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I've chosen to do my rhetorical analysis paper on the chapter 4-C article, The Globalization of Poverty. I feel that the article does a poor job at convincing the audience. He first starts out with an intro about September 11^th, 2001 and what the government officials are doing to try to “counter terrorism”. Well that interesting but if you read the rest of the article there is no where else that he brings up September 11^th. I think that the intro didn't really fit in with the rest of the article. From the intro I get the idea that he will tell us what we should do to counter terrorism but he does no such thing. He argues that globalization will make poor people poorer. What does that have to do with terrorism? A point in his argument was how the IMF was not working. Do you know what the IMF is? Me either. He throws out those terms expecting us to know what they mean. To me not knowing what he was talking about killed that argument for me. A big portion of his article is all these facts about how the gap between the poor and rich hes increased. He throws out all these facts and numbers but fails to explain how globalization is the reason for it. The big no no that the author does is he does not give any suggestions or present any plans on how to fix it. Hes just another one of those writers that criticize the ones in charge but has not the mind to fix it.