2 days before Angelina made her speech in 2009 the UNHCR (United nations high commissioner for refugees) reported 42 million refugees worldwide, now they report there being 65 million. At World Refugee day, Angelina Jolie makes a compelling speech about the severity of the situation for refugees around the globe. She uses moving anecdotes, vivid imagery and uses all three of the argumentative appeals to stir emotion in the audience that something must be done about refugees in need.
Jolie makes three anecdotes about the people she’s met while visiting Tanzania and Pakistan. First she talks about a pregnant Afghani woman and her family in pakistan who was left in a completely abandoned camp because she was too late in her pregnancy to travel when everyone else was relocated. She had nothing to her name but insisted on making the
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The most important of the logos is that Pakistan is hosting 1.7 million Afghan families for nearly thirty years. A man named Noor Mohammed left Afghanistan in 1979 when he was 12. He still resides in the Pakistan as a refugee. (BBC 3) However starting last year the pakistan government is forcing the afghanistan refugees out due to rumors of a post 9/11 anti-pakistani branch of the taliban inching into the camps creating conflict among citizens. (BBC 19) Pathos is her strongest form of argumentative appeals. With stories of children with no families, loneliness, and new mothers. She tells you the gritty truth of life for these refugees and how it seems like 1st world citizens just ignore their pain. She also exercises ethos, Jolie has earned her pilot's license and flies supplies and personnel to places in need through the UNHCR. (Van Meter 4) Most of her whole speech she’s speaking through her own experience meeting these people and seeing the pain in their eyes. There is no better way to understand what refugees go through than to hear it from someone who has been
In the passage the author addresses who Ellen Terry is. Not just an actress, but a writer, and a painter. Ellen Terry was remembered as Ellen Terry, not for her roles in plays, pieces of writing, or paintings. Throughout the essay the author portrays Ellen Terry in all aspects of her life as an extraordinary person by using rhetorical techniques such as tone, rhetorical question, and comparison.
By reading, Anne Lamott’s essay, her writing process is interesting, in my opinion. She explains that her writing isn’t always flawless but rather shitty in the beginning. Anne writes one “shitty” draft and after that she analyzes her draft. By doing this she takes out words or finds a new beginning on the second page or as she says finding something great on the last sentence on page six. I think the process Anne takes is important to her because she not only can say anything in her shitty draft but the freedom she has. She doesn’t have to worry about anyone read that draft expect her.
Ha describes the papaya that Miss Washington gave her is, “Not the same, but not bad at all” (Lai 234). Papaya represents home, hope, and that things are getting back to normal. Amela says, “Some people here don’t even know where Bosnia is but they’re really nice and try to help” (Brice 25). Although people are unaware of what is happening in her country, people are still kind to her and they try to help her. In addition, things for Amela is much easier and comforting since the people are nice to her, also they don’t judge her and put her down. Things are different from before, when “someone is always saving seats for Ha, Pem, and Steven; the huge cousin, who now not only smiles but waves at them” (Lai 229). Ha is making new friends and additionally, people are showing friendly gestures when waving and smiling them spots in the cafeteria. All in all, refugees lives turn “back again” when they adjust well and comfortably with the help of kind people. Ha begins to fit in and feels less of an outcast since she has
The audience knows Angelina Jolie as an excellent actress. She is using her celebrity influence to push for worldwide action toward the Syrian refugee crisis through emotional articles, essays through newspapers, magazines to share her experience with the audience. Angelina Jolie spent time with a Syrian refugee family during a humanitarian trip and said that the conflict in Syria has "created a wave of human suffering." Syrians are suffering from the bombs, chemical weapons, rape and massacres (Jolie, 44). For example, she mentioned a story in her essay “A new level of refugee suffering: Complementary”a family of eight children with no parents, their father had been killed and mother was taken by ISIS (Jolie, 44). Angelina Jolie is very emotional when it comes to the fight against the refugee crisis, in her article “A new level of refugee suffering: Complementary” she recalls the stories which she heard from the Syrian refugees which made her speechless and very emotional toward helping these refugees to raise the issue to the world and helping them to defend the country and resolve the refugee crisis (Jolie, 45). Angelina Jolie evokes – “ How can you speak when a women your own age looks you in the eye and tells you that her whole family was killed in front of her, and that she now lives alone in a tent and has minimal
Nelson Mandela once said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. It is the very same “legacy of change” that Nelson Mandela used that inspires what Malala Yousafzai does today. At the age of 15, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating for girls’ education. Since this appalling incident, Malala has gone on to be the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, start the “Malala Fund”, that funds education in developing countries, and is currently the figure of women’s rights. Malala has been constantly speaking, advocating and helping women and children acquire the rights they deserve. In her powerful speech to the U.N, she opened the world’s eyes to the truth about education
The goal of Hillary’s speech is to persuade her audience that her ideas are valid, by using ethos, pathos, and logos. Hillary is the First Lady and Senator, she shows credibility as an influential activist for woman rights. “Over the past 25 years, I have worked persistently on issues relating to women, children, and families. Over the past two and a half years, I’ve had the opportunity to learn more about the challenges facing women in my country and around the world” (Clinton 2).
