Wal-Mart sucks

I was reading through all of the different articles in "Perspectives on Globalization" and was feeling pretty decepcionado. I wasn't really feeling any emotions, neither positive nor negative, about any of the articles. his I came upon the article "Wal-Martian invasion". Personally, I had never shopped at a Wal-Mart until my mission, and I got so mad at Wal-Mart during my mission for making my investigators work on Sundays that I really never want to go back. Basically what I'm trying to say is: I'm writing my Rhetorical Analysis on "Wal-Martian Invasion."  Yep-yep.

The author's purpose of writing this article was to argue the point that the way Wal-Mart treats it's workers is unhuman. She uses a lot of different literary devices in order to accomplish this. In this article, the author begins her argument by stating two differing opinions about Wal-Mart by politicians. This was a very effective way of introducing her topic because she openly recognizes the opposition to her argument in the very beginning. She then talks about the growth of Wal-Mart and some of the evils that have developed over time. Once accomplished, she focuses on the effect that the company has on it's individual employees and gives some statistics. She does so many effective things that I don't even know where to start and what to write about here in this short review. Overall, I think the article was very effective because of her hyperbole, her comprehensive ideas (Use of a TON of literary devices to convey her ideas), and finally, her ability to relate to the reader and draw sympathy for the Wal-Mart workers really take the cake.