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
The immortal cells from her ultimately fatal cervical carcinoma were taken without her knowledge or consent by white doctors in the segregated ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital. It wasn’t until the 1970s that her family members found out that their wife and mother’s cells were alive in laboratories all around the world or that biotech companies had made millions of dollars selling vials of HeLa cells while most of the Lacks family lived in poverty and often couldn’t afford health insurance or medical care . In this story and much of the discussion it has prompted, I find an unsatisfactory engagement with the aforementioned entanglement of race, gender, class and sexuality. It is this intersectional assemblage that I will grapple with in this
This collects extra support for her main cause, child labor laws. Children are meant to run, play, and be free, not work excessive hours in a heinous factory. By using logos, pathos, and a shift in topic, Florence Kelley effectively erects her argument to vote for, and create, child labor laws
Access to birth control and safe abortion procedures were absent during the time of Connie’s pregnancy in the 1930s, causing family disarray and bringing shame on her mother Jean. Due to social attitudes towards unplanned pregnancy, Jean views Connie’s actions as “dragging [the Wasteways] down to the bottom of the hill” and describes her daught as a “loose woman” with “no morals” The lack of reproductive rights within this era is shown through Connie’s mother, who implores that she has an abortion in order to preserve her and her family’s reputation within the community, which subsequently resulted in Connie’s death. Jordan condemns the little personal choices available to women in the 1930s, and contrasts this with Charlotte’s experiences of unplanned pregnancy in the early 21st century. When Charlotte faces the same situation as Connie, Stanzi reminds her, “your body, your choice”, meaning that she can either choose to have the baby or have an abortion at the local hospital, which is a safe and “short operation”, unlike Connies horrific “backyard abortion”. Charlotte’s safe and easy access to abortion poignantly contrasts with the lack of options available to Connie, illustrating the substantial improvement in reproductive right for women within Australian
Trying to prevent neglected children and back-alley abortions, Margaret Sanger gave the moving speech, “The Children’s Era,” in 1925 to spread information on the benefits and need for birth control and women's rights. Margaret Sanger--activist, educator, writer, and nurse--opened the first birth control clinic in the United States and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. During most of the 1900’s, birth control and abortions were illegal in the United States, causing women to give birth unwillingly to a child they must be fully responsible for. This caused illness and possible death for women attempting self-induced abortion. Sanger uses literary devices such as repetition and analogies
Many of the eugenicists believed that certain racial and socioeconomic groups were more prone to degeneracy with criminal-like behaviors. Villarosa argued that these were the same attitudes that shaped family planning workers’ decision to target Minnie Lee and Mary Alice Relf for permanent contraception. The Relf sisters came from poor family and were living in public housing, which made them vulnerable to coercive sterilization. Villarosa allows history to help us understand the reproductive violence that the Relf sisters and other females suffered. She explains that forced sterilization was a common practice in the United States during the
The argument over a woman’s right to choose over the life of an unborn baby has been a prevalent issue in America for many years. As a birth control activist, Margaret Sanger is recognized for her devotion to the pro-choice side of the debate as she has worked to provide sex education and legalize birth control. As part of her pro-choice movement, Sanger delivered a speech at the Sixth International Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference in March of 1925. This speech is called “The Children’s Era,” in which she explains how she wants the twentieth century to become the “century of the child.” Margaret Sanger uses pathos throughout her speech as she brings up many of the negative possibilities that unplanned parenthood can bring for both children and parents.
A great number of women today are facing the issue unplanned pregnancies. Abortion is one of the most controversial issues in the world today. Valerie Tarico, the author of the article, “I Am Pro-Abortion, Not Just Pro-Choice: 10 Reasons Why We Must Support the Procedure and the Choice,” challenges to address issues that women face when going through an abortion. In her article, Tarico uses rhetorical strategies such as ethos, pathos and repetition to make her argument inducing. In her text, she addresses the common issues around abortion, arguing that abortion should be allowed, and is the right thing to do.
Thank goodness, she turned out alright. But I’ll never risk it again. Never! The strain is simply too - too hellish,” (36). Larsen uses words provoking anxiety and horror to give the reader insight into Clare’s mind when she thinks about pregnancy and motherhood.
“Rather than face a possible five-year jail sentence, Sanger fled to England. While there, she worked in the women’s movement and researched other forms of birth control” (“Margaret Sanger”). Still, in the most stressful of times, Margaret Sanger was unremitting and determined to make a difference. Through all of her trials and tribulations, she was astounding in her unending efforts. All of Sangers hard work started to pay
Betsey Johnson was born on August 10, 1942, Wethersfield, Conneticut. She had two great passions for dance and art when she was growing up. This led her to pursue her interests in art and design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, which then she later transferred to Syracruse University. After graduating college, she dove into the fashion industry and got a job in the Madammoiselle magazine art department but soon later became an independent fashion designer. Part of Johnson 's success was her abililty to sense the social and subsequent style and sillouette changes.
Rather than stating the argument, Willis poses it as a question, “Are the fetuses the moral equivalent of born human beings?” (Abortion Debate 76), thus showing how modern feminists can only support one side of the argument in their chosen stance, and cause limitations by doing so. In doing so, Willis shows how to some “extent… we objectify our enemy and define the terms of our struggle as might makes right, the struggle misses its point” (Ministries of Fear 210), which implies that feminists have completely missed the point of the argument by getting caught up in an answer. Rather than looking for a compromise or gray area, they exert their stance as the only solution that woman can have. Willis also shows how feminists fundamentally “see the primary goal of feminism as freeing omen from the imposition of so called ‘male values’, and creating an alternative culture based on ‘female values’”
Valerie Tarico explains in the article, “I am Pro-Abortion, not Just Pro-Choice: 10 Reasons Why We Must Support the Procedure and the Choice,” how she is for abortion. She thinks women should plan out their pregnancies when they know they can handle a child and when they found the person they want to have the child with. Tarico says women should not have ill-conceived childbearing because the women had unprotected sex, was raped, a condom broke or the women did not think she was in the right relationship to have a baby. Even though, the author claims she is also pro-choice, Valerie Tarico wrote the article with people who are pro-life or pro-choice in mind because all she states in the article is how she is pro-abortion and how abortion is
Breaking Through: Concrete Ceilings Created by Generational Problems and Maintained By Stigma and Poverty! Topic #1 Political philosopher Karl Marx famously said that “[People] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.” In other words, though we create our own lives, our choices and options are affected by the circumstances that we are born into. Using course concepts and materials, write an argumentative essay that explores Marx’s idea with reference to Baby’s life.
In today’s society, abortion is a controversial topic. Many people dispute if it is moral to eliminate the potential of the unborn fetus or if it is fair to force the parent to keep and raise the baby if the parent isn’t ready. In Sallie Tisdale’s We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Story, the author uses imagery and internal conflict to recreate her experiences as a nurse employed at an abortion hospital. She does this to make her audience understand her and the people who work in abortion hospitals’ perspective.
