A Rhetorical Analysis of “Women’s rights are Human Rights” by Hilary Rodman Clinton.
Many people choose to believe that women rights issues only affect Muslim countries, but that logic is so far from the truth. Women’s rights around the world are just as important as all other issues, and it is a critical indicator towards understanding general worldwide existence.
There is also that group of people, who believe that women’s rights are not as big an issue as they were in the United States, some 150 years ago – which is simply far from being true. The rhetoric in empowering women has always been an ongoing subject in all countries, and we find that to date, numerous issues still exist in all areas of life; …show more content…
Hilary Clinton had three target audience relating to her speech: Her 1st target audience is the women, whom she spoke to directly; on how every woman needs to empower themselves through education, by becoming business oriented. This speech is primarily Chinese's government and every other governments/organizations that can assist by helping to promote, whilst also striving to make a commitment that women's rights have to become the human rights.
China has been extensively condemned for their policy of one child per family. To enforce this policy, women have been forced into sterilization or abortions; there have also been constant and unpleasant reports of female infanticide (intentionally killing of an infant) by parents who seek the birth of a son. In this speech, Hilary Clinton
In countries such as Beijing, woman's ill-treatment is rampant, and the standardization to imprison women into the cruelty that gender preference is what should be the way forward; just to have a better and structured development within the country; should not be deemed as the norm – but a complete …show more content…
Her use of logos was relatively to the point, by drawing significant amount of years in history; concerning women suffrage in the United States. She draws on the specific amount of years at which women suffrage carried on in the United States (150 years). She also narrates on the precise statics in describing the length of organized struggle – a struggle which extended into a divisive philosophical war. Women suffrage was very much heightened back in those days, but 75 years later; victory is celebrated in the United States. The divisive war became a bloodless war; suffrage was finally achieved for women in America without a single gunshot being fired. “In my country, we recently celebrated the 75th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage. It took 150 years after the signing of our Declaration of Independence for women to win the right to