In Fred Pearce article Tv as birth control, he introduces his argument by asking a simple question "what is U.S family sizes compared with those of india?. This question gives the audience a background introduction of the main idea of the article, which is the how TV helps reduce the fertility rate in under developed and developing countries. He talks about some difficulties india faces is having a lot of young women of childbearing age. Hence, Pearce purpose of this question is to state that the birth rate in india has fallen dramatically to 2.5 children per woman of childbearing age.
According to the research of Lewis, Pearce reports what first appears to be a correlation(TV ownership). After conducting various researches of how Tv ownership …show more content…
First of all, he provides evidence through the research of Robert Jensen and Emily Oster. They conducted an interview in rural india villages and found out that TV’s influence on gender roles, advancing socially, and fertility rates was the same as the impact of an extra five years of female education.Their interviews revealed that when the new TV services arrived, women’s autonomy increased while fertility and the acceptability of domestic violence toward women significantly decreased. Women had the knowledge of what was happening in the world. Therefore, most women wanted to work, get an education instead of have more children and be abused.Pearce provides evidence to support his argument when he talks about the purpose of soap opera. “Soap operas give viewers time to develop strong emotional bonds with the characters, many of whom live as they do and experience the life traumas that they do”. In this statement, Pearce uses pathos to convince the audience that he has a vast knowledge on how TV sources such as soap operas affects the fertility …show more content…
He also indicates that the number of people who are over the age of 65 will more than twice as the rate of the global population between 2000 and 2050. Meanwhile, young people under the age of 65 take the smaller proportion of the population. Pearce claims that the government has no hand in reducing the fertility rate of a country, but women are making their own decision not to have more kids. He mentions a study conducted in Africa to support his argument “surveys show that most African women also want smaller families”. Women became aware that they do not need to produce large number of children in order to continue to the next
According to the research of Lewis, Pearce reports what first appears to be a correlation(TV ownership). After conducting various researches of how Tv ownership …show more content…
First of all, he provides evidence through the research of Robert Jensen and Emily Oster. They conducted an interview in rural india villages and found out that TV’s influence on gender roles, advancing socially, and fertility rates was the same as the impact of an extra five years of female education.Their interviews revealed that when the new TV services arrived, women’s autonomy increased while fertility and the acceptability of domestic violence toward women significantly decreased. Women had the knowledge of what was happening in the world. Therefore, most women wanted to work, get an education instead of have more children and be abused.Pearce provides evidence to support his argument when he talks about the purpose of soap opera. “Soap operas give viewers time to develop strong emotional bonds with the characters, many of whom live as they do and experience the life traumas that they do”. In this statement, Pearce uses pathos to convince the audience that he has a vast knowledge on how TV sources such as soap operas affects the fertility …show more content…
He also indicates that the number of people who are over the age of 65 will more than twice as the rate of the global population between 2000 and 2050. Meanwhile, young people under the age of 65 take the smaller proportion of the population. Pearce claims that the government has no hand in reducing the fertility rate of a country, but women are making their own decision not to have more kids. He mentions a study conducted in Africa to support his argument “surveys show that most African women also want smaller families”. Women became aware that they do not need to produce large number of children in order to continue to the next