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Illegal Sneaker Dealing


Hey kids!  Let’s talk about illegal sneaker dealing.  I recently watched a ted talk called The Secret Sneaker Market- And Why It Matters.  In this speech, Josh Luber talked about how popular sneaker brands, like Nike, dominate the secondary sneaker market.  He analyzes this sneaker market and compares it to the stock market. He starts the talk by revealing that he is a sneaker collector and keeps track of the sneaker market.  This is showing ethos.  He proves that he is credible.  He also makes it interesting for the audience by having pictures and having a chart.  He makes his speech interesting by describing the hype that sneaker collectors cause in the market.

He did, however, use rhetoric in a bad way consistently.  He compared the illegal selling of sneakers to drug dealing.  He said that this act was encouraging kids to start illegally selling things.  This was a false analogy.  Sneaker selling is not similar enough to drug dealing to be compared.  Sneaker selling is also not popular enough to affect kids the way that he described.

Overall I thought that his speech was not effective.  He failed to persuade me to care more about the sneaker market.  His analogies were not adequate and he just did not make the topic interesting enough.  He was passionate about sneaker marketing, but did not succeed in making me passionate as well.
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  1. AnonymousJune 4, 2016 at 5:01 PM

    Good job! Illegal sneaker dealing is a problem, and it needs to be stopped. I totally agree with everything you said, you pointed out all of rhetoric techniques perfectly! Well done:)

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  2. UnknownJune 17, 2016 at 1:21 PM

    Interesting introduction with the "Hey kids!", very interesting indeed. I enjoyed the topic, which isn't something I hear about everyday, as well as your insight.
    -Zach

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