Plastic water bottles are very convenient, but are also a big scam. It is very important for people to stay hydrated. Water bottles allow people to stay hydrated while they are out of the house. People don't want to become tired from being dehydrated, so they bring water with them. Water bottles are very popular, even though most of them are just tap water. The three texts I read, all show advantages and disadvantages of plastic water bottles. Each article also uses all three persuasive appeals, ethos, pathos and logos.
To begin, the article, “Water Water Everywhere-in Bottles,” the author uses logos to show that the water bottle industry and the soda industry are competing. Because there are so many different brands of water, the water industry is set to outsell the soda industry. The article shows many facts about water bottles and how they compare to soda such as, “Between 2000 and 2014, capita bottled water consumption more than doubled to 34.02
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gallons from 16.74 gallons while soda fell to 39.93 gallons from 53.17 gallons” (Esterl). This shows that this article uses logos to compare the water bottle industry and the soda industry. The second article, “IBWA Statement Regarding Maryland’s Decision to Restrict State Employee Access to Bottled Water,” also uses logos, but it uses ethos more.
Ethos is credibility. The author of this article includes many credible sources that have intelligence on bottle water. Bottled water is very important and this article expresses that very well. The author uses ethos when he says, “The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Choose My Plate program, which encourages healthy eating, recommends drinking water instead of sugary drinks and First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let's Move campaign urges children to opt for water when they are thirsty.” This quotation gives two instances of ethos. It talks about the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Choose My Plate program and Michelle Obama’s Let's Move campaign. These two associations are credible because they are both well educated on water bottles and both deal with water bottles daily. Therefore, this article use more ethos, rather than logos or
pathos. The last article, “Goodbye, Bottled Water?” talks about how bottled water can damage the Earth. This article is using all three persuasive appeals, but uses pathos the most. The author is trying to get to our emotions. By doing this, the reader is more likely to remember the article and get its message out.
Ethos is a category that appeals to connecting one thing to another to help advertise the product.Resse's uses this tactic by including the pretty well -known rapper Mr.lupo linking the fans of mr.lupo to the cereal.People who watch the commercial will recognize mr.lupo and will want to buy the cereal from the commercial he's in.Connecting the two products together gets out more publicity for and the said product.Ethos is efficient in the process of linking two different subjects so they benefit each other.
Ethos, by definition, represents credibility or an ethical appeal which involves persuasion by the character involved. Budweiser, also
I am writing in response to your request that I analyze Johnson 's "Bottled water, go away" and make a recommendation for or against publication in The Shorthorn. I have analysed Johnson 's rhetorical appeals and determined that the contents of her article are very relevant to The Shorthorn readers. I recommend this article to be published in The Shorthorn because it discusses bottled water and relates that with environment and health. Johnson 's claim, reasons, evidence, ethos, logos, pathos, counterargument are very relevant for readers of The Shorthorn. Especially readers who prefer bottled water and are not serious about the recycling of those bottles are the target audience of this publication but it
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In the first article "The Curse of Water Bottles" the author is obviously trying to convince people to stop wasting bottles and recycle. For example "There are solutions like using your own personal water bottle and refilling it" and that would save from buying water bottles, and reduce some of the waste. It also states "Some cities are fining homeowners and businesses for not recycling" so that means even cities are trying to get people to stop wasting water bottles. Companies and/or states have tried putting rewards on the bottles if you return them, as stated "Some states have tried to put a nickel return fee on water bottles like those on soda and other beverages" but it still doesn't work out for everyone, because "grocery
In today’s society it is uncommon to see people walking around without water. Those who carry water with them either have their water in a reusable bottle or have bought bottled water. Bottled water is the more commonly found type of water carried around, reason being that it is easy to just buy a huge pack so that a person can just grab a bottle a go. The problem with bottled water is that more often than not, the bottle does not get recycled, but instead gets thrown into the garbage. The problem with this is that the bottles end up in a landfill. However, in this past year alone American’s used “about 50 billion plastic water bottles” (Ban The Bottle, n.d., Para. 4). Most people do not see the big difference between bottled water and tap
Ethos is used to show that an advertisement is credibly and worth listening to. This can be done by an ads chose of language or remaining fair and unbiased in one’s ad. First, the Pepsi ad uses high school level vocabulary in order to make the ad easier to understand. Many consumers have graduated high school, so this is the appropriate vocabulary to use. However, the Pepsi ad contains biased information. The ad is all for Pepsi and wants buyers to purchase their product over every other soda; just because Pepsi has donated millions of dollars to fund hundreds of ideas. The ad should try and remain
The cost involved in water bottles is inconceivable to many. Bottled water costs 240 to 100,000 times more than tap water, which can be brought to your house for just pennies per day; based on city water usage, 4,787 bottled waters could be filled with tap water for $2.10, if each bottled water costs one dollar, you would pay 2,279 times more than if a single bottle is refilled. If tap water cost as much as bottled water, a monthly water bill would be around nine thousand dollars. By virtue of this, society is unaware of the fact that by replacing water bottles with tap water, many countries with economical dilemmas could be less strained.
