In Jasmine Lopez’s persuasive essay video, the speaker was very well-spoken and kept her speech at a steady pace. I also liked how she would enunciate every word she spoke to make sure the audience was engaged and understood. Furthermore, the speaker’s opening line was relatable and provided a nice hook to start her speech. The speaker backed up her statements with factual data, which showed the audience that she was credible and passionate about her topic. As the speaker was saying agricultural terms, she made sure to define those terms.…
Can women really have it all? According to author Anne-Marie Slaughter, who wrote “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” published in 2012 in The Atlantic, believes this way of thinking is an “airbrushed reality” (87). These words of Slaughter are the unfortunate truth for many women working today. Slaughter writes about her decision to leave her high powered job in Washington to spend time at home with her children. It is a looked-down-upon choice by many in the business world, but one she made all the same. After careful examination of her options, she decided that she was indispensable to her children but not to her job. She reaches her audience by using ethos through personal career background. She shares antidotes to pull-in pathos,…
In the New York Times, “Feminism, Hell and Hilary Clinton”, by Frank Bruni discusses how ridiculous the mentality is that if you are a woman you need to vote for Hilary Clinton. He briefly discusses some statements that were made by some very influential women, Madeline Albright and Gloria Steinem. Bruni seems to almost mock their opinions that “women are more or less damned if they’re not on Hilary Clinton’s team”. Bruni makes it known that he doesn’t disagree with these statements because he doesn’t like Hilary Clinton based on her gender, but more so on her policies. Bruni is able to use some aspects of ethos and logos in this op-ed, and his relaxed tone throughout makes his writing not only easy to read, but easy to agree with; this all…
This was a bold statement for a woman to make, and her words have resonated for American women for more than two centuries. That same letter carried an indictment against the continuation of slavery in the new nation, as she reminded the Founders of the "principal [sic] of doing to others as we would that others should do unto us" (Butterfield, I, p.…
This speech was not just heard by women but males, whites, and blacks. Yes, she addresses several members of the audience. One can assume that some are for women's rights, but she addresses several men who are not.…
For this week forum 6; I had selected The Struggle for Human Rights by Eleanor Roosevelt, and the purpose for this article or speech is to try to persuade the Member States of the United Nations in the General Assembly to adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and due to the introduction to the Rogerian method of argumentation that can be useful for solving issues which do not have clear right or wrong sides. This method shows an openness and respect to the other side, shows a lack of bias towards this other side, but still attempts to persuade this other side to believe a specific, albeit less absolute, claim. She develops the central claim using these supporting claims: “this…
Stanton, Elizabeth. “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.” The Seagull Reader: Essays, edited by Joseph Kelly. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2016.…
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.…
Capable women, intelligent women, women who could change the world and society for the better, are deprived of the education they deserve. Women giving labor, women with breast cancer, women who are sick are turned down by doctors because they do not have health care. In Living History, Clinton says about her daughter “her presence sent a message in places where the needs and abilities of young girls were too often overlooked: The President of the United States has a daughter whom he considers valuable and worthy of the education and health care she needs to help her fulfill her own God-given potential” (Living History 400). Clinton makes it clear that if her daughter is given the right and ability to prosper as a woman and do it healthily, then why is that right not given to every other girl and woman in the United States and the world? Females around the world, and especially in the United States which is dominating and influential country, should be given the rights to get a proper education and to have health care and use it when necessary. In many of her conferences, she states that she speaks for all women when she is saying what rights they deserve. She is trying to break the silence and have them act on what they believe (“Women’s Rights Are Human Rights” 45). She says her responsibility as a powerful women and feminist is “to make sure that the voice that have gone unheard will be heard” (“Women’s Rights Are Human Rights” 42). She speaks on behalf of all women when she fights for these rights which they should have had decades ago. Lack of health care and education should have been a resolved issues, but since they are not, her primary goal is to make them…
Since my very first English class back in elementary, I was taught how to use pronouns. The thing about pronouns is that you need to know the sex of the person you are trying to talk about. The pronouns “he or she”, in English terms, is not an acceptable manner to use for both genders. But what if we were to be considerate to other’s opinions and personal views on gender identity? What if we let go of the need to contemplate on how to identify them?…
First she says that historians should discuss the meanings and consequences of women’s suffrage. If that was done then would have a clear understand of events took place and to have and understanding of what happened because of those events. Historians need to be more informative and discuss the meaning a consequences of women suffrage. According to the author historian’s mainly focus on the early victories and they emphasize the disappointments . I understand why historian would discuss those victors and downfalls, those are seen as the most important and feel that those are the ones that have to be shared. I do agree that there should have been focus women suffrage as a whole rather than certain events. Because it not giving the whole story can create confusion on what actually happened. Secondly she thinks that they should rethink the attention they pay to moral reforms movements. To According to the author the “almost every Progressive cause had its moral dimensions…”1 moral…
She lived a life of activism, but also a life of dignity and grace. And in a single moment, with the simplest of gestures, she helped change America -- and change the world.” This statement is in the last two sentences, paragraph two, of “The Courage to Take Action…”…
Imagine having only one purpose in life: to serve men. Your place was to cook, clean, bear children, and look pretty. You had no right to vote or to live your own life in the way you wanted to. This is what women have faced for countless years leading up to the Women’s Rights Movement. Even though many women took on tremendous workloads and dangerous risks during the American Revolution, they still were not granted freedom. It was in early July, 1848 when action is finally take. The Women’s Rights Movement was a major event that led to an abundance of new opportunities for women and left behind an ever-lasting drive for women to continue their fight for equality.…
A woman the age of twenty-five has decided that she does not wish to have children. She does the research, has a competent argument on why she does not wish to reproduce. She is not particularly fond of children. She has no desire to be a parent or raise a child. She does not have the resources to raise another person to adulthood and she does believe she is or ever will be responsible enough to raise another human being. She decided to go to her gynecologist and they have an appointment. She outlines her reasons and sticks to them like glue. The woman is adamant about becoming sterile. Her doctor becomes apprehensive toward her request after addressing the permanence and the risks. Despite the woman’s research and her beliefs on remaining childless, her physician outright denies her request. Recently, more and more women are choosing to remain childless. The way of life, dubbed child-free, is quickly catching on. These women may be either…
One of her main topics, as addressed by the preceding quote, was the independence of women in the world. She is a well-known feminist speaker, author, activist and organizer who has fought for equality in America her whole life. She travels across the country…