Source Project Nim

Genre Documentar y

Intended Audience Interested teens and adults

Purpose To teach people that wild animals should stay in the wild.

Visual/Auditor y Elements The director includes real scenes of when the people taking care of Nim are actually working with him.

Theme Taking a wild animal out of their habitat is very dangerous.

Rhetorical Device/Appeal EthosThe close experience all of the people had with Nim. PathosImages and stories of what happened to Nim, during and after the experiment. This made the audience feel sorry for Nim and for the people that were close to him. LogosThe use of statistics like: Nim was part of our family and could not be taken and put away as any other wild animal This made the audience feel bad for Nim. EthosThe real stories used of the animal attacks PathosStories and real facts of what the animals go through when they are transported from place to place. LogosThe use of facts like: We or have a mortality of about 80 or 90 percent. This makes the readers experience sadness for the animals.

Inside the Exotic Animal Trade

Article

Interested adults

To inform people of the consequence s of having owning an exotic animal

Real stories of attacks are used in this article to make the information more credible.

Owning exotic animals can not only hurt the person but also the animal.

Edie Falco Reveals why animal circuses arent for Kids

Article

Interested Adults (especiall y parents)

To convince people that taking kids to an animal circus is not a good thing.

Knowledge of what elephants are like and how they are affected when put in a circus.

Animals used for entertainmen t suffer because they are taken out of their natural habitats.

EthosThe knowledge she has of the elephants and the comparison she makes of herself and the elephants. PathosReal facts about elephants and how they are treated in the circuses. LogosThe use of facts about elephants like: Elephants have a very strong family bond This makes the reader almost feel what the elephant taken away from their mother is feeling.