Rhetorical Analysis Of Legos

Compared to the 1930’s, things have really changed in the workplace. Especially with women. With the start of World War II women started their endeavor into the workplace. In the article “Scenes and Un-Scenes: A Woman’s Work” the photos really capture how women begun their work and moved up. The article’s images show the appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos in every picture to express how women have made their move in the workplace.

Kilbourne is aware of the varying viewpoints on these ads and seeks to be fair. She anticipated claims that she is reading too much into these ads and made sure to allow for more than one interpretation of the images. Furthermore, some critics point out that men are also objectified in ads. Kilbourne, again, reasonably acknowledges these critiques. She agrees that the objectification of anyone is not a good thing while still supporting her initial assertion that the objectification of women in ads is more harmful. One way she shows this is by having the reader reverse images that depict the objectification of men and asks whether the implications are the same. For example, she describes a coke ad where women ogle at a half clothed male construction worker. To a viewer this scene is funny. The reverse of that (businessmen leering at female workers) would be far more concerning and according to Kilbourne this is why: “And why is the Diet Coke ad funny? Because we know it doesn’t describe any truth. However, the ads featuring images of male violence against women do describe a truth”

Teal Pfeifer in her short story “Devastating Beauty” discusses the effect of portraying skinny ladies/models that are wear dress size 0 or 1 as the ideal body size in most advertisements. The author points out the fact that,this can be damaging to most women, especially young women who view these adverts. The young women who see these adverts begin to feel displeased with their bodies, and a vast majority of them venture into different kinds of diet. She further emphasized that adult females are not the only ones affected, but also young girls (Pfeifer 2). According to Slim Hopes, about 80 percent of girls below the age of ten have either been on a diet before and have stated that they want to be skinner and more pretty. Now people equate skinny

In the article: “Toddlers in Tiaras” the writer, Skip Hollandsworth, brings about different topics debating wether pageants for little girls has a negative or a positive effect in their lives. The exigency he uses, is the story of JonBenet Ramsey who was brutally murdered after she had been kidnapped at a pageant in 1996. His purpose is to teach people that pageants for children are not as harmless as everybody makes it seem. These pageants not only strip young girls of their innocence, but it also lures in predators and pedophiles. He goes on to show the audience the ways that the provocative behavior of the girls can reap negative attention from all types of people. He writes, “It’s impossible to look at these photos and not see a terribly exploited little girl” (Hollandsworth 2). Pageants also teach the girls at a very young age, to be focused only on appearance. The target audience would mostly be southern mothers and grandmothers who tend to allow their daughters to sign up for the contests.

When viewing advertisements, commercials, and marketing techniques in the sense of a rhetorical perspective, rhetorical strategies such as logos, pathos, and ethos heavily influence the way society decides what products they want to purchase. By using these strategies, the advertisement portrayal based on statistics, factual evidence, and emotional involvement give a sense of need and want for that product. Advertisements also make use of social norms to display various expectations among gender roles along with providing differentiation among tasks that are deemed with femininity or masculinity. Therefore, it is of the advertisers and marketing team of that product that initially have the ideas that influence

Activity theory, as interpreted by Ph.D. candidates, Wardle and Kain, is a process that attempts to see all aspects of activity such as social interactions and use of writing and language to achieve goals. This theory is award winning. Activity theory states that for a system to be effective, the rules, community, subject, division of labor, and motives must be reasonable. These components are shown through the chosen tool of communication most often. When one area of the system is corrupted, the tool will no longer function correctly in order to communicate or achieve its goals. Rhetorical analysis is also important for a determining if a tool is well functioning. This method helps to establish credibility, methods, and effectiveness of a

Humans are social creatures and have become increasingly susceptible to suggestion in the modern era of technology; free information. Their thoughts and opinions are strongly based on what they hear and see around them. For that very reason, advertisements have become an important tool for corporations to use in order to get their products and services across to their buyers. Advertisements attempt to manipulate their viewers mainly through three appeals. These are pathos; using emotions to get through to the viewers; logos; tying their claims to logic and statistics. Again, this is to breakthrough to their viewers. Finally, the use of ethos, appealing to their sense of trust, therefore winning them over. The John Frieda advertisement published

It is no mystery that women struggle with body image on a daily basis. It is also no mystery that young girls look up to their mothers and follow in their footsteps. In an advertisement by Body Image Movement, they exploit a little girl who is concerned about her weight to show that beauty standards effect women of all ages and sizes and that young girls like the one in the ad follow in their mother’s footsteps. This ad is heavy in ethos, pathos and logos and appeals to its viewers in a way in which they want to make a change on beauty standards and make sure that no girls at any age feels the need to fit into society’s beauty standards.

The first canon of rhetoric is invention. Lori Moses defines invention as “the identification of the target audience so the message can be tailored to them, and the use of logical rationale to appeal to the needs, concerns, or desire of that audience” (Moses 59). The target audience is the group of people the media message is intended for. Demographics and psychographics are the basis for defining a target audience. Demographics categorize characteristics such as age, marital status, income, education, employment, gender, and race. Psychographics categorize personality traits, behaviors, attitudes, and desires (59) John Barry argues in his article “Business Psychographics Revisited”, that understanding psychographics are imperative to creating

Magazine advertisements have always claimed to help their customers to make them more beautiful in various aspects of life. However, the endorsements always seem to tell white lies in their products, that subtly imply that the buyers need their product to live a better life. Covergirl is a universal makeup line that uses strategic tactics, particularly using celebrities to endorse their products, or to guarantee unrealistic results, such as flawless complexions. The brand tries to capture the attention of women, predominantly the women from ages twelve to twenty-five who are interested in makeup and want flawless skin. Katy Perry partnered with Covergirl to sell a makeup product, named the “Covergirl Outlast All-Day Concealer.” Using the singer,

The Cover Girl ad for 2009 a pictured design by Drew BarryMore on the background with her natural eye shadow it always and the girl with the long dark brown eyelashes and dirty blond hair and clear skin and with long earrings with a purple demanded at the end.

Altogether, women have been through greater challenges than most of the men in America. There are strong, independent women that cannot express herself because America forbids them to do so. Men find independent women to be undesirable and unattractive. There was an illustration around the 1960s about a woman and

Warm’s Concentrate griddles and Little fiber bras will reshape women with an unfortunate body shape to perfectly proportioned and to become a confident woman.

Examining ads found in social media products such as, Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter, you can learn many things. These three social media tools and more are how the world is seen on social media and what people think of themselves. These two things are manipulated and constantly used in ads

Nowadays, it is commonly to find a slimming advertisement through the media, from newspaper to internet, magazine to television. Those advertisements always involve pictures of a slim, pretty model, which claimed that if someone uses their product, they can be as slim as the model. Every time, when women see the perfect body shape of the model, the want of being slim is obsessed on their mind, they tried to lose weight by taking pills, eating cellulite food and getting on diet. However, they are not work for everyone, unfortunately, some tragedies happened to some women. This essay argued that slimming advertisement should be banned. In order to explore these issues, this essay will first criticize slimming advertisements creating adverse effect on customer physical health, followed by the promotion of gender inequality, and harmful effect on mental health will also be discussed.