Rhetorical Analysis Of An Un American Bill

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Rhetorical Analysis An “Un-American Bill”: A Congressman Denounces Immigration Quotes Congressman, Robert H. Clancy in his speech, An “Un-American Bill”: A Congressman Denounces Immigration Quotas elaborates on how the Johnson-Reed Act was un-american and treated the immigrants of America poorly. Clancy’s purpose is to persuade congress, and the people voting to not vote for the Johnson Reed Act. He adopts a sentimental tone to tell the people the history of the immigrants and what they have done for us to the people of congress, and the voters. Clancy supports his argument of racial discrimination in the Johnson-Reed act, by appealing to ethos by talking to actual immigrants that have immigrated to Detroit and personal stories, pathos by …show more content…

Robert Clancy, is a very creditable speaker because he talked to actual immigrants, is a congress man, and has past personal experience. He went around Detroit talking to immigrants of multiple descents including: Jewish and Polish, he asked about past experience to get multiple statistics from them. Clancy said, “I wish to talk the liberty of informing the House that from my personal knowledge and observation of tens of thousands of Polish Americans living in my district in Detroit…” This was important what he said not only for an ethos standpoint, he can also feel their emotions about thus topic, instead of reading online. It was important for the writer to talk to the immigrants to get a first hand experience and for him to get more emotion pulling …show more content…

Clancy exclaims that the jews of detroit are good citizens and help to strengthen our community, he says, “They rapidly become Americanized, Build homes, and make themselves into good citizens.” The Polish immigrants are very loyal to our country, by serving in wars for us building us houses, for many years, according to Clancy “The Polish-American are as industrious and as frugal as loyal to our institutions as any class of people who have come to shores of this country in the past 300 years.” These strong facts about the immigrants help the people of Congress and the voters to draw a picture of how important these immigrants are, and what they are willing to do for this country that some Americans probably won’t even

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