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Mary Fisher is a political activist who contracted AIDS from her husband. She has become the HIV/AIDS advocate for prevention after giving her speech “A Whisper of AIDS”. It is a commonly known stereotype that AIDS is transmitted by homosexuals or drug users, and this speech was given to suppress this stereotype, spread awareness, and help defend those with HIV/AIDS. Mary Fisher effectively exerts the rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos throughout her speech and uses specific wordage to emphasize the equal risk of AIDS for all individuals. With this being said, her intended audience is all of America, and especially parents so they can teach their children early on. The comprehensive message throughout the speech is the idea that everyone is at risk for AIDS. Mary uses herself as a primary example, she emphasizes that she is a caucasian mother who has never been at risk nor ever expected to contract the virus. She also affirms that “There is no family or community, no race or …show more content…
A million more are infected. Worldwide, forty million, sixty million, or a hundred million infections will be counted in the coming few years.” This quote backs up her ideas by proving that the virus is serious and effects many lives. By providing statistics of the danger of AIDS, she is using the ethos appeal to prove to the audience that this virus has already negatively affected many lives already. The reason that AIDS was not as commonly known before the speech is because people stayed quiet about it, due to the many prejudice and stereotypes given to HIV/AIDS. In consequence of all the rumors, society feared to even speak of the virus. This retraces back to the main point of Fishers speech, spreading the awareness of everyone being at risk for AIDS will help “learn the lessons of
What I found astonishing is the fact that constantly had to reiterate the significance of the disease, and it makes me wonder what made the majority of individuals so oblivious to AIDS. Also, Gould pointed out the limited knowledge among individuals regarding AIDS and that was largely responsible for the “mysteriousness” of the disease. Gould continues to say that ignorance served just as big a role as the lack of knowledge for the disease. I feel that this true because the lack of knowledge and ignorance went hand and hand with each other as many individuals thought it could only happen to people with darker pigmentation, and different sexual orientation. In addition, with these ideals being forged into each person’s mind, it led to most individuals ignoring the issue completely, which in turn made each person less and less aware of the severity AIDS. This allowed the disease to contaminate much larger portions of the population because AIDS could spread in many ways, and the majority of individuals were not aware of it. Piggybacking this statement, I feel that AIDS was so deadly of a disease and that it increased so dramatically due to this ignorance and
Florence Kelley uses an abundant amount of rhetorical devices in her speech to express her feelings about child labor. Kelley uses sarcasm, repetition, and imagery in her speech to explain her thoughts on child labor.
The 1980’s in America were a very iconic time period for the country. Music, films, and history were created that will never be forgotten. But during the 1980’s the AIDS epidemic became a very serious matter. According to Macionis, AIDS, first identified in 1981, is an incurable, deadly disease transmitted through bodily fluids including blood, semen, vaginal secretions and breast milk. The Dallas Buyers Club portrays what happened during the AIDS epidemic, and the social issues that people were faced with. Sexuality and AIDS were seen as directly linked, drug abuse and AIDS were also linked, and AIDS patients experienced difficulties with healthcare facilities.
In Mary Wollstonecraft’s letter, she makes her rage clear to the man that provoked her that she will not condone his plans for marriage to another man, and wishes to never be acquainted with each other much longer. The way she achieves this position is through a combination of carefully placed pauses that add weight to each claim she has for the man’s wrongdoings, through the usage of long sentences to go in further explain her judgement, and a passionate use of wording to effectively express her emotion to the recipient. She directs all of this to the man, making clear of the denial she has for his intentions of an indirect proposal.
Mary Sherry did do a good enough job of acknowledging the other side of the argument in her essay. She used her experience as an adult-literacy teacher to make points in her argument. The conversations with the students gave real insight of what the reason was that they struggled after high school. Her counter argument was strong enough to truly convince her audience that her thesis is correct. To make her counter argument she used examples of how she used to think about the reason of poor education.
Mary Fisher is an American author, artist, and political activist born in 1948. She opted to become an outspoken HIV/AIDS activist after contracting AIDS from her second husband. She is a daughter of the wealthy and powerful republican fundraiser Max Fisher. The speech entitled “A Whisper of AIDS”; she delivered it in Houston, TX on 19 August during the Republican National Convention Address. She delivered this speech and set up nearness and full focus of her audience. Mary Fisher uses appeals of pathos, information, and imagery to shape her ethic sound and response towards this rhetorical situation of HIV/AIDS.
In the persuading article, “A Whisper of AIDS”, by the accomplished Mary Fisher, the author convincingly argues that the silence on the issue of AIDS is damaging to Americans. The author effectively and skillfully builds the argument by using a variety of persuasive and argumentative rhetorical techniques including but not limited to appeals to emotion, personification, and thought-provoking rhetorical questions through a careful arrangement of words.
On Thursday, February 16, 2017, Dr. Rosanna Reyes delivered a speech entitled “From Theory to Practice: Engaging First Generation College Students.” The speech was interesting to me, but perhaps this was because I related to the topic. Because of the layout of the speech and the way it was delivered, I sincerely believe that anyone who was not a first generation college student may have fallen asleep during this speech. I also do not think that she accomplished the goal of her speech: to persuade her audience to take action to engage first generation college students at a liberal arts college.
