Thursday, January 24, 2013

Where Have You Gone Charming Billy?

The setting and the mood of this excerpt convey a sympathetic feeling towards PFC Paul Berlin. The setting of this is during a war in a rice paddy. It is night and it is dark and no one is speaking. Paul Berlin is feeling scared of this first day at war. He wants to be with his father again, so the reader knows that he is scared. The reader can sympathize with him because he is in the dark, not allowed to talk, not safe yet. The mood is dark yet hopeful. As Paul is wanting to be with his father, he knows that when he reaches safety it will be better and he will learn. We sympathize with him that he is not to safety yet and that he can only hope that his conditions will improve.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Commercials From 1970

Commercial 1- Corn Flakes
This ad uses logos when it says "Will not wilt when covered in milk" because this is a fact that is supposed to convince you to buy them because they will not get soggy. This ad also uses half truth because it says "its made of corn" but they don't say what else is in it.
Commercial 2- Alka Seltzer
This ad uses ethos because it says "Better for your stomach than any other" and that builds their credibility that they are better than other things. This ad also uses argument from omniscience because it says "Better than anything else. Anything." To know that it is better than anything else they would have to know how everything else works and how they treat stomachs but they don't.
Commercial 3- Delk
This ad uses logos because it presents statistics like "a checkup takes just minutes and only costs six dollars" since it is cheap and doesnt take long it convinces people to go and get the service.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Chain Gang Song

Message: people work very hard to earn their money. With the industrial revolution there were a lot more available jobs. People feel chained to their work and their coworkers instead of family. Like where it says "see my woman who I love so dear, but I have to work right here". They feel enslaved to their jobs, like everyone is in unison instead of being unique or different. The jobs constrict them to be just another worker in the chain of people.

Maybe Chain gangs aren't good. The chain gangs stand for unified work. Maybe he is saying that trying to fit in with the "American way of life" limits you and you should not try to fit in. You should break away from it. You can infer its bad by words like "moaning their lives away". That's bad. So we should move away from it.