Extra Blog 3

The final addition to the three extra five hundred blog posts has started. I am so pumped to be at Clemson and to be finishing my first year at Clemson. It really has flown by and I have learned many things and I love the friends I have made and all the things God has shown me and revealed to me about what I should do. I have also found my little niche of friends. They are good guys and great influences. I am so glad to have friends like those. I knew Clemson was the right university for me and I am so glad to be going here and to be a Tiger for four years. I would not have it any other way. Now time for my favorite part of the blog post, some ad analyzing! Look at this amazing ad. The ad shows a man connected to a hot air balloon with a can of Pringles in his hand and blowing fire into the balloon to make him float. He is above a city which reminds me of certain parts of China or Seattle because it is so smoggy. The ad is advertising Hot & Spicy Pringles. The Pringles are so hot that you will be breathing fire and what better way to utilize breathing fire than connecting yourself to a hot air balloon and floating around the sky. You would never have to worry about traffic and you would get everywhere much faster and with less hassle. I hate spicy things and food items but I could overlook it if I could do this. I do not know if people would want to eat something that make them breathe fire. I know it is an exaggeration but it is still kind of scary. Fire benders, Charizard and all those guys are mischievous and dangerous. Fire is not something to play around with and if put in the wrong hands, it could be extremely dangerous. That is why I would have to be super careful with these chips of ultimate power.

This next ad is so amazingly awesome. It is an ad for Timotei Natural Style Shampoo and Conditioner. It shows a lion, likely in the Serengeti lying in a grassy field. But one thing is different; the lion’s hair is super, duper, uber fabulous. Who knew that some shampoo could tame the mane of the king of the jungle? Pathos is used to produce a feeling of humor to the audience. Seeing a lion with a polished and flowing mane is pretty funny and gets the point across that even this shampoo can tame a lion’s mane. I will be using this shampoo because I have bushy unruly hair like my fellow lion here. And if it can fix his hair, it can definitely fix mine.

This next ad is for Maglite, a flashlight that is super bright and very intense. The ad shows a security guard burning a hole in the painting using his flashlight. The company is trying to convey that their flashlight is the strongest and best flashlight around. I think they prove it pretty well considering I don’t see any other flashlight burning holes in stuff. I am totally getting it.

Extra Blog 2

This is the second part of writing three extra five hundred word blogs in hopes that these will save my grade and save me from the holy wrath of my father, who really wants me to get an A. So for these three blog posts we are going to look at so many ads it is going to make your eyes hurt so prepare yourself. Our first ad is for the product made by the company Pattex. What this advertisement is showing is that their glue is super strong.  The ad shows an old couple stuck together, the old woman has a smile on her face while the old man is frowning in disdain. I do not know if I used the right word there… Disdain? Oh well his face shows much disdain. This glue could be so strong that maybe the ad is saying that they got stuck together when they were young and full of life and now they are old and grey. I guess being literally stuck to someone for sixty years would get kind of old to. The ethos of this is that their glue must be really good if they can stick to people together for sixty years. That is improving their credibility of their product and themselves as a company. Pathos is used in this ad as well by invoking a certain feeling of awe in the ads audience. I know when I saw it, I thought, “wow I cannot believe that the glue worked that well for so long that the couple got super old! What a wonderfully dangerous yet strong product!”  There is not much logos here though. Why would two people stick themselves together and honestly what kind of glue can last that long. The ad makes use of humor to appeal its product to its audience. I am a big fan of this ad. I like the humor used and the fact that two people could be stuck together for sixty something years. Also I enjoy the “Everybody Loves Raymond” couple where Marie is all smiles and Frank just can’t stand being stuck with her.

This next picture is very striking. It is an ad for the WWF or the World Wide Fund for Nature. The ad shows what looks to be a forest in the shape of two lungs in a large green landscape. One of the “lungs” has be partially cleared or deforested. These missing trees mean we get less oxygen so it shows that the lungs are literally disappearing. That is why we need to stop useless deforestation. The more we clear, the less oxygen we have and last time I checked, humans can’t live without oxygen. This uses a lot of pathos. It makes me feel scared and worried for our world’s future. I don’t want to live in the cold sleek metal future of tomorrow. I want to live in a wooded glen and be happy that I can breathe fresh air. I love trees.

