Rhetorical Analysis Of Madeleine Albright's Commencement Speech

Throughout her speech to the National American Woman Suffrage Association on July 22, 1905, Florence Kelley emphasizes the need to modify working conditions for children across the United States. During her speech, the social reformer encourages the women attending the convention in Philadelphia to join her in the fight for labor rights for children. By adopting a stern and persuasive tone, Kelley argues that the exploitation of child labor is a significant issue within the United States. Kelley employs plural pronouns to represent the collective responsibility society has in ending child labor, repetitive phrases to emphasize how widespread the issue is, and rhetorical questions to suggest possible ideas of reform. Most importantly, Kelley utilizes the plural pronoun “we” throughout her speech to establish a sense of unity among the men and women in America and children subject to child labor.

In former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s eulogy speech for President Ronald Reagan(2004), she elucidates what a kind and powerful man he was. Margaret expresses that Reagan’s leadership was the key to ending The Cold War and unifying a formerly divided nation. She adopts an endearing and sentimental tone using ethos, repetition, and strong diction in order to appeal to the American people to maintain an alliance and illustrate what an influential president Ronald Reagan was. Thatcher develops her ethos by divulging her friendship with Ronald Reagan to create a connection with her audience as she tries to establish a relationship between Great Britain and the United States of America.

In Barbara Bush’s speech at the Wellesley college commencement in 1990. I believe that her main ideas are to remind the students that success is not defined by social expectations by unique personal goals when listening to her speech! I also feel that she is warning us on labeling others that we don’t know much about, that when she starts to talk about Alice Walker the famous writer of (The Color Purple) Bush also used demographic, the audiences gender age, and cultured, psychographic analysis which focuses on their beliefs values and life experiences and situational analysis, which also focuses on the setting and mood of the audience. Now with her examples she uses a story by Robert Fulghum about a young pastor finding himself in charge of

During the Second World War, congresswoman, Clare Booth Luce made an address to a woman's banking committee. Her address unifies the women as well as creates shared sacrifices that will help the war effort. By using bonding language, the repetition of the word “glamor”, and expressing emotion through pathos, Luce can unify the women into understanding that their sacrifices will secure a future for future generations in addition to themselves. Luce begins her speech by trying to establish herself with her audience to build credibility.

In this interview, it illustrates how power may ignite cultures to have a division based on their cultural group. It may cause a nation to become captivated by misleading mistakes and false representation of a political group. Although, segregation exists, individuals felt the need to react in ways that became unjustifiable causing destruction affecting beliefs, values, and other perspectives amongst other cultures, religions, and beliefs differently than their own. By taking the lives of innocent individuals and shaping and conforming lives according to their biases alters how children may shape their own human world views based on exceptionalism, power and segregation, and improving history and evolution through integration.

She also mentions that women’s rights should be equal to Human rights. This speech was given at the United Nations Fourth Conference of Women on September

The use of he is the apostrophe in her speech, it catches the audience's attention with the repetition of he. I noticed that when she speaks her tone is warm and she speaks with somewhat of a rhythm, which can catch people's attention. She puts her opinions in the speech, she is passionate, and outspoken when it comes to human rights, and freedom. She stats in her speech “ I feel bound to say that I think perhaps it is somewhat of an imposition on this Assembly to have these amendments offered again here, and I am confident that they will be rejected without debate”(adoption). She also uses euphemism to express her feelings towards people who are lazy and need to use here freedom wisley.

For a very long time, the voting rights of the citizens have been a problem in the US. It started out with only men with land being able to vote, and then expanded to white men, and then to all men. However, women were never in the situation, they were disregarded and believed to not be worthy enough to have the same rights as men. They were essentially being treated as property, therefore having no rights. But, in Susan B. Anthony’s speech, she hits upon the point that women are just as righteous as men.

Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered her speech “Women’s Rights are Human Rights” September 5, 1995 while speaking at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China with the intent to educate and spread awareness in regards to the rights and treatment of women around the world, while encouraging women to take initiative and highlight the potential women have if presented with the opportunity of equality. Early in Clinton’s speech, she uses the power of ethos to establish her credibility and continues to build upon it throughout, bringing attention to the fact she has had years of experience fighting for change among people of all kinds. Clinton convinces listeners that she has made women’s rights a priority in her life

In an eulogy to former President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister of Great Britain, addresses a speech in honor of Reagan. Throughout the eulogy, Thatcher informs Americans all of the amazing work Reagan did during his presidency and how he is a great person. Using examples of the work Reagan did, Thatcher states acknowledges those ideas in order to keep his legacy alive. Thatcher opens and closes her eulogy by directly addresses it to the American citizens in a warm and proud tone.

Another persuasive technique that made her speech impactful is the presence of antithesis. “Diversity is not just tolerated, but is embraced” (Commencement Address to the Wellesley College Class of 1990). Bush draws special attention to this idea of diversity and how students at the college go above and beyond to exemplify what sets their university apart by comparing them to the rest of the world in this opposition of ideas. The final reason her speech is considered persuasive is through her use of metaphor. “And so you need not, and probably cannot, live a ‘paint-by-numbers’ life” (Commencement Address to the Wellesley College Class of 1990).

In-Class Essay Practice Rosa Parks once said, “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free.. So other people would be also free”. Rosa Parks was the Civil Rights Activist , who refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery boycott and other efforts to end segregation. The author of this speech, Oprah Winfrey, shows how thankful she is, and how Rosa Parks change the world through her eulogy. To remember her life to change our world, Oprah Winfrey delivers eulogy for Rosa Parks.

Margaret Thatcher, the British Prime Minister at the time, gave a eulogy to the grieving American people in honor of the late Ronald Reagan on June 11th, 2004. In her speech, Thatcher used rhetorical techniques to show the strength and principles of Reagan and project those values onto the American people. To project the ideas of strength and firm ideals, Thatcher used repetition, elevated syntax and the tone of optimism and sincerity to convey her message. In the beginning of the speech, Thatcher used repetition to show what Reagan had accomplished in his lifetime.

Oprah Winfrey uses her Cecil B de Mille acceptance speech to cast light on societal issues of corruption, discrimination, objectification, and racism. Oprah’s speech reflects an age and dialogue of constant controversy and arguable division surrounding allegations of sexual assault, mistreatment, and the seemingly unthinkable idea of an underlying patriarchy within the film industry. Oprah explores and conveys these ideas through the use of various persuasive linguistic and oratorical techniques. This is seen through her use of ethos and pathos when creating an emphatic delivery and appealing to the emotions of the audience when utilising anecdotes. This is also further seen through her repetition of female pronouns when persuading the audience

Introduction On September 4th, 2012, the First Lady Michelle Obama gave a speech about the values of the American Dream. Within her speech she talks about her past and how she shares the same values as the president of the United States of America - her husband, Barack Obama. She talks about why she is proud to be an American and why being the First Lady has changed her life forever. A main focus in the speech is how The American Dream is partly about working to not only make one's own life better, but also to work in order for children and grandchildren of the future to have better opportunities.