Rhetorical Analysis Of Hillary Clinton

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Throughout Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president, Barack and Michelle Obama had been public about who they supported for the presidency. The week leading up to this speech, Michelle Obama hosted an event to celebrate International Day of Girl at the White House. That same week, democratic presidential candidate, Donald Trump, also said hurtful and degrading statements about women and even stated proudly that he sexually assaulted women years prior to running for president and recently. Even though he said this only weeks before election day, he was still proud of announcing it. In Michelle Obama’s speech on Trump’s alleged treatment of women,” she clearly wanted the people of New Hampshire and those who listened to her speech to vote for Hillary Clinton, but more importantly, she discussed the empowerment of women through the issues of Donald Trump’s campaign for presidency. In order to persuade people to vote for Clinton, Michelle used different appeals and connected with the audience in her speech. …show more content…

However, once she said, “so I'm going to get a little serious here,” the crowd immediately quieted down and listened to the important message that she was going to present (“Michelle Obama’s Speech”). Her tone shifted from worrisome when she spoke about the young girls that came to the White House and that the nation could uplift them if there was going to be a president that would be derogatory towards women to power when she stated “now is the time for all of us to stand up and say enough is enough. This has got to stop right now” (“Michelle Obama’s Speech”). She gave a mission to her

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