This week in English

   This week we learned about and discussed the rhetorical situation further. We started looking at the rhetorical appeals that advertisers use to sell products and services to their customers. Some of the advertisement strategies we looked at were narration, cause and effect, analogies, definition, process, and others. We also studied the main three types of rhetorical appeals. Logos is when an author or speaker uses rational arguments that appeal to reason or logic, pathos appeals to the audiences emotion, and ethos is an appeal to authority or character. The best arguments and advertisements try to include all three so that it really appeals to the audience in every way.

   This week I also started thinking about possible Major Inquiry Project topics.  A topic that interests me a lot and I can somewhat relate to is the topic of childhood obesity.  When I was in elementary school I was one of the heavier kids in my class.  I hated how it made me feel and how others treated me for it and luckily I found sports and worked it all off.  Some kids however aren't in situations that are conducive to weight loss and today's society contributes heavily to that, no pun intended.  If I write my MIP on this topic I would like to talk about how parents aren't taking enough responsibility for the health of their children and why they need to step up, why sports and physical education at schools is so important, the types of food served in school and why that needs to change, and many other things. I think I could really get into writing a paper about obesity because I have studied sports medicine a fair amount and have been in that situation of being a bigger kid.