Put Your Money Where Their Mouths Are

I decided to write my rhetorical analysis essay on Nicholas D. Kristof's article "Put Your Money Where Their Mouths Are".  I chose this article not only because I thought the title was clever, but because I am interested in humanitarian interventions, but not overly passionate about this subject, so it would be easier to more effectively remove my bias from the article. The other subjects in the book were either not remotely interesting or a topic that I have a strong opinion about.
The purpose of Kristof's article is to convince his audience that they should invest money in school meals in third world countries to promote education and lessen child labor in that way, instead of forcing child labor laws on those countries that get a worse result than child labor. The audience he is addressing is people who are politically aware and involved in humanitarian work, mainly college age students. He does a marvelous job of convincing his audience because he uses a series of successful rhetorical devices. He uses a lot of pathos with specific stories and examples of child labor that really tugs at the readers' heartstrings. Like story about the ten year old from eastern Chad; how heartfelt was that? Kristof also uses logos by using a lot of statistics. It makes us think logically and understand his argument. I think that the article "Put Your Money Where Their Mouths Are" is very effective in convincing college age kids like us to help out child labor in a different more effective way.