My topic for this paper is the Umbrella Revolution, or the Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong. I have decided to do this topic because as I had previously said on my Rhetorical Analysis Formal Proposal, this topic is extremely controversial, and depending on the audience, they have different perspectives towards this problem. Because of this topic, I have been discussing this with many family members and have argued about my “position”. I personally believe that I am in a position that is in between the two sides of this situation. Yes, I believe that people should have democracy because I believe that it’s their natural rights to be able to choose their own “leader”, yet I also think that protesters should do it in a way that doesn’t affect other people’s lives negatively. Because of this protest, it became more difficult for people to get around the city. I’m probably not going to use the CNN anymore because as time went on, I found out the protesters in Hong Kong were no longer in peaceful protest, and violent protest started. Because of the violent protest, my support for the pro-democracy groups changed to be in the middle of both sides. My research question is how can protesters get democracy without serving negatively affecting other people’s lives?
My audiences for this paper will be the protesters, and people that are protesting for the protest. Recently, I saw the news, and reporters indicated that many people are struggling to live their lives normally due to all the protesting. They are “protesting” for the protest. Because my audiences are protesters, I will most likely to use more ethos and pathos to move my audiences. Along with that, I might add some statistics on the paper in order to let people see how the protest might affect the economy as a whole. With statistics I know that my audience can more likely to see how their actions are affecting others negatively.I will not use that source as strongly because that will most like shift my group of audience to more of government officials, which is not what I’m looking for. I read a controversial article talking about Kenny G’s visit to the protesting area, changing his words after China warned him to be cautious of his words, when he told protesters that he hopes that they will win, clearly supporting the protesters. I’m not sure whether I should put this article on the paper because I don’t know whether this article is appropriate to put in it, but I want to emphasize the social status of Kenny G in China in terms of his music, and that his position on this issue is that they only want peace within the country, while believing that people should have the right to vote, just like the
