Madeleine Albright Rhetorical Analysis

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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 …show more content…

Albright inspires the graduating class through the stories of these women, making them feel prepared and ready to tackle any challenges they may face later in life. Throughout her speech, Albright repeated two words many times: courage and perseverance. Through the use of this repetition, Albright makes it a point worth noting that having these two qualities will lead you to success in life. Albright encourages her audience while also appealing to their life values by talking about how important courage and perseverance are when faced with hardship, leaving the graduating class with something to reflect on and possibly apply to their lives as they grow. Albright appeals to the audience’s morality by talking about America’s pursuit of broader prosperity. While America could simply solve a problem and call it a day, we choose to push on in order to pursue greater solutions for the betterment of the

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