“Stop Trying to Save the World”
The article “Stop Trying to Save the World” is about social projects, the called NGOs, which have the objective to help poor people to get better conditions to live. The author Michael Hobbs, who has experience in the subject, shows how these projects are not well thought and most of times do not work in the way they are supposed to, because there is a lack of vision, and how they end up hampering the international development. According to him, he wants to undo the concept of the “Big Idea”, which is “once we identify the correct one, we can simply unfurl it on the entire developing world like a picnic blanket” (Hobbs). That is, most of times the projects are applied in a whole based just in a result of one …show more content…
To create the drama and emphasize his beliefs about the topic, Michael appeals to facts, showing the real situation and touching the audience by the problems that are happening over the years. Besides that, with a simple and kind of informal language, he goes straight to the point, which makes the audience follows him in the points presented. This can be drawn by the following quote: “Over the last year, I read every book, essay, and roman à clef about my field I could find. I came out convinced that the problems with international development are real, they are fundamental, and I might, in fact, be one of them” (Hobbs). The essence of the author’s argument is to show credibility to the audience, appealing to his inclusion in the subject and saying that the problems are not just invented. Also, he develops the article with a deductive line of reasoning, showing the details of projects and ideas first, and then transforming in a big …show more content…
Because of an incredible intimacy with the subject, the author uses data, statistics, researches and results during all the development of the text, convincing his audience by showing direct involvement with NGOs and with people who are constantly connected in this field. To draw the appeal of numbers to provide the audience a better understanding, Michael himself writes that “Textbooks cost $2 to $3 each. Deworming pills were as little as 49 cents. When Kremer calculated the kids’ bump in lifetime wages compared with the cost of treatment, it was a 60-to-1 ratio” (Hobbs). That is, in this sentence he is proving a study that gives additional information about two different ways to increase the school attendance, showing that medicine was a better option than study material in this specific situation. Besides that, he shows how this subject could be treated differently, giving solutions for the problems and always analyzing the situation with a pure
The article “Stop Trying to Save the World” is about social projects, the called NGOs, which have the objective to help poor people to get better conditions to live. The author Michael Hobbs, who has experience in the subject, shows how these projects are not well thought and most of times do not work in the way they are supposed to, because there is a lack of vision, and how they end up hampering the international development. According to him, he wants to undo the concept of the “Big Idea”, which is “once we identify the correct one, we can simply unfurl it on the entire developing world like a picnic blanket” (Hobbs). That is, most of times the projects are applied in a whole based just in a result of one …show more content…
To create the drama and emphasize his beliefs about the topic, Michael appeals to facts, showing the real situation and touching the audience by the problems that are happening over the years. Besides that, with a simple and kind of informal language, he goes straight to the point, which makes the audience follows him in the points presented. This can be drawn by the following quote: “Over the last year, I read every book, essay, and roman à clef about my field I could find. I came out convinced that the problems with international development are real, they are fundamental, and I might, in fact, be one of them” (Hobbs). The essence of the author’s argument is to show credibility to the audience, appealing to his inclusion in the subject and saying that the problems are not just invented. Also, he develops the article with a deductive line of reasoning, showing the details of projects and ideas first, and then transforming in a big …show more content…
Because of an incredible intimacy with the subject, the author uses data, statistics, researches and results during all the development of the text, convincing his audience by showing direct involvement with NGOs and with people who are constantly connected in this field. To draw the appeal of numbers to provide the audience a better understanding, Michael himself writes that “Textbooks cost $2 to $3 each. Deworming pills were as little as 49 cents. When Kremer calculated the kids’ bump in lifetime wages compared with the cost of treatment, it was a 60-to-1 ratio” (Hobbs). That is, in this sentence he is proving a study that gives additional information about two different ways to increase the school attendance, showing that medicine was a better option than study material in this specific situation. Besides that, he shows how this subject could be treated differently, giving solutions for the problems and always analyzing the situation with a pure