Reading Response:
I read Emma’s post and agree with her stance on this prompt. I really enjoyed the quotes she brought into her response from the article, it strengthened her argument significantly. The personal anecdote that she brought in also added a personal touch as well as a real life example of what Nguyen was discussing in the article. The personal experience from her family provided a unique perspective that added a lot of meaning to her response. In my response and her own, we both touched on how the US government and large corporations exploited asian workers and used them as a stepping stone for their capitalist goals. A difference between our responses is that I felt it lacked a few more details on capitalism than it should’ve.In her analysis of the second article, Emma’s response was very informative and encapsulated the article well. She included plenty of quotes from the article, which helped her response be very well rounded.
Examples:
Ethos-
- “As a marine scientist and nature adventurer” Rumaitha Al Busaidi she has seen how desperate the environment is for change
- “like, for instance, those working on Project Drawdown, who focus on greenhouse gas emissions. They calculated that educating and empowering women and girls is one of the single most important things that we can do to confront carbon pollution.” She is trying to back up her reasoning for combating climate change by educating women on protecting themselves by using data from major climate change scientists
- Al Busaidi founded WomeX in order to combat climate change and “[educate] more women” by leadership training and negotiation skills.
Pathos-
- “Women are also the ones most at risk when it comes to impacts of climate catastrophes like cyclones” She is trying to explain how no matter what event occurs, women are more likely to get hurt because they have more people to tend to. This evokes pity because it feels like they are kind of stuck when a disaster comes since they’re expected to serve others.
- “…but will our grandchildren call this planet home in 2050 or 2100 if our trajectory continues?”
- With this rhetorical question, she is able to evoke a sense of pity from the audience because while this generation might get through their lifetimes fine, it alludes to a daunting future where our descendants are living in a dystopian planet which we once called home.
- “I’ve witnessed firsthand how climate change impacts the world we live in. These climate catastrophes have almost taken my life. Like when I was nearly buried alive during an avalanche or swept away by a cyclone.”
- She gives examples of how she’s seen the effects of climate change firsthand and that climate change is happening everywhere in the world we call home, yet there is no call to action because the future does not affect these people personally.
- With this rhetorical question, she is able to evoke a sense of pity from the audience because while this generation might get through their lifetimes fine, it alludes to a daunting future where our descendants are living in a dystopian planet which we once called home.
Logos-
- “In fact, UN figures indicate that 80 percent of people displaced by climate change are women” Women are majorly affected by climate change since they aren’t educated enough on protecting themselves and they are left to care for the elderly and children.
- “Women made up about 40 percent of the global workforce” in 2020 and even less in the gulf countries of the middle east, even though “women make up nearly half of the gulf”. Educating and including women could significantly grow the region and its workforce.