epidemic affected millions of people. Although it is true that the AIDS virus was spread to people of all genders‚ sexual orientations‚ and races‚ there were many stereotypes that stuck with the name of the disease. Mary Fisher‚ who is an American political activist‚ artist‚ and author made herself an advocate for AIDS prevention and educations after contracting HIV from her husband. She conducted her cleverly named speech‚ “A Whisper of AIDS‚” at the 1992 Republican Convention to spread the word to her
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October 2012 Rhetorical Analysis of “A Whisper of AIDS” In 1891‚ Voltairine de Cleyre wrote The Philosophy of Selfishness and Metaphysical Ethics‚ critiquing the selfish and egoistic mindset of society. This same mindset is critiqued by Mary Fisher in “A Whisper of AIDS”. She uses rationally emotional rhetoric in order to criticize this “self-ism” that exists in the world. Fisher begins by speaking of the non-existent impacts of movements that have attempted to raise awareness about AIDS. She utilizes
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Andrew T. Chris Carlson Communications 110 Nov. 11‚ 2013 “A Whisper of AIDS” Critical Thinking Essay When you think of ways to die‚ a person usually thinks of cancer or heart attacks. But what if the 3rd leading cause of death is HIV/AIDS. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary‚ AIDs is “a serious disease of the immune system that is caused by infection with a virus” (AIDS). Mary Fischer informs how HIV/AIDs is a very real and scary disease that affects millions in America‚ but the general
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2012 “The Whisper of AIDS” is a very powerful speech. Mary Fisher wrote a very effective speech; one that would change a lot of American’s views on AIDS. This speech triggered emotions and brought forth an issue rarely talked about in that time of the world. Mary Fisher’s main point was to rid the stereotypes of people who contracted the sexually transmitted disease‚ AIDS. Fisher was a Caucasian female. She was not poor‚ not African American‚ and not homosexual. She did not contract AIDS from being
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Convention Address: A Whisper of AIDS” by May Fisher (1992) at the American Rhetoric website I read the Mary Fisher story. There are plenty of bias and fallacies examples Mary speaks of in this article. Mostly talking about how people are prejudiced and judgmental against people with the HIV virus. How people show no compassion and are so very cruel to the AIDS victims. Mary talks about how her family has shown affection to her through this difficult time but there are many other AIDS victims out there
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Analysis of A Whisper of AIDS speech On August 19‚ 1992‚ during the Republican National Convention in Houston‚ Texas‚ Mary Fisher‚ a 44 year old HIV positive mother of two kids and a rich Republican‚ delivered a moving speech to bring awareness to the American public about the stigma and danger of HIV and AIDS in the 90’s. In 1992‚ millions of Americans were infected‚ and many of these people were ashamed to publicly speak up for themselves. Fisher knew that in order to change federal policies
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1990s‚ not many people were educated about HIV and AIDS; therefore‚ the viruses spread rapidly. People infected each other with the virus without even knowing they had it. Another major issue was that doctors were giving many people the virus through blood transfusions. Once they realized what they had been doing‚ they were devastated. With this discovery‚ the reality of HIV and AIDS was truly understood. Mary Fisher delivered “A Whisper of AIDS” in Houston‚ Texas‚ at the Republican National Convention
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today’s society’s outlook on HIV/AIDS and how the issue should be approached. The notion of A Whisper of Aids is extremely straightforward to what it refers to‚ which is the silence of the people to this worldwide deathly epidemic. The whisper of Aids seems constantly hushed in our society‚ a taboo‚ covered by the shouts of shameful accusations aimed at its helpless victims. This turns into the deaths of millions worldwide. In our modern society even mentioning AIDS still manages to cause an increasing
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with AIDS‚ delivered the speech “A Whisper of AIDS” to shed light on the spread of HIV and AIDS‚ an issue that was seemingly ignored at the time. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ “the number of perinatally acquired AIDS cases peaked in 1992‚” reaching 901 cases. Before delivering the speech‚ Fisher’s main recognitions were for being a movie producer and an assistant to President Gerald R. Ford (“Bio”). However‚ afterwards‚ she became known as an activist for AIDS and HIV
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Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic in America was a huge crisis during the 1900s. Not knowing the true nature of AIDS‚ the society and policy makers simply alienated Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) positive population. The stigma of AIDS exacerbated existing problems of prejudice and social inequity. However‚ Mary Fisher’s inspiring speech cleverly titled‚ “A Whisper of AIDS‚” effectively promoted awareness of HIV and AIDS throughout the United States‚ and brought a change to a public policy on AIDS related
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