As a suffragist, Florence Kelley also advocated against child labor, and hoped to enlist working-class men to act as a voice for the disenfranchised children and women. To effectively formulate her argument against child labor and for the voting rights of women, Kelley utilizes a combination of various forms of repetition, such as anaphora and mesodiplosis, and emotional diction to convince her audience. Kelley begins her argument by repeating the many responsibilities of children working in industry
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Hull House was viewed as a headquarters for women activists that wanted to bring change to the conditions in which people were living in, this included the home, workplace, and surrounding neighborhood. (Clark, 2006) Florence was born in 1859 in Pennsylvania; her father was a social activist that spent his time fighting for the rights of the poor and weak. This experience from an early age had a large influence on the type of work that she would later on get involved
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Florence Kelley was an American social worker who fought to improve working conditions for women and to better child labor laws. In her speech, delivered the night before the National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention, she spoke of the terrible hours working children are subjected to.To convey her message and persuade the audience to bring change she appeals to the logic and emotions of the reader, and closes with a call to action. To begin the speech, she states a fact; “We have,in
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Rhetorical strategies are very important and used very often when trying to get a point across. In Florence Kelley's speech, she uses a lot of rhetorical strategies to convince the rest of the world that little children should not have to work as hard as they did. The following rhetorical strategies are Statistics, emotions, and repetition. Throughout Florence Kelley's speech, she includes a lot of statistics or facts. She explains to us that children at the age of six or seven could start working
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Florence Kelley wrote and delivered this speech on the basis of child labor. Her purpose was to inform listeners of the labor laws in states for children and to persuade them to help fight to change these laws. The attitude towards the subject, child labor laws, is a sense of seriousness. The attitude displa the audience is a cry for help, or desperation. Kelley used a very serious tone, so the audience uld really understand the urgentness of this issue. This diction, that proves her seriousness
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Social worker, Florence Kelley, in her speech denounces unjust and abusive labor laws towards women and children and especially children. Kelley’s purpose is to persuade her audience to help her fix the issues with state legislatures and unjust labor laws. SHe develops a passionate and disgusted tone in order to alarm the people of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Kelley begins her speech by factually claiming the statistics of children who are, ”bread winners” for their families
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The world revolves around money. However, people take this to the extreme and lets it control their lives. In the 1900’s children were forced into the workforce as slaves of green paper. Their childhood—taken away from them without warning—compels Florence Kelley, a United States social worker and reformer, to bring back their happiness. Her success with improving child labor laws and women’s working conditions makes her an exceptional speaker for the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage
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Florence Kelley Speech Florence Kelley was a social worker and reformer who fought for child labor laws, as well as a feminist. By using logos, ethos, and pathos, the right diction, and the correctly-placed figurative language, Kelley was able to make a profound message about child labor to her audience in her speech to the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia. One way how Kelley uses rhetorical devices as to convey her message about child labor to her audience is with the
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August 6, 2011 Nursing Research Study Contributions Fee, E., & Garofalo, M. E. (2010). Florence Nightingale and the Crimean War. American Journal of Public Health, 100(9), 1591. Study Background Problem Florence Nightingale is most remembered as the pioneer of nursing as well as the first nursing researcher. During the Crimean War in 1854, Nightingale and 38 nurses traveled to the military
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1989. Florence Nightingale, the daughter of the rich landowner, William Nightingale of Embly Park, Hampshire, was born in Florence, Italy, on twelfth might, 1820. Her father was a Unitarian and an affiliate of a reforming British political party that supported the nobility and later the business community, finally turning into the core of the Liberal Party who was in opposition to enslaved labor, particularly for low wage and underneath unfit conditions. As a child, Florence was terribly near
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