Revolution‚ child labor was still a huge issue in America. With the rise of the Woman’s Suffrage Movement‚ reformers such as Florence Kelley took the stage to improve the conditions for women and children in the workforce through labor reforms. Kelley‚ who was a worker and reformer‚ addressed this issue in her speech at the convention of the National American Women Suffrage Association in Philadelphia in the summer of 1905. She successfully used her persuasive and argumentative
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Speaking at a suffrage convention‚ social worker Florence Kelley calls upon her audience to combine child labor and women’s suffrage issues in order to make advances in both areas. Basing her argument on factual evidence‚ Kelley further uses emotional and ethical appeal‚ supported by strong diction and subtle syntax structures t convey the necessity of reform to her audience. Florence Kelley provides a great point with a weak argument in her speech. Her writing is almost mere state by state
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Political reformer and activist‚ Florence Kelley‚ gave her child labor speech to million of Americans at the Nation American Women Suffrage Association. Her speech consisted of the harsh working conditions that little children suffered day and night. Kelley’s speech conveyed that children should not be working and be exploited. The loss of innocence is conveyed when children have to work in order to earn their daily bread. Throughout her whole speech‚ she used a persuasive tone that evoked a great
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Florence Kelley (1859 – 1932) Florence Kelley‚ A Woman of Fierce Fidelity Florence Kelley is considered one of the great contributors to the social rights of workers‚ particularly women and children. She is best known as a prominent Progressive social reformer known for her role in helping to improve social conditions of the twentieth century. She has been described as a woman of fierce fidelity (Goldmark‚ 1953). Kelley was a leading voice in the labor‚ suffragette‚ children’s and civil rights
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On July 22‚ 1905 Florence Kelley revealed to the public about the amount of work that children‚ ages sixteen and under are doing in factories. Her concerned outlook on the situation lets the women at the convention of the National American Women Suffrage Association know that she feels this is a matter that should be taken care of. She attempts to open the eyes of the people to let them see that the time that children are spending working in factories isn’t time well spent‚ and that action should
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reformer‚ Florence Kelley‚ stands before mothers and wives of men who can vote at the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention. During his convention Kelley delivers a successful speech on the importance of child labor laws. As fellow suffragette‚ Kelley incorporates rhetorical strategies such as the appeal to guilt‚ rhetorical questions‚ and imagery in order to place a sense of urgency on the importance of child labor laws. In paragraphs nine and eleven‚ Kelley appeals
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Florence Kelley Timed Write In the times of the Progressive Era (1875-1910)‚ all people – children‚ women‚ and men – worked to get more income for their families. Hence the name “progressive‚” all people were engaging in business and needed more education for recently developed ideas. Florence Kelly‚ who was engaged though the hardships of child labor‚ presented an assertive and powerful speech to the National American Woman Suffrage Association to preach her own thought and knowledge and to convey
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Florence Kelley Florence Kelley was an American social worker and reformer who fought successfully for child labor laws and improved conditions for working women. In 1876‚ she entered Cornell University but her poor health kept her from graduating until 6 years later. She then studied at the University of Zurich where women were permitted to obtain postgraduate degrees and where she applied her developed passions for Socialism. Kelley married a Polish-Russian physician‚ Lazare Wischnewetzky
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Florence Kelley‚ a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1905‚ issued a speech about the harsh and unjust treatment of children in factories. Kelley starts her speech in an authoritative tone with “in this country‚ two million children under the age of sixteen years who are earning their bread.” Her audience‚ the members of the NAWSA‚ is immediately hit with the knowledge‚ and emotions‚ that such a vast number of children are in such dangerous conditions. Furthermore‚ facts
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Florence Kelley was devoted to improving working conditions for women and children. She worked tirelessly to have child labor laws passed. We see her commitment to her cause in her speech before the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia on July 22‚ 1905. Kelley effectively utilizes the rhetorical strategies of repetition and pathos to express her desire to better things for the working children. Beginning in the third paragraph‚ Kelley uses the phrase that
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