Legal Drinking Age

For my research argument I plan on doing whether or not the government should lower the legal drinking age. I’m going to take the stand of no they should not lower it because of all the risks that come about using alcohol especially at an immature age.  I’m to going emphasize the health effects due to using alcohol when young, the dangers of using it such as car accidents and injuries, and also the fact that by legalizing it the government would be permitting it whereas now yes of course it still happens but there are many penalties that come about using it if caught at an underage.

Thoughts on Political Cartoon

Okay so here are my preliminary thoughts on two paragraphs. Not finalized just some thoughts put together so far.

To begin with, this political carton appeals to the strategy of logos. In this picture the creator of the cartoon hopes to appeal to ones logic by using the image of the women voting. The woman in this picture seems to appear younger in age. She is wearing very skimpy clothing. She has a facial piercing and her hair looks unkempt and wild. She also has many different tattoos. Overall this woman has a punk rock look to her and shows as if she has interest in music.  The cartoon also displays the woman voting on the American idol part of the ballot while leaving the two government offices still blank. This cartoon conveys that by putting the American idol ballot on the government election ballots that many people who are not interested in things such as government offices will be more likely to come and vote if there is a point of interest for them being there such as a reality TV show like American idol.

                Additionally, the creator of this cartoon uses the appeal of pathos to appeal to ones emotions. In this cartoon the woman goes straight to the American idol ballot rather than voting on what should be more important first such as the government election.  In the 2008 presidential election alone only 49.3 - 54.5 percent of eligible voters ages 18-29 actually voted.  To any veteran, current military personnel, or even ones family of someone who served this statistics can be quite disheartening.  One id fighting for our freedom to vote and in many countries at the age of 18 the right to vote is unheard of, whereas here in the in the unites states we have that privilege and every one in two citizens in that age group don’t take advantage of it.

Political Cartoon

This is going to be my political cartoon in which I'm going to use for my paper on the rhetorical analysis.  I hope to appeal to ethos, logos, and pathos in order to get across the fact that our society puts so much emphasis on reality t.v. that it actually could be used to  increase something as important as a voting turnout. In America today, citizens are more influenced by reality television shows than important government issues such as voting for who will be running the country in which they live in.