Cultural Rhetoric

Sermon Link: Pastor Jeff's Farewell Message This sermon was preached by Jeff Seavey, former pastor of Living Water Church in Vancouver, Washington. This was his final sermon as the lead pastor of this church. At the time of his preaching, it was a bittersweet time for him and his family because they are leaving the church they've been at for the past 17 years but they are moving to the Los Angeles area to help their son who is in the music industry. They plan to share the gospel with those they meet through their son Daniel. At the beginning, he speaks of his thought process of creating his sermon. He walks everyone through it. It is his routine for sermon making. I believe this is very strong use of ethos. Not many speakers show the audience what it took to plan the speech or sermon. He allows the audience to see the thought and time it takes and that there is thoughtfulness in his plan. He used the second canon of rhetoric which was organization. He also talked throug...

During the 2017 Super Bowl, a commercial came on advertising Intel’s new Intel 360 Replay. The commercial stars the New England Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady. The narrator of the commercial begins by saying, “Intel 360 Replay makes anything look epic.” The commercial then proceeds to show the audience the things Mr. Brady does as part of his morning routine such as get up, brush his teeth, and make his breakfast. Logos is poorly used in this commercial because it is not sharing many reasons as to why this product is a practical buy. It does have a small appeal to logos. At the end of the commercial, the narrator says, “Wait till you see it in the game”. It appears that the makers of the product are implying that its best use would be in the case of a sporting event. They do not make this very obvious. This commercial would be more persuasive in the aspect of logos if it gave more reasons besides it being good for athletic events. The main use of persuasion in the commercia...