Poor, young children being forced to work nearly 24 hours day is a terrible evil that is no longer necessary in the 21st century, thanks to those willing to fight against it. One of those people was lover of freedom Florence Kelley. At the National American Woman Association on July 22, 1905, she gave a speech urging the women to ally with “workingmen”, ln 89, to vote against unfair child labor laws. In her speech, Kelley uses appeals to empathy, sympathy, logic, ethos, repetition, word choice, tone, and current events to defend her case. Kelley’s word choice and emotional appeals to is her most powerful tool used in this speech. Her use of the word girl is made powerful by adjectives like “young”, “little”, and one time in line 29, …show more content…
“white”, makes an even greater impact on her audience. Her use of words make the subjects, children, seem innocent, voiceless, defenseless, much like her audience. At the time women were unable to vote, and were often ruled by the men in their lives. The comparison creates empathy between the subject and the audience. Let’s not forget, this is a group of feminists, they are fighting for women's rights. The thought of poor “young girls” being forced to do anything would probably send them in a storm of rage. She mentions the race of the girls. This was the early twentieth century, slavery may have been abolished, but racism was still going strong. Many of these women, if not all, were white, well educated, and probably believed in social darwinism. The image of a pure, and innocent child working insane hours would only create real empathy if she was white. With this in mind, Kelley created the perfect martyr for her cause at that moment, an overworked, little white girl. The second most powerful device used is the appeals to ethos and repetition. Morally, no one wants anyone else to suffer. The feeling is made stronger when we think of children. Kelley’s appeal to ethos,makes the audience question the system. In lines 66 to 77, she uses an anaphora. She constantly repeats we reapeats phrases that start with “they”, the children, and end with “our”. The words “us” and “our”, make the audience and the speaker part of the evil, make them question themselves. She puts the blood of the abused and oppressed, on the hands of those who fight against oppression and abuse. This makes the audience want do what any other “morally good” person would want to do, disprove claims of hypocrisy. Secondly, she refers to the young works as “children” or some other definite noun approximately 22 times in a her speech, not including times when they were antecedents. The word echos throughout the work, not only to add emphasis, put also remind the audience of who is being overworked and abused, Mute and crimeless, children. Kelley’s appeal to logic, her tone, and use of current events don’t only created and ended her speech, but gives her speech a call to action.
From the first to the ninth paragraph, she uses real laws that have been passed in the time around of the convention. The use of these events make the problem more relevant, than if the laws quotes were in place for a long time before the convention. Her change of tone in the speech gives her words more power. At first the tone is sympathetic, tugging on the heartstrings of the attendees, then she twist the knife with her accusatory tone in lines 66-79, and finally she offers redemption in the last three paragraphs. Finally, Kelley petitions that it's only logical to join forces with “workingmen voters” in the last paragraph, something that most of the women there would oppose. As stated before the audience is a group of feminist, most of which feel oppressed by their lack of right. Why would they invite the agents of evil into their holy sanctum? She qualifies her argument by mentioning enlisting the help of labor unions, that were mostly run by men. She gives them another reason, the entire point of her speech, children need to be free from the chains of maltreatment. The steady strengthening of her voice comes to a crescendo at the end, when the last punctuation is an exclamation
point. Florence Kelley didn’t like the idea of children being forced to work in terrible conditions for meager wages, and enlisted the help of a powerful organization. The use of various appeals, current events, and tone bring life and power to account.
Margaret Sanger, a well known feminist and women's reproductive right activist in USA history wrote the famous speech: The Children's Era. This speech focuses on the topic of women's reproductive freedom. Sanger uses rhetorical forms of communication to persuade and modify the perspectives of the audience through the use of analogy and pathos. She uses reason, thought and emotion to lead her speech.
In, “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” written by Benjamin Franklin (one of the Founding Fathers) in 1747, brought up the disparities that were between men and women within the judicial system. Also, “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” also briefly points out, how religion has been intertwined with politics. All throughout “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker,” Benjamin Franklin uses very intense diction and syntax to help support what he is trying to express to the rest of society. Also writing this speech in the view point of a women, greatly helps establish what he is trying to say. If Benjamin Franklin was to write it as a man, the speech my have not had the same passionate effect as it currently has.
Helen Keller, against all odds, became a mouthpiece for many causes in the early to mid-twentieth century. She advocated for causes such as building institutions for the blind, schools for the deaf, women’s suffrage and pacifism. When America was in the most desperate of times, her voice stood out. Helen Keller spoke at Carnegie Hall in New York raising her voice in protest of America’s decision to join the World War. The purpose of this paper will analyze the devices and methods Keller used in her speech to create a good ethos, pathos, and logos.
In Florence Kelley’s 1905 speech to the Philadelphia convention of the National American Women Suffrage Association, she accentuates the obligatory need to reform the working conditions for young children.
“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.
She was now getting into the field of labor agitation and would change America forever. In 1903, she organized a march in which children, mutilated from their jobs, marched the streets to the home of Theodore Roosevelt in order to draw attention to the grueling and wicked child labor laws. “Federal laws against child labor would not come for decades, but for two months that summer, Mother Jones, with her street theater and speeches, made the issue front-page news.” This shows how after several attempts from previous progressive reformers, Jones was the only one whose protests were powerful and effective enough to open people’s eyes to the issues. A reason that Jones had become so effective was that of her exploration and observations. She frequently visited factories to observe the cruel working conditions in which people worked in and interviewed workers to get a feel for them and understand the brutality of the work. She stated herself that because of rough conditions, “The brain is so crushed as to be incapable of thinking, and one who mingles with these people soon discovers that their minds like their bodies are wrecked. Loss of sleep and loss of rest gives rise to abnormal appetites, indigestion, shrinkage of statue, bent backs and aching hearts.” By examining workplaces, she was able to gather empathy and sympathy for the workers who were suffering.
Imagine families waking up on their kid’s sixth birthday and having to head towards the nearest cotton mill instead of going out and celebrating the occasion. All over the country kids of different ages were working in the same unsafe conditions as adults to help their family earn money. Florence Kelley’s speech was to fight for better working conditions and child labor laws in the early 1900’s. At this time each state had distinct laws about the work requirements. The author uses various forms of rhetorical devices such as pathos, personifications, and repetition throughout the speech to gain the audience’s support.
Florence Kelley used rhetorical strategies in her message. She uses them to make logical statements in an argument, to make credible statements showing what is morally correct, and to make statements that appeal to the reader's emotions.
On July 22, 1905, Florence Kelley, a United States social worker and reformer, gave a speech the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia regarding child labor laws and improving working conditions for women. Kelley’s speech included detailed examples of the child and women labor laws of each state at the time. Her use of rhetorical devices that appeal to the audience, such as strong diction and syntax, persuaded listeners to take her subject seriously and consider the reforms that needed to take place. Kelley intended to elicit a desire in her audience to change child labor laws, persuade men to agree with changing the child labor laws, and to work towards women’s suffrage.
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