Rhetorical Analysis Of Whisper Of Aids By Mary Fisher

In 1992, Mary Fisher gave her speech to the Republican National Convention. During the period of the early 90s, people were aware of AIDS but had a negative viewpoint about the affected by it. The virus was discovered in the early 1980s, it is transmitted through blood and sexual fluids and the first affected populations were, inevitably, both the homosexual and drug addicted people. Because of the recent discovery and the induced panic among the general American population, the eighth AIDS conference, which was supposed to take place in Boston, was moved to Amsterdam. This is due to U.S. immigration restrictions for immigrants with AIDS and HIV. The virus was also declared the

African American writer, newspaper publisher, educator, lawyer, and abolitionist Mary Ann Shadd Cary, in her editorial, “Why Establish This Paper?” discusses the black society in America, then compares it to the opportunities for blacks found in Canada, and implores that they travel there where they can find equality. Shadd Cary’s purpose is to convince her fellow blacks of the necessity of her newspaper, Provincial Freeman, because of the injustices committed against blacks in America. She adopts a respectful and educated tone in order to rhetorically othermother her audience of freed slaves (black elites), and fugitive slaves living in Canada.

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.

To depict Hester Prynne’s inner turmoil, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses many different types of rhetorical devices, such as pathos, simile, and metaphor. He also uses an abundance amount of syntax, irony and tone. Hawthorne uses metaphors and similes often in chapter five, to exaggerate Hester’s chaos inside. The arrangement of words and phrases Hawthorne uses makes the reader think and try to understand Hester’s tension.

This displays that her being ostracized has forced her to change her views on society and realize not everyone is as nice as they appear. Later on in Mary’s life, her aunt says to Dunny: “Now she remembers so little, and it’s better so, because when she does remember she thinks of Paul” (Davies, 129). This proves that she has continuously been ignoring and forgetting about society for a couple of years. She has isolated herself to avoid conflict and hatred. This alienation Mary has experienced has changed her perception of

The most effective (and the cheapest) are her repeated mentions of children. She reminds the audience that, despite the perception of AIDS as only affecting gay men and drug users, women and children are being infected increasingly quickly. Fisher also delivers a particularly masterful and wonderfully uninspired paragraph to her children about dying at the end of her speech. We the listeners know that said children had an average age of three at the time, and thus this statement really was not for them at all. It hit its true audience hard and made for an excellent closing remark. In a slightly less cheap statement, she had also urged those affected by AIDS not to feel shame, because the fault does not lie with them, only with those who blame victims to make themselves feel

The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic in America was a huge crisis during the 1900s. Not knowing the true nature of AIDS, the society and policy makers simply alienated Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) positive population. The stigma of AIDS exacerbated existing problems of prejudice and social inequity. However, Mary Fisher’s inspiring speech cleverly titled, “A Whisper of AIDS,” effectively promoted awareness of HIV and AIDS throughout the United States, and brought a change to a public policy on AIDS related issues. Her speech demonstrates the role of activist in shaping public policy in 1900s.

In D.H. Lawrence’s critical essay, “On the Scarlet Letter”, Lawrence mocks Hester Prynne for being a lustful sinner who commits adultery with Reverend Dimmesdale in Nathaniel Hawthorne's revered novel, The Scarlet Letter. Lawrence uses repetition, a caustic tone, and biblical allusions in order to show how impure Hester Prynne truly is.

Annually, the Saint Francis community comes together at the Holy Cross Theme Day assembly to celebrate the new BRIC theme. This year it is all about awakening authenticity. Bric Brothers and Eric Mansur (‘18) first energized the crowd with “Spes Unica” and “Go Lancers” cheers. An inspirational speech presented by Olivia Ward (‘20) then followed. She revealed how her older brother had courageously broken away from the conventional norm of attending college and instead followed his heart to pursue a service project. She viewed her sibling’s choice as motivation to find her authentic self and forge her own path, even if it meant going against the current. Olivia explained that the “correct” course of life varies from person to person, and concludes

In order to ensure her speech resonated in the mind of leaders from around the world, Clinton at times uses and authoritative and urgent tone, while also utilizing techniques such as repetition. At one point in her speech, Clinton’s tone shifted as she became extremely passionate. She cried, “the history of women has been a history of silence. Even today, there are those who are trying to silence our words. But the voices of this conference and of the women at Huairou must be heard loudly and clearly: It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls. It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution for human greed -- and

This quote shows that since Mary has to previously rehearse what she is gonna say, she doesn’t have the normal cognitive and communication skills as others would.

Michelle Obama had an automatic appeal to ethos simply because of her identity. At the time of this speech she was the First Lady of the

The truth is racism has played a role in her failing. As a young child, she saw a figure, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who she respected and adored killed, and not much happened after that other the anger she saw on the streets. What did that teach her, as a child, that people who look like her don’t matter? That she should be afraid of the people who looked like her who were rioting on the streets? As she grew up, Mary set goals for herself, she wanted to complete college with her bachelor's degree.

Clinton displays her knowledge of the issue; she is rallying for throughout the speech. She well establishes her credibility by the intelligent tone of the speech. Clinton makes it clear that she is hands on with the cause, for example, “Earlier today, I participated in a World Health Organization forum. In that forum, we talked about ways that government officials, NGOs, and individual citizens are working to address the health problems of women and girls” (Clinton). She is conveying in this statement, that she not only encourages others, but she is also a soldier in the fight herself. Clinton makes it understood that she is not new to the topic when she states “over the past 25 years, I have worked

While the speech started out with harassing comments, it later went towards the topic of rape, domestic violence, revenge porn, and many other appalling issues. From there the speech transformed into feminism and inspiration. The message of this speech is to stick up for other women. By sticking up for women being harassed, we are helping to end gender violence. Towards the end of Judd’s speech she said two sentences that stuck with me. When talking about how women who are victims of sexual harassment can be helped, Judd said the most important thing is to”... lastly, believe her. Believe her”