Propaganda

Emeril Lagasse
Type of Propaganda: Glittering Generalities, uses words like "good" and "best"
Fallacy: Red Herring, changes the subject to how hard the people are working from the devastation of the spill.

Lolo Jones, Bryan Clay
TP: Testimonial, Uses well-known Olympic athletes to demonstrate that setbacks can be overcome.
LF: Argumentum ad populum, does not give facts about oil spill but instead the commercial is just music and black-and-white images of the athletes at work.

BP Commitment to America
TP: Card Stocking, focuses on jobs, not devastation of spill.
LF: Post hoc, ergo propter hoc, The ad implies that the spill cause the 250,000 jobs, therefore it was not so bad after all, which it was.

BP Promoting Tourism
TP:Band Wagon, says a lot of people have been there, says that you should too.
LF: Band Wagon Fallacy, says a lot of people have been there, says that you should too.

This Land Is Your Land-Woody Guthrie

Guthrie thinks of "this land" as a shared piece of property that should be taken care of and loved. It is demonstrated that Guthrie thinks that America is shared through the repetition of the phrase, " This land was made for you and me." This line displays his emotion both towards the "land" and towards the word "you." Guthrie also questions America and what it says it stands for vs. what it actually stands for in the line, "And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin' If this land's still made for you and me." This shows his and others' doubts of America. I agree with his premise as though this was written in the 1930's Guthrie's words still ring true today. This is due to America saying one thing yet turning around and doing the complete opposite.