During the 1900’s through the 1960’s, the population in the United States nearly increased to 2,357,000 (Wikipedia). Margaret H. Sanger, having a liberal father, and a mother who died after giving birth to eleven children, had began a movement for birth control and contraceptives. After studying to become a nurse, she began to work with poor woman in the slums (Mr. Newman’s Digital Rhetorical Symposium). After helping these immigrants in the slums and experiencing her mother’s death, which she believes was from having too many children, Sanger believed that women should be able to have control over childbearing (Mr. Newman’s Digital Rhetorical Symposium). Sanger had started her movement by sending out newsletters to spread the word of her findings, …show more content…
Sanger opened her speech by referring it to Ellen Key’s book “The Century of the Children”. She mentions that, “Ellen Kay hoped this twentieth century was the century of the children” and “ould see this old world of ours converted into a beautiful garden of children”. Sanger said, “ ...in spite of all our acknowledged love of children, all our generosity, all our good-will, all the enormous spending of millions on philanthropy and charities, all our warm-hearted sentiment, all our incessant activity…”. “You have got to give your seeds a proper soil in which to grow. You have got to give them sunlight and fresh air. You have got to give them space and the opportunity”, says Sanger. Sanger used anaphora for these lines in her speech to help create more emotion and make her speech more powerful. Sanger also used an alliteration in her speech “Prospective Parents” because alliterations are known to make logos catchy or easily memorized. “Worry, strain, shock, unhappiness, enforced maternity, may all poison the blood of the enslaved mother” was an example of an asyndeton that Sanger used in her speech. Sanger used this rhetorical trope because asyndeton speeds up the rhythm of a passage and makes a single idea more memorable. “Sometimes in idle moments I like to think it would be a very good scheme to have a …show more content…
“When we point the one immediate practical way toward order and beauty in society, the only way to lay the foundations of a society composed of happy children, happy women, and happy men, they call this idea indecent and immoral” is an appeal to an ethos. “"Who is to decide?" "Would there be a jury, like a play jury?" Would a Republican administration give parenthood permits only to Republicans -- or perhaps only to Democrats?” would be an appeal to a pathos. “It suggests Prohibition: there might even be bootlegging in babies” is an appeal to logos because it is persuading an audience by reason. “Why does the Children's Era still remain a dream of the dim and the distant future? Why has so little been accomplished? -- in spite of all our acknowledged love of children, all our generosity, all our good-will, all the enormous spending of millions on philanthropy and charities, all our warm-hearted sentiment, all our incessant activity and social consciousness? Why?” This whole paragraph is a pathos because it is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response. The appeals of the ethos, pathos, and logos are balanced in this speech because there are about the same amount of each throughout the speech. This speech is balanced also because it’s ethical, believable, well organized, logically ordered, and it appealed to her
Pathos is the author's use of emotions and sympathy to urge the audience to agree with his or her standpoint. And lastly, logos apply sound reasoning (logic) to attract the typical ideas of the audience and to prove the author's point of view. "Lockdown" by Evans D. Hopkins is a fine example of an author using these appeals to persuade his audience. Hopkins uses of the three appeals are easy to locate and relate to throughout the entire passage. He undoubtedly uses rhetoric to try and keep his audiences focused and to persuade them to feel the way he does about the treatment of prisoners.
Wardell begins by addressing that “…a definitive biography and assessment has yet to be written.”, but she then continues to write the article giving an overview of Sanger’s “…vigorous and highly unorthodox life”. The article gives insight onto what inspired Sanger’s cause; being the child of a mother who had 18 pregnancies and receiving a call of help from a woman by the name of Sadie Sachs who attempted
In the “180” movie Ray Comfort outstandingly used rhetorical appeal throughout his argument in a thorough way to further grasp his audience’s attention. He used pathos, ethos, and logos during the course of his dispute of abortion and the Holocaust. Comfort uses pathos more frequently than the other two appeals, to plea to the audience’s heart strings. An example of when pathos was used was when
A pathos appeal allows an emotional connection through empathy, while a logos appeal is based on logic. Vidal’s use of the logos appeal will attract logistical people, and will be mostly used in research papers. “If we really want to reduce the human impact on the environment,” Vidal states “the simplest and cheapest thing anyone can do is to eat less meat” (p. 1). His tone throughout the article is apathetic, so readers will only get the information, not knowing what it has to do with their personal life. Having both appeals, like Lundberg demonstrates, is better for readers because it takes the emotional and technical stance.
An example of Moss’s outstanding usage of ethos, pathos, and logos is Jeffrey Dunn’s story. Dunn held an executive position at Coca-Cola in 2001, when the main company goal was to drive Coca-Cola into poorer areas. On a business trip to Brazil, Dunn realized that “these people need a lot of things, but they don’t need a Coke” and decided to push the company in a healthier direction. This choice led to Dunn’s eventual firing (491-494). This story not only appeals to pathos by getting to readers’ emotions, but also to ethos and logos because Dunn is a credible source and gives an authentic experience that adds to the credible feel of the article. (very good info./analysis, keep but
On September 14, 1879, Margaret Sanger was born in Corning, New York. She was the sixth child of eleven children and realized early what being part of a large family meant; just making due. Although her family was Roman Catholic both her mother and father were of Irish descent. Her mother, Anne Purcell had a sense of beauty that was expressed through and with flowers. Her father was an Irish born stonemason whose real religion was social radicalism. Her father was a free thinker and strong believer in eugenics which meant Margaret possessed some of the same values. (Sanger, Margaret) Eugenics is the belief that one race is better than a different race just because they are not like them, kind of like Hitler and the holocaust. “He expected me to be grown up at the age of ten.” (Source 4.3 page 30) Coming from a family of eleven children she did have to grow up fast. Faster than most kids should have to. She left her house as a teenager and came back when she needed to study nursing. It was during this time that Margaret worked as a maternity nurse helping in the delivery of babies to immigrant women. She saw illegal abortions, women being overwhelmed by poverty, to many children, and women dying because they had no knowledge of how to prevent one pregnancy after another. This reminded her of the fact that her own mother had eighteen pregnancies, eleven children, and died at the age of forty-nine. Margaret dropped out of school and moved in with her sister. She ended up teaching first grade children and absolutely hated it. She hated children at that time. When Margaret was a child herself however, she would dream about living on the hill where all the wealthy people lived. She would dream of playing tennis and wearing beautiful c...
