The image above reveals an advertisement from the 1950’s telling citizens to purchase fallout shelters. Fallout shelters were brought around due to the fear of not being safe in case of war.This advertisement appeals to the audience through logic and emotion. It induces fear and leads to people buying and building fallout shelters and appeals to the logic that fallout shelters are important to the safety of themselves and their family.

This week in “class” I have been working on the staging the tempest project and learning many new things about formally creating a proposal. I learned about how casting and costumes are selected for a show or movie and how much it costs along with how much costume designers are paid. I also learned how to correctly form a proposal to appeal to the audience.

This week I have noticed rhetoric on social media involving the coronavirus (COVID-19). Many social media posts tend to induce fear in the coronavirus which leads to panic. Generally, before professionals could make any claims, there were negative assumptions made about the virus that led to people cleaning out stores, leaving aisles empty. Since last week a lot has changed regarding the virus, The number of cases have went up dramatically resulting in the number of cases being more than 300,000. With the COVID-19 shutdowns, I’ve only been out of my house to take walks, check the mail, or occasionally get food from a drive through.

A proposal is very similar to a paper, especially a persuasive paper. In a proposal you are aiming to get something approved which is similar to a persuasive paper. For instance, in the staging the tempest proposal my team was proposing a TV show for the tempest using rhetoric to appeal to the audience. In a persuasive paper you would be convincing the audience to agree with you about a certain topic or belief.