In her speech to the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Florence Kelly descriptively vocalizes about chid labor. She talks about the horrible conditions young children face in the states. Kelly uses repetition to put emphasis on little girls working in textile mills, “while we sleep” is repeated 3 times this makes the audience feel guilty for enjoying life while little girls are working. Kelly also uses pathos, appealing to the emotion of her
By stating this, Kelley not only hopes to make the audience sympathize, but it also attempts to convey emotions of guilt and selfishness. While the reader sleeps comfortably in their bed at night, they are now left to imagine the unfair working conditions that children were going through. This technique is evident throughout the piece as later she states, “boys and girls, after their fourteenth birthday, enjoy the pitiful privilege of working all night long.” While not all children who work really stay up for the entire night, the writer states extreme situations in order to prove her point. By using the technique of Pathos through the speech, she is able to emotionally
Barton, Clara. Clara Barton for Woman Suffrage. Boston: [Women's Journal], 1898. Print.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a nineteenth century woman’s suffrage and civil rights activist of which she held strong beliefs in exalting the rights of women during this time era. Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York, November 1815 into a socially well-known family within this community, where she was also placed into the highest forms of education that women and girls could receive for this time period. Stanton’s education began at Johnstown Academy and then continued at Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary in New York. She married Henry Stanton around the year 1840 and the couple had seven children together.
Passage 1 effectively develops the contribution Elizabeth Cady Stanton made to the women’s rights movement during the 1800s. Passage 2 is more of facts about her and Susan rather than how they contributed. They both tell a lot about how Elizabeth helped women’s rights. Also in passage 2 it talks about about Elizabeth had help from Susan B Anthony. So passage 1 defiantly was better at showing how Elizabeth contributed to women’s rights.
Florence Kelley delivered a speech fighting for tighter child labor laws. She spoke out against the harsh conditions children were required to work in. Kelley’s purpose of the speech was to influence a major change in the labor regulations. She conveyed her message by using repetition, diction and factual evidence.
Florence Kelley was born September 12, 1859 in Philadelphia PA. Kelley was a political reformer, who fought for the rights of women and children. Florence Kelly has made great contributions to society, and paved the way for future social workers, yet providing information from her earlier discoveries that I may use to in my practice as a social worker. According to Drier., “Kelly was brought up in an activist family”.
Driving to a small town in South Carolina was Reuben Warshowsky with a New York license plate on his vehicle. With the license plate and his ethnicity, Jewish, almost makes everyone raise their eyebrows. He is a union organizer from Textile Workers' Union of America in hopes to unionize the O. P. Henley Textile Mill. After introducing himself to a couple of locals, they quickly tell him to go back to where he came from. Looking for a place to stay for a couple of weeks, Mr. Warshowsky is forced to reside in a motel, room 31.
In America’s history, child labor was fiercely criticized. Many activists of child labor laws and women’s suffrage strived to introduce their own viewpoints to the country. Florence Kelley was a reformer who successfully changed the mindset of many Americans through her powerful and persuading arguments. Florence Kelley’s carefully crafted rhetoric strategies such as pathos, repetition, and sarcasm generates an effective and thought provoking tone that was in favor of women’s suffrage and child labor laws. Florence Kelley uses pathos continuously throughout her speech.
In conclusion, Florence Kelley used many rhetorical strategies in order to call her audience to arms against child labor laws. She accuses the laws of being unjust and labels the children prisoners. In the last two paragraphs, Kelley refers to her cause as the "freeing of the children." She believed the children were robbed of their basic rights and freedoms by labor laws and used strategies such as pathos, parallelism, and illustration to convince her audience to help her "free
The speech given at Womens National Press Club in 1960 by Clare Boothe Luce was a strong argument by the statements made. She shows ethos and logical appeal to her audience by condemning her argument to her audience. Luce slows starts by setting up her audience where she goes on to criticize the tendency of the American press to give up journalist integrity. She also engages the fact to her audience that she is there to give her speech because the journalist invited her to speak. Luce is first very aware that by delivering her speech she is most likely to be criticized by her audience.
In 1952, Coretta was introduced to Martin Luther King Jr. By a good friend Mary Powell. In My Life, My Love, My Legacy Coretta spoke highly about Martin from their first encounter until his death. Coretta and Martin discussed everything together, after a conversation together she stated "His honesty was the quality that touched my heart most deeply. "10
Today’s society focuses on Nikes or Jordans, Gucci or Prada, Tommy or Ralph Lauren and society is wrapped up in the advances of technology-the virtual world. In Florence Kelley’s speech in 1905 she expresses the unequal standards for men and women in the work field. She addresses how harsh the work field was for women and how the pay was more generous to men because in those times men were seen more superior than women and had many more advantages. In her speech she uses pathos to emotionally reflect her feelings towards women’s equality compared to men. She demonstrates her frustration
Children from as young as the age of 6 began working in factories, the beginning of their exploitation, to meet demands of items and financial need for families. In Florence Kelley’s speech before the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia 1905, Kelley addresses the overwhelming problem of child labor in the United States. The imagery, appeal to logic, and the diction Kelley uses in her speech emphasizes the exploitation of children in the child labor crisis in twentieth century America. Kelley’s use of imagery assists her audience in visualizing the inhumanity of the practice.
Mary was born August 5, 1861 in Belleville,IL to Henry and Lavinia Richmond. She was raised by her grandmother and two aunts in Baltimore, MD after her parents died. She grew up around racial problems, suffrage, social, and political beliefs. Because she grew up around those things she started becoming a critical thinker and social activism. Richmond was home schooled because her grandmother and aunts were not familiar with the traditional education system until the age of eleven when she entered public school.
Kelly uses her time before the National American Women’s Suffrage Association to convince those in the audience that child labor is a women’s suffrage issue; that the mother’s, aunts, and sisters have a responsibility to help these children, which they cannot currently fulfil. She appeals directly to them by using little girls as examples in almost every paragraph, the repetition of “while we sleep,” and appeals directly to the hearts of a mother or parent. Kelly understands that this group’s main concern is the right to vote, and once they receive it, she wants to ensure that they will use that power to end child labor. Her speech was given fifteen years before women are finally granted the right to vote, yet it gives the members of the