...Florence Kelleyś deep desire to end child labor leads her to deliver this emotional and outstanding speech. Kelley's use of facts, statistics, sarcasm and emotional language makes this speech persuasive in convincing the readers of how hard it is for children working day and night just to survive. Statistics and facts gives the reader an idea of the magnitude of the practice of child labor. She states figures like ¨two million children¨ and ¨several thousand little girls¨ to persuade the readers and listeners that child labor does not impact a couple dozen girls but hundreds of thousands of them. Facts and statistics helps her argument by providing us the foundation to realize how big of the children population works in mills and coal mines....
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...AMSTUD Essay During the Progressive era of the United States, Florence Kelley, a social reformer of the time, delivered a speech to the National American Woman Suffrage Association advocating the need to change the working conditions for the children of America. With multiple uses of hortative sentences, anaphora, parallelism, and diction that is meant to make the reader feel that they are part of the problem, Florence Kelley effectively appeals to the audience's pathos and emotion in this speech to call her listeners to action and to join the bandwagon against the issues addressed. Though women of the time couldn’t vote, Kelley purposefully used the diction “we” and “our” to explain to the audience that it was still there problem. Though, politically, they had no power, Kelley asks the audience the question “what can we do,” to emphasize that regardless of voting, they still must find a way to take action. By pairing parallelism with competitive and critical diction, Kelley effectively pits different states against each other, such as when she claims that “Alabama does better in this respect than any other southern state.” This is...
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...Florence Kelley Rhetorical Analysis Essay Social worker and reformer, Florence Kelley, in the speech she delivered to the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia on July 22, 1905, argues the need for change in child labor. She supports her claim by first mentioning facts such as “no other portion of the wage earning class increased so rapidly”(Kelley), then by mentioning the hard lives children have, and finally by stating she will take a stand. Kelley’s purpose is to inform and influence the American Society in order to change child labor policies. Throughout her speech, Kelley uses the three rhetorical appeals to make the audience think, take action, and feel sympathetic. To begin with, Kelley used the rhetorical appeal, ethos, to establish her credibility and make the American Society question their morals. “But we are almost powerless. Not wholly powerless, however, are citizens who enjoy the right of petition. For myself, I shall use this power in every possible way…”(Kelley). By stating this, Kelley strengthened her ethos by portraying herself a role model, saying that she will do anything she can in her power to bring change. By using the...
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...Rhetorical Analysis Essay The early 1900s married a time of child labor reformers and women's rights activists, as America reeled with children in the work force from the rapid industrialization during the Gilded Age and women advocating for their rights as Progressivism swept across the country. Florence Kelley, a women’s rights activist, delivered a passionate speech confronting the inhumane character of child labor employing rhetorical questions to guide the listener’s thoughts, parallelism and repetition to emphasize significant points in her argument, and current examples to provide a logical foundation on which she constructs her speech. Like many other women’s rights activists, Kelley readily took a stand against child labor when she...
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...___________________________ LIVING HISTORY Hillary Rodham Clinton Simon & Schuster New York • London • Toronto • Sydney • Singapore To my parents, my husband, my daughter and all the good souls around the world whose inspiration, prayers, support and love blessed my heart and sustained me in the years of living history. AUTHOR’S NOTE In 1959, I wrote my autobiography for an assignment in sixth grade. In twenty-nine pages, most half-filled with earnest scrawl, I described my parents, brothers, pets, house, hobbies, school, sports and plans for the future. Forty-two years later, I began writing another memoir, this one about the eight years I spent in the White House living history with Bill Clinton. I quickly realized that I couldn’t explain my life as First Lady without going back to the beginning―how I became the woman I was that first day I walked into the White House on January 20, 1993, to take on a new role and experiences that would test and transform me in unexpected ways. By the time I crossed the threshold of the White House, I had been shaped by my family upbringing, education, religious faith and all that I had learned before―as the daughter of a staunch conservative father and a more liberal mother, a student activist, an advocate for children, a lawyer, Bill’s wife and Chelsea’s mom. For each chapter, there were more ideas I wanted to discuss than space allowed; more people to include than could be named; more places visited than could be described...
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