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In these posts you will find different perspectives and viewpoints about one of the most important and biggest topics all round the world; world hunger. In these posts you will learn why people think we should be helping more and even why we shouldn’t be helping.In the article “The Time is Right to End World Hunger” by The National Catholic Reporter, they try to persuade people to start stepping up and helping people who are starving. The National Catholic Reporter provides this information in a cause and effect format addressing people who believe ending world hunger is a good thing and should happen soon. The author believes no system or government should tolerate a world where more than one billion people are struggling to get food or nutrition into their diet. They state that “people should make global equality a priority, and knows that in the future ending world hunger can be reality if we strive to make it happen.” I know that The Catholic Reporter is a reliable source because there is a website showing what they do and that it is an organization. They use ethos and pathos to persuade the readers by giving ethical facts and opinions, but also make the readers feel bad if they aren’t helping with world hunger.
In the article “The Shortage Isn’t Food, Its Democracy” written by Sojourners attempts to persuade people who go over to countries with hunger, to stop and let the country fix itself and change the way they run things. They think that the main reason there is a food shortage is all due to the democracy of the country. People always go to these countries to help but Sojourners thinks the country needs to help itself and change its own government sp they can get better. This article is written in a problem and solution text structure. Sojourners is a reliable source because they have been around for more than 40 years and the article was written in July of 2011. They use logos to persuade people to instead of helping hunger we help them build a better democracy. They argue that “that the countries with hunger problems have bad democracy and that’s what’s not providing food for starving people.”
In the article “Who will Bail out the World?” written by Arif Husain persuades readers to not stop working until the hungery all around the world have food. Arif uses a descriptive text structure when presenting all its facts in paragraphs. The author uses ethos to appeal to readers who really care and want to make a difference about this topic. I know this is a reliable source because I found out Arif Husain is a food advisor at the United Nations World Food Program. This article doesn’t present any conflicting evidence or other opinions. At the end he concludes with this “The world already has invested deeply in improving the lives of the hundreds of millions who still go hungry. Now is not the time to default on their future well being.”
