We discussed how the musical, Hamilton came to be. Watched the first song to introduce the play we will begin reading/ listening to. As well as review the reading of the use of rhetoric that Hamilton used. Later in the week we created and responded to discussion questions thus far from the play. Including how Aaron Burr and Hamilton are competing for the top spot, however, Burr has a lot to lose while Hamilton has nothing to lose, and how this will affect the play later on.
I noticed rhetoric this week through work and the super bowl. At work, there was a waitress who didn’t want to do her job, so the manager had to motivate her using ethos, as well as logos. The ethos being the potential tip money she could earn and the logos being the fact of if she gives the table excellent service, the people will come back and want to be served by her. Also during the super bowl, there were many commercials that appealed to the main ethos, through the want of the newest chip flavor to what people did before the Amazon Alexa.
The image above shows rhetoric through ethos and logos. Ethos due to the moment of reality where there’s something you don’t want to do and this product prevents you from doing the task. Then logos through the way that the product is shown to benefit the consumer in a proficient manner.
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