TA: Contract Human trafficking

This is an attempt to work on contracts for papers, which go in the introductions. My understanding of this is that contracts are definitely not thesis statements—the stance of the author is not given away all at once. This is where I get mixed up. The contract is a promise to the reader but not exactly a statement of where the paper will eventually wind up. From Sinclair Lewis’ article his contract is fairly straightforward: I am rejecting the Pulitzer Prize and this is why I am doing it. For Brand’s article, the contract is much less obvious. Hence, the contract is probably best put in taking into regard the audience the article is written for.

Argument: There needs to be more effort to stopping human trafficking in America
Target audience: Voters in California, and other border states who probably are not happy with illegal immigration.

Imagine for an instance that you are invited by a friend or a good acquaintance to take up a job over the summer. You’re excited—you get to move to a different place, make some good money and have a great time. You arrive and what you thought would be a dream job becomes a living hell—something you hear about happening in other parts of the world but never imagined it would happen to you. You are forced to work twelve hours a day sewing dresses in a tiny room with no shower, measly food and under constant guard. Every night you are threatened and abused emotionally and otherwise so your courage to escape is beaten out of you. This is the life that many immigrant workers face every day. The terrible thing is that these conditions are happening right in our own country. The extent of the problem begs an answer to the question, what are we doing about human trafficking in the United States, and what can be done to help those forced into the awful reality of hidden slavery.?