Emotional Appeal

I feel like Emotional Appeal is a great topic to discuss further only because it happens all the time within people. Whether you are trying to sell a product or trying to create an invention, emotional appeal will always come into place. In order to make people attentive or intrigued, you need to catch their focus by using emotional appeal. For example, the soda “coca cola” has commercials of polar bears drinking coca cola, making it seem that it’s so refreshing and unique. I’m not going to lie, when I watch “coca cola” commercials, it makes me want to drink some because the commercials are so entertaining and different. Coca Cola is similar to a couple other drinks, but the commercials got me emotional which made me buy some. People are not interested in the inner workings of a product. They want to have a great experience using it; they don’t care how it works or how difficult it was to create it. 

Favorite thing about the class

My favorite thing about the class was the ability to manage your time for the posts and comments. Since I was really busy with school and work, this online class helped me because I did whenever I was free. Also, the class helped me become a tougher critique so that I make better decisions. The blogs and comments were convenient for me since I worked at night and had school all day; it gave me the chance to do it when I wanted to. The least favorite thing about this class were the group projects, because the reason why I chose this class was to do everything online since I was too busy to take the class on campus. It’s hard trying to meet up with group members when everyone has different schedules, plus people don’t respond or put an effort to help. It was just tough for me and I wasn’t expecting an online class to do that. All together, the class was awesome; maybe just give individual projects rather than a group. 

This semester

Throughout this course, I have learned a lot of different concepts and skills. Critical decision making is a great course to take because it makes you analyze information so that you make the right decision or action. When people look at a problem, most of the time they don’t go into depth and figure out what is right or wrong. They don’t analyze the information given which leads them to false accusations or wrong decisions. I have realized there a lot of different factors that lead people to their decision making. Emotion is a factor that makes most people base their decision. People’s experiences lead them to make future decisions based on what they think is right or wrong. Whenever a problem is given to me, I don’t usually make a quick decision. Now I analyze all the information, and make sure I have a full understand of the situation. Based off the information, I make rational decisions so that I used my best judgment. 

The two websites

Both websites were very helpful considering all the examples they gave to describe each topic. The first website including all the fallacies and arguments re freshened up my mind. The detail in each topic was very clear and I was able to understand it more than I already have. Fallacies always happen and it is cool to know what those fallacies are called. Also the analysis of arguments including deductive and inductive are used daily because we are always deciding on topics and events. There are many ways to decide on an argument and the ones present on the mission critical are some good examples of some. The casual argument website was very detailed and explained everything you needed to know about a casual argument. It gave plenty of examples of a casual argument and showed the strengths.  By knowing all these different strategies on how to analyze arguments, It will benefit in my daily life and be able to break down problems. 

Misleading conclusion

There was one time when I had a misleading conclusion. The observation was on the amount of students becoming obese and how it was the companies fault for advertising un-healthy food. I was gathering information and evidence on how companies try to target children by putting ads at schools and commercials on television. Since children are constantly watching television and they are the main consumers of fast-food. What I didn’t take in is that parents are the main problem. The problem is that parents need to maintain what their children are eating. I mislead my audience in thinking that it’s the companies fault rather than the parents. Focusing on the scientific method, I realized by interviewing a handful of parents it’s false that the advertisements cause children to become fat, the reality is parents are not so strict on their eating habits. A lot of people probably think that it’s wrong for fast food restaurants to promote un-healthy meals but the truth is that it’s the parents’ wrong action to let their children eat those meals. 

Horoscope

"Letting yourself be emotionally exposed is difficult, but you can do it -- and you should. Your bravery has been proven to other people many times over, but have you proven it to yourself? Someone close to you wants to know more about your inner thoughts, and they want the truth. Do not candy-coat your feelings in an effort to make them seem more mainstream or acceptable. What's the point of that? You have to let it all come out without editing a word." -My Horoscope

I don't always look at horoscopes but the ones I have read I realized they are somewhat true. The prediction is kind of true but it says comments that are usually common in someone’s life and then makes that person believe that they will always be true or need to happen. For example, one day it says that someone close to you wants to know more about your inner thoughts, and they want the truth or you need to express your emotions don’t be scared. Those examples are so common that they happen all the time or at least we all feel that sometime throughout the day. Horoscopes make you think that you have to take part in the saying. When it says my bravery has been proven many times but have I proven it to myself, is so common because of course my bravery has been proven to someone. I have friends and family that I’m around all the time of course they seen my bravery. I can easily create an example of a horoscope comment: You need to relax and watch, soon you will have the time to speak. 

Media Literacy

“Media literacy” is the ability to understand and critically analyze the influence of the mass media on our lives. I feel that media literacy is very important to understand so that we are not fooled or controlled by the media. The media is exposed everywhere and at any moment they could easily lead you to believe in false information. There are certain people that believe anything the media says and those people are controlled by the media. That is not good because now those people are relaying that false information to other people causing a flow of false information. I’m not saying all the media is false but you need to understand what the truth is and what isn’t. We need to make sure you are in control of your life and the media isn’t in control. A lot of people think that the media doesn’t affect them but in some aspect it does. For example, politic discussions and voting’s affect how the government decides on running things or certain rules that are made. Media is a good and bad guide, it just depends on how you view it.