Whaling
Whaling has been and will be a very controversial issue, which is debated through out the world and, as a result arises in the media. In relation to the issues, Julian Ryall, Peter Singer and David Hastle all demonstrate their view points against whaling and whaling for food. Singers approach in persuading readers is more of an academic approach as well as emotional which is also taken by Ryall and Hastle. A broad range of persuasive techniques are used by all three writers, however some are repeated by more then one writer, to make their intention clear and powerful.
Ryall in her article ‘Let us kill and eat whale: Japanese’ (The Age) opens her argument by affectively positioning the reader to believe that not even the Japanese want the whales to be slaughtered for extra food on the menus. “Of the 56% who supported whales being slaughtered for food, the majority were men in their 40s and older.” The statistics (56%) used by Ryall outline the immense amount of people......
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