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. The excerpt is an example of the main figurative language technique used within the speech: analogy. Sanger directly relates parents/individuals to gardeners, children to seeds and the children's upbringing/living environment/advantages and/or disadvantages to soil, sun exposure, space and fresh air. She mentions the importance of weeding and how
it is very important before building a garden, “we must... learn the lesson of the gardener” (Sanger). This can be looked at on two different scales: smaller and larger. On the smaller scale, it can interpreted that she is referring to the independent gardner. One person and their backyard garden area, where they intend to plant seeds and grow plants. She is speaking to the individual about their choice to become a parent and the many requirements that are needed for children to grow healthily and happily. On a larger scale, when she states: “...we want to make this world a garden for children...” she is referring to the overall environment we have built up around our children as a whole, not as individual. Meaning as a group we are all responsible for preventing and treating 'weeds' and developing the 'land' to provide what our 'seedlings' need to flourish in our world. In addition, Sanger explores the rhetorical use of pathos. She emotionally appeals to the mental vulnerabilities of the audience through her dictation and speeches structure. She uses words like: “unwelcome, unwanted, unprepared for, unknown, without baggage, without passports, most of them without pedigrees” (Sanger) to reveal the helplessness of infants brought into our world because of failure to plan and thoughtless actions. This persuasive argument style forces the audience imagine and feel her words in their hearts. In conclusion, Margaret Sanger's main goal for her speech is stated near the end with: “We want to free women from enslavery and unwilling motherhood. We are fighting for the emancipation for the mothers of the world, of the children of the world, and the children to be” (Sanger). Sanger's use of analogy and the powerful rhetoric of pathos really bring across her message on a personal level. She truly was a pioneer in women's reproductive freedom.
Dorothy Wardell’s article titled “Margaret Sanger: Birth Control’s Successful Revolutionary” explains what inspired Sanger ideas on contraception and what problems she faced while working to change the notions and laws on Birth Control. The central argument presented by Wardell is that Sanger’s efforts led to privileges for women’s bodies and health centers providing methods for women to act on these privileges (Wardell, 736). Although Wardell is effective in supporting her argument, it would be stronger if she included some historical context and evidence of Sanger’s opinion in her own words found in a speech of hers and in Family Limitation. Wardell begins by addressing that “…a definitive biography and assessment has yet to be written.”,
Margaret Sanger was an inspiring speaker, and through her obvious manipulation, the tools of ethos, pathos, and logos were once more effective. I really enjoyed analyzing the strategies used in her speech, but I can’t help but ponder her questions previously mentioned in this piece of work. In a day and age where women were beat down for our gender, I do imagine Sanger suffered ridicule; alas, she pulled through to create a masterpiece, full of manipulation, persuasion, and truth.
On September 14, 1879, Margaret Sanger was born in Corning, New York. She was the sixth child of eleven children and realized early what being part of a large family meant; just making due. Although her family was Roman Catholic both her mother and father were of Irish descent. Her mother, Anne Purcell had a sense of beauty that was expressed through and with flowers. Her father was an Irish born stonemason whose real religion was social radicalism. Her father was a free thinker and strong believer in eugenics which meant Margaret possessed some of the same values. (Sanger, Margaret) Eugenics is the belief that one race is better than a different race just because they are not like them, kind of like Hitler and the holocaust. “He expected me to be grown up at the age of ten.” (Source 4.3 page 30) Coming from a family of eleven children she did have to grow up fast. Faster than most kids should have to. She left her house as a teenager and came back when she needed to study nursing. It was during this time that Margaret worked as a maternity nurse helping in the delivery of babies to immigrant women. She saw illegal abortions, women being overwhelmed by poverty, to many children, and women dying because they had no knowledge of how to prevent one pregnancy after another. This reminded her of the fact that her own mother had eighteen pregnancies, eleven children, and died at the age of forty-nine. Margaret dropped out of school and moved in with her sister. She ended up teaching first grade children and absolutely hated it. She hated children at that time. When Margaret was a child herself however, she would dream about living on the hill where all the wealthy people lived. She would dream of playing tennis and wearing beautiful c...
Florence Kelley uses an abundant amount of rhetorical devices in her speech to express her feelings about child labor. Kelley uses sarcasm, repetition, and imagery in her speech to explain her thoughts on child labor.
