Advantages And Disadvantages Of Pathos

An announcement to encourage students to avoid binge drinking. The best appeal for this situation would be pathos. Using a scare tactic approach will help emphasize the reality of the consequences for binge drinking. This appeal is likely to be the most effective when speaking to students.
Logos could be applied in the sense that there are real short and long-term effects from binge-drinking. However, a disadvantage of this appeal is it is easy for students to think that facts don't apply to them and that somehow they’re an exception to these consequences.
Ethos would be the worse received as the audience is not likely to take the appeal of credibility very seriously. An advantage of Ethos is that you could manipulate the use of words in a way that would make them think more
5.A letter to the city council encouraging them to budget more for road maintenance.

Logos would be the best appeal for the city council. Expressing that they need to up the budget for road maintenance and listing a few factual consequences such as waiting to fix the road would end in it costing them more then if they fixed it now and finding some numbers for the city that relayed the trueness of this situation would have the most effect on this audience.
Ethos has probably the least relevance because their isn’t a lot of credibility to be created in a letter encouraging the city council. Again, an advantage could be to use ethos to turn the situation around on them to make them question their ethics/character and bring morals into the matter.
Pathos could potentially work if worded in such a way that it touched on the people making the decision and connected a tragedy to something that they had experienced or could understand in some