When Elizabeth Glaser had children, she never imagined the immense heartbreak and emotional distress it would cause both herself and the children. She hemorrhaged during the first birth and was transferred with blood containing the AIDS virus. Unknowingly, she gave it to her daughter, and later, her son. Glaser was a well-known, upper class, white woman, so her contraction of this disease shocked people and gave the disease a new wave of media during a time when the government was trying to push the issue under the table. At the Democratic Convention, Glaser made a speech, detailing her struggles with the virus - it was the push many people needed to finally rally and take action against it.
Throughout history many people have been afraid of catching AIDS (Acquiring Immune Deficiency Syndrome). Many people used to, and some still do, think that being around anyone who has AIDS could catch AIDS themselves. People have been and will probably always be ignorant when it comes to AIDS. One of the few people who have AIDS addressed the nation, her name was Mary Fisher. In 1992 she gave a speech titled “A Whisper of AIDS” to bring awareness about it to the nation.
It takes multiple people to try to fight such a pervasive issue, and by placing blame and establishing guilt in the audience, he is having them rethink their priorities and hopes to establish a group of people who are willing to fight on behalf of those suffering from HIV-AIDS. Through the use of anaphora, Lewis is able to put together what life will be like for women in Africa if they are able to receive the proper treatments. He says, “The idea that women will have a way of re-asserting control over their own sexuality, the idea that they will be able to defend their bodily health, the idea that women will have a course of prevention to follow which results in saving their lives…” By bringing medication to the women of Africa and also discovering a microbicide to stop HIV in its’ tracks will positively impact the lives of millions of women. No longer will they have to fear contracting a virus that is ultimately a death sentence; no longer will they have to give up their dreams of becoming mothers because they wish not to spread the virus to their child; no longer will they be considered vulnerable and be easily taken advantage of by
Prejudice and ignorance have damaged the world’s view of HIV/AIDS, and these victims are, “not evil [or] deserving of our judgement” and they are, “ready for support and worthy of compassion” (Fisher 2). The first step of progress the world must make is to cast aside all of these biases and to open our hearts. By doing this, awareness can be spread and support can be given to those who so desperately need it. Fisher’s ethical tone establishes trust within her audience, and encourages them to stand up for what is morally right. One must not sit and watch as others suffer. Fisher establishes herself as a strong, credible leader for this issue by explaining how the disease has affected her personally and by emphasizing that Mr. and Mrs. Bush also acknowledged HIV/AIDS as a dangerous disease worthy of attention. The audience is reminded of the job they have as human beings to stand up for what is right and to break the chains that hold the world down from progress. Fisher uses emotional appeals in her speech to emphasize the importance of supporting those who are suffering and to make the audience sympathize with those who lost loved ones to AIDS. She tells us that it can affect anybody, and that, “AIDS is not a political creature. It does not care whether you are Democrat or Republican. It does not ask whether you are white or black, male or female, gay or straight, young or old” (Fisher 1). The number of people affected by HIV/AIDS continues to grow every day, and we see that, “[it] is not a distant threat; It is a present danger” (Fisher 1). To ignore something so deadly is as bad as condemning someone to death. Fisher used rhetorical appeals throughout this speech in an effort to change the way the world views AIDS, and Fisher hopes that the world can, “lift the shroud of silence that has been draped over the issue of
In, “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” written by Benjamin Franklin (one of the Founding Fathers) in 1747, brought up the disparities that were between men and women within the judicial system. Also, “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” also briefly points out, how religion has been intertwined with politics. All throughout “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker,” Benjamin Franklin uses very intense diction and syntax to help support what he is trying to express to the rest of society. Also writing this speech in the view point of a women, greatly helps establish what he is trying to say. If Benjamin Franklin was to write it as a man, the speech my have not had the same passionate effect as it currently has.
In retrospect, Fisher’s speech, especially its ethos, would not been as effective if she wasn’t a married mother of two who became HIV-positive by her husband. Her call to the American people to have “the strength to act wisely when we are most afraid leaves no question to what must be done in breaking the silence regarding AIDS, and the action that must be taken to prevent further devastation (3). She successfully uses Aristotle’s Rhetorical appeals to transcend the public’s barriers against the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the people afflicted with the disease.
In the supplement, The History of Mary Prince we find the word licentious being used with a sexual connotation to describe the supposed behavior of a poor black slave named Mary Prince. Her master Mr. Woods argued how she had no value for the way she behaved under his care and found it enough reason to deny her manumission. Given the context in which the word is being used one would say the definition, “Disregarding the restraint of chastity; libertine, lascivious, lewd” (Oxford Dictionary), is the most appropriate definition of the word. Mr. Pringle, trying to shed light on this case, goes on by addressing Mr. Woods letter and saying, “He alleges that she was, before marriage, licentious, and even depraved (morally bad) in her conduct, and