Audience and Purpose
Matt Friedman’s purpose in his Ted talk is to inform people and gain their support in his efforts to stop human trafficking. He is not there merely to entertain the people but give them reason into helping stop human trafficking. This is clearly brought to the attention of the viewer because he is not being too flashy and he gives you facts to open your eyes. The audience he is trying to reach out to are people who like to volunteer and those who have influential jobs, for example he mentions college students that can help with making websites. Those college students that make websites can help spread the awareness of this issue. He also mentions people who can give money to the cause. They too are the audience he is trying to reach out to. By giving money, people can help save a person from going back to being a slave to the human traffickers. Matt mentions that, “ ten dollars in Cambodia will allow a person to stay in a shelter for a week.” The way he speaks is quite formal, which is appropriate for his subject because there is no benefit in joking around or acting informal when talking on such a sad issue like human trafficking. It also fit towards the type of audience he is trying to reach out to because college students, people with influential jobs, and people who have money are going to react more to a person being formal. In the end, the audience is able to comprehend this video’s purpose clearly.
Rhetorical Issues
Friedman’s presentation consisted of all of the three types of rhetorical appeals. Logos would have to be the appeal that Friedman uses the best because he brings up quite a lot of shocking information. For instance, he mentions that every 15 seconds a person is a victim of human trafficking and that there is nearly 21 million slaves due to human trafficking, which is more then we have ever had. He displays his evidence of how big the problem of human trafficking is by using a total of six charts. For Pathos, He tells a story about when he first encountered human trafficking. In the story he encounters a little girl that runs up to him at a brothel in Mumbai asking him to save her, but the police officer told him they could not because they would not let them leave alive. When he came back with more officers she was gone. This made the audience feel great sadness for this little girl who was a victim of human trafficking and could not be saved. There is also a picture of a hand being chained and handcuffed that brings out the harshness of this crime. Lastly, the ethos comes from Matt Friedan and two of his charts are backed by the United States State Department on Human Trafficking. The author himself has credibility because he is an international human trafficking expert with over 20 years of experience as an activist and is currently the Regional Project Manager of the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP). Overall, the three rhetorical appeals are covered and done well.
Structure and Delivery
This videos structure is set up to be a presentation of a speech. The time of the video is sixteen minutes and forty-five seconds. It is taken place in what looks like an auditorium of some sort. While it is set up for a speech, Matt Friedman has behind him to the right, from the audiences view, a monitor where he shows all of his visual aids. His visual aids consist of a picture of a poor woman and graphs. Matt Friedman starts of his speech with a story that gets the audience emotionally interested into his speech. After the story, he goes on the talk about some of the facts about human trafficking. Lastly, he tells his audience how they can get involved in stopping human trafficking. All of these elements contribute the purpose of this video by getting them interested, teaching them about the issue, and lastly telling them how to get involved. A person will not help the videos purpose if they are not interest in the issue at hand. People cannot argue for an issue if they do not know anything about it, and they will not do anything for the issue if they do not know how to help. If one of those elements are missing the purpose of this video goes to shreds.
Personal Views
This video brought to us by Ted is a very jaw dropping speech by Matt Friedman. I never knew that human trafficking was such a huge issue in this work and in the United States. The stories he tells are heart breaking and what he speaks of is almost unimaginable. I count not imagine myself being sold to a company to do labor that I would not even get paid for or being forced to sell my body. The nearly 21 million people who have been sold through human trafficking have given this business a profit of 32 billion dollars, which is second to drug smuggling. Matt Friedman does a good job in my opinion in keeping everything balanced from facts to emotional appeal. This video has gotten me interested in trying to help this cause and I hope my website can somehow contribute to growing the awareness of the issue.
Matt Friedman’s purpose in his Ted talk is to inform people and gain their support in his efforts to stop human trafficking. He is not there merely to entertain the people but give them reason into helping stop human trafficking. This is clearly brought to the attention of the viewer because he is not being too flashy and he gives you facts to open your eyes. The audience he is trying to reach out to are people who like to volunteer and those who have influential jobs, for example he mentions college students that can help with making websites. Those college students that make websites can help spread the awareness of this issue. He also mentions people who can give money to the cause. They too are the audience he is trying to reach out to. By giving money, people can help save a person from going back to being a slave to the human traffickers. Matt mentions that, “ ten dollars in Cambodia will allow a person to stay in a shelter for a week.” The way he speaks is quite formal, which is appropriate for his subject because there is no benefit in joking around or acting informal when talking on such a sad issue like human trafficking. It also fit towards the type of audience he is trying to reach out to because college students, people with influential jobs, and people who have money are going to react more to a person being formal. In the end, the audience is able to comprehend this video’s purpose clearly.
Rhetorical Issues
Friedman’s presentation consisted of all of the three types of rhetorical appeals. Logos would have to be the appeal that Friedman uses the best because he brings up quite a lot of shocking information. For instance, he mentions that every 15 seconds a person is a victim of human trafficking and that there is nearly 21 million slaves due to human trafficking, which is more then we have ever had. He displays his evidence of how big the problem of human trafficking is by using a total of six charts. For Pathos, He tells a story about when he first encountered human trafficking. In the story he encounters a little girl that runs up to him at a brothel in Mumbai asking him to save her, but the police officer told him they could not because they would not let them leave alive. When he came back with more officers she was gone. This made the audience feel great sadness for this little girl who was a victim of human trafficking and could not be saved. There is also a picture of a hand being chained and handcuffed that brings out the harshness of this crime. Lastly, the ethos comes from Matt Friedan and two of his charts are backed by the United States State Department on Human Trafficking. The author himself has credibility because he is an international human trafficking expert with over 20 years of experience as an activist and is currently the Regional Project Manager of the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP). Overall, the three rhetorical appeals are covered and done well.
Structure and Delivery
This videos structure is set up to be a presentation of a speech. The time of the video is sixteen minutes and forty-five seconds. It is taken place in what looks like an auditorium of some sort. While it is set up for a speech, Matt Friedman has behind him to the right, from the audiences view, a monitor where he shows all of his visual aids. His visual aids consist of a picture of a poor woman and graphs. Matt Friedman starts of his speech with a story that gets the audience emotionally interested into his speech. After the story, he goes on the talk about some of the facts about human trafficking. Lastly, he tells his audience how they can get involved in stopping human trafficking. All of these elements contribute the purpose of this video by getting them interested, teaching them about the issue, and lastly telling them how to get involved. A person will not help the videos purpose if they are not interest in the issue at hand. People cannot argue for an issue if they do not know anything about it, and they will not do anything for the issue if they do not know how to help. If one of those elements are missing the purpose of this video goes to shreds.
Personal Views
This video brought to us by Ted is a very jaw dropping speech by Matt Friedman. I never knew that human trafficking was such a huge issue in this work and in the United States. The stories he tells are heart breaking and what he speaks of is almost unimaginable. I count not imagine myself being sold to a company to do labor that I would not even get paid for or being forced to sell my body. The nearly 21 million people who have been sold through human trafficking have given this business a profit of 32 billion dollars, which is second to drug smuggling. Matt Friedman does a good job in my opinion in keeping everything balanced from facts to emotional appeal. This video has gotten me interested in trying to help this cause and I hope my website can somehow contribute to growing the awareness of the issue.
Friedman, M. (2012, November 8). Every 15 Seconds: Matt Friedman at TEDxSanJoaquin. Retrieved February 11, 2015, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU9TeVofkDo