Madeleine Albright was the United States Secretary of State who gave a commencement speech to the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College in 1977. Albright uses imagery, anecdotes, emotive language and empathy to convey her message, inspiring her audience to embrace the faith that their courage and perseverance will make a difference. Throughout the speech, Albright illustrates the challenges facing both individuals and nations, stressing the importance of choosing to act with courage and faith. She emphasizes America's leadership in global affairs, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the efforts to create a future for Europe in partnership with every democracy, including Russia. Albright's emphasis on the importance of U.S. leadership in
Samir Boussarhane During the early 20th century in the U.S, most children of the lower and middle class were workers. These children worked long, dangerous shifts that even an adult would find tiresome. On July 22, 1905, at a convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia, Florence Kelley gave a famous speech regarding the extraneous child labor of the time. Kelley’s argument was to add laws to help the workers or abolish the practice completely.
During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s the fight for equal and just treatment for both women and children was one of the most historically prominent movements in America. Courageous women everywhere fought, protested and petitioned with the hope that they would achieve equal rights and better treatment for all, especially children. One of these women is known as Florence Kelley. On July 22, 1905, Kelley made her mark on the nation when she delivered a speech before the National American Woman Suffrage Association, raising awareness of the cruel truth of the severity behind child labor through the use of repetition, imagery and oxymorons.
Florence Kelley was a social and political reformer that fought for woman’s suffrage and child labor laws. Her speech to the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association initiated a call to action for the reform of child labor laws. She explains how young children worked long and exhausting hours during the night and how despicable these work conditions were. Kelley’s use of ethos, logos, pathos, and repetition helps her establish her argument for the reform of the child labor laws.
On June 11, 2004, the former prime minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher delivered a eulogy in honor of former president Ronald Reagan, she declares Reagan as a great man and president. Thatcher develops her ideas by analyzing all he has done using parallelism, repetition, and ethos. Using Reagan’s accomplishments and personal experiences, she amplifies how great of a man he was in order to make the nation comprehend what Reagan did. Thatcher opens her eulogy with “We have lost a great president,” indicating that the speech she gives with apologetic and heartfelt tone is not only to the American people, but to everyone else.
On January 12, 1780, Abigail Adams, former First Lady, wrote to her son, John Quincy Adams, while he was abroad with his father and brother. Adams addressed to her son and future President to maintain his spirit to learn and grow. She expressed his purpose through her motherly tone, various religious and historical allusions, use of logos, rhetorical question with simple syntax and use of metaphors.
Margaret Thatcher’s eulogy of the deceased president, Ronald Regan, had a purpose which was to comfort the people of the United States, and to brag on all of his policies that he created in his term. Thatcher uses various tactics such as antithesis, anaphora, and hyperbole to make her speech as appealing and comforting as possible for the American people. Using these rhetorical devices she is appealing to the mourning nation.
Nora’s and her hypocrisy, confusion about religion, and his Gran unbalancing the family lead to Jackie’s trap. Nora’s hypocrisy is shown throughout the story. Nora would show her devilish tormenting side to just Jackie because she could use her advantage in knowledge of everything especially religion and confession to torment Jackie. When nobody is around watching her and Jackie walk to the chapel for confession “Nora suddenly changed her tone, she became the raging malicious devil she really was”(178). Then when Nora is in public she shows her angelic side “she walked up the aisle to the side altar looking like a saint”(178). Even though everyone else sees the angelic part of Nora, Jackie “remember[s] the devilish malice with which she had
On September 5, 1995 Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a speech to the United Nations 4th World Conference during a Women Plenary Session, located in Beijing, China. Clinton spoke about how women around the world were not treated equally, how women rights should be equal to human rights, and the ghastly abuse and discrimination women faced around the world. The reason for the conference was to strengthen women, families, and societies in order to empower women to taking control of their lives and not be subject to such discrimination. She emphasized how education, health care, jobs, and political rights were not equal between genders and that the world needed to change. Clinton gave a very convincing speech because of her use of rhetorical techniques. The use of pathos, ethos, logos, and anaphora created a powerful, persuasive argument against the way women were treated around the world. Clintons main goal of this speech was to appeal to the audience and convince them that this is unequal treatment is an immense matter and needs to be addressed all over the world.
