Charity Work

I have mixed feelings about both the necessity and the logistics of this assignment. I believe that the idea of promoting a charity specifically may not be the best way to show that we have learned rhetorical skills because the very idea of charity may be contested (as emerson showed). It also is heavily in favor of an appeal to pathos because logically there isn't really any need for charities at all. And once the idea of promoting a charity is required, the requirements on that charity seemed at once too imprecise and too limiting. To find a charity that expands upon an individual's chance for success limits one's options too excessively or becomes too vague based on one's ideas. Take the Lord's pantry, for example. It hands out food to the poor, one of the main goals of charities assisting those in need. Does this expand their ability for success by allowing them to survive, or is fulfilling a basic necessity just perpetuating a never-ending cycle of poverty? Where is the line drawn? For these reasons, I am a bit confused and a bit anxious about the outcome of this assignment.