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In 1861 African Americans were not permitted to join the Union Army, however, Alfred M. Green’s speech encourages them to enlist when they are able to do so. Green is aware of the hesitation by the African Americans. So he anticipates their counterarguments, by making some concessions agreeing with their feeling of being mistreated. He then begins his call to action urging his listeners to enlist when they can. Once he makes his main argument Green appeals to their emotions to evoke a sense of patriotism in African Americans. Both the second and third paragraph introduce Green’s use of concessions. Throughout his speech Green uses “we” and “us” to remind them that they are in the same situation, and he shares their frustration. He also uses the phrase “it is true” throughout is speech when acknowledging the bitter truth that racial discrimination oppresses them. In the second paragraph Green recognizes illustrious Americans George Washington and …show more content…
Andrew Jackson for praising black men for their participation in the war. Nonetheless, African Americans are still not considered citizens. By acknowledging that Africans Americans have bravely severed their country but have not been treated fairly, Green gains respect and credibility in his audience’s eyes and establishes himself as someone these men can trust. Green realizes that his audience is wondering why they should fight for a country that treats them badly. Yet he still tries persuading them in spite of all the injustices they face, they should still fight for their country. Throughout his speech Green uses the repetition of the phrase “let us.” This phrase is a call to action for the African Americans to strive to be admitted to the ranks and prepared to enlist.
Green encourages his audience to help “overthrow” the oppressive government of the South. That plan to “build a stronger tyrant system of slavery” and threaten to force all African Americans into slavery. Green quotes the Confederacy to worry his listeners with an idea of what might happen if the South defeats the Union. He also asks his listeners to wish for a brighter future, where they will “create anew” their “claims upon the justice and honor of the Republic.” Green offers an image of an improved country will equality for all. But first, they have to defeat the enemy. He ends by appealing to his audience’s sense of patriotism by declaring the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, those of “justice and equality for all men” and reminding the African Americans what the United States is founded
on. Green appeals to pathos numerous times throughout his speech. Green elicits pride in his audience when he states “let not the honor… achieved by our fathers be blasted… by a want of true heroism.” By using their emotions his audience feels it is their duty to serve and protect their fellow African Americans. Green focuses on all the injustices the African Americans faced and uses the Confederacy’s words against them “Let us drive back the advance guard of civil and religious freedom; let us have more slave territory…” By first acknowledging his audience’s grievances he is able to rile up their emotions by demonizing the South. Alfred Green, a black man himself, reveals to his listeners that he understands their indignation and resentment towards their country. However he attempts to redirect that anger towards the South in an attempt to encourage them to fight for the Union. He tries to appeal to his audience’s patriotism, hopes, and fears in an attempt to convince them to fight, even if the circumstances they are in are not ideal.
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.
He first starts out the speech with making the African Americans feel as though fighting with the Union is the only logical thing to do and if they do not side with the Union, they are making an illogical decision. Green constructs the idea that all of his opinions is the only logical thing to do and it feels like agreeing with his opinion is the common thing to do and it would be very irrational and unreasonable to not agree with his opinion. Throughout the speech, he shows his audience what the correct thing to do in each situation such as the Dred Scott decisions or rethinking about George Washington and Andrew Jackson. Green makes the end result of all of these situations is to take arms and assist the Union in defeating the confederacy. This is further proven in the point with the final paragraph where Green concludes the speech with an inspirational tangent saying that fighting alongside with the Union is not only the only logical thing to do but each and every individual that helps fight against the Confederacy is able to impact the whole war and decide who the victor
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.
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.
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,
The question at hand: “Would the African-Americans support for the war effort, on the battlefields of Europe and throughout many factories in the United States mean improvement in the status of the Negro as an American citizen?”
A human being is a complicated entity of a contradictory nature, where creative and destructive, virtuous and vicious are interwoven. Each of us has gone through various kinds of struggle at least once in a lifetime, ranging from everyday discrepancies to worldwide catastrophes. There are always different causes and reasons that trigger these struggles, however, there is common ground for them as well: people are different, even though it is a truism no one seems to be able to realize this statement from beyond the bounds of one’s self and reach out to approach the Other. The concept of the Other is dominant in Frederick Douglass’s text “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro”, for it determines the main conflict and illuminates the issue of intolerance and even blasphemy regarding the attitude of white Americans towards Negroes. The text was written as a speech to commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence and delivered at Rochester’s Corinthian Hall on July 5, 1852.
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
The quote above is from the British governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore who proclaimed freedom for African American slaves who fought for the British, after George Washington announced there would be no additional recruitment of Blacks in the Continental army in 1776. For numerous free blacks and enslaved blacks, the Revolutionary War was considered to be an essential period in black manifestation. Many public officials (like Dunmore), who initially had not expressed their views on slavery, saw the importance of African Americans and considered them an imperative tool in winning the war. Looking back, it almost seems like an inherent paradox in white America’s desire of emancipation from England while there still enslaving blacks. This concept has different grounds in white’s idea of liberation in comparison to that of the African-Americans. To white Americans, this war was for liberation in a political/economical tone rather than in the sense of the privatized oppression that blacks suffered from. But what started this war and what would this mean for blacks? How did these African Americans contribute to the war effort? What were there some of their duties? How did the white communities perceive them? How did it all end for these blacks? The main topic of this paper is to show how the use African Americans helped the control the outcome of the war while monitoring their contributions.
In Old Major’s speech the speaker (Old Major) presents it to the (audience who are) animals of the Manor Farm. Old Major explains his thoughts on the life he had on the farm since he is dying soon. He summarizes how the farmers (Mr. Jones and his men) treated the animals harshly throughout the years by not giving them enough food, water, and time to rest from labor. Listing all of man's crimes, Old Major calls the other animals into planning the rebellion. He emotionally conducts his message to the animals by using ethos, pathos, and rhetorical questions to make it more effective.
In his speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, former Senator Fred Thompson aims to convince his audience to vote for John McCain in the upcoming election. Thompson also works to create the persona of a perseverant, patriotic leader for McCain. In his attempts to persuade the American voters, Thompson uses McCain’s personal experiences and logic that discredits the Democrats in order to gain support for McCain’s campaign.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free”. Which shows how even though the Emancipation Proclamation freed the African Americans from slavery, they still are not free because of segregation. He then transitions to the injustice and suffering that the African Americans face. He makes this argument when he proclaims, “We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream”.