Rhetorical Analysis Of Elizabeth Glaser Speech

Gerda Weissmann Klein had such a passionate spirit that it gave life to others who had already given up. Abek, a man who had deep feelings for the young women, once told Weissmann “Life does not have much value these days, and mine has nothing at all, but having you makes me want to live.” (page 60). He had never stopped loving Gerda but because she couldn’t return his love, she hurt him. She also gave him hope.

Her use of research is persuasive; however, her rhetorical devices and fallacies take away from her main points. The author begins the article telling Crystal Wilson’s unfortunate story in reverse chronological order; attempting to grasp the reader’s emotions immediately. She begins explaining the

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Despite the fact that Nancy Mairs chose a well diction and sarcastic tone to evoke readers empathy toward her essay , she also evokes a sympathetic response to her audience by telling reader that she does not feel sorry for being a cripple. She uses satirical description of her feelings , by allowing reader to see that she also felt sympathy for herself. Although Mairs, evokes empathy when telling her story, her sympathetic response toward her illness shows that she felt disconnected with her illness and that she did not have nothing else than to take what her destiny brought her. According to Mairs “

Gianna Jenson, the author of a powerful speech regarding abortion, explained her horrible personal experience with the process when she explained in detail, her story at a pro-life speaking event. The audience was captivated by her language and the way she made the audience think about her speech and exactly how she delivered it. The author wrote this impactful speech in order to share her story with others and hope it would influence at least one person and alter their opinion. Gianna Jenson writes and effective argument against abortion in order to tell her own personal story by appealing to the reader’s sense of pathos, using rhetorical questioning and charged emotional language.

As the camera zoomed in onto a sad little girl after the loss of her sister, I realized that the documentary, Burzynski: Cancer is Serious Business would be a difficult film to watch. Movies that depict dying children are often full of drama and heartache and this was no different. I was appalled at the treatment of these poor innocent patients and their families, and the movie had just begun. As I continued to watch the movie; however, my opinion changed from outrage that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would be so corrupt and unjust, to realizing that maybe the movie was playing with my emotions. Although effective in using good rhetorical strategies, the viewer must separate emotion and drama from lack of evidence and

In Mary Fisher’s speech, “1992 Republican National Convention Address,” given on August 19, 1992 in Houston, Texas she explained that having AIDS is not a reason to look at her differently or to look at other with eyes of judgment because over “two hundred thousand either are dead or dying from AIDS… a million more are infected” and there will be more in the years to come. As Fisher continues to appeal to the audiences sense of emotion by saying how she is a mother and married into a great and welcoming family that doesn’t discriminate against her because she has AIDS and she states that if you are safe from this disease you are not, you’re endanger, she wasn’t gay so she wasn’t in danger, she wasn’t a hemophiliac she wasn’t at risk, but that’s

The audience of the speech is intended for everyone, or everyone that has been through a significant tragedy and identifies themselves with that tragedy. In the opening of her speech she says that whenever she meets someone she is instantly thinking about if they are a survivor of some kind of trauma and also if they are going to identify with that trauma. She makes the argument that we should not be defined by the tragedy 's that we have experienced but we should be defined by the person we have become or are becoming. Jarvis uses humor throughout her speech.

This concept helped to pull the audience in, and allowed Mr. Damberger to get a “Foot in the door” as he catches his viewers’ full attention. By utilizing this ethos in the beginning of his presentation, Mr. Damberger was able to appeal to his audience’s sense of emotion and better allowed him to deliver his next set of thoughts. After he had caught his audience’s attention through the use of pathos, Mr. Damberger then began to discuss his experience and relationship with the aid system, highlighting his volunteer work and the Engineers Without Borders

90, Pathos Pg. 132. How & Effect: In this case, Ehrenreich fuses both her mental/physical feelings and work experiences into her rhetorical strategies. Due to this, the effect is that the readers are able to Ehrenreich’s frustration about her working conditions and the physical ailments that the poor workers suffer everyday because of their jobs; the credible exaggeration and emotional appeal effectively allows Ehrenreich to bring realization about poverty to the readers. Why: Ehrenreich’s main goal is to induce the readers about the fact that poverty is something that needs to be dealt with, through her credible and personal use of rhetorical

Because Thatcher shares her experience of losing Reagan, who she considers a great friend, the audience can now relate to her with their own personal experience

Fisher uses powerful diction and word choice to bring the secretive disease into the light. Through her speech, “A Whisper of AIDS”, Fisher uses fear inducing logistics and powerful emotional images to sway her audience. She showed the world that the HIV virus does not strictly target homosexual men. People of all backgrounds are effected. Her speech brought about funding and increased

Mary Fisher, an HIV-positive white woman, stood before her audience to inform them on the present danger of the rapidly spreading HIV epidemic. She delivered her powerful speech titled, “A Whisper of AIDS”, during the 1992 Republican National Convention Address. Fisher told her audience, “My call to the nation is a plea for awareness,” upfrontly stating her purpose is not to immediately stop the fatal epidemic, but to stop the ignorance surrounding it. With her strong utilization of the rhetorical appeals; ethos, pathos, and logos, Fisher was able to powerfully deliver her speech and its purpose, as well as bring a majority of her audience to tears while doing so. HIV originally being seen as a “GRID” (Gay Related Immune Deficiency), and also seen as a disease only targeting a specific group of people, upfront gives Fisher a large amount of credibility (History of HIV and AIDS).

She then explains her and the nation’s situation: how she is HIV positive even though she’s a “healthy” human being, how there are millions of people infected with AIDS virus, and how the epidemic is still a serious problem despite everything done to prevent it. Fisher affirms that AIDS can happen to anyone, regardless the political and environmental factors, race, religion, age, or sex. She insists that this disease is a threat that should not be ignored. Even when it seems safe, it is still dangerous. It is important to act and speak eloquently about this

Oprah’s display as an orator should not go unnoticed. Throughout the entirety of her delivery, Oprah projects herself with a clear, calm, and strong yet soft emphasis. Oprah maintains stern eye-contact with the audience, and presents herself in a strong, iron-body demeaner. These oratorical techniques coincide to further captivate the audience and continue to ease the audience into the persuasion of the viewpoint presented in her speech. Given controversies of sexual assault in recent times, as well as ideas of feminism and female