In this Twitter post, the author seems to juxtapose the cliche that the news has about the communist regime in North Korea. By offering a certain picture that represents the North Korean leader happy, the post offers a level of curiosity to read the blog post. The key word that is offered in the headline is rational and rational is defined based on or according to logic and according to Zeeshan Aleem, "The term "rational here means that a country's government is capable of making logical calculations about its goals and interests and determining how to achieve them based on the resources- economic, military, diplomatic, etc.- at its disposal". Here the columnist appealed heavily to Ethos toward the audience since the statement challenged and offered credibility for the "rational countries". Even though that statement appealed to ethos the whole article was based around Logos since the columnist added several examples from the Korean War and other hostile moments in history when North Korea threatened various other western nations. Overall, the way that social media has affected the way how the nation views other countries is tremendous since various bandwagons have been put in place that North Korea is evil and dangerous and several cultural references that offend several nations and their people is a growing concern that needs to be solved quickly. Finally, I've noticed that in every blog post on Vox each post offers a massive amount of evidence and personal observances that make this website unique and different than typical newsites since various newsites offer a minimal amount of textual evidence in comparison to Vox.
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/5/9/15516278/north-korea-more-rational-than-you-think
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http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/31/14985324/visa-denial-why-trump-change-vetting
The appeals to Ethos was a powerful use since it is a real example of how tough it is to get a visa to be able to come to America, since no one from Africa was able to attend the Summit. Even though the visa process is rough the Trump administration would eventually make this process even more rough for those coming into the country, to the point that less people will be able to come into the country. Another is the use of concrete diction with various words to describe how the visa process is like such as " a lot harder", "egregious", and "discrimination" along with other words to describe the visa process. But I also notice how Vox.com continually uses a lot of concrete examples to supplement the variety of social issues happening at the moment making their blog page entries way longer that other news outlet's websites. The tone overall was very informative of the immigration issue and the amount of facts that the columnist used was a dense amount covering many examples and testimonials of those who went through this tough immigration process. -http://www.vox.com/videos/2017/3/27/15052666/putin-russia-spy-president-vladimir
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