Analysis Of Mary Fisher's Speech : A Whisper Of Aids

Pathos can be seen in the heartbreaking statistics that Fisher uses to open the audiences eyes. She states “a hundred million infections” can happen worldwide, and despite countless efforts put into the cure and prevention of the virus it is

Stigma is shown throughout many subjects; obesity, mental illness and the most powerful and worse stigma; the stigma of AIDS. The stigma of AIDS is clearly shown through a powerful story set in the middle of the African HIV and AIDS pandemic. The novel Chanda’s secrets accurately demonstrates the stigma of AIDS by portraying characters blinded by fear, being ashamed, feeling sinful, and living in denial. The stigma is shown through a maturing young girl’s point of view, seeing others and as well as herself confronting the different ‘symptoms’ of the stigma and what steps both she and the other characters took to overcome them.

Susan B. Anthony inspired to fight for women’s right while camping against alcohol..along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton also an activist, Anthony and Stanton founded the NWSA . Which helped the two women to go around and produced The Revolution, a weekly publication that lobbied for women’s rights.She also went on saying that if women ever wanted to get reaction men had…only thing stopping them,..having voting rights. An american social reformer and women’s right activist who played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement, also a teacher who aggregate and compare about nature. She gave the “Women’s Rights to the Suffrage” giving outside the jail she was going to be held in, she gave this speech in person in 1873 and her audience were mostly white women that want virtues like men. Also men that wanted to put women in their place and friends of her and fellow citizens. Her main points are that women needed power that men had. Growing up in a quaker household she knew that women needed honor as men just like slaves experience getting their freedom. In Women’s right to suffrage Susan B. Anthony uses tone, reparation,and logos which dematices why women should have equal morality and voting abilities as men.

In the documentary “The Age of AIDS,” FRONTLINE examines the outbreak of AIDS since its first diagnosed case in 1981. The film investigates different medical, political and social environments under AIDS pandemic in the US and worldwide. The film not only focuses on the scientific research and progress in treating the disease, it also looks at the social stigma, government strategies and public campaigns around different countries.

In this paper, I will dispute that in Mary Fisher 's "A Whisper of AIDS" speech, the use of pathos and ethos assists in her demand to end the ignorance, prejudice and silence surrounding HIV/AIDS. I will discuss how she replaces the "face" of AIDS with her own, allowing the conservative crowd to connect with HIV/AIDS. Fisher approaches the speech as an epidemic speech; heavily relying on ethos and pathos she created compassion and connection to an audience that usually shows disinterest and silence on the topic of HIV/AIDS. This paper will also discuss the logos within Fisher 's speech, and how she cleverly surrounds the logos of her argument with pathos and ethos. Although, Fisher has approached the speech as an epidemic, she holds a strong pervasive argument within the speech.

In A Whisper of AIDS, Mary Fisher uses a number of strategies to promote awareness and inform others about AIDS.

Fisher’s speech demonstrates Kairos. During Fisher’s 1992 address to the Republican National Convention there was a lot of tension building up from the HIV epidemic. Fisher took advantage of this persuadable moment by using the present tense, which makes the audience feel like they are present with you and are living in the moment by your side. A prime example of this is when Fisher says “We may take refuge in our stereotypes, but we cannot hide there long, because HIV asks only one thing of those it attacks. Are you human? And this is the right question. Are you human? Because people with HIV have not entered some alien state of being. They are human. They have not earned cruelty, and they do not deserve meanness. They don’t benefit from

In “Only your Calamity”, author Joe Wright discusses how those affected by AIDS either directly or via someone close to them, started and built AIDS activism has it is known today. Wright uses the personal experiences of Bobbi Campbell and Michael Callen, who are also mentioned and cited in Victory Deferred, to explain their drive to become AIDS activists. Wright details how AIDS acted has a form of “social death”, once a person had been diagnosed they were often seen has dead to their peers. So people with AIDS grouped together and at the national AIDS convention in Dallas, declared their rights. These people demanded to be treated with basic human respect by medical professionals and their peers. Most importantly their brave statements gave hope to other people with AIDS. The story of the activists during the epidemic was innately human. These people rose up to advocate for their rights not to become statistics, to be seen as more than their disease. Wright is able to connect their stories with contemporary activist working in places like Africa, where people with AIDS are being treated much like gay men here during the early 1980s. The stories of these activists allow historians to make direct connections to causes and effects. These are the people who change the

