Monday, April 20, 2009
walmart
In the documentary "The High Cost Of Low Prices," it talks about how horrible walmart is. Some reasons why it is so bad is because it puts smaller businesses out of business and they don't treat their employees well. Although it was a good documentary, it was extremely biased which isn't a very good way to argue your point of view. It also appealed to people's emotions which is effective when talking about the low wages and discrimiation that employees of walmart face. At the same time appealing to emotion makes the film a lot less acedemic. At one point the flim blatenly calls a ceo of walmart the devil. Even with all its facts and statistics, this film would have been a better argument with out being biased and didnt appeal so much to emotion.
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I agree with what you said about how the film was biased. I actually take the same side as the film but still believe that any argument is more effective when pure facts are used. Although it is much easier to pursuade people by using emotion, an argument will be stronger when using true facts.
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