Work is required to earn the money to provide the necessities of life, but this duty should never be given to children. In her speech, Florence Kelley uses logos, pathos, and a shift to voting rights to build her argument of why child labor laws need to be enforced nationwide. The first way the author builds her argument is through logos, a logical appeal. Kelley utilizes an assailment of facts and statistics to lead her assertion. This is effective because of the shockingly large number of children working absurd and miserable hours.
She casts herself as a “rock thrower” to her fellow journalists in order to demonstrate the immense positive possibility of her message but also the perils of delivering the aforementioned message. She chooses to analogize her situation with one of a rock-thrower in order to capture her audience’s emotions and lessen their potential anger at the criticisms she leads on to deliver during the body of her speech. Consequently, her analogy is also a light-hearted statement of self-deprecation, which persuades her audience to listen to her speech rather than simply treat it as mindless banter and ignore it. Luce goes on to mention the fact that the subject she would be discussing is of “great national significance”, in the hopes that her audience realizes just how necessary her criticisms would be later on and that they would take to heart some of the improvements they could undertake. She phrases her analogy in such a way as to convince her audience to devote their whole attention her speech despite their potential disdain for her critiques; however, she chose the best possible strategy for this purpose because the particular choice of diction in her analogy about being a rock-thrower effectively displayed to her audience that her position was one of positive influence yet great danger.
Landon Bolotte In”Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury uses the literacy of irony to shape the theme that books are controversial and are an important part of our society and our lives. First, the "concept that books are controversial and are a very important part of our culture and our lives' ' relates to the people in the novel and their interactions with society. According to the text it states“You know, I’m not afraid of you at all ... So many people are. Afraid of firemen, I mean.
On July 22, 1905, Florence Kelley, a supporter of child labor laws and improved conditions for working women, delivered a powerful speech before the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia. Through uses of rhetoric strategies, such as, evidence, diction, and imagery, Kelley illustrates her argument that working conditions and laws must be changed. Kelley begins her speech by presenting a list of statistics. As many as “two million children under the age of sixteen years” earn their bread (lines 1-2). No other group of workers increased as rapidly as young girls from fourteen to twenty (lines 8-10).
Clare Boothe Luce reads an opening of a speech to journalists at the Women's National Press Club in 1960 to discuss how sometimes journalists sacrifice the truth for a story that meets with the public eye. She is trying to motivate all the journalists in the audience to bring out true stories into the light and not just stories that are entertaining. She uses this speech to criticize the audience full of journalists but also herself and tells them that they are the reason she is there. She hopes that after the speech, the journalists do their jobs in a truthful manner. Luce is a writer herself so in this article she uses paradox, flattery, and juxtaposition to get her point across.
In a future totalitarian society, all books have been outlawed by the government, fearing an independent-thinking public. Fahrenheit 451 is a futuristic novel, telling the story of a time where books and independent thinking are outlawed. In a time so unenlightened, where those who want to better themselves by thinking, are outlawed and killed. Guy Montag is a senior firefighter who is much respected by his superiors and is in line for a promotion. He does not question what he does or why he does it until he meets Clarisse.
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 Florence Kelley’s passionate 1905 speech against child labor at the convention for the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia, she employs multiple persuasive rhetorical strategies to guilt her audience and provoke action. Kelley, through illustrating the experiences of young children with auditory and visual imagery, juxtaposes her audience with the plight the children face, calling them to not perpetuate the problem and act. Kelley further utilizes statistical figures to connect with her female audience and call for change. She further connects her audience to the injustice, shaming their comfort in comparison to the danger and pain the children face. Florence Kelley illustrates the terrible conditions and grueling work children of the time dealt with through visual and
However, the heavy criticism in her rhetoric is laid out in a more witty, almost sarcastic tone to lighten the message and express it in such a way that builds her credibility from the very introduction of the speech, allowing her argument to become all the more successful. Luce humorously puts the blame of this attack on the audience for inviting her to speak, immediately lightening the tone. The way she directly addresses the audience and their characteristics forces the audience’s
Due to the fact that she has asked her audience for opinions, and their feelings toward the American press. Luce has still continued to speak the truth about journalist not being completely honest. She presents herself by saying, “Even at their invitation- does not generally point evoke and enthusiastic- no less a friendly response” (L. 13-14). Luce explains and wants to let her audience know that the feedback is not going to be positive because of all the criticism she is going to receive, and points out the problem that is going to build in her position.
American journalist and politician, Clare Boothe Luce, in her opening speech at the 1960 Women’s National Press Club meeting, prepares her audience, qualifying and defending her forthcoming criticism. Luce’s purpose is to provoke thought in the journalist’s minds on what journalism is really about at its core. She adopts a frank and humorous tone to best capture the attention of her intended audience of female journalists. Through, appealing to the ethos, logos, and pathos with flattery, syllogism, and rhetorical questioning to prepare the audience for her message: “the tendency of the American press to sacrifice journalistic integrity in favor of the perceived public demand for sensationalist stories.” In the first paragraph of her speech, Luce assures the audience that “[she is] happy and flattered to be a guest of honor…”
According to Mary Urbanski, “Margaret Fuller is the most important woman of the 19th century” and author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, which was the intellectual foundation of the feminist movement (3). By including Transcendentalist thought in her arguments, which have their basis with her feminist predecessors, Fuller brought the issue of women’s rights beyond the social sphere to the inner self as the focus that would change society and its institutions rather than revolution or political action. Cole argues that Margaret Fuller’s contribution to the feminist tradition deserves more recognition because she expanded upon arguments and appeals made by her predecessors, but I argue that its her unique rhetorical style combined with her
A rhetorical analysis of: “For many restaurant workers, fair conditions not on menu”, an editorial published in February, 2014 by The Boston Globe, reveals the author’s use of classic rhetorical appeals to be heavily supported with facts, including focused logos arguments. “For many restaurant workers, fair conditions not on menu” is a Boston Globe editorial published in February 2014 by author/editor Kathleen Kingsbury. Kingsbury is a Pulitzer prize winning author and is currently the deputy managing editor (The Boston Globe). “For many restaurant workers, fair conditions not on menu” aims to inform the reader of the hardships that minimum wage restaurant workers in the United States have to face and steps that could be taken to solve these issues. The article focuses in on the wage gap,
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. " These are the words of Martin Luther King Jr. Although Katniss is from District 12, where she starves and has no physical strength, she still uses everything she learned to fight and keep moving forward. In Suzanne Collins’s dystopian novel titled “The Hunger Games” a 16-year-old girl named Katniss volunteered to be a tribute from District 12 in the 74th Hunger Games to fight in the arena with 23 other tributes. Joseph Campbell is a professor who created the 12-17 parts that are mostly always included in a hero's journey.
Imprisonment and constraint, can be felt in many different scenarios in the passage from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. However, we get these two feelings with a girl who is portrayed as an orphan in this chapter. When being an orphan many feelings can run through a person’s mind, for example abandonment and not feeling loved, or being/feeling trapped. The feeling of imprisonment and constraint in this chapter is expressed through the use of imagery and diction. Imagery is viewed in this chapter in a variety of sentences.
