Summary Of Speech By Florence Kelley Figurative Language

Killing two birds with one stone is exactly what Florence Kelley does in her speech at the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention on July 22, 1905. She argues against unfair child labor laws by utilizing emotional appeal, using rhetorical questions, and employing repetition. Kelley does this in order to convince her audience if women had the right to vote there would be better child labor laws. Kelley’s utilization of emotional appeal invokes a number of different emotions onto the audience.

However, because society is cruel and who never approve of a woman so independent, she creeps around the room to hide her escape. When John arrives at the nursery-like room, he sees what has become of his wife. His wife explains she has ‘gotten out, in spite of you and Jane,’ before John faints and his wife continues to creep around the room, trying her best not to step on the fallen body. In conclusion, the narrator of the Yellow Wallpaper, is what happened to a woman in an oppressed society.

It is easy to disregard the lives of others, especially of those outside one’s own, but does the fact that, tonight, several thousand children will restlessly work while the adults sleep not raise concern? Florence Kelly was a United States social worker who advocated for child labor laws and the improved working conditions for women throughout the early 1900s. During a speech to the National American Woman Suffrage Association Kelly skillfully employed the rhetorical strategies of imagery, pathos, and anecdote in order to sufficiently inform her listeners of the horrendous working conditions that many children were forced to endure. Through careful word choice Kelly’s use of imagery manages to evoke a sense of pity among her listeners towards

She put an emphasis on “while we sleep” to prove that child labor is inhumane. While little girls work for hours upon hours, “we” sleep knowing a child is “knitting stockings” all night long. Florence repeated the phrase in order for the audience to understand how inhumane child labor has become. Little girls deserve to be taken

The question touches on the subject of women’s rights to vote. In asking this question, Kelley makes her audience consider whether child labor would still be acceptable if women had the right to vote. She is trying to show her audience that if women were allowed to vote, they would not want their children working ¨under twelve years of age,¨ and would try and ¨stop the work¨ of children all together . In asking this question, Kelley connects herself with her audience and makes them consider the effect on the lack of women’s rights, and how the lack of rights is hurting children. Using a rhetorical question helps Kelley briefly reveal the need for an increase in women’s rights, while helping her argument on child labor.

As her years of conducting the railroad culminates, Harriet starts her career of concocting superb speeches on top of her head. Not only was the audience moved, but they were also surprised of how inspiring her tone of voice is (207). In addition, as she tells her own synopses of her life, Harriet speaks her story with dramatic interpretation and excellent eloquence in a speech so well that the audience was thrilled upon scheduling another speech with Harriet. In one of her speeches, Harriet ferociously convinces a little boy to holler ‘Fire, fire’, which is a feat that only parents can normally do, let alone a stranger. (126) Also, Harriet persuaded, not always by cajoling, with a deep-tone husky voice and a gun in her hand, a despaired slave to continue on the journey instead of wavering on the decision to either turn back and risk punishment, or to go to freedom.

In Oprah Winfrey’s Harvard Commencement Speech, like most graduation speeches aims to inspire the new graduates to enter the world with confidence and optimism. She encourages the graduates to force themselves to think the same way about failure as she does, or not see a lack of success as failure. For many, it will be the first time experiencing the real world, so she encourages all in the audience to not only redefine failure and hardship but also use their acquired knowledge for the benefit of all people. Oprah uses humor, optimism and inspiration, and life stories to help her audience understand how to define and overcome their own failures. Causing laughter twice within the first two minutes sets up a lax tone for the rest of her speech.

In her speech, Florence Kelley uses different rhetorical strategies to convey her message about child labor to the audience. Kelley uses repetition, pathos, and logos. She wants to get her message across to the audience that child labor needs to be stopped. First, Kelley uses repetition to emphasize her message about child labor.

In Florence Kelley's speech, she reveals her distraught views about child labor. Kelley argues the cruelty of “little white girls” being forced to work at unreasonable hours of the night while the common adult is at home receiving a good night's rest. Kelley underscores her ideas with exemplification, comparisons, and repetition. She begins her address by stating factual evidence: “We have, in this country, two million children under the age of sixteen years who are earning their bread.”

Otherwise known as housewives, women who tend to the household chores and take care of the children whilst catering to the husband's every need. Which during the era of the 1940's, the period in which this short story is taking place, it is quite realistic to see housewives in most, if not every household. The women join shortly after their "menfolk." (101). They are greeting one another and exchanging, "bits of gossip" (101), as they walk over to join their husbands.

The eight-year-old Sheyann Webb was a young eight-year-old girl who was marching for her rights she wanted to prove that…………………… 5. There were many provisions in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It banned racial discrimination in voting nationwide. It requires states to and local government to “preclear” proposed changes during elections. It also forces states and governments to aid those who are not complete literate and those not fluent in English.

She not only fought for her own family, she fought the battle for all colored women. In her speech to address the first annual meeting of the American equal rights association, she sought to educate people on the importance of equality for all. After she worked to abolish slavery, she spoke about another parallel slavery situation that could or would arise if colored women were not given the same rights as colored men. She likened it to the fact that if you give colored men the right to vote and colored women don’t get the same right, you have created another form of a slave state. In that scenario, one set i.e. colored men would have rights and the other set i.e. colored women would not, which is the foundation of slavery after all.

He missed the five o’clock train and already knows he will be in trouble with his boss. His mother knocked on his door and warned him he was going to be late for work and needs to hurry in order to make the next train. Gregor does not want to rush to the train station so he decides to stay in bed. A little after seven in the morning, Gregor’s manager showed up to the family’s apartment and questioned why Gregor missed the early train for work.

In social reformer Florence Kelley’s speech (1905), she argues that the practice of child labor in the U.S is immoral and unacceptable. Kelley effectively builds her argument by using both pathos and rhetorical questions. Using examples from current states that allow child labor (Pennsylvania, Alabama, Georgia, New Jersey), she illuminates the cruelty of child labor in order to encourage women to “enlist the workingmen on behalf of our enfranchisement just in proportion as we strive with them to free the children” (87-89). Kelley directs this speech to the women with children at the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia. Kelley consistently uses pathos throughout her speech.

“Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional” is a book written by Robin Kelley. In this book, Kelley fights back for African-Americans. He is tired of people talking about African-Americans, especially mothers. Kelley feels as if people are blaming the poor blacks for the stereotypes that they face today. Kelley believes that scientist do their studies in African-American cities and don’t show enough about how African-Americans are depicted in their everyday lives.