Finding the fact that children from the age of “twelve to twenty years” are subject to labor heartbreaking. Florence Kelley’s speech, given at the National American Woman Suffrage Association, uses a variety of rhetorical strategies to turn the hearts of the audience against child labor, along with strengthening the argument for women’s suffrage. She does this to ultimately to argue that when women can vote, they will put a stop to child labor.
While other rhetorical strategies, such as logos and ethos, serve mainly to impress the audience’s reason. Pathos goes beyond that and rouses the audience’s emotions and persuades their heart directly. With her iron-willed personality, Kelley uses emotional appeal again and again to tell the attendees at the National American Woman Suffrage Association about the hardships child laborers have to go through, including the sheer work many children had to do such as, “working eleven hours by day or by night”. Saying this lets the audience sympathize with the
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Simply saying things without backing it up makes an argument worthless. Kelley uses pathos or logical appeal through evidence, when she lists facts such as “no contingent so doubles from census to census period (both by percent…) as the contingent of girls between twelve and twenty. They are in commerce, in offices in manufacturing” by stating this she gives evidence about how child labor is increasing more and more. This in turn gives her fuel to use her emotional appeal. As she can back up what she is saying. So, she builds a strong basis with evidence and then lets the fuel of that be used to make an emotional appeal.This is shown in the following sentence right after she says this fact, she adds the emotional appeal “Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls.” So it is seen that she will state her evidence which lets and this strengthens the emotional appeal she adds
Kelley continues to explain the increases in child labor, as well as the children now taking up the role as breadwinners. As the speech progresses, she also addresses different scenarios that appeal to the audience’s sentiments such as,” Tonight we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in the textile
Celia Wright tells about her growing up in a home that had bibles, and how she would read the bible when she was litte but as she became older when she did read the bible she really wouldn 't get understand what it was saying. She says it was like the words was in a different languge, and she couldn 't decifer wheather what she was reading was a parable and what wasnt. I have always thought that i was the only one that had a hard time understand and desifering what the bible was describing but after watching Celia 's video i realized that i wasn 't alone. I also struggle with reading my bible everyday like i should and i have been trying to work on it because the word is our weapon to use against satin and it helps to understand the what
(III.3) Using a proper academic research process for an applicable discipline, find out if academics hold their opinions with Jacqueline Smith. Layout your research process, conclusion, and give the Works Cited documentation for your primary-interest source. What I know: I know that Smith is an African American who was displaced when the motel was repurposed. She also protests the racism present in Memphis.
Some are otherwise nice people under the deeply mistaken impression they’re so attractive no woman would mind a surprise hand up her skirt. (The Great Al Franken Moment)” Her use of pathos allows her to relate to the reader and encourage an emotional response to persuade the reader and strengthen her argument. This device is effective because it taps into the audience’s emotions and provokes a reaction; It also makes the audience feel the same way as the author does and it
Child Labor Analysis Child Labor was one of Florence Kelley’s main topics at a speech she gave in Philadelphia during a convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Kelley talks about all the horrors children were going through and the injustices they were suffering. She talks of the conditions children working in, the hours they were going in, and all in all, how wrong child labor was. Her purpose for this was to gain support of people to petition for the end of child labor. Kelley’s appeals to Ethos, Pathos and Logos through the use of great rhetoric is what allows her to achieve her purpose.
This short story wrote by Barbara Lazear Ascher a woman who describes with explicit details her thoughts and feelings of the participants in the streets of New York. The author uses rhetoric elements such as Pathos, Logos and Ethos to convince her audience that compassion is not a characteristic trait, it is developed within ourselves. The author use rhetorical elements that appeals to Pathos to invoke sympathy from an audience.
In America’s history, child labor was fiercely criticized. Many activists of child labor laws and women’s suffrage strived to introduce their own viewpoints to the country. Florence Kelley was a reformer who successfully changed the mindset of many Americans through her powerful and persuading arguments. Florence Kelley’s carefully crafted rhetoric strategies such as pathos, repetition, and sarcasm generates an effective and thought provoking tone that was in favor of women’s suffrage and child labor laws. Florence Kelley uses pathos continuously throughout her speech.
