https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHiJ7v18-EM
This mostly uses appeal to authority. They use Alec Baldwin to talk about using Hulu and how great it is watching tv on Hulu, but he isn't an authority on what watching tv does to your brain. Also, they use black and white a little bit because they give you a choice between watching tv and turning your brain to mush or not watching tv at all. They make it seem like it's not possible to watch tv for a short amount of time. There's also a little bit of slippery slope because they make you think that if you watch tv your brain will definitely turn to mush.
Monday, April 21, 2014
Monday, April 14, 2014
Blog Post due 4-14-14
In Rap Lyrics on Trial, they use ethos, pathos, and logos to convince the reader that using rap lyrics in court should not be allowed.
They mostly use ethos to discredit the witnesses and the people okay with using rap lyrics in trial. For example, "...testimony from witnesses who changed their stories multiple times." This makes it sound like the witnesses didn't really know what happened.
They used logos to show statistics of rap lyrics in trials. "Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey found that in 18 cases in which various courts considered the admissibility of rap as evidence, the lyrics were allowed nearly 80 percent of the time." They use logos in this case to show that using rap lyrics in trials is a problem around the world.
I didn't think that pathos was used as much as ethos and logos, but it was still there. They used to pathos to make you feel bad rappers and feel like it's unfair for them to use rap lyrics in trials. "One common tactic is to present a defendant’s raps as autobiography. Even when defendants use a stage name to signal their creation of a fictional first-person narrator, rap about exploits that are exaggerated to the point of absurdity, and make use of figurative language, prosecutors will insist that the lyrics are effectively rhymed confessions. No other form of fictional expression is exploited this way in the courts."
They mostly use ethos to discredit the witnesses and the people okay with using rap lyrics in trial. For example, "...testimony from witnesses who changed their stories multiple times." This makes it sound like the witnesses didn't really know what happened.
They used logos to show statistics of rap lyrics in trials. "Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey found that in 18 cases in which various courts considered the admissibility of rap as evidence, the lyrics were allowed nearly 80 percent of the time." They use logos in this case to show that using rap lyrics in trials is a problem around the world.
I didn't think that pathos was used as much as ethos and logos, but it was still there. They used to pathos to make you feel bad rappers and feel like it's unfair for them to use rap lyrics in trials. "One common tactic is to present a defendant’s raps as autobiography. Even when defendants use a stage name to signal their creation of a fictional first-person narrator, rap about exploits that are exaggerated to the point of absurdity, and make use of figurative language, prosecutors will insist that the lyrics are effectively rhymed confessions. No other form of fictional expression is exploited this way in the courts."
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