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Audience, Purpose, and Context


1. The audience would care about this topic because it concerns a current event, the Olympics, and a controversy surrounding athletes that were competing at the event. They might already know about the controversy by listening to the news, watching the Olympics, or reading about it in the newspaper since it is fairly recent.
2. This topic helps me address the assignment’s purposes because I am dealing with a cartoon that illustrates the use of visual rhetoric. This cartoon by Mike Peters uses rhetoric in order to show support for his argument. This topic will help to expand my learning not only through researching this current event, but also it will help me learn about the appeals used in this and other examples of rhetoric.This topic will easily allow me to create a paper that adheres to the length requirement for the assignment. There is a lot of information available about the topic, and the cartoon I am using is a good example of rhetoric and it is easily relatable to the main point of using an illustration to support an argument. This topic concerns both international and national events because the event occurred in China, but it dealt with all the countries