Sali Bunny
English 113B
April 19, 2012
Mary Marca
CSU Nasty
Restrooms everywhere are full of germs. The restrooms in
the library at California State University Northridge are nasty and dirty. On
our webpage we are trying to get students to change the way they use the
restrooms here at CSUN. Students need to treat the restrooms here at school as
they would if it was their own bathroom at home. They need to clean up after
themselves. We used different sources of rhetoric to get our message across to
the students. On our webpage we have interviews of students experiences with
the restrooms, diseases that are caused by germs from restrooms, pictures of
the restrooms in the library, and a catchy music video.
While standing outside the restrooms we waited for people
to come out so we can ask them questions about how they felt. All of them were
in disgust and felt uncomfortable using the restrooms. They all wish that they
were cleaner. Interviewing people brings ethos to our website. The students at
CSUN are credible because they are the ones who are using the restrooms daily
even though they are also the ones who are making them dirty. Our “About Us”
page is also a credible source because we as CSUN students see the problems
that are going on the bathroom so we are arguing our case as concerned students
that students just like us should clean up after themselves.
Our website links to a page where we listed diseases that
could be caused by dirty restrooms. We summarized the information we found from
online sources and then at the end bottom of the page we put the links we found
for additional information. The links we posted are logic because they are
facts. These facts will make people reconsider the mess they leave in the
restrooms and hopefully they start to do something about it. The facts of the
different diseases will disgust users and make them cautious while using
restrooms. Our logical links lead to our viewer’s emotions because they will be
disgusted from the facts they read which is pathos.
Pathos is a very important aspect into any advertisement
because emotions are what get to people. Our viewers will not only feel
disgusted from seeing the alarming pictures we took of the restrooms in the
library but they will also get a good laugh when they view our video. On our
website we have a photo gallery of pictures of the toilets with stains and
tissue paper thrown all around them. There are also pictures of hair balls on
the floors and on the sinks. Lastly we have pictures of water droplets all over
the floor. These pictures will disturb our viewers in a sense where they will
start to pick up after themselves while using the restrooms in the library. Our
website links to a page of a video we filmed with the lyrics to the video. Our minute
long video is of our group in one of the bathrooms in the library, we sang a
song while dancing in the bathroom. We made our video catchy so the next time
our viewers use the restroom at CSUN they will think “clean it up” and that will
remind them to clean up after themselves.
The library is a place where every student at CSUN goes
and uses the restroom. Out of all the locations on campus the restrooms at the
library should be the cleanest where instead they have been the dirtiest. The
first step into getting clean restrooms where we can all feel comfortable using
is by cleaning up after ourselves. It is as simple as flushing the toilet and
throwing the napkins in the trash can rather than on the floor. Our website
will change the way people view the restrooms and we can all hopefully use
these restrooms without having to cringe at everything we see.
the link to our website:
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