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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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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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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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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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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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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Rhetorical Devices Essay In Florence Kelley’s speech about child labor she emphasizes the need to obliterate these harsh working conditions for children. She uses pathos‚ rhetorical questions‚ and repetition to move the audience to act against child labor. With using these techniques throughout her speech she develops a well appealing argument for the audience to connect with. Florence Kelly incorporates pathos into her speech to enhance her argument. She wants the audience to feel for these
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ambiguity of manner. 8. Anachronism – Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time‚ esp. a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time: The sword in an anachronism in modern warfare. 9. Anaphora – A rhetorical device in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginnings of successive phrases or sentences. Compare this to epistrophe‚ where such repetitions occur at the ends. (lesson 10. Analogy – A similarity between like features of two things‚ on which
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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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vidi‚ vici." Julius Caesar (I came‚ I saw‚ I conquered) Adage a proverb or wise saying made familiar by long use Allusion a passing reference or indirect mention He was the Adam to her Eve Anadiplosis: ("doubling back") the rhetorical repetition of one or several words; specifically‚ repetition of a word that ends one clause at the beginning of the next. "Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state; servants of fame; and servants of business
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