The chemical sarin, is a deadly nerve agent that interferes with signaling within the nervous system (Geggel). This substance was used to kill 89 Syrians and injure 541 others (“Syria Chemical”). Syria is in a state of emergency due to the recent attacks from Russia and their own President Assad, and even more recent attacks from the United States, France, and Great Britain. Nikki Haley represents the United States as an ambassador in the United Nations. Due to the recent Russian bombings in Syria, the UN security council commenced and Mrs. Haley spoke about her concerns regarding what the states will do next. Nikki Haley took notice of the UN’s lack of justice when it came to the inhumane chemical weapons attack in Syria. Haley made a speech
Jorge Espinoza Mrs Stele AP Lang 3/15/24. United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave a commencement speech at Mount Holyoke College in 1977. Albright specifically spoke to the graduating class of this women’s college in Massachusetts to motivate them. Albright uses induction, examples, description, and cause and effect to motivate the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College. In paragraphs three to seven, Albright uses induction to motivate the students.
In her speech to the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College, Madeleine Albright explains that even though these women feel on top of the world right now, they have so much more to fight for. By using purposeful syntax, parallel structure, and a call to action, Albright establishes an assertive tone that allows the women graduating to understand the need for perseverance and courage to accomplish their goals. Madeleine Albright was the first female Secretary of State, so by speaking at Mount Holyoke College, an all-female university, her audience can be inspired to achieve greatness just as Albright did. Throughout her speech, Albright uses purposeful syntax to explain the decisions that these women have to make. After graduation, these women “could relax” or
Name Jackson Le Teacher Name Stele Course AP Lang Due Date March 12th, 2024 Rhetorical Analysis Rewrite At the graduation of the class of Mount Holyoke College, the United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave an uplifting speech to the women’s college in 1997. Albright went on to utilize an appeal to morals, effective repetition, eye-opening illustrations, and empowering wording to signify the strength and power the young women have to accomplish their ideal world. Beginning the commencement speech, Albright laid out the successes their nation had made in the past several years by appealing to morals, showcasing the overwhelming actions the U.S. had taken responsibility over that could influence the graduation class as well. This
In 1997, United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright delivered a commencement speech to the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College to congratulate the graduates and celebrate their hard work. Albright appeals to her audience’s values, emotions, sense of justice, and logic by using personal anecdotes, repetition, and discussing the status of women around the world to send off the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College with hope and motivation to change the world around them. Albright appeals to her audience’s sense of justice by discussing how the status of women around the world has advanced. Albright explains that women everywhere around the world have started to stand up and rightfully claim their places in society. To a women’s college, this message means a lot to the graduates because of the
Madeleine Albright, the United States Secretary in 1997, gives a speech to the graduating class at Mount Holyoke College, an all female university. Albright uses hyperboles, metaphors, a futuristic lens, and a confident tone to establish a sense of community amongst the young women in the crowd, in order to breed them into America's next female leaders To begin her speech, Albright speaks of the choices that every American citizen has. “Each of us must choose whether to live our lives selfishly or act with courage and faith.” In this statement The secretary is making it clear to the females in the audience that they have the power within them to change the world, only if they choose to do so. Later in her speech, Albright aims to create a common ground for
Fall is the most common cause of injuries of all ages in the hospital. Late last year, our unit has had an alarming patient’s fall incidence. Although, fall preventions were implemented such as fall education, use of mobility aid, and bed/chair alarm activation did not reduce the incidence of falls in our unit. As a nurse my top priority is my patient’s safety. Nobody wants someone to fall.