1. This article, Globalization: Threat or opportunity for the US economy is a great debate about whether outsourcing, offshorring and free trade is a good or bad thing. The writer uses much ethos to back up his thesis and doesn't use very many alternate forms to persuade readers.
2. This article was written for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Fransisco in 2004. The target audience was thus economists and other capitalists in the US. He wants to pose the pros and cons to these people so that something can change in the economy to better the US public and workers. The author Robert T. Parry was a very well of CEO of The San Fransisco Reserve Bank. He retired in 1986 and became an advocate for better economic policies in the US and increase job opportunities. Being this CEO gave him great incite into the US economy so he know what can be changed and what should be done.
3. Diction. The first paragraph is very formal and direct. This helps the author gain ethos in the eyes of readers that may be top CEO's themselves. This works for the audience because without this formal style of writing it would be hard to listen to his beliefs on the economy.
Analogy. In the Free trade paragraph he eludes to an analogy of a family and a country. He is trying to say that they act the same way in regards to the its cost efficiency policies. This works because it helps the reader take in the meaning of free trade so that it can make sense in the mind of someone not very economical.
Understatement. On page 107, the author says that open trade creates opportunities in the US by helping foreign polices. This could be stated a lot stronger but it helps show the reader that really the author is not a fanatic and just sincerely want to help the US economy.
Imagery. In the first paragraph of outsourcing, the author tell a story about a Michigan car manufacturer, that makes a picture in our minds. This helps us visualize what outsourcing really is. It is not just some abstract term.
Metaphor. In the second paragraph of outsourcing, it states that offshorring is the global cousin of outsourcing. This helps us realize the partnership of these two practices. They really aren't related they just do practically the same thing.
Tone. In the last section, the author changes his tone to that of informative and to helping and giving solutions to the problems he has eluded to. This shift in tone really helps push the point that the economy can be fixed we just need to do something. This boosts this ethos.
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The thesis of my rhetorical analysis would be that the author is too informative and not aggressive enough of about the topic. He could give more possible solutions and not just tell what good and bad things are happening in the economy. Then his argument would not just be a narrative about the US economy.
The diction at the beginning of most of the articles seem to prepare the reader for the style and format of the rest of the paper that will follow.
Free Trade has more than a 50 year history of failures. In 1956, the U.S. Federal Government sponsored the moving of factories outside the USA as a temporary program. It never ended and evolved into so called Free Trade which is not about trading products as historically practiced but primarily on moving production from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. It has created a working poor class and a denial about the underclass in the USA.
The unemployment rate is a facade if compared to the 1950s to the 1980s when primarily only full time 40 an hour week jobs were counted.
Today, only 38 percent of all workers qualify for unemployment which means 63 percent are in an economic limbo.
It is senseless to even discuss Globalization in terms of it being positive in any way. It has caused the most massive dislocation of workers in U.S. history including the Great Depression.
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You have to look at the setting of the article too. It wasn't written to be published but rather a speech he gave to a group of investors and the article is just excerpts from that. Makes a little bit of a difference in his target audience because he was probably trying to be more informative than anything.
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