Formal Persuasive Writing 1.5

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Formal Persuasive Essay

Technology is responsible for most of our problems today! Does technology even help us? In fact, “technology and social media are ruining our lives”. How? Well technology is actually one of the main reasons why there has been an increased amount of addiction, privacy concerns, and crimes in this society nowadays. 

Around 420 million people around the world are addicted to technology; which makes up six percent of the world’s population. You may think that six percent isn’t that bad. Well according to medical terms, technology can actually be addicting and it can have a huge impact in a human’s life. An example of an impact is that being addicted to technology means that it can actually lead to physical and psychological issues. Being addicted to technology such as mobile devices and social media can affect you physically and psychologically by how it can affect your eyesight; also having difficulty focusing. That is just one of the main impacts that technology has affected us.

Another way technology has become one of our problems today is that there has also been a number of crimes due to technology. An example of a crime that has caused technology is that it has allowed criminals/hackers the ability to do illegal activities anonymously online; which can also cause harm to others like when people share too much information online. These types of crimes are called cybercrime. Cybercrime is a type of crime where criminal activities are carried out using computers and networks. The United States is actually one of the top countries that has the highest cybercrime with 23%; followed by China with 9%.

Not only has there been an amount of crimes in this society, there have also been concerns on privacy. Privacy concerns on technology also have a huge impact on people. An example is social media. Social media and any other types of media are good in this society due to the fact that they inform people about the updates, news, and changes that have happened. Although sometimes it can get out of control which is a huge concern. This happens when people take advantage of technology and social media. Some of these personal privacy concerns are that people’s personal information gets leaked online and that’s when people take advantage of them by scamming them; they start to do illegal stuff online; using other people’s information.

Although technology is bad, it can also have some benefits in this society like how it affects the way people interact with other people through social media, helps easier communication, and efficiency. This is shown by how with education, 62% of the students globally prefer using technology with their learning. It has also shown that technology has improved learning and working because you can work in tons of ways with technology.

These are some of the main impacts that technology has harmed or affected society and how it has/can also benefit. They are that technology can be addicting, has caused crimes, and privacy concerns. But it can also have advantages which are that it helps with the interaction, communication, and it speeds the work/learning that has been done.

Pathos is an appeal to emotion. 

It is an advertisement using pathos will attempt to evoke an emotional response in the consumer. 

Pathos can also include emotions such as fear and guilt: images of a starving child persuade you to send money. Logos: an appeal to logic or reason.

Logos is the logical appeal.

Logos is the persuasive technique that aims to convince an audience by using logic and reason. 

Logos examples in advertisement include the citation of statistics, facts, charts, and graphs.

Ethos is the persuasive technique that appeals to an audience by highlighting credibility.

Ethos advertisement techniques invoke the superior “character” of a speaker, presenter, writer, or brand. 

Ethos examples aim to convince the audience that the advertiser is reliable and ethical.

In progress Zandy's Static Image

 

Color- This photo shows the color green which represents the environment. It is showed by how everything around is green; the trees, buildings, leaves, roads, and people's clothes (almost everything on the photo. They chose this color because they are showing the nature and that everything is made out of environment. 

Film Cover- This image represents how the film setting is in London due to the flag on the background and the title  of the film. This photo also shows that the dominant image of this photo is the main character of the film because he is in the middle of the page. There are also names of people on top of the page to show the characters on the film and at the bottom of the image, it is showing a slogan that this movie is about justice for their country. 

Symbol- This symbol represents the sign of peace. It is colored in black to show that this symbol represents power, strength, and formality.

Photographs- This is a photograph of a lion. They put it in black and white color to show how lions are powerful, fearless, strong, and rebellion. The lions is in the middle of the page to show that the lion is the dominant image.

Dominant image- This dominant image shows a girl on the background (blurd out). It is blurd out to show hoe the hand is the dominant image even if it's on the left. It also shows a fist scrunched. This photo shows how the girl fears the fist. This photo is in black to show  fear and evil. Also