Speaker: WatchMojo is a sympathizer for the plight of endangered species.
Occasion: There are many animals that are endangered because of humanity’s greed for the animals or the greed for the land that the animals’ habitat is on.
Audience: The primary audience is people who continue to ruin the endangered species’ habitat or kill them. The secondary audience is the general public who could do something to stop the species from going extinct.
Purpose: The speaker hopes to bring awareness to the plight of these certain species. Beyond that, the speaker hopes to stir up sympathy within the audience that will cause them to try and stop the actions that place these animals on the endangered list.
Moves: The speaker uses pathos to appeal to the audience’s humanity as she attempts to make them feel guilty for their lack of contribution to try and save the animals. The speaker also uses logos as she presents statistics which prove that if every person in the world donated $10 to an organization which helped save endangered species, we could save the top 10 animals on the endangered list easily.
My Stance: I have personally always sympathized with animals; it makes me really sad when they get hurt or something, so to know that some animals are being killed off to the brink of extinction makes me very sad….but also very mad. I’m angry that some people in the world lack humanity and let their lust for materialistic things drive them to kill off animals. I wish that anyone who could contribute to an organization would contribute so the endangered species would have a chance of reviving their population and taken off the endangered list.
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