It would only be fair to state that Mary Fisher was biased in her arguments in favor of lifting the "shroud of silence" that the Republican Party had put over the issue of AIDS with as she herself was HIV positive. (Fisher) But her main point in the speech was to get the audience to realize that it did not matter what color, sexual orientation, age, or political affiliation a person was; everyone was threatened by this disease. And to get her point across, she opened her speech with the shocking statement that despite all that the government has done to battle the AIDS epidemic, it is "the epidemic which is winning tonight." (Fisher)

This story is based on many things for diferent people. But it depends on what perspective you are looking from and what shoes and eyes you are looking out from. The author Leila Hall she is trying to potray an image or an idea in our head that conveys about how serious AIDS/HIV is. For me this is and can be a love story between these two charectors Jotintia and Luis. It shows the amount and love they had for each other with being the same standerd of class. They understood each other and cared but things changed people change. Jotintia disapeared Luis kept looking for her until he found her, sick. He left when he reached he got the feel of regret and with the time passing by he knew she is the who he loved and he needed to go back be with

3. Fisher wants people to be more aware of these diseases. She wants them to not be so afraid or embarrassed to talk about HIV and AIDS. Fisher wants people protect themselves and their children from these diseases. Children spread these disease to eachother because they think they are in love because they are unaware of these diseases.

Continuing with Springsteen’s song, as the song’s lyrics are essentially a love letter to this woman, Wendy, romantic and passionate feelings are evoked when analyzing the lyrics. In Trump’s speech, sad emotions are evoked by the statements of past and current struggles that America has faced. Powerful, hopeful emotions are also evoked by the statements of hope for a greater future Trump has planned. Pathos helps evoke emotion in the readers to help them better understand the meaning and feel what the writer wants you to feel while reading the

The book Troubling The Angels: Women Living With HIV/AIDS by Patti Lather (an educator) and Chris Smithies (a psychologist) troubles the dominant cultural and social meanings of HIV/AIDS, and draws attention to women with HIV/AIDS because they are often left out from the dominant rhetoric in the United States. The participants are women in Ohio who are members of four HIV/AIDS support groups that are specifically for women. Although many of the scientific realities and statistics cited in this book are now outdated, the researcher’s methods and their methodology are still an important intervention to feminist research. In this paper, I examine how Lather and Smithies intentionally use certain research methods to trouble the politics representation and knowing, and insider/outsider binary. The methods that I will be focusing on include group interview, participants as an interpretative community, and the usage of “intertexts”.

2. She shows a need for awareness to AIDS by giving statistical evidence in paragraph 2, also by trying to pursuade people to not hide behind stereotypes or to feel forgotten. She also shows a need by giving examples from the holocoust which shows that even when people think they are safe from AIDS, they are not.

With the tone Mary Fisher constructed, her character is also assembled in front of her audience, but for Mary Fisher to persuade her audience she also needs to be a credible person. To Mary Fisher’s advantage her credibility developed even before the speech began. As a member of the White House, Fisher was already known by the Republican Party, thus her credibility was already established, furthermore since Mary Fisher is a respected woman who became infected, she was able to acquire the attention of the members of the Republican Party easily. Due to the fact that Mary Fisher is an HIV positive woman, the arguments and purpose that Mary Fisher develops in her speech about the brutality of AIDS will get her audience to ponder about the issue. If Mary Fisher was not infected, her audience would only question her points, and ask her, “How do you know? How would you understand?” By strategically consolidating her character and credibility, Mary Fisher would be able to make her next move using logics and reason.