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Oprah starts off her speech by bringing up the time when she was a little girl watching the 36th annual Academy Awards. She tells us when it happened which was in 1964. She tells that that while she was watching the Academy Awards she was sitting on the floor in her mother's house. Oprah tells us what type of floor it was and I believe that she tells us this so that we can get imagine in our heads. She watched as Anne Bancroft presented an oscar to the winner who was Sidney Poitier. Sidney wore a white tie and Oprah described his as the most elegant man she had ever seen. It was a very important moment for her to watch Sidney being celebrated. What this is telling me is that back then there weren't many black people going up and receiving award like that. That's why that moment is so special to her. Oprah’s mother helped clean other people's houses and in class we inferred that they do not have much money at this point. In 1982 Sidney …show more content…

Im very confused with what the word siege means, i tried to look up the definition but i'm not quite sure i completely understand it. There are many rumors about a lot of things but the only thing keeping us sane is the truth. You should always speak the truth no matter what. The people there are celebrated for the stories that they told. They became the story and this story affects not only the entertainment industry but also culture, geography, race, religion and so much more. Oprah wanted to show her gratitude toward the women who have endured assault and abuse because no matter what circumstances they went through they still got up and provided for their family and themselves. They like everyone else had dreams and some people pursue them no matter what. Not everyone comes forward and tells their story or maybe they did but its not able to reach everyone's ears. We might never know their names but just know that they are among

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Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina nominated for the Supreme Court, gave a speech to the Senate Judiciary Committee about her work experience as a judge and her outlook on education. Sotomayor speaks about her experinces as a judge, along with the hard work she put into her education that earned her scholarships into two Ivy League schools. Sotomayor’s purpose is to seek the support from the Senate Judiciary Committee by giving an image to show she is eligible to be in the Supreme Court. Sotomayor supports her purpose with her background story about her education and her occupations as a judge. Sotomayor uses rhetorical appeals and a grateful tone to persuade the committee she is an applicable candidate to be in the Supreme Court.

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Her message helped to empower a seemingly torn apart community and draw together volunteers to fight the rising HIV and AIDs epidemic. Mrs. Fishers speech still lives on today, conveying a still equally important message, just as she still lives so does HIV and AIDs, without her help they may have never found medicine that combats HIV and AIDs providing the infected with longer more fulfilling lives. Fishers use of repetition and emotion powered this speech, her emphasis on the importance of the fight against the viruses made her speech strong and memorable, which is why it lives today. I do believe that Fisher could not have included some of the message to her family, and the draw of attention to herself, after saying that she was not there for applause but rather to help the HIV and AIDs communities it felt a bit hypocritical; it does provide a nice connection to emotion for the listeners but also is contradictory to her beginning statements. A Whisper of AIDs helped to bring a nation together against a sickness that was killing much of the nation and I applaud Mary Fisher for her efforts in the

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somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good ( Oprah Winfrey). oprah carreer in media started in the mid 1970 's when she became the first African American women to cost host Nashville 's WLAC-TV. shortly after Oprah moved to Baltimore where she became the co host for the local talk show "PEOPLE ARE TALKING". Winfrey is well known for her talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show" which was the highest-rated program of its kind. winfrey is now the CEO of Harpo Productions and the CEO CCO of the Oprah Winfrey Network Oprah Winfrey is a women of many accomplishments.

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In the speech she said, “In my career, what I've always tried my best to do, whether on television or through film, is to say something about how men and women really behave. To say how we experience shame, how we love and how we rage, how we fail, how we retreat, persevere and how we overcome.” Oprah is trying to say that she is trying to limit the amount of people that use willful ignorance to not speak up. This is because she says she is trying to say something about how people act. She is trying to not be willfully ignorant and is trying to get people’s stories out to others so they won’t be willfully ignorant.

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The purpose of the speech was to revolutionize the idea that racism is okay and make people’s mind change. One excerpt states the following, “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave holders will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.” This excerpt shows the feeling of insecurity former slaves and their families have toward slavery, emulate slaveholders and racism and the emotion of pathos affecting them with the

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The public speaker starts off by bringing pathos into the speech by asserting “I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! Ain’t I a woman?” (“Ain’t I a woman”). That statement established an emotional bond between herself and the mothers in the audience, however, the spokesperson not only appeals to the African Americans in the audience, but also to the White mothers in the audience, too. The merging of the two races created a greater appeal to the audience, as a whole, because they all have shared one common goal, the desire of wanting women to be given equal

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Oprah’s display as an orator should not go unnoticed. Throughout the entirety of her delivery, Oprah projects herself with a clear, calm, and strong yet soft emphasis. Oprah maintains stern eye-contact with the audience, and presents herself in a strong, iron-body demeaner. These oratorical techniques coincide to further captivate the audience and continue to ease the audience into the persuasion of the viewpoint presented in her speech. Given controversies of sexual assault in recent times, as well as ideas of feminism and female

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The primary receiver of this speech would be all American citizen, as she talks about the American dream and having to work hard to get somewhere in life. The secondary receiver would be the rest of the world, since this is a worldwide known

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