Florence Kelley uses many rhetorical devices and strategies to convey her message about child labor and working conditions for women in the early 1900’s. Kelley uses each device effectively to produce a very powerful strategy. This strategy convinces the reader about her view and persuades them to take action. The beginning of the speech starts with a statistic, “two million children under the age of sixteen years are earning their bread.”
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).
Florence Kelly uses many rhetorical strategies to convey her message about child labor in her speech. She conveys that young children are working and losing sleep for men and women to buy nonessential wardrobe. In her speech she uses repetition and sarcasm to convey her message. Kelly use of repetition emphasizes her support on reasons why child labor is wrong.
In conclusion, Florence Kelley used many rhetorical strategies in order to call her audience to arms against child labor laws. She accuses the laws of being unjust and labels the children prisoners. In the last two paragraphs, Kelley refers to her cause as the "freeing of the children." She believed the children were robbed of their basic rights and freedoms by labor laws and used strategies such as pathos, parallelism, and illustration to convince her audience to help her "free
Childhood is an age of bliss where innocence holds oneself tightly. Tragically, American history disagrees. As industrialization started to become one of the biggest leading powers in American economy and society during the early 20th century, businesses began to hire whomever they could, including children. In July 22, 1905 in Philadelphia, Florence Kelley took an appalled but determined tone when she spoke out against child labor in an effort to give women voting rights to right this wrong. By using sound rhetorical language, diction, and rhetorical appeals such as pathos and logos, Kelley was able to create a vivid speech that reflects on the inhumane ways child labor inflicts harm on the innocence that describes childhood, as well as convince the audience that women’s suffrage is the solution to this immoral problem.
Children from as young as the age of 6 began working in factories, the beginning of their exploitation, to meet demands of items and financial need for families. In Florence Kelley’s speech before the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia 1905, Kelley addresses the overwhelming problem of child labor in the United States. The imagery, appeal to logic, and the diction Kelley uses in her speech emphasizes the exploitation of children in the child labor crisis in twentieth century America. Kelley’s use of imagery assists her audience in visualizing the inhumanity of the practice.
The United States is made up of some of the most diverse and interesting cultures in the world. Jamila Lyiscott proves this by showing her different dialects and how they are all equally important. Lyiscott believes that the way she speaks towards her parents, towards her friends, and towards her colleagues are all one in the same. Throughout the entirety of her speech, Lyiscott changes up her vocal patterns and dialects so that the audience can understand first hand what each of these dialects are. When she talks about her father, Lyiscott uses her native tongue, when she talks to her fellow neighbors and close friends she switches it up to a more urbanized dialect, and when she is in school she masks the other two dialects with a professional sounding language.
Out of the seventy-five thousand workers ten thousand were children some weren’t even over the age of ten. She met a few children with cut off hands, thumbs, and fingers and realized what a big issue child labor was. Because of her march with mill children by her side she was able to get the attention of many showing the crime of child labor and eventually legislature was passed that sent thousands of children home from the mills and stopped future children from entering the factory until they were the age of fourteen. This document illustrates the journey that Mother Jones and a few mill children endured together and in the end got the result they hoped for and
Child Labor Analysis Child Labor was one of Florence Kelley’s main topics at a speech she gave in Philadelphia during a convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Kelley talks about all the horrors children were going through and the injustices they were suffering. She talks of the conditions children working in, the hours they were going in, and all in all, how wrong child labor was. Her purpose for this was to gain support of people to petition for the end of child labor. Kelley’s appeals to Ethos, Pathos and Logos through the use of great rhetoric is what allows her to achieve her purpose.
4. Rita Dove, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate, addresses her, now former, students at their graduation ceremony in Birmingham. In her speech, Dove first creates credibility with her audience through an analysis of her sonal history, then metaphorically phrases her "wishes" in order to implore the class to appreciate her "lessons" and, subsequently, tackle life with a greater appreciation for themselves and a desire to earn more than they currently have. As a professor at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, where she is giving the address, Dove has an innate credibility with the audience. However, in the introduction of the speech, she goes beyond the idea that the audience must respect her because she is a professor,
Karen Thompson Walker created the speech to explore the effects of how fear can impact a person and their perception of fear. She explains how fear is just there, but a figment of the mind. Fear is the mind's way of storytelling itself. It is best displayed in children, they fear so much because of their minds being so active and them being 'new' to the world. Walker opens her speech with a story about some guys on a boat, but then they crash and are stranded in the ocean.
Young people in the 21st Century need to reevaluate their ethics; David McCullough is helping them understand that by explaining that they need to be honest with themselves and their reality. His scathing criticism of them and their culture, philosophies, and ideologies, is justified and insightful; teens in the United States allows special to become a meaningless term, prefers to win instead of achieving, and cares too much about superficial accomplishments instead of internal growth. McCullough makes a point throughout his speech to say that being special is not just given to you; teenagers are not special by default. In the speech, while he is explaining why young people should look forward to more than just being special or different, in
During the late 1800s and early 1900s, many countries were experiencing child labor. Labor worked extremely hard for long hours and didn't get paid well. This was extremely harsh for people who had low incomes, immigrants, and larger families. Mary Harris Jones made a big step in becoming a leader of a labor organization for workers getting better benefits, and more rights. Mother Jones’
Food on their table, money in their pocket and a roof above their head is a typical day of a child today. Everything is provided for them so easily, they do not have to do anything. There was a time where children had to go through labor in order to feed themselves. Fortunately, a former social worker and reformer, Florence Kelley shone a light into the issue. Her speech on child labor made a difference on child labor laws.
Florence Kelley was a reputable and prominent social and political reformer who frequently spoke out on child labor laws and women´s rights. During the early 20th century numerous children worked long and ardurous hours in factories resulting in many injuries and mortality. The notion that women and children were put in the same if not more dangerous conditions and were paid less than men was resented by many, including Florence Kelley. Kelley was also an advoacte for womens suffrage as women during the 20th century as well as preceding times were looked upon as inferior compared to men. In a speech delivered by Kelley, the topic of child labor laws in thoroughly adressed.
