I found two blogs about a topic I have no yet mentioned: cyber bullying. This is just another of the many dangers of the internet. The blogs Textual Harassment and Nine Teens Charged in Bullying Case are similar in that they both appeal to the reader's pathos. The Textual Harassment blog is doing this by making the reader feel sorry for the child being talked about within the blog. "...and the child in the middle wondering how to get back to a sense of sanity in his/her world." This blog has a dramatic tone and is made to inform readers. The blog Nine Teens Charged in Bullying Case also appeals to the reader's pathos by giving the dramatic story about children bullying on the internet. It appeals to pathos by making the reader sad. It even goes so far as to describe one particular victim that committed suicide due to this terrible issue.
The two blogs differ and many ways also. The Textual Harassment blog is made to warn and inform the reader of the danger of cyber bullying through facts. The Nine Teens Charged in Bullying Case is made to inform the reader through a particular story. They also differ in that the second blog mentioned appeals to the readers logos as well as pathos. This is done by giving a percentage of the number of kids who say they feel safer when they are able to tell an adult of what is going on.
I really liked this post because this is a topic I am very interested in. Most of my blog posts have been about cyber-bullying and I think you make some valid points in this post. There are many traumatic and dramatic stories out there about cyber bulling and it is very interesting to see how two blogs on the same topic can differ drastically. Although all the stories attempt to appeal to emotion, the ones that also include stats or quotes seem to be a bit more credible.
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