Dating from 1558-1603, Queen Elizabeth I was one of the longest leading female monarchs following an extensive line of male rulers. In 1558 the Spanish Armada threatened invasion which led Elizabeth to organize her troops. From the British perspective, they were severely outnumbered and, in a sense, unprepared. Despite the odds and speculation, Elizabeth took charge. In her infamous speech “Speech to the Troops at Tilbury” she uses a myriad of rhetorical devices which was used to outline her speech.
Since at this time the Bayonet Constitution was enacted and possibly the U.S wanted the Queen to say this so that her people will listen to her and give up as well. This abdication speech had many elements to it and because of that American Imperialism could be seen today as a "tyrant" force since the U.S, when it was establish, had many ways to dispose of those who got in their way with acquiring more land, one example would be the Indian Removal
In the speech to the troops at Tilbury, Queen Elizabeth the 1st attempts to persuade her soldiers to fight the Spanish for god and country. While speaking to her soldiers, Queen Elizabeth the 1st builds an argument to persuade them that fighting the Spanish is commanded by God and that fighting the Spanish will help improve their country. The argument developed through queen elizabeth's use of pathos using her soldiers feelings of attachment to their country and god. Near the beginning of the speech queen elizabeth the 1st says “...under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects; and therefore I am come amongst you,...” when she says this she using ethos.
1) What 's your gut reaction? - It is upsetting to see that although it was recognized that the Tainos were extremely good-natured people, and the Spaniards still decided to take advantage of them. They took advantage of their kindness without regard for their wellbeing. Ambition and a mindset of superiority turned these people into slaves and led to their decline.
Many people and or things were effected during the American Revolution. This is the time Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her son who is going on a trip with his father. In this letter she gives her son some advice like making mistakes in life to making your own path. Adams provides examples to help illustrate these ideas better.
Throughout history women have been a lower class due to their sex. But not all woman is. Some females are stronger than the mean in their colonies, tribe, etc. Strength does not necessarily mean just big physical muscles, but mentally too. They are devoted a willing to do anything they set their mind too.
However, Queen Elizabeth decided to take a different approach by being more positive in her own speech. She looked towards the future rather than focusing on the negatives of the past and present, which provided inspiration for her
Queen Elizabeth I spoke about her faults as a woman and the fact that she, a woman, has a “heart and stomach of a king” (6). This shows that women were aware they were being looked down upon as they compared a strong heart and stomach to one that only a king could have. This speech shows that its
Queen Elizabeth was in the center of a romantic scandal leaving her the only queen who never married. She also was found responsible for the killing of Mary Queen of Scots, and the enemy was not too happy about that either. It was clear that a lot of people were unsure of her and she used the speech to bring everyone in together and to ultimately unify her kingdom. With the use of imagery, pathos, and diction she motivates and inspires the troops as well as establishing herself as the Queen of England.
Utilizing elegant diction, The Queen mainly employs appeals of Pathos and Ethos. Addressing her audience
In a letter dated March 31th, 1776, Abigail Adams requests his husband John Adams not to forget about women in the Continental Congress and in the fight for American’s Independence from Great Britain. This piece of text belongs to a series of letters Abigail Adams and John Adams wrote to each other while they were separated between 1762 and 1801. This correspondence of over 1000 letters remains in the Massachusetts Historical Society. These letters, “Remember the Ladies” letter included, are historical documents; they are eyewitnesses to all the matters and events of that time since they wrote each other about the political and domestic issues of the day.
On March 2, 1930, Gandhi wrote a letter to the Lord viceroy, though he never gained a response. In Gandhi’s attempt to persuade the Lord into changing the English Rule, he uses ethos and pathos as his strategies, but fails to convince him. Although Gandhi and the Lord are on opposing sides, he must try to help get rid of the Salt Taxation and influence the Indian Independence. The main strategies Gandhi uses are ethos, used to gained trust, and pathos, which is used to bring emotion forward from the reader.
‘The Gift of India’ is a noble tribute to the brave Indian soldiers and sons of India. The poem has a raging world war as its background. It is in a form of address by Mother India to the world. The country is personified and identified with the poet. Her tender and sensitive soul leaps forward to sympathize with the heroes who displayed their valour on different battlefronts fighting for Allied forces.
The queen mother told her, “…but you are not a man” when she insisted that she wanted to rule the whole kingdom. The queen mother’s statement suggested her enforcement of men in leadership, neglecting women. Here, the text skilfully employed the queen mother to disregard her daughter’s
1.2.2 Rational numbers All the numbers that we use in our normal day-to-day activities are called Real Numbers. Real numbers are: Positive integers (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) Fractions (1/2, 2/3, 1/4, etc). [The integers are really forms of fractions (1/1, 2/1, 3/1, etc.)]
