Rhetorical Analysis On Human Trafficking

Speaker Analysis of Human Trafficking Rhonda Hendrickson, the director of the YWCA in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania visited Shippensburg University November 16th and gave a presentation about human trafficking. Ms. Hendrickson stated that although it is not seem to be a large problem in the United States, human tracking is now considered to be one of the fasted growing criminal industries. This is not only true in the United States, but for the entire world. The only illegal practice that has a bigger profit in today’s world is drug trafficking. Human trafficking produces approximately thirty-two bullion dollars in an annual revenue and this number is still increasing with the increase of popularity of human trafficking. Some reasons that this illegal practice is growing are because it has a low risk, it is very hard to find where and when this offenses occur. Along with it having a low risk, it also produces a high profit and as previously stated it is still rising. …show more content…
Agenda setting is defined as what the media tells us to think about and how to think about it. Human trafficking is not something that is covered heavily in the United States via the media, if it is ever covered. Even though statics state that human trafficking is a growing illegal industry it gets very little to and media light. There are two main steps to the agenda setting theory, first is agenda setting which transfers the selected items to our agenda. The second stage is a process called framing, this when the media takes the selected items and creates an idea to be followed with them. The way that selected items are presented to the viewers help shape what they think about these items. Since human trafficking is not shown in the media, if it is shown at all, it creates the idea in the viewer’s minds that is not a problem that the world is currently