Everything's An Argument Analysis

Capitalism. The word means, an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. In other words, capitalism is pro-business and anti-government. In the book, Everything’s an Argument, on page 26, there’s a bumper sticker on the bottom of the page with the word Capitalism in bold, italicized white letters. It has a similar look to that of the word Coca-Cola on the bottles. I take this as an inference to the person who made the bumper sticker wanted the audience of everyone to take a liking of capitalism, as they do for coca-cola. I came to this conclusion, as whenever you see a coca-cola commercial, the person always seems to be glad to have one of these
Capitalism is supposed to be about business which is profit. My conjecture on it would be that the objective of the bumper sticker is to promote something, not to sell. Capitalism is something that you can not buy, it’s more in terms of a mindset.The mindset of business over government. Now the type of argument seems to match with that of an evaluation argument. I came to this resolution when I realized that the assignment to analyze the bumper sticker and giving it an evaluation. To review: The purpose of the bumper sticker is to convince and persuade. It’s message is telling people to enjoy capitalism. The argument is an evaluation using pathos, because to come to the conclusion of what the bumper sticker meant, you had to evaluate it and the entire point of the bumper sticker is to convince people to find enjoyment in capitalism. Since it’s a bumper sticker, the audience applies to everyone, as a bumper sticker typically doesn’t have a certain audience and is able to be seen by everyone. Finally, the appeal was to simply promote capitalism. The bumper sticker was to influence people that capitalism is a good thing; that it’s ok to enjoy it like enjoying a bottle of