Joe Connolly "The Graffiti Guerrilla"

                                                Joe Connolly "The Graffiti Guerrilla"

 

 

       The person I chose the documentary is Joe Connolly. Joe Connolly is a Graffiti Buffer in Los Angeles. He has over 30,000 hours of community service He goes around the city and paints over illegally done graffiti tags, bombs, pieces, etc. He has became a fan of the legal done pieces that are on buildings, galleries, and the streets. He likes the graffiti art(murals,etc.). The next paragraph is going to be the rhetorical appeals of he and his work.

     The first of the appeals is the ethos of his work. Ethos is the presentation of yourself and your creditability. The people of Los Angeles appreciate what he is doing and how he is improving the city by removing the bad graffiti tags. He is indirectly reducing the murder rate in the city by removing the rival gang's tags in other gangs "territory". The second of the appeals is the logos of his work. Logos is the reasoning behind the argument/situation. the logos of his work is that he is cleaning up his neighborhoods and the streets in the city of bad graffiti. He gets into the heads of the taggers by going to the places they tag and painting over it over and over again until they stop tagging there. he sometimes puts his own tag A.M.B(All My Bitches). the final appeal of his work is the pathos of it. pathos is the emotions that occur from it and how he feels about it. you know that he really cares for the his community by logging over 30,000 hours of community service by going around town painting over graffiti.

   The reason why Ichose Joe as my person is that graffiti can be an art if it is legally done and it is appealing to the eye and it's not a bunch of tags and gang symbols.

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