Extra Blog 1

So this is my first extra blog I am doing in order to somehow avoid the unquenching wrath of my father. I really am sorry I missed an extra day. I could not even leave the toilet because of how sick I was. There was really nothing I could do. Please have mercy on me. I cannot afford a B because I missed one class when I put so much hard work in and tried my best, only to have the grade stripped from me. I hope you feel generous or merciful and help me out, because I really did not mean to miss that day. Anyway let us analyze some ads! This is a really funny ad that many people can relate to because of all the pathos contained in it. The ad is for Fraich Frites Special Friteuse. This is in French and when translated to English, it reads “Fresh Fries Special Fryer.” OOH it sounds super yummy and delicious. Anyway, the ad shows a little French girl with a very agitated visage getting her cheeks pinched by what I would think are her grandmas hands. Then the product is shown in the top right and text underneath says “Granny’s fries without the Granny.” There is pathos because everyone can relate to getting their cheeks pinched and I mean the cheeks on your face, by your grandma and how unbelievably awful it was. But one thing that threw me off is that she makes fries. I have never heard of a grandma making amazing, delicious, homemade fries. My grandma makes the stereotypical cookies and amazing cheese toast with lots of garlic. So a grandma making fries is kind of weird to me. But I can feel for the little girl that I would rather eat the delicious food without numb cheeks. This ad is also humorous. I feel that humor is very prevalent in ads because people respond well to humor usually. Anyway I really love this ad and I can totally relate to it except for the weird grandma making fries thing. I never got passed that aspect of the ad. Another thing is that the company is saying that their packaged fries are as good as granny’s cooking. That is a bold statement to put your food equal to granny’s food. But hey, their ad works and for that reason I will be eating these Fraiche Fries and get my grandma to make some fries and compare which are better. It might be a little complicated getting all the way to France to buy these fries though. It might not be that cost effective. I bet Amazon has them. I will find a way, no matter what it takes.

This company called Toyo, a company that apparently makes tires made a pretty “gripping” ad… Get it? Their claim is that their tires have grip like an octopi’s suction cups. Everyone knows that an octopus has amazing grip to most surfaces so those tires must be really amazing. I thought this is a very interesting ad.

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The photo displayed above is an advertisement for Denver Water.  At first glance, we see that the bench has about three quarters of the bright orange seat missing, revealing the dull concrete posts and the minimal support of the metal bars.  Although this ad does not have much going on, it clearly represents the exact message that Denver Water is trying to get across; use only what you need.  While further analyzing the advertisement, the message from Denver Water became even more apparent to me through their attention to detail and symbolism.  The color orange represents sunshine, determination, and joy.  The use of the color orange in this advertisement is minimal and that is because they are trying to convey to us that using only what we need will give us a sense of pride and happiness because we are doing something nice for the environment.  The green grass symbolizes what we have now, an abundance of fresh water.  However, the concrete symbolizes what we will have in the future if we keep overindulging with the amount of water we use.  The advertisement engages pathos by making us feel guilty for using too much water.  They want us to visibly see what it looks like to use only what we need by showing a seat only big enough for one person to sit down on.  The advertisement also engages ethos because of the company who is displaying this ad.  Denver Water is an influential water company who people would listen to when it comes to water resources.  Finally, the advertisement captures logos because of its logical appeal.  This advertisement makes you think rationally.  If we use more water than is necessary, what is going to happen?  The advertisement is well thought out and conveys the exact message that Denver Water was trying to create

Blog 10

What is up class? I have been having a wonderful day in the sun and now it is time to analyze rhetoric in some ads. Also I played some Frisbee and it was super fun! Frisbee is my new favorite sport! Check out this ad for planting more tress from some conservationist company. It has a concrete pole and a spray painted shadow of a palm tree on the ground. The pole read in white letter that “nothing can replace a tree”. This reminds people of the nearing future of what will be if we continue deforestation. Also this shows that trees will be just a shadow of our humanity’s future. This is most apparent in the amazon the main sources of deforestation in the Amazon rain forest are human settlement and development of the land. In the nine years from 1991 to 2000, the total area of Amazon rain forest cleared rose from 415,000 to 587,000 km²; comparable to the total land area of Spain, Madagascar or Manitoba. Most of this lost forest has been replaced with pasture for cattle. I am a big proponent for conservation because I am worried about the future air quality of our nation. I do not want to end up like Hong Kong and Beijing in China where people have to wear masks to avoid getting sick. The pollution is so thick down in China that you cannot see a block ahead of you. I love planting trees in my neighborhood and other parks. It gives me a sense of hope and also a sense of accomplishment. It lets me know that I am helping produce more oxygen and making the town look better as well is a good bonus. I hope that everyone will realize to save energy and other stuff before it is too late.

