Drinking Water Rhetorical Analysis

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Drinking water, in this Ted talk, makes it clear that it expresses its attitudes, due to the good use of the arguments. She gets conveyed her positions using different rhetorical means. In the debate, there are many allegations, and for that reason you can use Toulmin's argumentation model to get an insight into the reasoning. In the ted talk she uses a lot of sarcasm, which is also why she manages to get through her audience. Drinkwater uses pathos when she says:” We live in a culture where being fat is seen as being a bad person – lazy, greedy, unhealthy, irresponsible and morally suspect”. In this quote she wants her audience to reflect about the problem and how serious she is about it. Furthermore she is fat, and therefore her ethos is