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Florence Kelley uses an abundant amount of rhetorical devices in her speech to express her feelings about child labor. Kelley uses sarcasm, repetition, and imagery in her speech to explain her thoughts on child labor. Kelley first uses sarcasm in her speech. She uses sarcasm by saying “Enlightened states.” This is sarcasm because in those “enlightened states” those states get older children to work in farms, cotton mills, and coal breakers. While in other states, they get young children to work in those places. The next device that Kelley uses in her speech is repetition. Kelley uses repetition by saying “Men increase, women increase, youth increase…” The repetition of the word “increase” makes this repetition but also explains that these
states are increasing the number of children that are working in these industries. Finally, Kelley uses imagery in her speech by saying “Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in the textile mills”. Kelley uses imagery to give the reader an insight of what the young ladies are going through while the men and the adults are resting. Florence Kelly uses plenty of rhetorical devices in her speech to explain her opinion on child labor. Specifically, these three devices give the reader plenty of information about her opinion on child labor. It is pretty clear that Kelley dislikes child labor and that she wants to put an end to it.
American journalist and politician Claire Boothe Luce, and her speech to the journalist at the Women's National Press Club, criticize the American press for surrendering fulfilling work for cheap dramatize stories. Luce, in her speech, discussed the many problems the journalist face in the writing community. This purpose is to introduce problems in the writing community. She uses happy tone to appeal to her uninterested colleagues, as well as, diction, ethos, pathos, and logos. Claire Luce gives a powerful speech while bringing the American press down.
Thatcher makes use of repetition at many different points throughout her writing. At one point starts a string of three different paragraphs with "others". In the 12th paragraph she starts every sentence with "Yet, he". The repetition helps her strengthen her eulogy about Ronald Regan.
In Florence Kelley's speech to the people attending the NAWSA convention, she uses emotional appeal to motivate her audience to convince their male counterparts to legalize voting for women, and also to persuade the males to help put an end to child labor.
Keller used a variety of methods in her speech. The majority of her words used pathos. For example, Keller said “The future of America rests on the backs of 80,000,000 working men and women and their children. We are facing a grave crisis in our natural life. The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.” Here, she used pathos to elicit a scared or angry response fr...
In order to establish a strong connection with the audience, through the use of ethos, Kelley employs personal pronouns. Words such as “we”, “us”, and “I” are consistently used to have the audience identify her as one of their people. This technique is used in the passage where it reads, “We do not wish this. We prefer to have our work done by men and women. But we are almost powerless. Not wholly powerless, however, are citizens who enjoy the right to petition. For myself, I shall use this power…” where Kelley levels with the audience and establishes unity against the horrors of child labor. The application of personal pronouns in her speech is to convey ethos and unify the audience, along with herself, against the sweating system.
Within her powerful and enticing argument, Kelley is repetitive over main concepts, introduces several examples of the horrible conditions and state policies, and praises the virtues of laws restricting the workday.
Throughout Kelley’s speech, she utilizes imagery to help prove her view that child labor is wrong. She points out that while “we sleep” there are “several thousand little girls… working in the textile mills, all the night through, in the deafening noise of the spindles and the looms spinning and weaving cotton and wool.” The listener of the speech can visualize the dreadful scene in which thousands of little girls are working in the textile mills. This imagery evokes a sense of sorrow from the listener. Also, the word “deafening” adds to the listener’s understanding that not only are young children working, but they are working dangerous and dreadful jobs. She also depicts an image of a girl who “ on her thirteenth birthday” could work from “ six at night until six in the morning.” This detail suggests that there is little happiness in the lives of these young children
I chose this word because the tone of the first chapter seems rather dark. We hear stories of the hopes with which the Puritans arrived in the new world; however, these hopes quickly turned dark because the Purtains found that the first buildings they needed to create were a prison, which alludes to the sins they committed; and a cemetery, which contradicts the new life they hoped to create for themselves.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, along with many other women, packed into a convention on a hot July day to all fight for a common cause; their rights. At the first Women’s Rights convention, Stanton gave a heroic speech that motivated the fight for the cause to be even stronger. Through Stanton’s appliances of rhetorical devices such as emotional, logical, and ethical appeals, she was able to her win her point, change the opinions of many, and persuade people to follow her.
She was now getting into the field of labor agitation and would change America forever. In 1903, she organized a march in which children, mutilated from their jobs, marched the streets to the home of Theodore Roosevelt in order to draw attention to the grueling and wicked child labor laws. “Federal laws against child labor would not come for decades, but for two months that summer, Mother Jones, with her street theater and speeches, made the issue front-page news.” This shows how after several attempts from previous progressive reformers, Jones was the only one whose protests were powerful and effective enough to open people’s eyes to the issues. A reason that Jones had become so effective was that of her exploration and observations. She frequently visited factories to observe the cruel working conditions in which people worked in and interviewed workers to get a feel for them and understand the brutality of the work. She stated herself that because of rough conditions, “The brain is so crushed as to be incapable of thinking, and one who mingles with these people soon discovers that their minds like their bodies are wrecked. Loss of sleep and loss of rest gives rise to abnormal appetites, indigestion, shrinkage of statue, bent backs and aching hearts.” By examining workplaces, she was able to gather empathy and sympathy for the workers who were suffering.
It was not until 1919 that women had the right to vote. If it was not for the hard work, determination, and perseverance from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women today still may not of had the privilege to vote. Because of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her hard work, women are now treated equally in our society today.
In the supplement, The History of Mary Prince we find the word licentious being used with a sexual connotation to describe the supposed behavior of a poor black slave named Mary Prince. Her master Mr. Woods argued how she had no value for the way she behaved under his care and found it enough reason to deny her manumission. Given the context in which the word is being used one would say the definition, “Disregarding the restraint of chastity; libertine, lascivious, lewd” (Oxford Dictionary), is the most appropriate definition of the word. Mr. Pringle, trying to shed light on this case, goes on by addressing Mr. Woods letter and saying, “He alleges that she was, before marriage, licentious, and even depraved (morally bad) in her conduct, and
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Evelia was expected to be overcome with emotions on the day of her Quinceañera. Evelias father was disappointed that his music did not bring her to tears. The meaning of the Quinceañera ceremony has changed drastically between Evelia and her parent’s generation. Her parents and family expect specific gender norms to be incorporated within the ceremony, but Evelia does not have the same ideals. She is expected to be overcome with emotion and completely fixated on marriage and beauty, but Evelia has different expectations for her life.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. For my speech reflection I chose to watch a video by Lizzie Velasquez. Lizzie Velasquez spoke about her experience with stumbling along a video on youtube that claimed she was the ugliest person alive, at just eleven years old. Velasquez gave an excellent speech that gave the listener heart-felt emotion, that connected herself with the listener on a personal level, and was intriging to listen to.