Madelein Albright‚ the United States Secretary of State‚ gave a commencement speech to the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College in 1997. With that being a women’s college in Massachusetts‚ Albright uses emotional appeal‚ examples‚ descriptions and metaphors to inspire and motivate the graduating class to continue achieving greatness‚ especially as women in society. To begin‚ Albright starts off her speech by appealing to the audience’s emotions. She does this by saying‚ “as individuals‚ each
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One of her most memorable moments was when she gave the speech The Destructive Male at the 1868 Women’s Suffrage Convention. With this speech she passionately states how the intelligent‚ wise female is kept from having any involvement in the world and how this affects our nation since
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Running Head: MARTIN LUTHER’S SPEECH Topic: Martin Luther’s Speech Name: Course: Instructor’s Name: Date: Martin Luther’s ‘I have a dream’ was a speech‚ which was delivered to an approximately 200‚000 activists and other demonstrators who were gathered before Lincoln Memorial in the year 1963. This meeting was meant to end the racial and economic injustices‚ which are better described by Luther as chains of discrimination. The meeting purposed to address poverty that was a great hindrance
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In his passionate and inspiring speech given to the Lesly University graduating class of 2018‚ award-winning author Jason Reynolds clearly articulated and emotionally persuaded the audience through his use of recalling personal experiences and a direct comparison in order to highlight his message of being grounded. Jason Reynolds tells a story from when he was in high school and uses this personal experience to add substance to his message and help the crowd visualize the point he is making. The
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n Florence Kelley’s speech‚ she discusses the current child labor crisis to emphasize the importance of passing child labor laws immediately. Kelley uses emotional imagery‚ passionate tone‚ and to inform the audience about children being over worked in the United States. Kelley begins her speech by appealing to emotion (pathos) by using imagery. Kelley acknowledges the current tragedy of children being overworked on a daily basis. She captures the audience’s attention by giving dead cold facts
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Frederick Douglass was invited by the Rochester Ladies Antislavery society‚ to deliver a speech. He delivered his speech on July 5th‚ 1852‚ at Corinthian Hall in Rochester‚ New York. In Douglass’s speech‚ he established himself to the audience. He praised their importance of the occasion before them and claims to be humble‚ yet he shrunk with fear and nervousness. Although he deceives his audience‚ His use of rhetoric‚ religious‚ and historic statements‚ achieves common ground for his argument and
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improving the government’s decisions because they did not agree and wanted to get away from Britain. In “Speech in the Virginia Convention” Patrick Henry uses ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos to convince the delegates to secede from Britain and to fight back. In “Speech of the Virginia Convention” Henry uses the three appeals‚ but the one that really stood out to me the most was the usage of pathos. “We must fight…” This evidence shows that this is a pathos statement because of his desire to show how bad
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Address.” Jobs completed only six months of college before deciding that he was unsure how college would help his future‚ but he audited classes for another 18 months. Jobs is a renowned CEO‚ but he did not earn this position easily. Throughout Jobs’ speech‚ he discusses several unknown‚ personal experiences. Jobs makes a connection with the audience by telling three intimate stories‚ discussing failure‚ and using simplistic sentence structure and words. Jobs is chosen
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The context of this speech is that on January 18‚ 1986 the Challenger Shuttle exploded seventy-three seconds into flight. Aboard this aircraft was Christina McAuliffe‚ the first teacher in Space‚ who served as an inspiration for school kids nationwide. The speaker of this speech is Ronald Reagan‚ the President at the time‚ and his audience is the citizens of the United States. During his speech‚ Reagan creates a sense of unity and also expresses his feelings of grief. The purpose of each is to convince
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feared that the war is a bad solution to stop the spread Communism and will cause many casualties. When President Nixon had taken office and televised a speech to explain the situation in Vietnam and to help persuade American viewers that the Government is trying their hardest to end the war quickly. President Nixon uses rhetorical devices in his speech in order to help persuade American viewers to believe that war was the right decision and did so effectively.
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