Hillary Clinton Rhetorical Analysis

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2016 was figured to be a year where everyone would be treated equally. It was the year that the new generations were supposed to step up to the task to rid the country of inequality. However as far as women, racial, and LGBT rights have come there are still issues on these topics popping up all over our beloved nation. Despite how far we have come in equality in our country we often forget how we got here. In the 1990’s women’s rights were still a touchy subject to some countries. However at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 Hillary Clinton, a Harvard Law School graduate and wife of former president Bill Clinton, was nominated to speak about the problems that women and young girls were forced to face in other countries. …show more content…

Hillary Clinton starts using rhetorical devices in her third paragraph to spring her ideas into motion and sparking interest in listeners. Using ethos helps others comprehend the struggle that Hillary and women all over have had to overcome obstacles that confront them. In the speech, pathos is used to get viewers and listeners to think about their own values, beliefs, and emotions. Pathos is used more heavily in the fourth paragraph. The fifth paragraph Hillary used pathos again and her words could have easily lit a bitter flame in feminists. “There are some who wonder whether the lives of women and girls matter to economic and political progress around the globe” Hillary argues. This statement says that in some countries women are still thought of as less than or not as important as any regular man. This device is used very wisely in Hillary’s speech at the beginning to already get readers …show more content…

She says that has been around the world and has first-hand seen the struggles that women and children have had to face. Hillary once again uses an anaphora when she says “Over the past 25 years, I have,” and “Over the past two and a half years, I have…” and by also using I have met… to start a lot of her sentences. Hillary goes on to explain what she has seen about the different struggles that women in all countries face and how she has studied and learned about their personal and social battles. Hillary also talks about the major and important women that she has met. These women have changed the way women are perceived and cared for in their countries. By introducing women who have made a change Hillary focuses on inspiring others to do the

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