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A Rhetorical Analysis Of David Fiengold's 'Human Trafficking'

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Hunter McKenzie
Kelley Reno
English 1302
February 14, 2016

Human Trafficking Rhetorical Analysis Human trafficking is a hot button issue in today’s society, and their are quite a few myths about the said topic. Many first world country citizens believe these myths to be true, but not in the case of David Feingold, the author of “Human Trafficking”. Feingold argues against most of the most common myths in the trafficking industry. Feingold’s main goals are to display to the Feingold reader the common misconceptions and prove them wrong with textual evidence. The author is also trying to plead his case to ignorant or citizens who have little to no knowledge of the human trafficking issue. The article, “Human Trafficking” provides an excellent …show more content…

The author time and time again breaks down each myth will factual evidence. The essay starts off with an idea that the reader must look beyond their own emotions if they ever want to stop the trading and selling of human lives. The article ends with a large amount of statistics about how trafficking can not be driven by poverty. The main claim of the article is to clarify to the audience the myths of human trafficking. Feingold supports these claims by giving specific examples of these myths such as, “Most victims are trafficked into the sex industry”, “Tightening our borders will stop trafficking”, “Prosecution will stop trafficking”. The audience will most likely have a neutral or positive response because it is very hard to argue with factual evidence. There are quite a few stats throughout the article, but just an example would be when Feingold is disproving the myth that “trafficking is a big business controlled by organized crime”. The statistic states that “The ILO estimates the total illicit produced by trafficked forced laborers in one year to be just short of thirty two billion dollars. Although that is hardly an insignificant amount, it is a small business compared to the more than 320 billion international trade in illicit drugs.” (Feingold, 398.) The evidence is mostly sound, however many citizens would still argue that thirty two billion dollars is quite a lot of money.

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