Title: “Shop ’til We Drop?”
By: Robert J. Samuelson
This essay talks about how Americans spend so much money every year buying everything they “need” and want in their American lives. The evidence of the usage of ethos, pathos, and logos are very clear. Samuelson uses [logos] statistics of which its numbers have amazed me and of the ethos persuasive appeal, he uses the disgusted tone to express how sickening it is for people to spend so much money is such a relative short amount of time.
Spending in the U.S., relative to other countries, has the biggest difference. The essays suggests that countries such as France and Japan have only 55-60 per cent of its population’s GDP (gross domestic product) are consumed in shopping, whereas the United State’s population’s GDP spending is the highest, towering in at a whopping 70 per cent.
The ethos part of the essay is also very evident. The author uses sources as to make himself a very creditable source. He has cited major sources which make myself feel as if I would be able to trust his facts. The charts and graphs included in his paper also come from a reliable source. (The Federal Reserve Board,) which displays data of every fourth quarter of each year, starting in 1946 and terminating in 2002.