Coffee Shop:
I thought the coffee shop assignment was really fun and I really enjoyed it. It made you think a little outside of the box especially since we were only analyzing the rhetoric of articles and written works before this assignment. It gave me a new perspective on the decor and how places are set up. Some of it was a little difficult to analyze but overall I think it went well. I think I could have been a little more prepared and I wish we didn't overlook a big part of our coffee shop but I think we will be ok.

Essay:
I thought this was a fun essay to write. I enjoyed really breaking up a piece of writing and analyzing it. I felt that I didn't do too good on my rough drafts so for my final draft I really made some serious corrections to it and wanted to make it a good piece of writing. I'm really looking to getting a good grade on our first major assignment so that I can start off on a solid note. I hope this essay did that for me.

Post 4

I thought the word cruelty stuck out at me the most in this chapter. It was an ongoing theme in many of the other definitions Safran Foer gave us examples of as well. He first defines cruelty as willingly causing "unnecessary suffering" to a being. In this case that would be an animal. He makes a point to state that nature isn't cruel. It is the circle of life. Animals kill each other for food to stay alive. The last sentence in the cruelty section is really what made me think. "Cruelty depends on the understanding of cruelty and the ability to choose against it. (53)" We as humans know that we are putting these animals under stress and pain for our own gain. We are consciously making these decisions. To me that is the saddest part. The author brings up KFC later in the chapter and in this section he makes in a point to explain how cruel KFC is to their chicken. These chickens have a hard life from the moment they hatch to the moment they day and it is mainly our fault. I also feel that cruelty and suffering go hand in hand in some ways and I really liked how he ended the section with this word. It used cruelty and our acts of cruelty to bring it all back to how much these animals actually suffer and that we are directly causing this. It used pathos very effectively and brought the argument to a close.

The author of Eating Animals uses many rhetorical analysis techniques. I feel like one of the main techniques he uses is pathos. He uses pathos very much especially in the first and second chapters, but I think that the main reason he did that was to grasp us emotionally before he gets into the main points of his argument. Foer also uses logos to establish his argument as well. He uses it to help him seem more relatable. The stories that he tells us to really appeal to our emotions also helps him seem more relatable and more of a person. Also the author uses logos since he makes his arguments make sense. The main example in this book so far is that since we eat pigs and cows, why don't we eat dogs as well. He makes a point to state that dogs aren't smarter then those animals so what stops us from eating them. In my perspective this is a very logical argument. It makes a lot of sense to me. In chapter 6  of Thank you for Arguing he touches upon virtue, wisdom, and disinterest. Heinrichs knows that not everyone shares the same virtue/opinion he has but he makes it a point to say that he doesn't have anything against people who aren't vegetarian. He doesn't have practical wisdom since he admits that he makes mistakes and he isn't perfect. It makes him seem more human. Overall, the author uses many rhetorical techniques we have already talked about.

"Thank You for Arguing" is a very interesting book that has given me a new perspective on arguments and rhetoric. All of the little tricks the author is teaching us are seen in everyday conversations, which makes it more interesting. It gets you thinking while you're having a conversation or listening to someone talk. You really see these tricks come into play. The way he writes it is also like an instructions manual which makes it very fun to read. Overall this book is a great tool for teaching people about rhetoric and argument. I'm excited to keep reading it and learn more tricks.