Mary Fisher's AID Speech

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Mary Fisher uses a topical organizational pattern throughout the speech, and I believe that she used this pattern so she could talk about the main points: ignorance, prejudice, and silence people view HIV/AIDS with, and the need for more of an awareness of the disease. I was able to pick up the main points by listening throughout the entire speech for topics. Mary Fisher’s introduction can be divided into the different parts of the introduction: attention getter can be found in her opening statement as well as revealing the topic, she establishes her credibility in the statement about not wanting to be HIV positive, and finally she previews her body when she says that HIV/AIDS does not care who you are. Much like the introduction the conclusion can be divided into its part as well, and these parts include letting the audience know the ending of the speech is coming, done when she says, “To all within the sound of my voice,” she ends her speech with a summarization,

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She says, “I want my children to know that their mother was not a victim” (3). In this speech she uses ethos by saying, “Tonight, I represent an AIDS community whose members have been reluctantly drafted from every segment of American Society” (1). She is saying that she represents anyone who has AIDS. Fisher is also credible to talk about this subject because of when she says, “In the place of judgement, they have shown affection” (2). Fisher is talking about how President Bush and Mrs. Bush have treated Fisher and her family no different then a person with AIDS or HIV. Mary Fisher is believable in the speech and able to relate to many different people, who either have AIDS or are HIV positive, also people who have a family member that is struggling with this disease.

She states many of her opinions on how the press should stop telling and spreading false events and ideas in the newspaper. When given the chance she tells her audience journalist about how the American press about her feels and how she feels challenged by them. Overall, the beginning of her speech tells the audience how she is going to state information and how they should listen to

As Mary’s story unravels, she continues to suffer long hours of work, starvation, and separation from her family. She reads her holy bible and is constantly reminding herself that God is with her and will see her through these trials. Her spirits are lifted her master agrees to sell Mary to her husband, and her mistress begins the journey with her, but before long the mistress decides not to go any further and they turn back. Not long after, she starts to loose hope that she will ever be reunited with her family. She becomes discouraged, and her spirit

Of the three modes of persuasion, ethos, encompasses a person’s credibility. Their credibility is defined by how often then speak truths, if they have good sense, are a morally upstanding person, and their overall goodwill. Sarah Knight is a Cum Laude Harvard English Literature graduate. Simply knowing this can give a positive impression to an audience even before. she has come on stage. She is educated, well spoken, and well versed. The listener could interpret her education and intelligence as a boost to her credibility.

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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 needed 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 logic and reason.

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The year was 1991 when Mary Fisher tested positive for HIV. Fisher is the daughter of Max Fisher, a powerful and wealthy republican. She isn 't the normal face of AIDS, and in 1992 she spoke out of her disease at the Republican National Convention. Fisher 's speech, A Whisper of AIDS, is considered one of the top speeches of the 20th century. When Fisher gave her speech, she spoke to a crowd that didn 't believe AIDS was going to affect their lives. When listening and reading the speech, one must take into context the time period, during the 90s testing positive for HIV/AIDS meant death. At the time there were no treatments to help prolong those

Benjamin wrote the speech in the perspective of a mother of five who was facing a jury. She had been accused of fornication and consequently the birth of five children. The children, the youngest being very young were all the proof the jury needed to convict her. But she makes her case and terms the whipping and the fines she had already paid for her other four children as being unjust (Maestro). They were costly and in a big way reduced her ability to cater to the needs of her children. Women were not treated as an equal member of the society at the time the speech was developed. The speech challenges all knowledge about the judicial process and this focus makes it more effective rather than making a case for women which would have been ignored at the time. The setting, plot and characterization are three of the main concepts in the message “The speech of Polly Baker”, the culture that produced the speech applied double standards based on sex and gender.

Throughout the course of Mary’s speech, she uses an emotional appeal to get through to her audience. Although Mary uses emotion, it is not always positive emotions. She chooses her words carefully in order to strike fear within the audience. “If you believe you are safe, you are at risk. If you do not see this killer stalking your children, look again.” Fisher compares AIDS to a killer coming for these parents children. A parent instinctively needs to protect their child. She raises the idea that AIDS is a predator hunting their children, and that they are failing to protect them. Mary makes descriptive images to support her emotional appeal. She states that this rampant disease was “littering it's pathway with bodies of the young.” Fisher uses the image of an innocent baby clinging to life in a hospital. She also attempted to instill a feeling of guilt within the audience. “You weep silently. You grieve alone. I have a message for you. It is not you who should feel shame. It is we -- we who tolerate ignorance and practice prejudice, we who have taught you to fear.” Mary first reminds the audience of the loneliness and depression that AIDS sufferers share. Then she's makes the effort to give the audience a guilty feeling. So that they may try and make up for it. Fisher uses fear, sadness, and guilt to support her appeal. Towards the end of her speech, she gains the sympathy of her audience by speaking

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)