Teenage Pregnancy: Genre Analysis of a YouTube Video and a Newspaper Article
Today teenage pregnancy is very common in the United States. The teenage years are from age 10 to 19, early pregnancy is a real problem at this time because teenage girls are having babies between 12 and 16 years of age. This problem is caused by the lack of information about sexuality and contraception, and the consequences it brings by having a baby at that age. Parents play an important role in this matter since they are not educating their children well because they are thinking that talking with them about sex are encouraging them to have sexual intercourse but in reality talking to them on time could prevent early pregnancies or even worse a disease. Many people
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The video is created by the Giving Birth Channel and the ethos is not that stronger because at the beginning of the video, the audience is being informed that the actors in it and the event are fictional and one as viewer questions whether what they are seeing is actually true, but in reality teenage pregnancy is a problem in today’s society. However, the rhetorical purpose of this video is to evoke emotions from the viewers by transmit to its audience a sense of pity for the girl in the video. The girl is 13 years old and in the video she looks very upset and its audience can assume she regrets getting pregnant because she can no longer spend time with her friend as she used to because the baby is preventing her doing this even though she is still very young. Another rhetorical purpose that is being presented in this video is it stated that 3 out of 10 girls in the US will get pregnant before their 20s. This provides logical evidence for many viewers to get more insight of today statistics in the United States about teenage pregnancy. The purpose of showing this data is to raise awareness in people who are watching the video of the importance of taking action so that this problem does not become bigger and that children are not taking care of other children and live stages of life fully and not quickly. There is time for