Stephany Saavedra Mrs. Stele Ap Lang 15 March 2024. In 1997 Madeline Albright gave a speech at Mount Holyoke College to the graduating class. She uses black-and-white thinking, anaphoras, historical events, and anecdotes to inspire and encourage the class of 97. Albright uses black-and-white thinking to analyze the extreme choices the graduates can make. According to Albright, individuals have two choices. They could be courageous and have faith, or be selfish and complacent. She is referring to the idea of “good” and “bad”. Although there is a gray area, she wants to encourage her audience to be courageous and stand up for their beliefs. Her use of free will and choice influences the audience to choose the “good option”. Albright uses anaphoras …show more content…
She wants her audience not to stop, that there is always something to do. The use of anaphoras emphasizes that they could have stopped, but instead, they kept working. This makes the audience remember that they can stop, but that there is always more. Albright connects historical events to the graduates to show how they stood up and fought to be better. She states that the U.S. could never “relax”, and keeps on working to reduce nuclear and chemical weapons. Albright connects with her graduates by encouraging them to do the same. She wants her audience to keep on working and to keep pushing through the obstacles they face as women for what they believe in. This gives the audience a sense of the need to keep going and encourages them to keep going. Albright uses anecdotes of women from all over the world fighting for their country to inspire the graduates to do the same. She shares stories of the women she has met across the world. Several women from Guatemala, Sarajevo, Burundi, and Burma are fighting for several reasons such as abuse, equality, and democracy. These stories empower and inspire the graduates by giving them a moral stance that motivates them. Albright used the stories to
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.
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.
Whether being said or being written, there is always a purpose behind the way words are utilized. Words, oftentimes, educate, inform, or even deceive the minds of individuals, but the true power they derive from has brought about the contribution of others resulting in effective outcomes. Although words hold many different purposes, its key motive is evident when used to sway an individual’s position in public controversial matters. The influence that writing and speech can induce, based on the use of words through diction, tone, and pathos, is what creates change in individual’s perspectives on social views.
Barbara Ehrenreich conducts an experience about people in poverty. Barbara could not imagine how these people survive off $6-$7 per hour paying jobs. She wonders how anyone could survive off a low wage job. Her main focus is to see if she could handle all her expenses just as the poor do day to day. So Barbara goes out her way to perform an experience using her Ph.D. in Biology. She created three rules for her experiment. 1). Accept the cheapest housing or place she could find, 2). She must also try her best to keep a job; especially the job that pays the most and 3). She cannot use her degree or anything from her professional/regular life to get by if something happens to fail. As hard as she tried to follow the rules, she broke them anyhow
“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not ruin their lives”, directly stated and followed by former president, Ronald Reagan. In 2004 six days after the death of former American President, Ronald Reagan, Britain's former prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, honored Reagan in her eulogy. She praises Ronald Reagan in a way that compels Americans to trust in her. The reader is also encouraged to believe in Thatcher’s statements, similar to the way Americans in 2004 were addressed by her. In addition, she prompts the reader to hold high regard for the advancements Ronald Reagan made during his presidency that would contribute to the well being of Americans and the United States. Thatcher uses several rhetorical strategies in order to
In this speech, Sonia Sotomayor depicts ways in which being Latina means a vast number of things and how America struggles with its image. She does this by relating herself to the claim through the use of a personal narrative to contribute to her claim with first-hand experiences. Sotomayor's appropriate use of compare and contrast as well as juxtaposing two sides provides supportive evidence to her claims: being Latina can mean a plethora of things and that America's image is confused. In the first half of the speech, Sotomayor begins the speech by asking a rhetorical question: "Who am I?" and then follows with her answer, in which she claims a singular trait does not define her identity.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Response to Abusive Comments by Ted Yoho Rhetorical Analysis. Over the last century, there have been monumental leaps and bounds towards equality between women and men. However, even in today’s ever-equalizing society, we are still reminded of the struggle that many women face as we strive towards societal equality. In response to a vulgar, inappropriate comment by State Representative Ted Yoho, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez emphasizes a defiant tone, vehement anaphoras, and moralistic diction to establish her stance that society is systematically unfair to women.
The first paragraph effectively sets up the context for the speech by introducing the speaker, Barbara Bush, and the occasion, the 1990 Wellesley College commencement address. It also provides a clear thesis that evaluates the overall effectiveness of the speech, noting that while Bush's use of ethos was "very impressive," there were some weaknesses in her use of logos. The student clearly identifies the occasion, audience, and purpose of the speech in the opening paragraph, providing important context for the analysis. The overall organization of the essay is clear, with each paragraph focusing on a specific aspect of Bush's rhetoric.
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
“The secret to being a bore is to tell everything,” as honored French writer Voltaire claims. In this regard, Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson, the First Lady of the U.S. in 1964, during the first anniversary luncheon of the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial, scatters a multitude of rhetorical devices throughout her tribute speech to honor the former First Lady Elenor Roosevelt. As seen through skillfully placed anaphora, rhetorical questions, and short/choppy syntax, Johnson is able to effectively achieve her purpose of paying tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt. Johnson’s frequent use of anaphora emphasizes Roosevelt’s achievements and even raises the spotlight on Roosevelt herself. This anaphora– a word or words repeated at the beginning of successive sentences– not only places emphasis on Roosevelt’s persistence but also doubles as a list of praises toward Roosevelt’s character.