Peer Reviews & RA

I really enjoyed doing this peer review.  I thought it was a lot more helpful than the last one.  I liked having more than one person read it because it gave me a chance to hear the input of a few different people, and some people had different opinions than others.  I really enjoyed the whole process of writing the Rhetorical Analysis (as much as you can enjoy writing an English paper.)  I liked how we had the two previous rough drafts due again.  It helped me to work on my paper over a longer period of time.  I was also able to take my paper to writing lab again which I found super helpful.  They had a lot of good ideas for me to think about applying to my paper.  I also liked being able to go into the supplemental guide and read an example of a Rhetorical Analysis.  I have never written one before, and I  was not quite sure what was expected of me.  However, reading the RA example gave me an idea of where to start and how to go about writing and organizing my paper.  Overall, I thought the whole process went really well.

Figurate Language

In "Put Your Money Where Their Mouths Are," the article I am analyzing for my Rhetorical Analysis, some different forms of figurative language are used.  He uses an allusion to the Christmas Carol in the following sentence: "Look, I feel like Scrooge when I speak out against bans on sweatshops on on child labor."  He also used alliteration in the phrase "high horses." He also has a negative tone towards people who are working to ban child labor which persuades the audience to also think poorly on them.  These are the examples of figurative language that I found in my paper.

Rhetorical Analysis Thesis

"Put Your Money Where Their Mouths Are" uses starling statistics, anecdotes, and first hand experiences as an effective argument to convince over eager middle class citizens to put an end to the underlying issues of poverty and below par education in third world countries before outlawing the child labor that result from it.

Rhetorical Analysis

I am thinking about doing the article "Put Your Money Where Their Mouths Are" by Nicholas D. Kristof.

Audience(s):
I think the audience of this article is Democrats, humanitarians, and anyone who works to end child labor laws without really considering the effects on third world countries.
 
Current and/or contemporary events:
The 1993 U.S. Child Labor Deterrence Act along with other attempts to get rid of child labor laws

Profession/ race/ socioeconomic status:
I think this is geared towards middle class people living in developed countries.  It could apply to people of all professions and races.

Ideologies:
Democrats and warm-fuzzy humanitarians.

Issues of Importance:
Bans on child labor laws keep children from working and providing for their families.  They can't go to school because in many places there are no schools nearby so instead children sit at home while their families starve.  Instead of putting bans on child labor laws people should donate to the World Food Program which provides food to children who attend schools which encourages children to attend.  People should help the local economies before trying to "fix the problem" with laws that make the peoples' lives worse.

Opponents:
Those who adamantly believe that child labor laws should be abolished.

Major fears/worries:
Their fears are that the people who live in third world countries lives will be made even worse because of child labor laws.