Mobile home anyone?

In response to the presentation on mobile homes, I thought it was very effective in conveying the overall feelings that people have for mobile homes and the rhetoric of them. The presentation opened with a website that conveyed a strong message about mobile homes - most people see them as ugly and we saw, some owners tried to dress them up by adding extra decorative elements such as pianted on logs and cow spots. The overwhelming feeling about mobile homes, as Rebekah pointed out is that people think they are some kind of sothern phenomena and unfortunitly get labeled as redneck or white trash, a common association of the southern region of the United States.

Rhebekah did a good job showing ethos. I think she had a good amount of ethos to be speaking on the subject because she lives here in the south and is an architecture major who has done studies on the mobile home (and even a project proposal to improve it). She also showed ethos by pulling in the views of others and showing her opening web page. The opinion is not only her own, but obviously others aswell.

Kairos was established because the mobile home is here to stay. Her proposal to rethink the mobile home and redesign it is in urgency because they are cheaper housing, have been around for years, and people keep purchasing them. Because they are somewhat unattractive, there is urgency in redesigning them.

She used logos by showing many pictures of mobile homes from other areas, but also in Clemson as well. She also gave statistics about the numbers of mobile homes here in the south, and showed how much greater the number is here than in any other region in the United States.

She established pathos by pointing out peoples feelings about the mobile home, which most agree with. She also pointed out that it is affordable housing for people who don't have much. So even though they are ugly, it may be the only house that some people can afford.

Overall, I thought she gave a good presentation and exemplified the aspects of rhetoric in mobile homes that we have been studying this semester.