The Hunting Ground
Taryn Carter
Purpose
The overall purpose of the documentary was to bring awareness to the lack of consequences for sexual assault on college campuses.
Thesis
Sexual assault is becoming a problem in college campuses, and often the accused have no consequences. The documentary " The Hunting Ground" is convincing because it uses an appeal to ethos, new archives, and several statistics.
Ethos
In the documentary ethos is being portrayed when we see interviews from the sexual assault victims, interviews from school board presidents and teachers, and also parents that to had to endure sexual assault from their children.
Archives
In the documentary footage archival footage is also being portrayed in the documentary when we see footage from the accused football player Jameis Winston, the news reporting sexual assault on college campuses, abd
Statistics
In the documentary the last element that is being portrayed is statistics. One statistic was that more than 16% of college women are sexually assaulted. Another statistic was that 88% of college women sexually assaulted on college campuses don't report. One last statistic was that
Conclusion
In conclusion