Rhetorical Analysis Of Gerry Smith: The Capability Of Sympathy
The Capability of Sympathy
Imagine a woman desperately scrounging for crumbs in the cupboards of her kitchen. Her face sunken with grief as she looks for anything that might quell the pleas of her starving son. Her search turns up empty-handed, and she is then forced to either let her child go hungry or find another means of obtaining food. Many scenarios like this can be found in Gerry Smith’s “How a Government Computer Glitch Forced Thousands of Families to go Hungry. It is an article about a recent event occurring back around 2010 of how faulty programs provided by the Accenture Company left many families without food on the table. Not only were food stamps affected by their flawed programing, but so were other welfare applications regarding insurances. While the topic of the core reading is interesting enough on its own the author uses a number of methods to keep the reader’s attention. Through the use of rhetorical appeals the author plays off the sympathy and moral of his audience by providing examples of individuals affected by the lack of food stamps, pointing out the lack of effort put toward computer programs designated for use by the poor, and by calling North Carolina out for its many technological problems.
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In another of his pieces, “Why Credit Card Companies Couldn’t Stop Hacks At Target And Home Depot” he provides a gratuitous amount of evidence in supporting the ideas presented. Using such statements as “Companies are issuing new credit cards that use an embedded microchip and a PIN code instead of a magnetic stripe and a signature to authorize transactions,” (Smith) to offer present days facts and fixes. Many of the author’s titles to his pieces also tend to be rather long and descriptive as to what the article is about. Using choice words to better catch his audience’s
Imagine a woman desperately scrounging for crumbs in the cupboards of her kitchen. Her face sunken with grief as she looks for anything that might quell the pleas of her starving son. Her search turns up empty-handed, and she is then forced to either let her child go hungry or find another means of obtaining food. Many scenarios like this can be found in Gerry Smith’s “How a Government Computer Glitch Forced Thousands of Families to go Hungry. It is an article about a recent event occurring back around 2010 of how faulty programs provided by the Accenture Company left many families without food on the table. Not only were food stamps affected by their flawed programing, but so were other welfare applications regarding insurances. While the topic of the core reading is interesting enough on its own the author uses a number of methods to keep the reader’s attention. Through the use of rhetorical appeals the author plays off the sympathy and moral of his audience by providing examples of individuals affected by the lack of food stamps, pointing out the lack of effort put toward computer programs designated for use by the poor, and by calling North Carolina out for its many technological problems.
Smith heavily …show more content…
In another of his pieces, “Why Credit Card Companies Couldn’t Stop Hacks At Target And Home Depot” he provides a gratuitous amount of evidence in supporting the ideas presented. Using such statements as “Companies are issuing new credit cards that use an embedded microchip and a PIN code instead of a magnetic stripe and a signature to authorize transactions,” (Smith) to offer present days facts and fixes. Many of the author’s titles to his pieces also tend to be rather long and descriptive as to what the article is about. Using choice words to better catch his audience’s