Persuasive Advertisements

I have never realized how much information is thrust upon us every day; even just walking to class there is constantly information in front of us. Today when I walked to class I tried to notice all the information that was in my short path. I saw everything from ads for Chinese restaurants to fliers on school events. However as I started thinking about all the ads I had seen that day I noticed that I had never been conscious of them before. This could only tell me that either the ads were not as effective as the they should have been or I had been totally oblivious of them. One kind of rhetoric I noticed was specific context rhetoric. I could see this kind of rhetoric the most in the fliers for student activities and events. Specific context rhetoric focus on a certain groups of people by advertising what the might be interested in. This was defiantly seen in the school fliers because they main recipient for the information was the college students that walked past them every day. To conclude I would like to say that it was really neat to see all the advertisements and information in our world. Even on a short walk I was able to notice many fliers and ads.