Madeleine Albright Rhetorical Analysis

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In 1997 Madeleine Albright gave the commencement speech of the graduating class of an all women's college called Mount Holyoke college in Massachusetts. Albright uses values, definition, statistics, and description to secure peace and hard work to give women education rights for the country and for potential students that would like to attend this college. In the beginning of Albright's speech she talks about the values in life that we get to choose from, and how we can live as individuals. She goes on to say “..America must choose whether to turn inward and betray the lessons of history, or to seize the opportunity before us to shape history.” Albright says this to the audience so they can understand how we can change history with our actions and not let it repeat itself, and how these educated women set an …show more content…

is on leadership and how women are treated here and how our voices always seem to be lowered but how we “are standing up, spreading the word that we are ready to claim our rightful place as a full citizen and full participant in every society on earth.” She says this for the reason being that all the hard work these women put in are an example of citizens and how far we have come for women's education rights and keep learning and growing through it. Albright uses statistics to show how far women go to receive peace and justice. She talks about Rwanda and how violence left three-quarters of the population female, and one-half of the women widows, and how life is for these women and how they get put in these hard positions. She goes on to talk about Aung San Suu Kyi from Burma “who risks her life everyday to keep alive the hope for democracy in her country.” She says this to the audience so they can have the understanding that all of these women from all over the world show us how strong their determination is to curve their own path. Albright describes how everyone should do everything in faith, no matter the

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