Thursday, January 21, 2010

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  1. BStruppJanuary 21, 2010 at 10:38 AM

    I want to shortly describe RJeremy's Ethos. Here's a man that uses relatively good logic. He uses good logic to prove his point on the article, but he lacks one important point. He puts forth absolutely no Ethos. From his absolutely ridiculous picture, to the end of his article, he gives me little to no reason to trust him. In turn, because of this, I feel less inclined to listen to his argument. Now that would be bad enough to see a picture of a man who already seems to have little respect for my country, but then he continues to poke fun at candidates, which we as Americans voted for. Of course, he is allowed his opinion and his own freedom of speech, but I do not see any credibility behind his words. Instead I only see the picture of a fat deranged poser, posing in front of an American flag, trying to give us advice on how we should run our country. Without ethos I would much rather that an individual just kept his freedom of speech to himself.

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  2. ballroom babeJanuary 21, 2010 at 10:45 AM

    I would like to talk about the Kairos of this article. Kairos is pretty much presenting your argument at the time, in the right circumstances, in the right place and by the right person. I think it pretty clever that the author looked at their immigration concerns in a different light. Instead of focusing on illegal immigration and the disputes on that, the author talks about legal immigrants who come for college and then stay. I think that the timing to address this was perfect. The reason being is that people are getting so frustrated with illegal immigrants and taking the low end jobs that action seems to be dying out. So the author brings us to the attention that legal immigrants are also taking jobs in the U.S. Even though they are LEGAL the word IMMIGRANT leaves a bad taste in most peoples mouth. It doesn't matter whether "legal" or "illegal" is in front of "immigrant." The author knows this and plays into that. So now the author has caught he audiences attention with the word "immigrant." The author then gets a quote from a congressman. Being a man of authority, an audience will generally listen to him and follow what he has to say. So the author was able to capture the audiences attention by switching the kind of immigration to complain about at the right time and they also got "the right person," a congressman, to comment in order to capture the audiences agreement to the argument. In this way Kairos was used very nicely.

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  3. BStruppJanuary 21, 2010 at 10:45 AM

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