Summary Of Robert Fischell Speech

In the speech, “Perils of Indifference,” Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, conveys his message that indifference entices inhumanity as a lack of acknowledgement to a person’s suffering is advantageous to an assailant and “elicits no response” (3). Therefore, the individual with a sense of indifference is a determining factor in others’ distress because without their involvement, the victim will never be assisted. Sentiments of anger and hatred possess the ability to endorse positive conclusions; however, “indifference is never creative” because of the absence of participation (3). Wiesel develops his claim by providing a series of background information to display credibility, personal experiences to amplify the emotions of the audience,

Racism has always been a major problem in America. However, it was known to be the most problematic in the late 1950s. On August 28 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his infamous speech “I Have a Dream” to America. His dream highlighted the injustices of segregation and discrimination of African Americans that took place in this nation every single day. Dr. King inspired thousands despite the color of their skin, to take a stance against racism, with his powerful way with words. In his speech MLK efficaciously uses, Ethos, Pathos, and Logos by using allusions, developing credibility, in his speech to persuade all Americans to be aware of the problems with racism.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American Leader During the Civil Rights Movement. Mr.King was also a pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. He was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at the age of 39. He had 4 kids and a wife named Coretta Scott King. King was most important during the Civil Rights Movement. He was a very effective Civil Rights leader. He has many many speeches during his lifetime. His last words in public were I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!"

Elie Wiesel, addressing the President of the United States, the First Lady of the United States, and many other people who hold power within the country in his speech “The Perils of Indifference” uses rhetorical strategies such as asyndeton, imagery, and rhetorical questions to prove his point that indifference is a dangerous force that is unknowingly hurting the world.

“Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end.” (American Rhetoric). This is a sentiment that Elie Wiesel pushes throughout his speech, The Perils of Indifference. Elie Wiesel was a Romanian born, Jewish writer, and was a survivor of the holocaust (Berger). In his speech, The Perils of Indifference, he discusses how indifference has hurt him, and everyone throughout the world. In this speech Wiesel uses appeals to pathos to make his argument effective. Examples are scattered across the speech to make it more appealing, and provide real world context for what he is arguing about. The last of the rhetorical choices the speaker makes is definition, in this speech Wiesel defines indifference, and uses this definition to prove why indifference hurts people. In Elie Wiesel’s speech, The Perils of Indifference, he argues that indifference hurts people, and his argument is effective by using various rhetorical choices.

On April 12, 1999, Elie Wiesel, a prominent figure and Holocaust survivor, voiced his empowered speech “The Perils of Indifference” in the East Room of the White House which was hosted by President Bill Clinton and wife, Hillary Clinton. The speech was a direct call-to-action reaching out to society for a change. This change that he desperately pleaded for warranted a need of our society to help aid assistance to those they have ignored in the past. Throughout the course of Wiesel’s speech, he managed to employ Aristotle’s means of persuasion with an ease capable of jarring his audience to want to stop such indifferences from ensuing, so that future generations could have renewed sense of hope and promise. Pathos reigned heavily in his speech through his many, notable experiences and rhetorical questions. The majority of Wiesel’s speech focused on appeals to pathos, logos, and ethos which were used to attract the audiences’ attention as well as to develop their understanding of the problem. Through these measures, Wiesel’s main goal was to persuade them to take action against indifference which he successfully achieved. Wiesel was able to use his painful memories of the torture from the Holocaust to express what he noted as “perils of indifference” and ultimately how it can lead future generations to learn from history’s mistakes.

The Civil War was a time in the United States where everyone was extremely divided. At this time, abolitionists throughout the divided United States attempt to influence people with different views. But yet, almost always, people remain loyal to their views. Wendell Phillips, one of the white abolitionists during the Civil War, delivers a speech about how Toussaint-Louverture, a former slave who leads the struggle and liberates other people who are enslaved in Haiti, is a better man than many other people in history. Phillips claims that Toussaint-Louverture is better than Washington and Cromwell and continues to speak about how people only dislike him due to his race. Phillips references famous historical figures and time, personification, varied syntax and formal diction throughout his speech to argue Toussaint-Louverture should be regarded with the same respect as military leaders such as George Washington.

A wise, Ethiopian Ruler by the name of Haile Selassie once said that “throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph” Throughout millennia, despite many differences in language, cultural, and social structures, humans all developed the same characteristics like, for one; their approach in tragedies happening around the world. When responding to tragedies, humans can either be aghast, furious, and eager to do whatever they can to help or they can be in support of the people who caused the tragedy. However, there is one response that is arguably worse

1.If you were stripped of your freedom and individuality to be held in a camp waiting to die would you feel indifferent. Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and Boston University Professor, presented a speech as part of the Millennium Lecture Series at the White House on April 12, 1999 2.(Wiesel 221). President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton hosted the formal event. Numerous government officials from a wide order of public, private and foreign office attended the event 2.(Wiesel 221). Although Elie Wiesel designed his speech to persuade, it actually felt somewhat outside from its original intended purpose, as being more different.

The article from the FTR documents that stood out to me the most was an excerpt of a speech by Robert H. Clancy, a Republican congressman from Detroit with a large immigrant constituency, in which he defended the “Americanism” of Jewish, Italian, and Polish immigrants and attacked the quota provisions of the bill as racially discriminatory and “un-American.” This speech was made after the WWI economic recession associated with labor unrest and in response to the Immigration Act of 1924. The Immigration Act was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, according to the Census of 1890. The law was primarily aimed at further restricting immigration of Southern Europeans and Eastern Europeans, but illustrated how white Americans reject anyone who doesn’t fit their ideal white educated mold.

Eliezer Wiesel stresses the fact that, “Action is the only remedy to indifference: the most insidious danger of all” (Reilly). As a young boy who went through the most horrific of experiences, Wiesel, in his speech The Perils of Indifference, discusses how the events of his past pale in comparison to a major issue taking hold in not only the United States, but also the world: indifference, because while others suffered, the rest stayed stagnant, and that, to him, showcased a pressing problem. Therefore, he determined the ultimate solution: remember the past and learn from it.

The central idea of Elie Wiesel’s speech in Buchenwald was that the world must learn from its mistakes and remember what it has done. He leaves us many clues in the passage to show that the world did not learn from the Holocaust. First of all, Wiesel said that when he was liberated, he was convinced that there will be no war. At the time, he was convinced that bigotry, racism, and the will to conquer would never appear in the future. Wiesel remembered, “When I was liberated in 1945... many of us were convinced that at least one lesson will have been learned -- that never again will there be war; that hatred is not an option.” Secondly, Wiesel also expressed how (if the world had learned from its mistakes) many post-Holocaust genocides (the

In class we were shown a recording of the speech, “A call to men”. The first thing I noticed was the title, which made me immediately assume it was going to be a female speaker that was going to speak about feminism; or something along those lines. To see a man giving the speech grabbed my attention instantly. The man giving the speech was Tony Porter, and his audience was mostly women, who made me think, “Is this guy going to be giving a speech about feminism?” While listening to his speech I felt guilty for being quick to judge, because his speech was actually about growing up as a male, and being masculine is today’s society. While Tony Porter was giving his speech, he brought up stories that without a doubt every guy in our class could relate to that left many of us saying, “Wow”.

Thesis statement: In today’s world, as technology is advancing around us, some of the major effects that can be seen are medical technology advances, ease of communication with the growing technology, and the negative effects on our body.

Before he starts the speech on his dream he does an intro on his and