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Crunches Suck

I recently saw a commercial on a body building DVD while watching videos on YouTube. It was for a website called crunchessuck.com where there was a really muscular man talking about how crunches take way too much time to preform to actually get results. He used pathos by relating to how most people hate to do crunches and he used that to introduce what the scientists found to help burn fat in your sleep. He used ethos here by going to doctors that knew what they were talking about in order to make men feel more comfortable in buying he product. Finally, he used logos by saying, “All women want to see and feel rock hard abs, so you should use this technique to get more women.” All of these Rhetorical devices were used in this commercial and did convince me to at least check the website out.
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  1. JeremiahJanuary 23, 2015 at 7:38 AM

    I want rock hard abs, but I feel what the ad is saying is so true. America today is all about trying to get the result without doing the work and this plays right into that. Whether it's getting rich quick or rock hard abs without crunches, it's what people want to hear

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  2. UnknownJanuary 30, 2015 at 11:42 AM

    I think this commercial is true because everyone wants abs. I want abs but I don't want to spend hours at the gym everyday to get them.

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