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E-mail that Ms. Jarmer received from President Barack Obama is being used as a
way to receive money for his campaign to get re-elected this following term. When
I first read the email from the president I thought that it was a joke or some
kind of scam. The author of the e-mail did a very poor job in constructing an
e-mail that would persuade the recipients to donate to his campaign. This e-mail
was constructed so poorly that most people are not going to actually donate
money to him. The main part of the email that stands out is when the author
uses the words “friend”, “Barack” and “hey”. The author was very informal with
their request to receive money for a particular campaign. Also when the author
said “To 2012” they did not state what they were referring to which will leave
some readers not knowing what it stands for. The “To 2012” seems to show that
they are wanting the readers to donate money so that everyone can celebrate the
election year with helping him with his campaign.
When
reading the e-mail you first think that it is from Barack Obama himself. But when
you think about how it is signed, the start of the email and the main contents
of the e-mail about donating 3 dollars. When you think rhetorically about the
contents of this e-mail you will realize that Barack most likely did not write
this email it was more than likely someone that works for him. When you access
the given webpage you will also realize that they do not let you donate only
three dollars, there is a minimum of a 10 dollar donation. The main target
audience of this email is to someone that would know Mr. Obama personally and
not someone that would donate money to his campaign because they like what his
plans are for the country. If I were to receive this email I would most definitely
not donate money because of the poor overall construction of the email. What is
the deadline? Why does it matter if readers donate by the deadline? This makes
the email even more suspicious. The author gives no reasoning to why someone
should donate and does not seem like the President of the United States would
compose such an email.
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Hello there!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your analysis. I agree with you entirely. This email was constructed in an entirely absurd fashion. What kind of president emails a random teacher in such informality? In reality, I thought about that picture. What type of high governing office just randomly sits down and emails, or even calls, some random individual to ask for a donation? Although, I didn’t even think this email was Barack when I first read it. My initial thought was that it was some type of spam that had been sent out in a mass to possibly scam people into donating. Speaking of, I enjoy that you took the initiative to check out the website on the email. I didn't even think about it. Now that you pointed out the information is really false, it has almost convinced me that this email was some type of scam. I also didn't even analyze the deadline much, as the email clearly didn’t specify much of a deadline. I do agree that by not adding any specifics, the email does sound very suspicious and odd. It must not matter too much, ha-ha. If I had received this email, I probably would have deleted it almost instantly.
Amanda W.
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