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    development of campaigns associated with pro-social behavior-related messages. Of these, messages that use emotion-based appeal are usually used by social marketers to impact an audience (Schoenbachler & Whittler, 1996; Pechmann & Goldberg, 1998; Pechmann et al., 2003; Ruiter et al., 2003; de Hoog et al., 2005; Smith & Stutts, 2006; Dickinson & Holmes, 2008). Particularly, negative emotional appeals are among the most frequently used means of persuading consumers to comply with threatening health communications

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    1.Appeal to Emotion (Ad Misericordiam) a.The first fallacy from Twelve Angry Men is an example of Appeal to Emotions. The latin term for this fallacy is Ad Misericordiam. b.Appeal to Emotion is when a person uses “evidence” that elicits emotion from the reader to “support” their argument. c. The character who committed this fallacy was the Architect. d.The Architect commits Appeal to Emotion by saying, “He’s eighteen years old.” e.When the Architect said the boy was only eighteen he was

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    The advertisement I created is an ideal example for my propaganda device Appeal to Emotions. Appeal to Emotions is when an ad is created specifically for drawing on the viewers emotions in order to get them to make a donation to a specific organization or cause. The first thing you notice when looking at this advertisement is the sad expression on the child and the tears running down its face. When most people see the face of a sad child they begin to feel empathy for the child or feel sadness themselves

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    D4 - Appeals to Emotion Emotion is the premise for this discussion. We see in chapter four of our text that emotion is one way of handling an argument. Moreover, the text gives different outlines for the aspects used in emotion. The stand out fallacies include ad populum, ad baculum, and ad misericordiam. The simplified versions of the fallacies include the ad populum or popular argument. Second is the ad baculum or threatening argument. Finally, the last ad misericordiam which equates to the

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    uses an appeal to emotion when she states, “Parents should want their children to have options.” Using this appeal to emotion Gobel is appealing to parents reading this article, telling them that if they do not send their kids to college they are bad parents. That they are overall, hurting and limiting their children’s future, by not sending them to college. The author uses this appeal to persuade the audience to agree with her viewpoint regarding the issue. Gobel also uses a pathological appeal, when

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    religious influence in adoptive and pre adoptive families of orphans. The Christ Community Church builds its credibility with the information it provides and the organizations that are affiliated, using a strong appeal to emotion by showing helpless orphans, the ad also provides a logical appeal by giving background information about the organization providing a website for further information. The ad is engulfed in black and white to induce the sadness of two African american orphans wrapped around

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    famous speeches in American Oratory. His audience were white men, that owned slaves and land, were wealthy, and men that received advanced education, compared to most men at that time. Considering all of these factors, Henry uses kinds of logic and emotion that appealed to them. In the Convention, Following a discussion about negotiating with the British, Henry presents a counter argument, saying that the colonists should fight against the British. Patrick Henry uses a variety of literary devices in

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    sources and credible information, convincing facts and statistics, and engaging emotional appeals; with that, the NY Times article attempts to appeal to the readers’ emotions which strengthens their credibility and their overall editorial. NY Times first starts the stage by using many strong sources that strengthen their credibility and appeal to ethos, as well as build their argument. “Ethos or the ethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the author’s credibility or character.” (User, Super)

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    rather than fixing them. Shelby Steele points out the flaws of affirmative action and hopes to bring awareness to affirmative action by using appeals to logic, credibility, emotion, and other canons of rhetoric. Steele’s plan is to persuade the readers into believing the harmful effects of the policy. First and foremost, Shelby Steele starts off with an appeal to logic. Steele offers specific evidence of the harmful effects regarding affirmative action for example “ But it is the music of innocence

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    Many people and organizations use writing and visual methods to persuade readers to their view. In such pieces, the author will use many different tricks and appeals in order to draw the reader to his or her train of thought. According to Andrea Lunsford in her instructional book The Everyday Writer, these appeals can be broken down into three main types – logical, emotional and ethical. A logical argument uses facts, statistics and surveys to back up what the author is saying and is commonly referred

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