This article is a terrifying warning of the wars, economic instability, and dangers there is to come to the world if we allow bottled water to continue being sold and controlled by privatized companies. This article was written by Joshua Ortega, and was originally published in the Seattle Times Newspaper four years ago. Ortega gives some very bold statements on his predictions for our future regarding water, and uses many tools to get his point across.
TOOLS:
-Logical Support: This is the first tool I noticed when I was reading through the article. In his argument that bottled water is no more healthy than tap water, he gave some stats (page 146, paragraph 5) about the amount of bottled water that actually is contaminated. This gives credibility to his argument, and makes sense to the reader. You cannot argue with these facts, so it is a very good argument for his case.
-Overstatement: This tool is used many times to shock the reader into trying to realize how much of a problem this actually is. One example is on page 150 which reads: "If there is one cause in the whole world that crosses all social, national, racial, and economic lines, it's water. This is the most important issue we will face in our lifetime." Who knows if this really is the most important issue we will face, but the author does a good job of overstating to prove his point.
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THESIS: Ortega warns the readers through his use of rhetorical tools of the wars, economic instability, and dangers there is to come to the world if we allow bottled water to continue being sold and controlled by privatized companies
I love the title of your analysis. It's a great movie quote. It catches the attention of the reader.
This article really is very logical throughout. Logos is used extensively and i think that this really helps build a strong argument.
Logical support can be a very persuasive tool. I know for me, statistics and logic affect me and change my opinion more than appeals to emotion.
Be it an interesting article, he is fighting something that is accepted as common knowledge. Outside of the country it is true that bottled water is safer and I'm sure some immigrants carry that over with them. Interesting article, unlikely to have much effect though.
First of all I would like to say that I really liked your title!;) I totally agree that the author used logical support in throughout his article. I found that it actually became distracting because many times he veered off from what he was originally saying to quote a fact or statistic.
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