Advertisement Rhetorcal Analysis

This commercial, for ice cream, cannot appeal to many audiences. It may not appeal to anybody. It's logos can be understandable but its ethos and pathos make it unappealing to people. Starting with the ads' logos, it's just a guy eating the ice cream that he's covered with. But at the end, the narrator says, "Ice Cream is a feeling." They narrator (the man covered in ice cream) also says "Little Baby's Ice Cream leaves him happy and young." This would explain why he would be covered in ice cream. But, this also affects the pathos of the ad because when people imagine an advertisement, they imagine something to persuade the viewer to buy the product the ad is selling. Not a silent man staring at you while eating ice cream off of himself. The music in the background also creates a creepy atmosphere in the ad as well. As for its ethos, it's credibility, you only have the narrator (the ice cream man) to trust. As the pathos pointed out, the man is creepy, and people would not trust creepy people.

"They Treat Girls Differently, Don't they"

In this story by Timothy Harper, it focuses on a gender bias within the classroom. The first sentence alone states, "Boys get more attention in the classroom than girls." It goes on to say that classrooms can reflect society at large and that there is a reluctance to put a blame on this gender bias. The report argues that girls receive less attention in classrooms causing girls to grow up with low self-esteem and making them less likely to enroll in classes such as chemistry, calculus, and other sciences. But this report also explains how observers think the gender bias is not from teachers but from whoever raises their hand first to a question. observers also think that boys are getting negative attention from teachers to make sure the boys pay attention. They also say that boys will grow up to be highly successful with jobs or they may drop out of school and/or abuse drugs. The author after explaining both sides of this argument, gives many tips to parents at home, parents at school, and teachers on how to prevent a gender bias in the classrooms and to give equal amounts of attention to every student, both girls and boys.