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Rhetorical Analysis On Adoption
Parents and or previous parents,
Over the years kids have been abandoned or left alone without a family. A lot of the times kids are put up for adoption and once they are in the adoption agency they don’t end up finding a home or a family of their own. In foreign countries a lot of the time children have families but their parents can’t give them the nutrition and the life they need to survive. Did you know, that around the world 16,000 children die a day due to the lack of food, clean water, medicine and sanitation failures (Unicef, 2016). This has became an issue all around the world due to lack of supplies for a healthy happy life. A lot of the times an advertisement will be presented about this certain situations or situations similar to
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This advertisement can be seen as an appeal to emotion due to the fact it is showing a little girl holding hands with two mannequins showing she either has no parents or the parents she has aren’t always easy to talk to. The ad is presented in black and white to show sadness and loneliness. On the ad there is written a phrase, the phrase is: “Every child needs a family.” it is written in a little girl/boys handwriting to show that the message is being conveyed by a child to show the message is coming directly from her/him. More often than not the reason why children are left alone is because they are put up for adoption at a young age and they are generally never adopted from their adoptive homes. Kids are put up for adoption due to the fact either someone got pregnant and couldn’t keep him or her or the fact that they didn’t want to take the responsibility to have to raise a child. An argument often occurs when talking about adoption, “adoption is better than just getting an abortion.” Yes, this may be true but giving a child up for adoption is putting them in a situation that doesn’t always have a positive outcome. Sometimes when getting older an adoptive child may eventually find out they were adopted and they may end up not feeling as accepted or as a part of the family as they once thought they were which may cause them to isolate themselves. In this advertisement created by Unicef this exact …show more content…
Reasons behind abandonment of children are: kids being put up for adoption, no inner communication in a family, and sadly an unpreventable reason the death of a child’s parents. Advertisements are often used to persuade you to help the cause and to get you to help prevent these issues from happening. Some ads try to convey a message that will make you feel obligated to help the cause. The company known as Unicef is known for conveying messages that catches an audience’s eye. In a 2014 advertisement created by Unicef does exactly this. The advertisement has to do with the abandonment and loneliness of children in growing countries. This ad catches the attention of its viewers by using rhetoric appeals such as: ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos appeals to an expert, pathos appeals to emotion, and logos appeals to ethics. These three rhetoric appeals are found in almost every advertisement, some appeals may be harder to spot than others. So, are you going to help to prevent abandonment and alienation of

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