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this is a picture of a russian man who finally found the tank he used all the way through world war 2. the most important aspects of the picture would be the man himself and his tank, maybe the flowers on top and his cane. the audience would be anyone that knows about ww2, has relatives that were in ww2, or anyone that knows the huge odds that were against the soviets in the war. details that make this picture meaningful are things such as him kneeling down beside it, like an old friend or a savior, his cane that shows he has a hard time walking and he still made the effort to kneel beside it. it really looks like he's giving the tank a thanks that was a long time coming. the explicit argument is the gratitude he has for the tank, the fact that he made the physical effort to kneel down beside it in gratitude. the implicit argument would be how the tank, although is simply an object, carried him through the war. he has to feel some type of emotion, grief maybe, when he "met" the tank again. his comrades are probably all passed away considering how old the man is, and all this; the tank, the war, his old friends, combat, has to bring back a lot, even in old age. the subjects would be the man and the tank. although the tank is an object it is symbolized as a person because of the hardships it carried him though. an abstract subject would be grief, gratitude, or a sense of humbling. a connection that we can make is that a certain object or person that helped you through a period of hell in your life can always be found and appreciated, even if its years and years in the past, you will always have a sense of gratitude towards that object.

Begging the Question- begging the question simply restates the claim somebody makes or the argument takes for granted what it’s supposed to prove. Two examples would be “the reason for such the big lines at the pubs are because everyone wants to get in” as in the reason for the demand is the demand. Another would be “Mandy is unhealthy because she is too skinny.” This is fallacious because we don’t know if she’s unhealthy simply because she is skinny.

media type="youtube" key="TuOREG1gw8k" width="420" height="315" "No, nothing beats better taste and Luckys taste better" This opening line a fallacious on the basis of redundancy of the argument. The main argument of the commercial is how the cigarettes taste fresh. The basis of their argument as to why they are fresher? Because the tobacco is "fresh"... really? The redundancy of the argument as to why Lucky Strikes are a better cigarette in this commercial is incredible. within 23 seconds she states they are "fresher" or "fresh" FOUR times. To get the full impact on how this commercial uses begging the question, or begging the statement in this case, watch the video twice back to back. media type="youtube" key="Hq2SlCja3zo" width="560" height="315" at 0:45 a commercial starts stating that old spice shaving gel is newer than a fresh pair of socks, newer than a new jersey, newer than a new mouse baby, newer than an unopened gift from your step mom, newer than the new solar panels, ect, ect. this is a fallacy because it keeps restating the statement over and over, saying the product is newer than almost anything. and to say that its newer than an unopened present from your step mom, that's pretty new.