Blog 9

Class, readers of the internet, welcome to my wall of imagination and creativity. This wondrous page on the world wide interweb is where I write my most secret and emotional thoughts… about advertisements and rhetoric and what not. I am having trouble coming up with a topic for my research paper. I really do have some good ideas about gun control but you “shot” that paper down Ms. Roberts. Get it? You “shot” down a paper and it is about gun control? I am probably the punniest guy I know. So I think I might do a paper on whether violent video games really affect kids in negative and threatening way. What about the media talking about murder and almost ninety percent of all television shows violence and sex and blood and gore. Our society ourselves are violent enough.  What I am getting at is that it is not just video games and well I should save the rest for my paper! Cannot give everything away in the “trailer” eh? That would be like going to see a comedy summer blockbuster only to realize they showed all the funny parts in the trailers and then you are mad at the world for a few days… or weeks. Anyway time for some good ol’ fashioned rhetorical strategies used in advertisements. Check this one out for instance. It is an advertisement for a condom showing 3 men, 1 one which is naked and the other 2 with firefighting gear on using a hose to fight a fire. It is giving a message saying you would not go into fighting fires unprotected, why would you have unprotected sex as it is just as “dangerous.” You have to be protected and prepared at all times is what the advertisement is trying to convey. In other words, if you are going to have sex, you might as well be protected.

Blog 8

What is up on this fine day in Clemson, South Carolina on the twenty eighth of March? I am having a wonderful day as I have finished all my classes and I have no homework! I have always thought that one of my favorite bands, Reliant K said it best in one of their song when they said “I have never broken bones with a stone or a stick, but I can conjure up a phrase that can cut to the quick.” This picture resonates the theme of that line given in the previous sentence. This is showing a man supposedly screaming and a fist coming out of his mouth hitting a woman in the face. This is an ad for stopping verbal abuse and the ad is portraying that verbal abuse can be just as horrific and damaging as physical abuse. The arm punching the woman represents the intense pain that can be caused by words. One thing I question is why it is always a man abusing a woman. I may not get out enough but I never see a woman abusing a man in an ad even though there are plenty of relationships that are like that. I just think it needs to go both ways. Another element used in this ad to represent sadness is its cold and bland colors giving you a depressing and morbid look on the scene. I hate abuse and violence no matter its form. As this ad portrays, no matter verbal or physical, it is just as damaging no matter its form. Bullying is a big problem in schools and I was a victim of bullying and sadly a bully myself. But I learned from my mistakes and have treated people with love. People need to stick up for victims of bullying and make a world a better place.

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Hey clase, what is good on this fine evening of the seventh of March on the year of two thousand and fourteen anno Domini. My project 4 is going well. Did you know that Prius’ are not as efficient as you think they are? They are actually less efficient than a Hummer according to the research I have done. Isn’t that crazy?! All these high and mighty Prius owners driving around, thinking they are saving the environment when in reality, they ARE DESTROYING EVERYTHING. And did you know the sentence, “All the faith he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life.” Is grammatically correct? Crazy huh. The English language is kind of messed up but it is all good. It is still my favorite language to speak! Anyway, now it is time for some identifying rhetoric in advertisements! Hip hip hooray!

Now this is a picture of a man in a row boat with Bose noise canceling headphones on while he is about to swim off of Niagara Falls. The ethos in this is that Bose is already a respectable company and this ad just proves Bose’s credentials in that you can wear their headphones and you will not be able to hear the loudness of Niagara Falls. Those headphones must be amazing. Just do not wear them on a river, while skiing or anywhere unless you are sedentary and are in no trouble of running into something. I am definitely getting a pair of these headphones. Mostly because my roommate snores unbelievably loud and it keeps me awake all night. I cannot stand it! So if I can get a pair of headphones that can cancel the noise coming from Niagara Falls, then those headphones are the headphones for me. Bose has my business for sure now.

