A Rhetorical Analysis Of Malik's Video On Rape

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In Malik’s video, he talks strongly about rape and the destruction that it does to women. His tone throughout the whole video shows the pain that he feels for women who deal with college campus rapes as well as showing his anger toward college boards that don’t do much about the rapes that are reported. Malik talks about the terror and destruction of rape on college campuses by mentioning two women who were raped on their college campus. He first mentions Jeanne Clery who was raped and killed in her college dorm. He then mentions Lena Sclove who was raped on her college campus, and not only had to transfer schools because her offender was only suspended for one year, but suffered from PTSD and back injuries resulting from her assault. Malik uses these instances …show more content…
It gave information about actual women who were raped and what hoops they had to jump through in order to learn to cope with it. This video also differs from my other sources as it shows a man voicing his opinion and anger towards rape rather than a woman doing so. Malik’s video is a reliable source to my research as he uses valid information and real victims of rape. This video came out to be biased, for it only talks about women getting raped and places the blame on the men. It doesn’t say anything about men getting raped or about women being the ones to blame. Although this video is biased, Malik offers a very clear opinion and very clear details of why rape is a crime.

This source fits in with the rest of my sources for it shows someone who shows power of voices as well as someone who is voicing anger against rape. Since this video was so powerful, it was able to help shape my argument as it showed a man voicing his opinion versus a woman. This showed me that not only women are able to voice their opinion on rape or show anger towards rape, but men can do the

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