Do you think it is right to torture animals? I would assume most people's answer to this question would be no. PETA's answer to this question would be definitely not, they are the largest animal rights organization in the world. In the article, "PETA: How the Messenger Kills the Message", the main question Hannah Crisan is asking is if PETA extreme stunts counteract the message they are trying to convey to their audience. PETA is all about trying to prevent animal cruelty, but their ways of going about trying to convince people to join their views are not the most persuasive. PETA does rediculous things such as throwing blood on celebrities if they are wearing fur which completely crosses the line. Their ideas just go too extreme for most people to respect. For example their superbowl commercial that never got aired tried to promote being a vegitarian rather than eating meat, but it was an innapropriate commercial that had a lot of sexual references and most people would have probably gotten offended by it. Another completely rediculous and disrespectful act PETA did was by putting the headstone near Colonel Sander's grave. PETA has it out for KFC because they think they mistreat their chickens, but like KFC points out they do not own any chicken farms and they get them from the same place other fast food places get their chicken so if they are being mistreated it is and issue they should bring up with the supplier. What they did was still completely out of line and showed such disrespect with messing with someone's grave site. Most people would be disgusted by this act, not convinced to support them. PETA should reconsider their methods of persuasion because by continuing stunts like this they are only making themselves look worse and seem less credible to the public.

Are you one of the 4o million americans on internet dating websites? If so, I would tell you to reconsider your decision. The article I read, "Online Dating is Dangerous and Deceptive," is all about how dangerous these types of websites can really be. The author tries to get across the point in a very strong way by giving out numbers of how many people have been abducted, murdered, and raped. By doing this the author was trying to use both ethos and pathos as a method to grab the audience's attention. By giving out these numbers the author was using ethos by trying to make himself seem more credible by giving out stats. He was also using pathos because the stuff he was talking about is very serious and likely to get a strong emotion out of people when they hear the danger of these websites. Throughout the article the tone of the author is serious and trying to be very persuasive in turning people away from online dating. I am not sure exactly how credible this author is and the websites he references in his article, however I do agree online dating is dangerous. In the article he was talking about how easy it is for people to lie and how many predators are on these types of websites and this is all very true. It is very dangerous to give out information about yourself to strangers that you do not know. In this day and age it is only becoming more popular though, because people are getting more and more attached to the internet so this is an easy way in their minds to meet people; They do not consider the extreme danger in doing so.

http://star.txstate.edu/content/online-dating-deceptive-and-dangerous#content