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Mary Fisher's Speech 'A Whisper Of Aids'

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People usually turn a blind eye on whatever they find troublesome as if the problem would go away. Mary Fisher wants people to stop their ignorance and prejudice. She wants them to realize AIDS is spreading and affecting many individuals. It can infect anyone at anytime; everyone is at risk. In Mary Fisher’s speech, “A Whisper of Aids”, she utilizes parallel structure, metaphor, and antithesis to support her argument for people to be aware and informed about the disease. Mary Fisher effectively emphasizes the importance of being aware with parallel structure. She repeats the same composition of “Because I was ___, I was not at risk” several times in paragraph eleven. She brings up a quote by Pastor Niemöller who also employs the same technique
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