In short, the industry extremely focused on preventing and testing the presence of bacteria. Therefore, bottled water often represented “somewhat of a novelty or prestige product” in the United States, and it gave a perception to their consumers that they need to purchase bottled water in order to stay young and healthy. Because the bottled water industry seemed very attractive and profitable, as mentioned above, there were many competitors, too. Total nine bottled water producers were mentioned in the case study, but four key major rivals were Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestle, and Groupe Danone. However, there was no one buyer that accounts for a significant fraction of overall market demand. Distribution varied depending on the producer, but most distribution channels included food stores, supercenters, supermarkets, discount stores, and wholesale clubs. Because bottled water had an easy availability, consumers in the United States were able to find it anywhere the food was also
America’s demand for plastic water bottles uses more than seven million barrels of oil annually. Many people drink bottled water because they think it is tastier, filtered but it isn’t necessarily true. I personally think that Canada should ban the usage of plastic water bottles. There are many reasons to justify this statement including the fact that it causes land and water pollution. These plastic water bottles contain a lot of toxins and it uses up a lot of fossil fuels.
This wouldn’t be so horrifying if it weren’t for the fact that waste from these products never really goes away”(Ban the Bottle). This just goes to show that we can blame humans for everything we are polluting the earth just so that we can get stuff conveniently, these plastic bottles are a convenient way to drink water but the world is corrupted with money and trying to get power so it’s a dollar for some water you could get for free and if your water isn’t clean then you can just buy a water
While watching “The Story of Bottled Water,” I thought to myself, “Is this all true, or is this really being blown out of proportion?” I simply couldn’t grasp the idea that we as consumers are that wasteful. So, I decided to watch the film again to really grasp the narrator’s message. Then it hit me: in high school AP History, we discussed how bottled water started and how it has become a multi billion-dollar company. From a business point of view, it seems so ignorantly deceptive, yet it was absolutely genius. With a little marketing, bottled water became a huge success. However, it is killing the environment and the water is usually comparable to tap water regardless. The “The Story of Bottled Water” is a very well-made short
Did you know according to the story of bottled water that people in the u.s.a buy half a billion bottles of water a week! that’s as much to go around the earth FIVE TIMES. We should get rid of plastic water bottles. It is expensive and most water bottles end up in landfills where they sit for thousands of years.
Strom, Stephanie. "Bottled Water Sales Rising as Soda Ebbs." New York Times 25 Oct. 2013. Web. 8 Mar. 2014. .
Bottled water like most things we use daily has both risks and benefits to its use. While drinking from plastic bottles poses no identified risk to your health, they do pose serious risks to the environment, plastics take thousands of years to decompose, but in water they will disintegrate into tiny particles that can be ingested by sea-life and be cycled to humans through the food chain, ending with us eating the harmful plastics.