It
is true that working conditions in factories around the world are not very
good, but it is better and way more sanitary than searching or recycling
plastics to sell for a living. As the author of “Where Sweatshops Are A Dream”,
Nicholas Kristof took a strong stand on how the US government shouldn’t be
fighting against the foreclosure of many Sweatshops, especially in Asia.
Kristof
begins his essay by directly addressing to president Obama and his team about
labor standard. The author does so in a way that is very authoritative with
visual emotions when he referred to a well-known literary work, Dante’s Inferno,
to describe how some families, mostly composed of woman and their children
suffer from poor conditions of living which almost equals to Dante’s description
of Hell. That was the problem the author identified. The purpose of the author writing
this essay is to convince the American government that while they think that
they are helping to eliminate “oppressive sweatshops”, they are actually
causing the poverty rate to go even higher, with many children and women in
famine hoping that one day they would be lucky enough to end up in Sweatshops
where “At least the work is in the shade. Here it’s hot” says a 19 year old
woman who searches for plastic for a living.
In
most of the essay the author uses logos
which is the appeal to logic and he also used a very authoritative tone to make
his point. At one point, he alluded to Dante’s inferno, and quotes from actual victims
to be more persuasive and make his claim more believable and credible in some
way. The author refutes by agreeing to the fact that “Labor Standards can
improve wages and working conditions, without greatly affecting the eventual
retail cost of goods.”
Finally
the author concludes by stating the fact that how it is hard for many Americans
to accept sweatshops can actually help diminish poverty around the world
because of the labor conditions but the author also used another direct quote
that has an appeal to pathos which can persuade any audience especially when it
has to do with suffering kids.
The
overall argument is very effective and I do agree with the author. He uses different
rhetorical analysis components to convey a very important message and persuade
the authorities to stop fighting sweatshops.
Post#5
I think this isa B+ blog because it's very good and the visual appeal is nice.
ReplyDeleteI also think it is a 4 because the second paragraph ends abruptly.
ReplyDeleteShe did a good job. The introduction includes everything it needs to. The body paragraphs are slightly weak, the first paragraph being the longest. The second and third are thin compared to the first one. Also, there is no rebuttal to the author's stance. Overall, I'd give it a level 3.
ReplyDeleteThe body paragraphs include the analysis of the author's topic but the third paragraph is just one long sentence, and the second paragraph restates the allusion to Dante's Inferno, not using anything new to reinforce the topic.
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