Blog 6

What is up class of English one O three that is taught by miss Roberts. I am very tired and I would love to take a long nice nap. Anyway check this ad on a billboard out. This dude is ripping the billboard off with his bare teeth! Do you know how strong your teeth have to be to do that? Also look how pearly white those chompers are! The argument is that the Formula toothpaste strengthens teeth immensely and makes them shiny too boot! So strong that you can rip steel! That is amazing! My teeth are not the cleanest so I totes need some Formula toothpaste to get my teeth back in shape!

Now look at this billboard ad. It is a very effective ad made by Tylenol. The argument being made is that even the worst headaches can be cured by the hard fighting power of Tylenol. The imagery is glorious in this ad. A wrecking ball is crashed into a man’s head as he holds his temples. But fear not because even that aching pain is no match for Tylenol.  You get us back to normal Tylenol; you get us back to normal. Now my next one is my favorite.

A billboard company in order to get advertisements up decided to put up some pictures that can never be unseen. It shows an obese man with the caption “The sooner you advertise here, the better.” Within the next week another picture with the same dude was put up except he did not have a shirt on and is taking off his belt. Ew. Then soon it showed the man in nothing but underwear. What a way to generate business, by shock people into buying into your business, even if it is just to save people from seeing what the next picture would be. 

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ΤΙ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΠΑΝΩ CLASS. ΕΙΝΑΙ ΩΡΑ BLOG ΜΩΡΟ. Look at this advertisement! The rhetoric is priceless….. Get it? Priceless, because the ad has an exorbitant amount of money in it. Forget it, NO JOKES FOR YOU. Anyway it is a 3M ad for their new Security Glass. They put what seems to be a googolplex in American Currency inside the glass claiming that if you can break this glass, the money is yours. I’m sure many people tried and ultimately failed to break the super security power glass. This uses ethos in that 3M has quality products and a good background that they trust their glass that much to let people try to get that money. Also they use Pathos, because who does not feel emotion to a big pile of money. You best believe I would bring my trusty sledgehammer. Like dynamite and the whole works to get that money you know what I am saying bruh? Gotta get dat money.

Look at this little goldfish doing his thing in a glass bowl and… wait what the heck? Is that goldfish wearing a helmet?! Probably because he can’t even see the bowl due to Glassex window cleaner being so amazing at cleaning glass. I mean the fish has to wear a helmet, the product is so good! That is crazy. Best believe I’m going to put that on my parent’s glass sliding door or something ya know what I mean. So they will run into it you know? And it will be funny and what not. Maybe film it and put it on YouTube. But seriously this is some good rhetoric. Pathos is used in this wonderful, delightful ad to trigger an emotional response by audiences seeing the goldfish in a helmet. All I know is I am buying some as soon as the weekend hits.

Blog 4

¿Cuál es hasta la clase? ¿Cómo estás? There is soooo much rhetoric in my life! Like every single day is a new day of rhetorical… things? Any way look at this image! Ewww right? This is an ad for WorkSafe.

This bro was scared to ask because he was new and as a result, this boi got his arm jacked up yo! The imagery is powerful. You don’t want to lose a hand just because you were too afraid to speak up. It lets the audience know that something as simple as asking a question stands in the way between you and a serious injury. Powerful, powerful rhetoric in this advertisement. I wonder if people have to lend a helping hand when he works…. Too soon? But whatever, he seems fine, just know that it does not hurt to speak up and that goes for all aspects of life! Whoa brah. That was really deep.

                

Seriously? Blow smoke in her face and she will follow you anywhere… This is terrible rhetoric yet rhetoric all the same. This company is claiming that Tipalet cigarettes are the equivalent of Sex Panther. No not by a long shot because Sex Panther works 60% of the time, all the time and you just cannot beat those percentages. It has a pretty girl looking deep into his eyes with desire while smoke covers her mouth. She does not just want to taste the smoke; she wants to taste the lips from where the smoke is inhaled. But seriously, go out, try this and tell me your results because I have never heard of a woman talk about how the fell in love with a man because of the way he blew cherry flavored smoke up her nostrils. I have only eight more words to write.

