Rhetorical Analysis Of Emma Gonzaoles Speech

“I am not here to represent Leonidas. His actions speak louder than my words ever could”, although Queen Gorgo believes this to be true, it is evident that her words still make quite the impact. The speech that was chosen for analysis was Queen Gorgo’s request of Sparta’s council to send their forces to the Battle of Thermopylae, from the movie 300. This speech was chosen simply for the fact that I have always enjoyed this movie and that I’ve always admired Queen Gorgo’s character. Although she does not immediately convince the council of sending Sparta’s army, her actions that follow do. Through the use of pathos, metaphors, and an urgent tone, Queen Gorgo is able to make a strong case to the council as to why they should aid King Leonidas at the Battle of Thermopylae.

In the excerpt, Maria W. Stewart, uses powerful metaphors and strong comparisons to describe her life as a servant during colonial America in a lecture in Boston during the early nineteenth century. Stewart uses multiple rhetorical strategies to better convey her message and story to her audience. The use of rhetorical strategy exposes a strong sense of pathos within the reader that allows for a deeper connection between the readerand the text. One example of a rhetorical strategy Stewart uses in the passage is the use of strong metaphors. In the passage she states "yet confined by the chains of ignorance and poverty to lives of continual drudgery and toil.

Emma Gonzalez builds an argument to persuade the audience to insist a change in gun laws by standing up to the government. Emma strengths her speech by utilizing appeals such as ethos and pathos. Emma includes ethos by providing statics in her speech to allow and trust the audience into what she’s discussing about. She also uses pathos to elicit an emotional response so that her audience can connect and feel touched by the speech. This allows the audience to feel challenged and take action on this problem.

In her essay responding to handling of mental issues in America Anna Quindlen employers parents, educators, and politicians to recognize mental issues in teens as a legitimate medical condition rather than a character flaw. Qunidlen’s use of rhetorical strategies such as tone, bias, understatement, and concerned diction allows her to demonstrate to her audience that teens such as Kip Kinkle and Sam Manzie are teens who need support from the array of people surrounding them. Quindlen utilizes a worried and aggravated tone by showing fury towards those adults who believe that teenagers have nothing to be depressed about. She mentions that these beliefs are getting in the way of those troubled teens who actually do need help.

Emma Gonzalez, student of Stoneman Douglas High School has recently received national attention as a direct result of her speech advocating gun control after the shootings on February 14, 2018. Within her speech Gonzalez successfully uses ethos, pathos, and logos to allow all listeners to understand the severity of the shooting and how it not only impacts Stoneman Douglas, but also the country as a whole. Early on in her speech, Gonzalez ensures that she establishes herself to the audience as just a student in order to strengthen her argument as a whole. One of Gonzalez key points mentioned early on in the speech was the fact she knew the shooter and was not surprised that of all people he shot up the school, because she believed he had psychological issues. As a result Gonzalez now makes the listeners wonder how someone who is merely 17 years old is capable of realizing the shooter had psychological issues prior to any diagnosis and that he was capable of such harm, but when any sign of it came up it was swept under the rug and ignored by everyone else.

In Barbara Ehrenreich's bold and honest book she tackles the issue of poverty in America head on, by becoming a low wage worker herself. Ehrenreich delves into the often unheard of issues relating to poverty and low wage work, providing her readers with a new perspective on America's working poor and manages to give her audience a stark emotional, yet logical and factual, look into the working class' poverty epidemic. She uses her own anecdotal evidence and supports it with statistics and facts, appeals to ethos by challenging the ethics of corporate America and it costs, finally she hits an emotional chord with readers by reminding them of what low wage workers must endure so that we can live in our America.

Laura Jackson spoke as a guest speaker at Texas A&M University-Commerce (where I am proud to be a student) on September 22nd to discuss the importance of healing from sexual, physical, mental, and psychological abuse. Her life story was horrific, but somehow she survived to tell about it. She addressed different topics such as raising awareness about domestic violence and the importance of a personal relationship with God. I was honored to hear her speak and acquired knowledge from her that I can apply to my life and my surroundings.