refugee program began in 1975 to accommodate refugees from Vietnam after the fall of Saigon (National Child Traumatic Stress Network [NCTSN], 2005). At the end of 2012, 45.2 million people around the world were displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, and violence (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR], 2013). In fiscal year 2013, almost 70,000 (69,926) refugees arrived in the United States; 2,419 of them were resettled in North Carolina (UNHCR, 2013).
Oskar Schindler was a German business man in German occupied Poland during WWII and the Holocaust. He was described as “...a cynical, greedy exploiter of slave workers...a black-marketeer, gambler, member of the Nazi party eternally on the lookout for profit, an alcoholic playboy and shameless womanizer…” (oskarschindler.com). However, as the he began to be exposed more and more to the horrors of the Holocaust, he devised a plan to save Jews from slavery and extermination. He built factories that Jews from concentration camps would come to live and work in, away from the prying eyes of the Nazi SS, where they would be fed, allowed to sleep, and be treated as human beings. He saved more than 1,000 “Schindler Jews” as they came to be called, from extermination. Oskar Schindler is now known as a hero, disproving the common theory that those who have not shown previous integrity and good choices cannot be heroes. In more recent times, Angelina Jolie, a former Hollywood actress who early in her life working in the movie industry was involved in several unethical incidents, “she even admitted to trying alcohol, suicide and drugs in an attempt to overcome her existential emptiness” (International Business Times). However, Jolie is now the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHRC) Special Envoy, focusing on large scale crisis’ resulting in mass
The number of refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria and Iraq to neighbouring countries has now passed four million, confirming this to be the world's largest refugee crisis for almost a quarter of a century under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) mandate. The UNHCR has observed that Syria and Iraq’s only hope is the humanity shown by the neighbouring countries in welcoming and saving the lives of refugees. Canada must step up to this global challenge and assist Middle Eastern and European countries in resettling refugees. Complacence and inaction will lead to the loss of more lives, and further tarnish our humanitarian values and reputation at home and abroad. As Canadians we think of ourselves as a haven for refugees,
First, one of the Holocaust survivors, Elie Wiesel, stated in a speech that “Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.” He is saying that if there are refugees being
In “Melissa Femiling’s Ted Talk”, she told a story about a 19 year old syrian refugee trying to escape their home to come live in America. She and her husband took a boat with 500 refugees on it and the boat ended up sinking leaving only two survivors Doaa and a little girl she took in. Doaa wanted
Malala shared her story at the United Nations to the narrative that directs attention toward equality and rejection of dignity.... ... middle of paper ... ... Retrieved from http://www.alistapart.com/articles/writeliving Watts, P. (2013). Analysis of Malala Yousafzai’s speech to the UN General Assembly. The presenters' blog.
After the war ended, millions died of homelessness, starvation, disease. They then created a group called the UNHCR to help refugees established in 1950. They provided food, water, and shelter to those who could not go home. But the living conditions for refugees were particularly
A refugee is defined as an individual who has been forced to leave their country due to political or religious reasons, or due to threat of war or violence. There were 19.5 million refugees worldwide at the end of 2014, 14.4 million under the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), around 2.9 million more than in 2013. The other 5.1 million Palestinian refugees are registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). With the displacement of so many people, it is difficult to find countries willing to accept all the refugees. There are over 125 different countries that currently host refugees, and with this commitment comes the responsibility of ensuring these refugees have access to the basic requirements of life; a place to live, food to eat, and a form of employment or access to education. Currently, the largest cause of refugees is the Syrian civil war, which has displaced over 2.1 million people. As a country of relative wealth, the United States should be able to provide refuge for many refugees, as well as provide monetary support to the refugees that they are not able to receive.
Angelina Jolie is well known for her Humanitarian work. In August of 2002, she was awarded the inaugural Humanitarian Award from the Church World Service’s Immigration and Refugee Program. In October of 2003 she was the first person to get the Citizen Of The World Award by the United Nations Correspondents Association. Angelina was given the Global Humanitarian Award by the UNA-USA in October 2005.