With the oncoming arrival of the United States Civil War, the evident issue since before the fighting began was the use of slavery in the North and South counterparts, and everyone had an opinion on it. White citizens primarily started the fight while it was over the lives of African Americans. The lack of African American people allowed into the fight drew attention. In his April of 1861 persuasive speech, Alfred M. Green used rhetorical devices such as allusion to past American events and shared religion, as well as anaphora to persuade fellow African Americans to join the Union military forces. At the time religion and the view of the shared future and past gathered the people in unity in times of strife, so Green used that to his advantage. …show more content…
They still “failed to bring” them to the same level as the white population. In order to prove his point, he brings up the famous man named Dred Scott and uses diction to exaggerate the suffering to the point the audience will feel a need to alleviate the pain imposed on their people. Additionally, he focused on their duty, both civil and religious, as citizens to not just focus on the “past grievances” but also their duty to hope for the future, and to not give up their honor to the opposing side. With the suggestion of their civil duty to their roots, and God, Green shows that they all have something in common. They have the same limited rights to fight for, and a God they have most likely devoted their lives to. Green aligns their cases and motivations to a moral degree. Any good American wouldn’t be able to decline because their patriotism lives on a baseline of right or wrong, yet they still love their country unconditionally. A rhythm always gets a crowd going. Green validates the oppressed population’s struggles by confirming that it did
Alfred M Green wrote and presented a speech about encouraging the blacks that striving to enlist in the army is worth it. He includes historical and religious allusion, political diction, and juxtaposition. Although it's understandable that you don’t feel patriotic, Green argues that striving to enlist in the army is worth it because it will prove patriotism, and we will prove our argument of justice and equality because we deserve it. Also, we will fight to prevent those values from disappearing in the South. He wants his audience to feel motivated, encouraged, and inspired, to feel and want his audience to believe in the same values as him, to make a change which is to enlist in the army.
Alfred M. Green uses persuasive techniques that are based solely on the emotions of the audience. Due to the fact that this was a speech, it is more influential to listeners that he chose using emotions of the audience to persuade the audience instead of using other persuasive techniques. The emotions of the audience is more commonly known as Pathos, within the Ethos, Pathos, Logos persuasive techniques that the greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle created. Green was presenting an inspirational speech and speeches are different than regular persuasive texts because they have to appeal to their audience more and if they do not, the audience would lose interest and not pay attention to the speech. Green can perfectly craft his words into appealing with the emotions of the
This commercial was made by the car company, Prius, that prides itself as being the first eco-friendly car in early 2008. It advertises the toyota prius as a new innovation that helps the earth unlike other cars. It’s geared towards people who drive or will be driving, or basically anyone that cares about their environment. It wasn’t until the early 2000’s when everyone started becoming aware of global warming and the effects of pollution on earth. Therefore, this ad was created to advertise another step in conserving the earth using modern technology. Its goal is to get people to feel sympathy and buy a prius in order to save the earth.
During the time of the Civil War, the United States was divided on many issues; one of the issues being the issue of slavery. The North was fighting against the heinous act of imprisoning someone for life for self-gain and the South was fighting to preserve this heinous act. The North needed all the warriors of freedom as possible, which is why Alfred M. Green gave a speech in Philadelphia in April 1861 to get his fellow African Americans to join the union and fight be the warriors of freedom that the North needed them to be in this fight against slavery. But, there is a problem in recruiting people to leave their lives and go fight in a gruesome war -- people fear for their lives. To avoid this fear and get African Americans to fight in this war, Green utilizes two unionizing rhetorical strategies in order to dismantle this fear
Ann Richards’s keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in 1988 was extremely interesting to watch. I believe her speech was intended to be focused on the American family and also the American farmers. These two areas seemed to be very important to Mrs. Richards and she made a point to discuss both.
Not only does repetition play a major role in Chisholm’s speech, but her dispersement of anaphoras indeed calls attention to her main point. Anaphoras allow her to emphasize her frustration and put forth the notion of the severity of discrimination and differences men and women had to endure during that time. An example of this is right in the beginning of her speech where she states: “It provides a legal basis for attack on the most subtle, most pervasive, and most institutionalized form of prejudice that exists,” where she explains how the Constitution was based on the equality of the American people, including between men and women. This quotation fulfills her point by expressing these prejudices in the superlative form. Because she placed
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” This mantra from Margaret Mead is a somewhat humorous yet slightly satirical spin on how people tend to think of themselves as one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable human specimens. However, one English teacher from Wellesley High School takes this critique one step further with his polemic presentation at the school commencement. David McCullough, a Massachusetts English teacher, gave a seemingly somber sendoff to his graduates in 2012, with a speech that contained some unapologetically harsh sentiments. However, by looking past the outwardly dismal surface of the speech, the students can infer a more optimistic message. By incorporating devices of asyndeton, paradox, antimetabole, and anadiplosis, McCullough conveys to each student that even though none of them is unique, their commonality is not a fault they all have merit and should strive to view the world through a more selfless lens.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered a powerful speech before Congress on December 8th 1941, the day after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. His purpose in addressing the country in this way is his attempt to calm the American People and avoid chaos across the country. Roosevelt is aware of the impact that the event has had on the Citizens. As their leader, he forcefully reassures the population that they will be safe. The President emphasizes that the United States would not allow the attacks to affect the country though his use of rhetorical devices, including pathos.
