Rhetorical Analysis Of TED Song

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In the TED talk both speakers, Jackley’s and Haugen’s main aim was to identify poverty and find the solution of that conflict. “Poverty, money- and love” by Jessica Jackley states her opinion about how we should try to assist the people who need help at the point of making a website called Kiva. Try to understand each other and make our tomorrow better. While on the other side we have “The hidden reason for poverty the world needs to address now” by Gary Haugen. As he discusses the protection and equal right of poor. Although both articles argued about providing the poor with opportunities by using rhetorical devices like ethos, claim, logos, and pathos. However, Haugen used pathos was more appealing as he used heart-wrenching real life stories. …show more content…
However, Jackley uses more of the logos in her TED Talk to prove her point which was based on the website called Kiva. As Jackley states in her video that she and her team created a website called Kiva where people could loan money to people around the world in order to help them create their businesses. In here Jackley’s real goal is to help out people and also encourage others to support her dream. “We said, "Our little experiment has been a success. Let's start for real." That was our official launch. And then that first year, October '05 through '06, Kiva facilitated $500,000 in loans. The second year, it was a total of 15 million.” In the quote, Jackley states the part of her success through Kiva and how she plan to support become true. Those numbers show that Jackley used many logos in her talk in order to get the attention of the audience. While, Gary on the other side used logos in his talk as he talked about the poor and their struggles. For example, he talked about many people being in slavery today. As well as a number of children who died and dies of poverty. Gary’s main concentration is that he focused on the poverty really deeply where he talked about the numbers of people who die of poverty as well as today how many people are enslaved because of their status. “Thirty-five …show more content…
This gives the audience an idea what have been going on around the world. Also, this comparison is pretty compelling as both of the author's used pathos in the video. Lastly, this comparison gives us better understanding or give us an idea of what side should we take or what are some ways we could help people. These shows our understanding on how we show humanity to the world after being acknowledged about these stories and

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