When asked to discuss an effective use of Aristotle’s techniques in modern life, my experience while viewing Emma Watson’s United Nations speech on the issue of gender equality was one that came immediately to mind. Not only is each technique clearly communicated throughout, she was able to resonate directly with her professional audience, myself; an 18 year old scholar at the time and most unexpectedly my 21 year old brother; a male witness on a deemed feminist topic. Her speech left my brother and I regarding …show more content…
Being known as the “Harry Potter girl”, I questioned what substance she could bring to such an important issue. However, Emma acknowledged this cliché and served to confront her given opportunity to cause awareness. In this sense Watson slowly sealed the holes in our doubt in her (Hill, 2014) and we were left accepting her speech as trustworthy. Also, through mentioning her own experiences of discrimination using words like “I have seen”, and describing how she aims to combat the inequities feeling “it’s [her] responsibility to say something” (United Nations, 2014), her ethos grew in our eyes knowing she cared on a more personal