Blog 3

OMG WHAT IS GOOD IS DUDES AND DUDETTES. That is enough caps lock for today. So my Martin Luther King Day was good. Just thought y'all might want to know that. So now that I am actively looking for rhetoric, I find that I’m consistently using rhetoric all the time. I’m seeing it on tv and movies and in songs as well!

                So I saw this picture and the rhetoric was just spilling out of the gosh darn thing. The ad says to get unhooked from smoking and shows a picture of a woman with a fish hook in her mouth. It’s showing that she is hooked like a fish and can’t get away. It is very eye opening that basically when we are addicted to something bad. We can be compared to fish on a hook, slowly coming to our demise. I do not know about you, but that makes me not want to smoke ever ever ever never ever! Also it has to do with my grandparents smoking and realizing that they are hooked and cannot get off the hook. Maybe I should show them this ad. Maybe the rhetoric will open their eyes like it did mine.

                Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. This picture has the grossest rhetoric I have ever seen. It is an ad telling you to wash your hands and shows a mother with roaches on her hand about to touch her baby, and a woman with maggots giving medicine to a patient. They are relating germs to bugs if you do not wash your hands. This makes me want to live in a sterile operating room and never touch anything. I will definitely start washing my hands all the time now…. Alright maybe not all the time but still.

I love lamp. FRA-GEEL-LEH.

Blog 2

Okay what is good clase.  So this weekend when I was at home I saw some serious rhetoric arguments being used. My entire family went to the AT&T store to look at phones. My sister had a perfectly working iPhone 4s but decided that she needed to upgrade to the iPhone 5. My sister who is also 12 years old used ethos by building her case that she has had that phone for 1 year and that the one crack in the back made it unsightly and embarrassed her in front of all of her friends. She had no logos whatsoever to speak of because none of her arguments really made sense, but she got her way by using pathos on my dad. She asked my dad if he could live with himself knowing that his daughter is the laughing stock of the school because he did not buy her a new phone. Sadly, my dad caved and my 12 year old sister has an iPhone 5 while I’m stuck with a flip phone… ok so maybe I have the Galaxy S III. It is the principal that a 12 year old shouldn’t have such a powerful piece of technology. Besides that little fingerprint scanner on there is giving all our fingerprints to the NSA so I don’t trust it.

Also I went to the airport to fly to Syracuse when we went to see Clemson demolish them in football and I sat in front of the noisiest little kid I’ve ever encountered in the history of Delta Airline flights. This reminded me of this image…

They replaced the kids head with a megaphone to show how noisy and annoying a kid could be on a flight and it shows how Sony’s noise canceling headphones could help you relax even with “megaphone kicking kid monster” sitting behind you. How I longed for those headphones that day… I wanted to Falcon Punch his face.

Blog 1

What's good y'all. My name is Tyler Crowe and I'm from Seneca, South Carolina (not Alaska) which is literally 2 minutes away from Clemson. I've been a Clemson fan all my life and now I've finally become one! I honestly hate writing. It's very tedious to me and it's taken me 15 minutes to get to this point. But I'll push through and learn to love it especially if there are fun projects involved and I get to write about what I want to write about. My favorite show is The Office and I shed a few tears during the season finale. Judge me. Also, I enjoy long walks on the beach and freshly cut grass... nah I'm joking but I do like Velveeta Mac 'n' Cheese. That stuff is niiiiice son! I have two siblings; Anna Foster (16) and Caroline (12) and a Labradoodle named Toby Mac (I have no idea how old this dog is...). I also have no idea how to appropriately use a colon or semicolon... But one time I dunked in front of Sammy Watkins at Fike and he said "ooh." So I have that going for me. Which is nice.

But one time I dunked in front of Sammy Watkins at Fike and he said "ooh." So I have that going for me. Which is nice. I played highschool basketball and it is my favorite sport. I especially love it when LeCrap Lames throws the pigskin down the pitch for a touchdown. I don't know how to put a gif on here but I'll learn. I like turtles. And Jesus! 116 I'm unashamed! Woohoo first blog post LETS GOOOOOO.