Research Paragraphs

Drumming and its therapeutic effects on the human being are not well known. Every one is familiar with the urge to tap his or her feet on the ground to a song. Every one is also familiar with the thought that physical activities help relieve stress. Little do people know is that drumming is quite a physical activity. It takes much exertion and often leaves drummers out of breath. It’s not only the creation of music, but it is also the relief of hitting something. Drumming is an effective form of therapy and is also an interesting hobby that is worth perusing.

http://penz4.tripod.com/historyofdrums.html
Though this source seems simple, almost childish, it will provide me with some solid gap fillers and basic information on drumming. I can use the most broad of information from this website to give my paper some body and interesting points to start upon.

http://www.cadre-online.ca/drumhistory.html
Another website that has a "brief" history on drumming. Skimming its info, I could easily see that this site will be bountiful with useful information on the history of drumming and many techniques in drumming.

http://www.lpmusic.com/Play_Like_A_Pro/Lessons_From_Pros/drumforhealth.html
Interested by the effects that drumming can have on a human, this site will enable me to click its side links and various pages in itself. This site will inform me upon the effects of drumming on humans.

http://healing.about.com/od/drums/a/drumtherapy.htm
This site will help with explaining drum therapy, another interesting side to drumming and its effects on the human psyche.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2755465/?tool=pmcentrez
This site explores the fact that drumming can even be used for communication between humans.

I suspect that I will need and use all five of these sources. I excluded a couple from the ones I found while searching.

Some problems I expect to encounter would include the lack of information to use. Even though drumming has been around since the dawn of time, I doubt it is a deep enough subject to draw over numerous pages. I expect I’ll be diving deep into the depths of the library and Internet to find solid points and facts behind drumming. The best way to avoid this problem would to be to do more research.

5 Sources on Research Topic

http://penz4.tripod.com/historyofdrums.html
Though this source seems simple, almost childish, it will provide me with some solid gap fillers. I can use the most broad of information from this website to give my paper some body and interesting points to start upon.

http://www.cadre-online.ca/drumhistory.html
Another website that has a "brief" history on drumming. Skimming its info, I could easily see that this site will be bountiful with useful info.

http://www.lpmusic.com/Play_Like_A_Pro/Lessons_From_Pros/drumforhealth.html
Interested by the effects that drumming can have on a human, this site will enable me to click its side links and various pages in itself. This site will inform me upon the effects of drumming on humans.

http://healing.about.com/od/drums/a/drumtherapy.htm
This site will help with explaining drum therapy, another interesting side to drumming.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2755465/?tool=pmcentrez
This site explores the fact that drumming can even be used for communication.

http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/content/41/5/1143.full.pdf+html
Another website on drumming as a form of communication.

Research Paper Ideas

IDEA 1:
I am thinking of doing my research on the popularity of Netflix, Redbox and Blockbuster. In my eyes, these are the three largest movie rental companies and their only honest competition is one another. The reason I say honest competition is because there is also the competition of piracy. These companies that have to go through licensing and the proper means of distribution while piracy, both online and off, run rampant. I believe an research paper on the well-being of these companies and their future health in consideration of further piracy and one another would make an interesting paper.

IDEA 2:
It is a firm belief of mine that drums are the most important instrument. "In what genre?", you say. I say all. It is the backbone of the song. It is the upbeat tempo that makes you tap your feet. It is the sound that lets the guitarist know how fast to play and sing. It is what every little kid wants to play. It is the reason for music to be good. Now, the history of drumming goes back as far as cavemen who created drums by pulling animal skin over bowls and jars. Present day drumming is more sophisticated. In a research paper, I believe it would be interesting to explore the evolution, importance and necessity of drumming.

The ASPCA advertisement for help is focusing on the sympathy humans have for mans best friend by picturing a dirty bag, a red brick and a cute puppy with the implication that the dog will be put in the bag and hit with the brick to death. Not only is pathos exercised, but also logos in the addition of the images and the ethos in the puppy itself in this cry for help.

Picture is first one below. (with the yellow background)

Picture Ideas

The Ideal Body - Rhetorical Power

     Rhetorical arguments are hard to go against because of the very nature of rhetoric. If one utilizes rhetoric correctly, one can make almost any argument valid. With rhetoric on a writer, or photographer, or anyone's side for that matter, they are near impossible to dispute. Today’s media has an affinity for showing only the most “beautiful and thin”. In retrospect though, these fake people in advertising only discourage the youth of today, which is something psychologist Susi Orbach noticed. She set out a goal to combat these disheartening images. Orbach successfully accomplished her goal through the devices of rhetorical argument in her campaign to fight an advertising issue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U

http://www.dove.ca/en/Social-Mission/Self-Esteem-Resources/

Here we have the links to Orbach’s final product. The Dove campaign for natural beauty, sparked by Orbach’s desire to turn advertising’s often destructive relationship with a woman’s body image on its head, has had millions of views online.

Orbach utilizes pathos, or the sympathetic appeal, in her campaign quite well. Early in her work, she had to convince the executives at dove to side with her. This meant relating to the wives, daughters and other female figures in their lives. She had to raise the consciousness of the problem to the higher-ups and she had to prove it wasn’t just another silly new campaign like any other. Partnered up with O&M (Ogilvy & Mather), a video was presented containing daughters of executives explaining the physical changes they desired in themselves. This video, a real tearjerker, brought the executives to their knees and the True Beauty Campaign was started through Dove.

Next, Orbach wasted no time in using logos and ethos to strengthen the initiative. Making reference to Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist Anne Becker’s findings, a form of ethos; Orbach spits out some data on findings in Fiji. The findings showed that when Western images were shown on TV to the Fiji natives, 11.9% of adolescent girls were puking into the toilet bowl in an attempt to change their Fijian build. The ethos part is the reference to the Harvard people simply because Harvard is highly acclaimed. The logos was within the statistics found in their work.

These short few examples show the power of rhetorical argument, as Orbach was able to convince an entire company to change their advertising in a world of must-look-the-best. If properly used, rhetorical arguments can win almost any audience over.