Tuesday, November 13, 2007

RA: Disneyland

I wrote this whole thing up, and when I hit "publish post," Internet Explorer died. I hate technology sometimes.
Ok, so my roommate ordered this DVD from Disneyland because she wants to go there. It was a vacation planning DVD and basically nothing but a huge advertisment. However, it was a rather effective one, so I thought I'd do my RA about this DVD.

WATCO taking a Disney vacation on your ability to re-experience child-like wonder?

Enthymeme: Taking a Disney vacation will remind you what it's like to experience child-like wonder because taking a Disney vacation is the epitome of a fairy tale dream come true.

Logos: They used a lot of comparisons for logos. Things like while buying all these seperately might cost you $10,000, using his package it's only $5000! (Of course, $5000 is still a huge chunk of change and spending more than my college tuition for only 7 days at a theme park seems a bit wrong to me...) They also spent a lot of time talking about "the more you play, the less you pay." This, in theory, means that the longer you stay at Disneyland, the less it costs per day to be there. It makes it so that spending several thousand dollars seems to be the more reasonable option.

Pathos: I never realized how much music could be a pathos. In the introduction, it shows people (ages 6-90) giving testimonials about how wonderful Disneyland is, sporadically weaved through little clips of the favorite animated characters from Disney movies. All the while, it has this background music of very wistful yet inspirational music. My roommate almost cried by the end of it.

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