Week 5 Reading Response Gabrielle Nolan (ethos, logos)

1. Ethos: I persuaded my audience that I talked a lot in school because of the lack of interaction I had with my brother. I explained a first hand account of my brother’s language and lack of it to show credibility of my source. 

Pathos: I used emotion in my essay by explaining how people reacted when they saw Tom in public- staring, gossiping. I explained how angry it made me and how I couldn’t comprehend why people didn’t understand he was disabled. 

Logos:I used facts in my narrative when I talked about symptoms of autism and how Tom showed those in his daily life. I talked about how autistic children are prone to lack of communication skills including speaking and writing

2. file:///Users/ellienolan/Desktop/unnamed.jpg

Analysis: The photo above shows mostly women at some sort of protest. The elucidation of this photo without bias would be: I see many people wearing the color pink and can clearly read the sign. This sign says “I will not go back quietly to the 1950s.”. This picture was produced in November of 2017 by Brian Tashman, a political researcher for the ACLU. Directly after controversy over the Federation ABortion Legislation and Trump saying he would sign the bill that would make abortion illgeal after 6 weeks of pregnancy. 

Summary:The genre of this image would be about equal rights, women’s rights.  The audience this photo targets is women and female activists. It’s deeper denotation is that women want to move forwards, not go back to a time (the 1950s) when they had little rights compared to today. I think this image exists because people wanted to remember this protest and how it affected people’s lives. Women will not sit silent and allow their rights to be taken away from them, once again.

3. While doing this summary and analysis activity, I used Blankenship’s description on the Black Lives Matter Photo and her list of prompts to discuss about a photo. I answered the question “when?”, “where?” “Who would be drawn to this?” to further interpret the photo. Some observations I have is that it’s important to make an analysis of simply what the photo entails, no bias or inter[pretations. Then, giving the audience context, you can make an analysis of the photo’s purpose.