Margret Thatcher, former prime minister of Great Britain, in her eulogy to the American people commemorates the presidency of Ronald Reagan. She calls attention to his good works with the use of rhetorical devices such as repetition, juxtaposition, and through her diction that appeals to pathos.
In this passage, Nancy Mairs makes it clear that she cares about the names people give her. She prefers the word “cripple,” to describe herself, rather that “handicapped,” and this is show to be true because of the sheer amount that Mairs repeats it. To emphasize this, Mairs uses rhetorical devices, like tone, word choice and comparisons.
In Ronald Reagan’s eulogy, Margret Thatcher uses many rhetorical strategies to convey the patriotic and loving feelings both she and the country had toward Reagan.
“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not ruin their lives”, directly stated and followed by former president, Ronald Reagan. In 2004 six days after the death of former American President, Ronald Reagan, Britain's former prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, honored Reagan in her eulogy. She praises Ronald Reagan in a way that compels Americans to trust in her. The reader is also encouraged to believe in Thatcher’s statements, similar to the way Americans in 2004 were addressed by her. In addition, she prompts the reader to hold high regard for the advancements Ronald Reagan made during his presidency that would contribute to the well being of Americans and the United States. Thatcher uses several rhetorical strategies in order to
Mary Sherry did do a good enough job of acknowledging the other side of the argument in her essay. She used her experience as an adult-literacy teacher to make points in her argument. The conversations with the students gave real insight of what the reason was that they struggled after high school. Her counter argument was strong enough to truly convince her audience that her thesis is correct. To make her counter argument she used examples of how she used to think about the reason of poor education.
Sojourner Truth’s speech at the Women’s Convention in 1851 was powerful, truthful and personal. As a black woman she experienced both type of discriminations, a double jeopardy of race and gender. In a time where the focus was on black men rights, Sojourne raised her voice in favor of black women rights too. During her speech she used personal experiences to connect with the audience as both women and mothers. She also made biblical references and strategically used repetition and rhetorical questions like: “Ain’t I a woman” to make a point about gender equality. One of the passages of her speech that caught my attention was when she pointed out a man in the crowd who had previously said. It was a powerful counterargument that exposed the social
Throughout Florence Kelley’s 1905 speech to the Philadelphia Convention of the National American Women Suffrage Association, she emphasizes the need to alter the existing working conditions for young children as a necessary change in society. Repeating key concepts, introducing numerous examples of horrendous conditions and state policies, and extolling the virtues of laws curtailing the workday, Kelley develops a highly effective argument that pulls her audience into the issue and invites them to join her efforts.
Margaret Sanger was determined to help women by providing necessary information to prevent pregnancy. In the movie Choices of The Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story, Margaret is fighting for women’s rights to control their own bodies by preventing pregnancies that are often times dangerous. Fighting against Comstock laws that ban the distribution of contraceptive information, Margaret works as a nurse in the early 1900’s and faces many obstacles in her journey.
APUSH Paper Margaret Sanger a women's rights activist took many steps to advance women's rights to a great extent from 1900 to 1936. Sanger was a member of feminist committees, educated women on sex, wrote many influential feminist publications, established the American Birth Control League, and the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control. In Margaret Sangers (Sanger) early life she worked as a nurse on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. As a nurse, Sanger experienced the effect of the lack of contraceptives on women especially in the lives of poor immigrant women . Many of these women because of unwanted pregnancy went to great lengths to prevent the continuation of their pregnancy including back alley abortions detrimental
In the end, Margaret Sanger’s speech on november 18, 1921 encouraged a movement. She was able to touch the lives of women who believed they should have the right to manage their own bodies. And in the same fowl swoop she denoted the stance of religion to be over bearing, encouraging ignorance and fear in women. Margaret continued on in her life to create an organization that still runs to this day. Helping millions of people every year maintain control over their lives and bodies.
One woman from the 1900’s indirectly assisted over 4.5 million people each year (“By the Numbers”). This influential woman was born in 1883 to immigrant parents, Anna Purcell and Michael Higgins, in Corning, New York (Coigney 16). Many believed that she would not amount to much because her father supported eleven children off of extremely low wages (Coigney 16). Despite the odds, Sanger pioneered birth control movement because she wanted to prevent history from repeating itself, believed that women should have control over their own bodies, and thought that all children should be showered with attention and love. Margaret Sanger’s success in the birth control movement has helped millions of people by providing them