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This girl is fighting poverty, she along with many other women. She has the power to change her world, and you have the power to help her. CARE is an organization working with women to fight poverty. This is an example of pathos, the appeal to our emotion. It is how many advertisements convince you to do or buy something. . This advertisement does use the logical fallacy, appeal to emotion, more specifically appeal to emotion. This is when they distract you by making you feel sorry for something. In this advertisement it is the women in poverty. This advertisement above uses pathos along with this logical fallacy. For example they use a photo of a sad, but beautiful little girl. It catches your attention by focusing on the girl. They made the background black to put more emphasis on the girl as well as to emphasis the sadness and hopelessness. It is an advertisement for helping women fight poverty. They give you the ‘warm and fuzzy’ feeling by telling you that ‘She has the power to change her world’ that gives you hope for her normally hopeless situation. However this hope is none existent without you! That part give you a feeling of strength and that if we all work together to fix the world. ‘I am powerful’ is written in a messy handwriting that looks like a child’s. This advertisement does use the logical fallacy, appeal to emotion, more specifically appeal to emotion. This is when they distract you by making you feel sorry for something. In this advertisement it is the women in poverty.

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  1. UnknownJanuary 30, 2015 at 3:42 PM

    Seeing advertisements like these always get to me. I especially can't help but feel bad when they show their sad faces.

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  2. Abigail OverbeyMay 4, 2015 at 6:50 AM

    These kinds of commercials always use children as a way to appeal to our emotions. The picture does do a good job on putting emphasis on the little girl.

    Kaitlyn

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