Learning From Dirty Jobs Video Analysis

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What is the worst job you have ever had? Many people have to work jobs that you would never even consider doing. Doing these kinds of jobs can change people for better or for worse. The video “Learning from Dirty Jobs" explains how harder work conditions affect the workers in the environment in different ways.

Filmed in Dec 2008, Ted Talk video "Mike Rowe: Learning from Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe, host of Dirty Jobs tells his story of hard jobs and how they affect the workers. Dirty Jobs is a TV series on the Discovery Channel in which Mike Rowe is shown performing difficult, strange, disgusting, or messy occupational duties alongside the typical employees. The show was filmed for eight seasons from 2005 through 2012. This shows that Mike Rowe
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Easy jobs are hard to get, is in simplified words what both videos were explaining. Both videos talk about how harder jobs are out there for people Lots of people in the the US don't have jobs when they are either able to or just don't want to try. These people have the opportunity to work, but they don't want to do the harder jobs like biting the balls off of a sheep.

The first video used Ethos or the ethical appeal, which means, to convince an audience of the author’s credibility or character. It showed this by using Mike Rowe, the host of Dirty Jobs, he is a well known and credited person so the video being provided by himself show that the video can be creditable. He is also popular so having hi,m give the presentation can bring people to look at it just because he is in the thumbnail

The second video uses ethos by using Wingham Rowan who directs the UK's Beyond Jobs project. He has written books, articles and policy papers for bodies across the political spectrum about the potential of e-markets backed by governments. Previously, he hosted and produced Britain's longest-running TV series about the Internet. Because of this he is popular and works the same way as Mike

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