In her speech to the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Florence Kelly descriptively vocalizes about chid labor. She talks about the horrible conditions young children face in the states. Kelly uses repetition to put emphasis on little girls working in textile mills, “while we sleep” is repeated 3 times this makes the audience feel guilty for enjoying life while little girls are working. Kelly also uses pathos, appealing to the emotion of her
Admiral William H. Mcraven addressed the 2014 graduating class at the University of Austin, Texas with more than eight thousand students in attendance. The address given by Adm. Mcraven touched the hearts of millions from all around the world by his inspirational message of how one person can change the world if they simply helped change the lives of ten others in their lifetime. I chose this speech for my rhetorical analysis because of the simple message it portrays, how helping a few can eventually help many. Adm. Mcraven’s address was especially effective for his audience, much due to how he relates to the students by reminiscing of the day he graduated from UT while providing advice for young college graduates preparing to begin their adult lives.
Children from as young as the age of 6 began working in factories, the beginning of their exploitation, to meet demands of items and financial need for families. In Florence Kelley’s speech before the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia 1905, Kelley addresses the overwhelming problem of child labor in the United States. The imagery, appeal to logic, and the diction Kelley uses in her speech emphasizes the exploitation of children in the child labor crisis in twentieth century America. Kelley’s use of imagery assists her audience in visualizing the inhumanity of the practice.
The United States is made up of some of the most diverse and interesting cultures in the world. Jamila Lyiscott proves this by showing her different dialects and how they are all equally important. Lyiscott believes that the way she speaks towards her parents, towards her friends, and towards her colleagues are all one in the same. Throughout the entirety of her speech, Lyiscott changes up her vocal patterns and dialects so that the audience can understand first hand what each of these dialects are. When she talks about her father, Lyiscott uses her native tongue, when she talks to her fellow neighbors and close friends she switches it up to a more urbanized dialect, and when she is in school she masks the other two dialects with a professional sounding language.
Brady appeals to the reader’s emotions in her article why I want a wife by using pathos. She creates a connection between herself and the reader to make the reader feel what she is feeling and relate to her, which by definition is pathos. In Brady’s article “Why I Want a Wife” she develops a valid argument of why she wants a “wife” by using examples of pathos to connect with her female readers of the Ms. Magazine and draw their attention. This is a rather effective method when one considers that this article was written in the 1970’s when women’s rights acts was just starting to take place.
In her speech, Florence Kelley, a U.S. social worker and reformer, urge for a change for child labor laws and for improving the working conditions for women. Kelly first expresses a sense of emotion appeal to describe the harsh and dangerous rules young children under the age of sixteen have to endure. Then she employs figurative languages to emphasize the conditions women and young children are in. her purpose is to convince the convention of National American Woman Suffrage Association, located in Philadelphia on July 22, 1905, to improve the working conditions, and atmosphere, by utilizing a determined and reasonable tone to her audience, she tries to relate to them. First K, Kelley mention the unfortunate house child dren under sixteen years old have to work under to emphasize the emotional appeal to the people of the convention throughout the country, thousands and thousand of young, innocent girls are working late and long hours at night in order to help support their families.
emotional appeal by going back in history telling everyone that this is not the first time astronauts died in space mission, this comforts the public about risks astronauts take to do their job, this may not appeal for those who were skeptical about the program at the beginning, rather it is to gain more support for NASA. He used “courage’ and “brilliant” those words were carefully chosen to evoke patriotism as well as persuade broader audience. Finely closes his Pathos by naming the astronauts one by one. Naming them individually he’s trying connect with each family personally.
Within the speech delivered at the convocation of Douglass College at 1977 by Adrienne Rich, one is able to identify how Rich appeals to her audience emotionally through pathos, when she states, “Responsibility to yourself…means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind” (Rich). Here, Rich conveys how the student must demand appreciation from others in order to develop academically. The quote engages the reader emotionally as Rich enables one to contemplate whether one truly appreciates his or herself as well as if one considers others dependable, when respecting his or her mind. Therefore, the reader is able to comprehend that if he or she truly appreciates their loved one, he or she would