Talking To Terrorist Rhetorical Analysis

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From an anthropological perspective I, who is the age of twenty, looked like the youngest person in the audience, while the oldest person look to be in his seventies. With gender, the audience seem to have slightly more males, which a good portion seem to homosexual men, including one transgender male. Noticing race, majority of the audience was Caucasians, with a variety of other races, Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics. As for diversity with the performers there were a total of eight actors five males and three women. The cast race was made up of one black female, two Middle Eastern men, two Caucasian females, and three Caucasian men. Age, they seem to range from mid-twenties, the black female, to mid-forties, one of the Middle Eastern male. During the intermission of the show many people socialized, and while overhearing their conversation majority of the audience members had some sort of connection …show more content…
One being the creation of Talking to Terrorist, for the writer to create the show he needed the ability to talk too many of different people in many different areas that are separated with a great amount of distance. With the help of technology it easy to travel and communicate around the world. A biographic show, like Talking to Terrorist would have taken many years to create if it was in production in the 1920s. The show also shows Globalization key dynamic of Time and Space with some of the stories of the characters. In the show, the characters was explain how terrorism works when it comes to recruiting for the cause, one terrorist mentions that they contact people through the web and telephones, even sometimes with people traveling around the world personally to spread the beliefs of what they are fighting for. The show is also travelling information, the audience is now more educated on the topic of terrorist because of the

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