Often in rhetorical writing especially when analyzing another person’s writing one comes across disturbing facts and stories that we wish would be to good to be true. However there is no running from the facts no matter how grotesque or horrible they might be. Horrible is just one of many words to describe the subject of the paper Bob Jeffcott wrote. The subject he chose was sweatshops and slave labor, which just by hearing the subject causes many to flare up in emotion. He offers his point of view from one who doesn’t have to go see these travesties first hand but still is informed. This is more than can be said for most people since people tend to like to think about themselves most of the time and choose to shut out unpleasant realties …show more content…
For example he mentions nike and other brand name products that actually have a big problem with sweatshops and poor working conditions tied to their products. Since younger people tend to wear and advertise these brands they will pick up on the issue much more quickly and will hopefully feel the need to at least give the issue some thought. Now what people actually do is ultimately up to each individual since people are subject to both change and not doing anything that has seemingly no effect on …show more content…
He first addresses the people’s desire to help but yet they are not doing much with their current methods. He explains that people are going about it the wrong way and should be doing it another way because the impact they think they are making isn’t there. In the next section he talks about globalization and how it has opened the door for sweatshops with terrible conditions and low safety and pay to exist. “To lower production costs, garment companies began to outsource the manufacture of their products to subcontract factories owned by Asian manufacturers in Hong Kong, Korea and Taiwan. Companies like Nike became ‘hollow manufacturers’ whose only business was designing fashionable sportswear and marketing their brands.”