Monday, December 8, 2008

The Girl Effect


The video text tittle The Girl Effect, uses rhetorical appeals to convince their audience that it only takes one person help to change the lives of many people.   The author uses facts and explains (logos) for his or hers point of view in the text.  The author mentions many globe issues such as property and AID's to help support their argument. Also, the author uses an emotional (ethos) appeal to cajole their audience about how one individual helping another can befit many others.  The author uses words and words only in the video.  This method causes the audience to read and to think while they are watching the video.  Furthermore, the author uses a girl as the source of their story.  In the video  a white screen and bold black words appear on the screen and say "imagine a girl living in property." Then the video tells a story, only with using words, about the audience (us) putting the girl in a uniform and going to school.  Next they mention how the girl gets a loan to purchase a cow and to use the profit form the cows milk to help out her family.  The cow then because a herd, and she is the business own bringing clean water to the village in which she lives in.  Last the men of the village invite her join the village conical.  Resulting in the girl becoming a role model to all women and proving that all women are valuable.  In addition to the girl, the village economy has improved; likewise, which helps the economy of the world.  Hence, it all stated with the help of one person putting a little girl in a school uniform.  The author uses the analogy of a little girl to connect on a emotional level with their audience, because women in poor economy countries have little or no say in their economy.  If we as individuals have the power to help out one girl, who has the power to help out one village, who helps out one world economy.  Our one world in which we live in.  I think the author archived their goal of persuading their viewers and educating them on how we each all can make a difference if we work together.

1 comment:

Paul G. said...

Pathos is the emotional appeal.