Analysis Of Left Handed Commencement Address

Plato talks about why the females and the males should get the same education and training. The rhetorical strategy that Plato uses is logos. Plato starts by saying that women should have the same education and training as men. That idea sounds good, but then I don’t agree with Plato, when

Now logos, which are basically logic, makes the people think about what is happening and not focus on the small things, but on the big things. For example, he talked about how “I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience.” He is trying to tell the people that he already been down this road once and he knows where it leads. He is saying that war cannot be avoided even if that take measures to avoid it. Another example he wants them to think about is how “Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and army’s.

Logos is an argument based on coherence and philosophy. Throughout the novel, Douglass tells many stories of how a slave was treated. “The frequency of this has had the effect to establish among the slaves the maxim, that a still tongue makes a wise head” (Douglass 24). All the slaves, within themselves, knew when they were asked a question he or she would be more fortunate to not say a word in response. It was evident the difference between freedmen and slaves. They were treated in a discrepant way. “I speak this advisedly,- that killing a slave, or any colored person, in Talbot county, Maryland, is not treated as a crime, either by

In paragraph 4 Douglass comes to understand injustice after the murder of his wife’s cousin, and we come to know that with "Mr. Gore's defense was satisfactory... His horrid crime was not even submitted to judicial investigation.''. This quote is Logos because of the logistics of the situation, and that's that even though this person killed a human being, he will still not be tried for his actions while had I committed that crime I would have been tried. This quote even speaks towards american values and that value is family as a family member of Douglass has been striped away from his life. Logos can also be found in metaphors or in analogies, like in this quote “We were all ranked together at the valuation. Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine. There were horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children, all holding the same rank in the scale of being”. What this quote is speaking about is how low these humans are value in their society, so low that their value is comparable with pigs and sheep. This quote shows how men aren't really equal to other men but instead are equal to other

Logos can show people that she is not only saying her opinions, but also has the facts to prove them. She speaks with confidence while using factual data and statistics, also with a literal approach. Truth insists that she can do anything a man can. “I can carry as much as any man and can eat as much too if I can get it. I am as strong as any man that is now.”

She speaks on how she is mistreated as a woman due to her race and she tells the audience about how white men believe that the intellect of women and people of color makes them a lower status in

There has been a recent outrage by a woman named Miriam Zeigler, this pent up anger over the course of many years had finally burst once her article was published by The Age on May 6th 2010. Her opinion piece entails her experience over the years of being a left hander, and the everyday discriminations she faces. This entire piece was sparked by her encounter at the supermarket, when she went to sign her receipt and it was angled to the right, causing her the inconvenience of having to move it to the left side. She believes that our ‘right-handed society’ needs to cater more to the left-handers of the world, as they are tired of the discrimination and wish to be treated fairly, and not as a mockery. She makes her appeal to the right-handers of the world trying to raise their awareness on this issue, she gathers this audience to make right-handers understand their ‘privilege’ and their everyday rudeness towards left-handers. Her tone in her first paragraph starts off peaceful however, in a quick tonal shift she becomes quite aggressive in her voice. Throughout the piece, excluding the seemingly

Harjo uses logical based appeals by persuading the readers by the use of reasoning. The way she uses logos in the poem is by implying that if the women can overcome all the diversity in her community, and let her past slip away and only live in the present and take the good from her life than the woman will live.

Nonetheless, Stanton managed to target her audiences, by assuming herself as almost a philosopher communicating about life and individual human soul, rather than as a feminist (1). Consider that her audience were males and did not form a positive impression on her before she made the speech, Stanton was able to grab her audiences’ attention by turning away from her usual approach to promote women’s suffrage and raising a question about individual rights (Ginzberg 170). The speech was structured in a way that all individuals could relate to the speech, and benefit from reflecting about the question proposed by the speech.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form....likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." This quote is supplicating to logos because it uses logical reasoning by using the people’s rights to try and get them thinking about their freedom. What this quote is implying that every single person has the exact same rights and if they wanted to they have the right to make it exceptional. "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations...it is their

That both genders have common ground as people. She goes on to describe how society is becoming more progressive, that whether or not people want to admit it, changes are coming and as time goes on women will be granted more equality. This change was already being seen but just needed further progression.

Famous fantasy author J. K Rowling, the “mother” of Harry Potters, addresses the commencement speech at Harvard in eighth June, 2008, which is titled “The Fringe Benefits of Failure.” She genuinely talks about her personal experience in order to helpfully instruct graduates. Rowling shares her valuable experiences on her heartbroken failures, as audiences have high achievements in academic study, but unfamiliar with normal failures. The purpose is to share her mature views with the upcoming graduates to prepare for future unavoidable failures which everyone will face. Rowling’s colorful speech flexibly adopts abundant rhetorical devices, such as persuasive pathos, strong ethos,

For example, in paragraph 4, Anthony states “It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens...”. She is using logos here to prove that if women are people, they have all rights that other citizens do. By quoting the Constitution she puts the audience in an odd position since they cannot deny the supreme law of the land.

For example, in paragraph six she says, “But to have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized”. She is talking about the type of men who are being allowed to vote and uses the words “drunkards” and “ignorant foreigners” to give a clearer image to the people of the reality of it all. She also uses imagery in paragraph fifteen saying, “We do not expect our path will be strewn with the flowers of popular applause, but over the thorns of bigotry and prejudice will be our way”. She uses the phrases “strewn with flowers” and “over the thorns of bigotry and prejudice” to give an image about the struggle it will take so reach her goals. She knows it will not be easy to convince the public about the importance of equality to vote and she knows it will be tough ride through it

This quote appeals to Logos because she is persuading her audience using a logical fact that supports the main idea of feminism. Emma is also providing additional information to help further support the audience's perspective on feminism. Using logos in her piece is