/Archive/ne10apr09_poster.jpg

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