Holy Pathos, Batman!

These are just a few of many advertisements, campaigns, and PSAs that primarily use pathos (emotional appeals) to make their arguments. Or at least to make you take notice of their arguments. Feel free to link/embed any other similarly emotionally-charged videos that you find on your blog.

Some are powerful and effective, others are way over-the-top and basically rely on emotional warfare to make their point. Please be warned of the content if you are sensitive to any of these topics. The animated anti-bullying video is especially sensitive as it involves the hard issue of suicide as related to bullying.


Anti-bullying

Anti-bullying animation/poem

Mom Prison

Pfizer "More Than Drugs"

Kids see, kids do


Sad Monkeys Environmental Ad

Seatbelt

Epic CRJ Fail

Sorry folks, I forgot to collect your CRJs today. Well, 1st block, this mostly applies to you. It was mid-passing time when I realized this fatal mistake. I explained my realization to block 2. In an effort to be fair, I decided to collect them tomorrow instead of collecting some from one class today and some from the other class tomorrow. I hope you understand. Hey, I cut all y'all some serious slack on the blogging front.

Here's how this will go down:

Tomorrow, you will skip into class with a smile plastered onto your bright-and-shining face because you love AP Lang/Comp already, and you will produce, with a flourish, your glimmering specimen of a CRJ before I forget. Again.

Notice, I said CRJ. As in, just one. You wrote a CRJ for Didion and one for Orwell. Two of them. I just want one and you may choose which one to give me. It will be a for-points thing, but I know you're still getting the hang of it.

Capisce? Bene. That's in Italian BTW, and BTW means "by-the-way" in teenage/texting slang.

Do you want to drop my class yet? Ha. Too bad.

Stolen Post

I was just going to write about this very same topic and point you to the very same website. Prokott beat me to it, so I'm stealing this from her. What's super duper awesome is that she said it almost exactly the same way I would. Check it out. Now. Go. Click on it!

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