them to have an identity that separates from their spouses. Birth control helped shift slightly the balance of power from only being masculine to shared between the sexes. Margaret did so much to bring the issue of birth control and its benefits in to the for fount in her time. Her writings and actions better the lives of women in America then, and today more then ever. Margaret Sanger wrote the woman "...must emerge from her ignorance and assume her responsibility..." of her own body and "...the first step is Birth Control. Through Birth Control [the woman] will attain voluntary motherhood. Having attained this, the basic freedom of her sex, [the woman] will cease to enslave herself…[the woman] will not stop at patching up the world; she will remake it" (Sanger A 36).
Both sources approach an issue from a different demographic, the married young housewife and the of age generation in the roaring twenties respectively. If we compare intent, we see Sanger's is a politically motivated piece seeking empathy compared to what appears to be a balanced study from New Girls for Old. Therefore the more representative source is that of the uninfluenced survey, while we can't discount that they are selectively chosen; in comparison to Sanger's selected testimonials are likely the most pressing and emotive letters written to her. This contrasting factor of intent also leads to their influence varying, as Engelman presents it was Sanger's pivotal activist role that when combined with the radicals, socialites and professionals that led to the successive progress of the birth control movement as one of the few women led social movements i...
She started a birth control campaign and sent a letter to Havelock Ellis.(Simkin). On Oct 16, 1916 Sanger helped her friend open a family planning and birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn (Simkin). The Clinic was raided nine days later opening and she served 30 days in prison. In 1917 she published “ What Every Mother Know”. Also, In 1921 Sanger founded American Birth Control League.(Simkin). She also published two more books called “Motherhood in Bondage” in 1928 and “My Fight for Birth Control” in 1931. Sanger assisted in organizing the first World Population Conference.( Simkin). In the spring. she began inviting advocates, physicians, and scientists from around the world to a conference in October. She returned to England to drum up interest and secure support for the conference(Latson). The “drawback to these gatherings was that the scientists and other dignified professionals who attended loathed any nuts-and-bolts discussion of sexuality and contraception, finding such talk better suited to the doctor’s office.(Sanger). As a result, these early conferences failed to advance a better understanding of the physiological
During the early 1900s, American nurse Margaret Sanger led the birth-control movement in the United States. She and others opened clinics to provide women with information and devices. Although frequently jailed, she and her followers were instrumental in getting laws changed. In subsequent years, laws against birth control gradually weakened, and more effective methods were developed.
In our society today, both men and women have the ability to control their chances of reproduction by utilizing some type of birth control. However, this was not always true. From 1873 to 1972, the Comstock Act prohibited the usage or distribution of birth control. The American birth control movement, partly led by Margaret Sanger, fought against these laws, believing that women in particular should be able to decide the sizes of their families. Margaret Sanger changed the lives of women during her time period for the better by giving women access to birth control, becoming involved in politics, and aiding in the development of an oral contraceptive. In doing so, she had a lasting influence on reproductive rights that one can still see today
Margaret Sanger was an inspiring speaker, and through her obvious manipulation, the tools of ethos, pathos, and logos were once more effective. I really enjoyed analyzing the strategies used in her speech, but I can’t help but ponder her questions previously mentioned in this piece of work. In a day and age where women were beat down for our gender, I do imagine Sanger suffered ridicule; alas, she pulled through to create a masterpiece, full of manipulation, persuasion, and truth.
The Roaring Twenties were known as a time of economic boom, pop culture and social developments. This was a time when women began to break norms, they acted rebelliously such as wearing releveling clothing, smoking, and drinking. These women were known as “flappers” who wanted to change their roles in the 1920’s. Birth control activist, Margaret Sanger sought to change the world where women had access to a low cost, effective contraception pill. In “The Morality of Birth Control” Sanger battled opponents who claimed that contraception would cause women to become immoral. The author uses rhetorical devices such as ethos, pathos, and fallacies to back up her claim while touching on issues in the church, advancements of women, and the source of disease in the world.
Aristotle’s rhetorical triangle links three elements of arguing together: the speaker, the story, and the audience. The relationship between the elements determines the speaker’s argument and whether it will be successful in oratory or literature. Ethos, Logos and Pathos are each different aspects of the argument that must be balanced in order to succeed in persuading or convincing an audience. Ethos, or character, relates to the speaker’s credibility that the audience appeals to: it is useful when persuading a group of people to trust what you are saying or doing. Logos, or logic, is a way of convincing and appealing by reason, truth, and facts. Pathos relates to the audience’s emotions and their response to what the speaker is saying.
Ethos and logos are used as an appeal in the essay. It was a story with a lot of emotion which she had successfully handled in the whole essay. She presented the essay in the real life with many facts, she gave poetic touch to her essay because of some of the metaphors she used like we didn 't breathe it. She used both logos and pathos in