“Domestic tranquility”, and “All men created equal”, words used in the preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America, irony at its finest in the period known as the Civil War. One month into the Civil War a black man, Alfred M. Green, gave a speech in Philadelphia to a Union audience about just that. In the oration he urged the African American people, who at this time were not eligible to enlist in the Union army, to fight for domestic harmony and equality. In doing so, Green uses figurative language and strong diction to help garner an emotional appeal, as well as establish a tone of empowerment.
During 1931, a second grand war begin with national powers uniting together. Many nations instantly took arms, but the US decided to stay neutral. As a result, European countries established a new flourishing fear of being overthrown by eastern communist foes(“World”). Then the dreadful event on December 6, 1941, caused the US to reconsider its own stance on the war. Allied Powers realized their opportunity to use Pearl Harbor to gain a chance to determine their own fate in war. On December 26, 1941, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, presented a speech eventually known as “Masters of Our Fate” to the US Senate and the House of Representatives(“Winston”). Through the use of esoteric rhetorical questions, vivid metaphors,
We Shall Overcome Rhetorical Analyses Throughout the history of the United States, racial discrimination has always been around our society. Many civil rights movements and laws have helped to minimize the amount of discrimination towards every single citizen, but discrimination is something that will not ever disappear. On March 15, 1965, Lyndon Baines Johnson gave a speech that pointed out the racial injustice and human rights problems of America in Washington D.C. He wanted every citizen of the United States to support his ideas to overcome and solve the racial injustice problems as a nation. Throughout the speech, Lyndon Johnson used several rhetorical concepts to persuade the audience.
In the midst of an argument with his wife about what he should do about the protestors Green says, “ I did not make the world...If not me, there would be a Greek, a Chinaman, maybe an Arab or a smart one of their own kind.” Implying that it’s not his fault things like that happen, if it was not him charging them more money then it would be someone else; the end would be inevitable. Towards the end of the quote he always says “...a smart one of their own kind.” Which is a very subtle and racist way of saying that he doesn’t think there are very many intelligent African Americans. Green also makes it sound like money isn’t of his highest priority, he does after all claim to not make much profit at all even with his increased prices. Oddly enough, for a brief moment during a conversation with his wife green asks her what the color of the picketers were, and she responds black. He then asks her what their kids’ last name were and she replied Green. He follows up by saying “There is your answer… Green is the only color I am interested in.” Another way of saying that all he really cares about is money, and not those who are being affected by his way of doing business. This is the same man who claims to be doing no wrong to his community, and who told his kids that he wasn’t a dishonest
From the Golden Dome of the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, comedian Jim Carrey astounded the students of MUM’s Class of 2014 along with their parents and faculty with his commencement speech. In his speech, Carrey gave some serious advice about self-discovery, fear and happiness sprinkled liberally with humor to the graduating students while remaining true to himself. It employed several non-verbal communication techniques as well as the three modes of persuasion that we learned in class.
The transition from a convenience based to a cost conscious economy has certainly been a rough path for the western world especially the United States. After the recent economic turmoil that received extensive media coverage during the first decade of the 21st centaury, budget trims is a common knowledge from small business organizations to large multi-national corporations. This is evident in the privileges and conveniences consumers and employees receive at an establishment. A classic example of revenue management and optimization is in the airline industry. With smaller seats, higher passenger load and fees and charges levied on peanuts and baggage, most airlines are in fierce competition to reduce fair prices. The issues with regard to budget cuts in first world nations has a profound impact on less fortunate third world and other dependent countries; This is especially true with regard to human development and sustainability programs sponsored by wealthier nations. In the article "The real-world effects of budget cuts" by Michael Gerson an argument and reality check is imposed on inconceivable and in the author's mind irrational withdrawal of capital on life supporting programs. The author also makes a personal appeal especially for those of us who believe in the ideology of pro-life.
Women dating back to the 20th century have faced oppression, and inequality. Women have a secret bond amongst each other due to the fact they can relate with one another, as shown in the story “Trifles” by Susan Godspell. Susan Godspell tells a story about a woman who is accused of killing her husband. People from their town go to the house to find clues, but for some reason only the women were able to find out the truth. For many years women have had the expectation of being the perfect housewife.