The excerpt from Mary Oliver’s “Building the House” serves as a way to describe what happens during the poetry writing process. Although Mary Oliver believes that writing poetry is hard work, she uses extended metaphor, juxtaposition, and point of view to describe the writing process in comparison of building a house, which shows that Oliver sees poetry as something that involves mental labor which is a different challenge than physical labor .

Jane Addams’ speech explains her stance of George Washington's legacy as a soldier, statesman, and a Virginia planter. In this speech, Jane Addams references George Washington’s accomplishments in his past, including how things would be if he is to be present today. The most significant uses of rhetorical devices in this speech include hypophora, rhetorical questions, enumeratio, distinctio, and metaphors.

Mrs. Nelson is writing about the recent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, where many white supremacists are protesting with former KKK member to get their ¨country back.¨ Nelson is writing to the American people who are staying silent. Nelson is telling them to stand up and speak out against open racism. Nelson talks about how her ancestors, slaves, were never treated right. Nelson talks about how many things still did not change. Nelsons tone throughout the article was angry. Nelson seemed very upset about the situation. Nelson herself is African American which makes her a credible person to write this article. The author argues U.S citizens need to stand up against racism, and she supports her argument with her angry tone, implicit claims about privilege, and appeals to pathos.

Emma Goldman is the speaker for her political-persuasive speech named “Address to the Jury”. This speech was delivered in July 9th 1917, in New York in a courtroom. Emma who is an anarchist has been tried for conspiracy for the violation of the selective service. Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were both arrested with a warrant. The Marshal asked Goldman if she wrote the book “Mother Nature”, when Emma answered yes she and Alexander were put in trial. Goldman then in front of the jury, goldman tries to convince the jury of Berkman's and her innocence. At the end they were both found guilty and were sentenced 2 years in jail and later where departed after their release. Emma wrote this speech to prove to the jury of her innocence of the crime

Throughout this dialog, and also in a significant number of Plato's other works, the idea of artful interests comes up frequently. Basically, art is an expertise coordinated towards some and meant for the advantage of those performing the art. In Gorgias, Socrates first specifies the thought of art as a major aspect of an exploration into the way of rhetoric. In examining this subject, he recognizes genuine arts and false ones which make an inaccurate impression of good. This distinction turns out to be progressively pertinent as the dialog continues, since Socrates affirms that the majority of his contemporary Greeks and Athenians have been driven off track from the path of virtue because of the fact that they confuse false situations of delight for genuine arts.

Introduction An eloquent speech can tackle the challenges posed by flying time and shine in various social contexts. Severn Cullis-Suzuki’s speech in 1992 hit the world by its appeal and eloquence. Nowadays, Severn is still remembered as “The Girl Who Silenced the World for 5 Minutes”, and during important international environmental conferences, journalists still turn to Severn for comments and advice. How does the speech stand out from numerous environmental speeches in the history?

Queen Elizabeth I is considered to be one of the most powerful women in history. In 1588, as ruler of England, she was faced with an invasion against Spain for control over trade in the new world. Her “Against the Spanish Armada” speech was addressed to the English Army at Tilbury Fort to help motivate and boost assurance, as well as showing support to her troops over the battle they were about to face. With her passionate words and courageous way, Queen Elizabeth establishes a connection with her soldiers; appealing to their patriotism and emotions through logos, pathos, and ethos. Although she was uncertain of a “famous victory”, Elizabeth instills the reassurance they need to fight against Spain and leading them to victory in the end.

Margaret Thatcher, the former British Prime Minister, reflected on the benign qualities of President Ronald Reagan, with whom she worked closely with in office, in her eulogy to the American public. Her purpose was to emphasize Reagan’s hardworking, reassuring, and friendly personality through the use of different rhetorical strategies, in order to create a sense of pathos. Thatcher was able to pay her respects and covey her meaningful message by using anecdotes, parallelism, and contrast.