Donald Trump vs Hilary Clinton

            Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton are the two most popular candidates and are now debating to gain the influence of Americans voters to be the next leader of the United States of America. Trump is famously known as the billionaire who branched off his father’s “small loan” of one million dollars and believes that he can change America to the better with his expertise in business. Hilary who has been actively been a part of politics by being the Senate, but also lived as common citizen unlike Trump who his family was very wealthy from the start.

            Trumps purpose when he wins the election is to stop the losing jobs in America because he believes that many big corporations are fleeing to other countries to get a bigger profit, so Trump will aid the companies who are still in America by reducing taxes and regulations. Trump also believes with the tax cut for the wealthier class in America will help the U.S economy enormously and will increase the jobs available for citizens. Hilary believes that aiding the middle class will increase the creation of jobs and improve the economy and by taxing more on the wealthy to also help the issues in the US. Hilary will also help reduce college debt to help persuade more Americans to go to college and with her plans it will help overall Americans unlike Trump who focuses on companies and the wealthy.

            The candidates’ audience differ, Trump is trying gain the votes of the wealthy with his new plans which gives the higher class Americans an advantage. While Hilary is supporting the middle class, which makes up most of the US and her actions will help America significantly. Topics on debate are jobs and taxes and many of views in audience will be influenced by either Trump or Hilary’s arguments and from the arguments from the two candidates many of the wealthy will favor Trump while many lower class will favor Hilary. The candidates used logos as their main point of persuasion and Trump and Hilary gave out many facts of how their plans will change America for the better.

            Overall, both candidates provided well needed answers for all the questions, but Hilary seemed to be more focused on topic at hand instead of Trump who repeatedly interrupted Hilary and send rude comments. The candidates had a strong structure argument, but they often went off topic and continue after time was done, which made the candidates to appear more childish than they should’ve been. Trump and Hilary have very valid reasoning to improve America and had many logical plans to aid the people.

Rhetorical Analysis of "Where Sweatshops are a Dream"

Rhetorical Situation

          "Where Sweatshops are a Dream" is an essay written by Nicholas D. Kristof with the purpose of enlightening people across the nation that sweatshops are an essential to any developing country. Kristof's background helps support his argument with his many years of experience of living in Asia, mentioned in his article. 

This article was directly applied to an audience that has narrow view of that sweatshops equal unfair pay and unfair treatment, but Kristof's article helps explains to his audience that sweatshops are an extremely safe and productive job to families in developing countries. The writer attempts to persuade the audience to encourage more sweatshops to be built in 3rd world countries. Kristof uses a balance amount of pathos and ethos by adding stories of injured children and the improvements of countries' economy with the installation of sweatshops.

Kristof wrote this article to help inform people, that believe that sweatshops are only a negative attribute in developing countries, to realize that sweatshops has many beneficial benefits. The writer knew that many individuals believe that sweatshops should be banned or stopped, but still wrote this article to attempt and change these people's minds.

The context of the article would be that many people presume that many sweatshops is a sign of a stigma because of many companies create cheap sweatshops and hire cheap workers to increase their profits.

Logos: In the article "Where Sweatshops are a Dream", Kristof demonstrates his logic of the current situation by explaining that many citizens of these developing countries are struggling of obtaining jobs to provide for themselves and/or families. Many arguments against sweatshops are that labor standards can improve wages and working condition, but it only has a larger impact on productions costs that companies are trying to pare. The better method of setting up sweatshops is to operate nations that has capital-intensive factories. 

Pathos: Throughout the article, Kristof presents many stories of children scavenging in filth to help provide for their families are often killed or gravely injured. Kristof uses these events to create sympathy for his cause; many of these children rather be working in factories because it provides a safe environment for children to work in.  

Ethos: The author displays his credibility by briefly mentioning that he has lived in Asia for a few years to witness several of the hardships of the citizens to obtain jobs. By acknowledging the readers of his firsthand experience with local families searching for jobs, it helps establish Kristof's credibility. 

Rhetorical Strategies: Kristof organized his article by introducing an image of Dante-like hell with mountains of garbage with children searching for old plastic items to sell to recyclers, and transitions into stating that many families live in this trash area. Then Kristof gives the audience a surprise that increasing sweatshops can help reduce this type of lifestyle. The article then presents quotes from people who live these areas that explains that working in sweatshops is a dream of their because it would bring in a steady source of income for their family.

After sharing quotes of the families that are living there, Kristof continues that children often scavenge for anything recyclable, but these children have a risk for being killed or injured. This aids Kristof views of sweatshops and allows the readers to be more aware of the dangerous condition of not having a job in a factory. 

Kristof then transitions into countering labor standards about how they only are helpful for a few countries, but having sweatshops be created in more capital-intensive countries will help those countries tremendously. He then ends his article of a little girl wearing scandalous brand shirt covered in filth searching for trash with her little sister with a missing hand when she was hit by a truck. 

        "Where Sweatshops are a Dream" demonstrates the dangers of not working in a sweatshop, but also sweatshops can help a country's economy because it will be providing more jobs. Kristof presents many facts and emotional stories of children, which are very well constructed to persuade many readers to consider sweatshops differently. But one flaw of the article was that it lacked credibility because Kristof mentions only once that he was in Asia for years, but all these facts could be theorized by him and many of his stories seem very generic, and all the same: the stories had variety in them, but overall the article was well structure and very persuasive.

Critical Response Exercise 3.6

What is the picture?

The cartoon is showing a unattractive teenager holding a game controller and most likely connected to a computer. Around the boy are the words "kill" that covers most of the cartoon, but the cartoon also shows the boy's facial features of his crazed smile and dilated eyes. We can presume that these facial features are because of the game he is currently playing.

What is the cartoon conveying? 

The author is seemingly supporting that media violence, such as games or television, are disturbing the children's minds with the intentions of murder. The author is trying to appeal to parents to help reduce children playing violent video games because the author presented a unattractive boy and this is appealing to parents' emotions with pathos by making them consider if their children become unsociable and become a shut in(a person spends all of their time indoors).

With the word "kill" appearing across the cartoon, it seems like that the boy is having thoughts of killing because his dilated eyes and crazed smile indicate that killing is appearing in his game and/or mind. The display of violence in the teenager appeals to parents' emotions by having them acknowledge if their children could be or are this violent. The cartoon uses pathos to establish the author's opinion of media violence by using a young teenager, who we can assume spends most of his time playing violent games.

Are the methods logical and fair?

The author created a logical and fair cartoon because it displays that playing violent could correlate with a more aggressive mind and its fair because any child could be become addicted to playing violent games. The author used the teenager to connect the word "kill" and games together by showing the boy playing a game with "kill" around the the teenager; the method logical because it helps establish that game is causing the boy to "kill" our thinking to "kill".