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Rhetorical Analysis Of A Toxic Work World By Anne Slaughter

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A Rhetorical Analysis from Anne-Marie Slaughter’s A Toxic Work World In “A toxic work World” by Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote September 18th, 2015 in The New York Times, Slaughter, the president of the New America and also an author of the forthcoming “Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family,” argues that becoming a working parent you aren’t able to maintain a family nor take care of their love ones such as their parents along with working a full time job, having to deal with needing to take off towards your children seeing how your job can be affected by termination on some levels. Slaughter also argues about how the effects of the work place results in either one spouse being a stay at home parent which most likely is the mother in this situation which isn’t how it should be even through some fathers do the same also. She also goes on to say how more of the younger generation coming to the work force with …show more content…

When it came to Slaughter writing this it shows her intended audience would be working parents and individuals who work in general. She’s making it more aware of how this is a problem in society now, Slaughters ethos is very much there she has sources left and right to back up anything she had an argument for. She doesn’t take anything out of context to make you second guess her writing, even though she’s not a writer for The New York Times she is also an author and she is in the process of finishing a book over this very thing. So she knows her facts very well, along with that she lets you experience pathos while reading her article because of the fact that if you are a working mother or father. This relates to you so much, dealing with a situation as this one if you are a parent who can barely keep up with working and taking care of your child this can relate to you which is why pathos is a big part of this

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