The way the author goes about doing so makes it look like she made all of her information up, and it is hard to take any of it seriously. For example, “In 2000, only 40 percent of the rural population had access to safe water in Ghana” (para. 5), after which she does not refer to where she got the information. The article would have had a much more effective logos argument if the author would have simply added a few references here and there. The one thing Tweneboah’s article does better is, that it more effectively crafted a pathos argument, because it takes a focus on the people affected by the problem, not just the problem like the second article. It makes the reader you feel bad for the women there, as it goes over hardship after hardship that they face every day. For example, “...women have to walk 3-5 hours a day to collect wood fuel for cooking and heating” (para. 10). Not only that but it explains how completely oblivious to the pollution that these women …show more content…
The only emotion you really feel is disgust in the article, when they talk about how they use wastewater to water their vegetables. “The common sources of irrigation water are drains, streams, ponds and shallow wells, which are in most cases contaminated with diluted or raw untreated wastewater generated from the cities” (para. 3), and then it goes on later to see they eat these vegetables raw without trying anything to get rid of the pollutants on