What if there was a place that could bring people from all ages and all ways of life together in a way that made them all feel accepted in their diverse community? This is what Jeannie Bird is able to do for the people of Westminster. Jeannie Bird is a bakery that appears along Main Street in Downtown, Westminster. It has been a part of Downtown, Westminster since 2011 and was founded by Jeannie Vogel, whose husband, Bennie, has taken over the business, after her death. It is a popular location for many students and locals and has become a great place for people to enjoy breakfast and lunch. Jeannie Bird is very well received by most people, not only because of its great food but also because of its strong marketing ability. To …show more content…
The colors of the restaurant are bright and all the walls are decorated with interesting and meaningful pictures. There are pictures of Jennie Vogel as well as posters that are relevant to the people of Westminster. An example of this is a poster that is hung on the wall advertising a fall festival that is going to take place in Westminster during October. The store is able to not only promote itself, but it also is a place to learn more about what is locally occurring in Westminster. The bright colors of the room plus the decorative and meaningful pictures provide a positive atmosphere to the building. This causes people to feel welcomed and a part of the community. These feelings help bring in the intended and real audience by using the rhetorical strategy of appealing to pathos. To have pathos work, one must be able to appeal to the audience’s emotions. Jeannie Bird does this by making the customers feel welcomed and accepted in their bakery, as well as in Westminster. For the people who are not on Main Street every day but live close enough to the area, the feeling that they are a part of the community and can stay in touch with what is happening in the city is very appealing to them. The ability to use pathos and cause the customers to feel welcomed helps with the Bakery’s intended audience because people are more likely to return to Jeannie Bird if it makes them feel accepted. It also helps with the real audience, who will be attracted to the positive atmosphere created by the bright colors and encouraging pictures that are on the
Krosoczka tailored an emotional and comical approach into his peeck to hook listeners and to help them see the importance of his passion. Krosoczka guided the audience to see how his work made the lunch ladies feel he “validated what [they] did” (Krosoczka 1). The audience was sucked in by this comical-emotional combo and clung to every word. The audience sympathized for all the lunch ladies and viewed them in a different light than
Novelist, Eric Schlosser, in his novel, “Fast Food Nation”, expresses how fast food has spread. Schlosser’s purpose is to make us see how addicted we are to fast food. He adopts a shocking tone through the use of diction, Logos, and diction in order to get people to make better choices. For starters, one of the strategies that Schlosser used in this text is diction. Diction can be defined as style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker /writer.
When “Women Smile,” Do They “[Face] the Reaper?” In Amy Cunningham’s twenty first century expository essay, “Why Women Smile,” Cunningham explains to her audience the complex reasons why women smile. She points out other emotions such as sorrow and the idea of protection to enforce her main idea. In contrast, Cunningham wrote a personal narrative, “Facing the Reaper with a Laden Table,” which describes a time when Cunningham was trying to understand why the people in her Southern town gave food to families who lost their loved ones.
Pathos emotionally connects with the reader. Outliers shows many examples, one would be the story of 12-year-old Marita living in a one-bedroom apartment with her mom. To reach her success “I wake up at five-forty-five a.m. to get a head start, I brush my teeth, shower. I get some breakfast at school, if I am running late…” (Gladwell, 264).
Bullet in the Brain The title might be misleading to anyone used to action-packed short pieces of fiction. One might imagine a gunfight occurring in a crime drama were the protagonists shoot at each other and bullet ends up in one of their brains. However, he or she would be disappointed. It is the case of Anders, a book critic who will not keep quite.
In this story, Gail says, “They don’t cut you no slack. You give and you give and take.” Pathos is an effective strategy because it makes the audience feel for the employees of the Hearthside and makes them comprehend Ehrenreich's message on how hard it is to work and support yourself in a low income environment. People of upper class may never sense what it's like to struggle with each and every paycheck but reading this may clear up any judgement they had and turned it into
Mary Pipher is a psychologist who focuses her studies on how mental health can be caused by influences in culture and writing. In her chapter, “Writing to Connect,” Pipher shows that writing, in particular, can “share our stories, connect with each other, and influence some aspect of our world” (436). The reader can see her field of study throughout “Writing to Connect” and understand the concepts she introduces. Pipher’s directs her writing to “community groups, schools, and health care professionals” (436). This audience is the majority of recipients of her work she travels to speak about.
In the movie Lean on Me, Joe Clark persuades the staff and students that hard work is necessary in order to be successful through the use of ethos, pathos, and logos. Throughout the movie Joe Clark persuades the staff and students to work hard in order to be successful by using ethos. For example, when Joe goes to meet the students he uses ethos to show the hard truth and consequences for being young adults. Another way he uses ethos is after Joe found out the scores on the practice test and had a meeting with the teachers explaining that they had to do more to help the students learn.
Smokey The Bear In rural forested areas of North America, forest fires are a big problem. From Alberta to California forest fires wreak havoc, creating a path of destruction that could easily be prevented if people took the proper precautions. The United States government saw the issue at hand and took action, creating the character of Smokey the Bear. Smokey the Bear, as his name suggests, is a human-like bear and his purpose was simple, teach the American people the dangers of fire and how to prevent such destruction.
In the article “Egg heads” the author, Jean Lopez, really speaks her opinion by putting her own spin on thoughts. She shows a recurring opinion in this article by her choice of words. You can defiantly tell which side of the argument t she is on when she says “unfortunately, the future looks bright for the egg market” (Lopez 161). By doing this she relates to ethos, in the rhetorical triangle. By speaking her mind inside this article is genius.
In the essay “The Santa Ana” by Joan Didion the aim is to inform people of the Santa Ana winds as a fierce force of nature by describing its effects on the residents and the environment. She uses good examples of the live in the Santa Ana region and using negative describing words to get her point across. Overall the Santa Ana winds cause major problems with the people and land by drying the water and helping start fires. These problems add to the negative feelings of the essay.
The setting takes place in a suburban neighborhood like an area in the United States around the 1950's to 1960's. The mentalities of the people in the citizens reflect conformist tendencies of the community because they are negatively judgmental when they notice the girls in the story. The A&P store and customers of the story shape the time and setting to establish what is taking the place of the setting during that time. The A&P supermarket was arguably American's premier grocery store during the 1960s. Therefore, setting the scene of the A&P supermarket highlights the era of the 1960s.
Reader’s Response Journal Entry 1: In chapter one, Virginia Woolf uses logos as a literary device to show the relationship between the food someone eats and what they are capable of doing: “The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” (Pg. 18)
Suzanne Berne starts out describing Ground Zero with the sense of the moist air of the earl spring season in New York City. She finds a large crowd of people from various nations waiting patiently in line. In the third paragraph, her symbolic description captures our attention when she describes the following: “Nothing is what it first looked like, the space that is now ground zero. But once your eyes adjust to what you are looking at, "nothing" becomes much more potent, which is absent. " Berne expresses her emotional feelings revealed through this paragraph.
These strong pathos appeals and honorific terms in return build his credibility to his audience. This use of pathos to build ethos is quite effective in opening the ears of everyone in the audience.