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    “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” Madeleine Albright is a Czech immigrant, a passionate Democrat, a feminist, and a professor. Madeleine Albright was the first woman to become the United States Secretary of State, and she has paved the way for many women in the career path of politics. She has promoted women’s empowerment, and she has never strayed from her own beliefs to please the men around her. She is a proud woman and a brilliant

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    “I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success, but because the act of striving is itself the only way to keep faith with life.” This is a quote said by Madeline Albright, an American politician and diplomat. What Madeleine Albright means is that when you strive, you are not only have a chance of success, but you are giving faith and other good qualities to your surroundings. This is a lesson that Santiago learns throughout his whole journey. In the novel, The Alchemist

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    In 1997, Madeleine Albright, the then United States Secretary of State, gave a speech to the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College, which is a college for women in Massachusetts. She uses cause and effect, illustration and process analysis to help motivate these women to make a change for the women who couldn't. Albright starts off her speech explaining how America had to choose to betray the lessons of history or to seize the opportunity to shape history. Albright uses cause and effect in her

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    1997, United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave a commencement speech to the graduating class of Mount Holyoke, California, a female college. Albright's commencement speech uses morals, emotions, and metaphor; Furthermore, Albright uses cause and effect to encourage as well as to inspire the graduating class. Albright uses the moral standards they received when accepting to go to and study at the college. At the beginning of the speech, Albright states how the students must choose between

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    Madeleine Albright is an American politician diplomat who was the first woman to have become the secretary of state. Madeleine was in office from 1997 to 2001. While she was in office, she was faced with the challenges of the Arab Israeli Conflict. The conflict has been happening since 1939 and is still a major conflict today. This conflict refers to the tension between a number of Arab countries and Israel. Madeleine Albright affected the Israeli-Arab conflict in many ways by, bringing up the need

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    Isabella Felix Stele AP Lang 03/15/24. Madeleine Albright delivered a commencement speech to a graduating class at an all-girl university in Massachusetts called Mount Holyoke College to inspire and motivate these young women to continue to push forward which shows them they as women can accomplish many achievements in their lives. In this commencement speech, Albright uses induction, compare and contrast, example, and process analysis to explain to the audience how to continue on in life with hope

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    Albright’s Speech In the twentieth century, Madeleine Albright, the United States Secretary of State, delivers a speech to Mount Holyoke College’s graduates. In this speech, Albright uses the rhetorical strategies of allusions, relating to the women’s life experience, repetition of a phrase, and description of a positive future to inspire, equip, and send the graduates into a life after school with greatness in mind. It can first be seen that Albright employs allusions to history in her speech. Line

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    Conflict Prevention”, and former Secretary of State Madeline Albright in her text “Faith and Diplomacy”. In both texts the authors stem off

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    United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave the commencement speech to the graduating class of 1997 at Mount Holyoke College. Being an all women's college, Albright uses figurative language, emotional appeal, and repetition to convey her empowerment towards women around the world. Albright uses figurative language in lines 37-39 by saying, "We could now lower our voices and, as some suggest, sit sedately down." This metaphor is used to help her audience of graduates ponder the social

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    hand there is Madeleine Albright, the first woman to be appointed United States Secretary of State. She was born in Prague in 1937. Albright and her family Fled Czechoslovakia once it was invaded by the Nazis. They went to settle in England and stayed there during the war. They came back after the war, but had to flee again when the communists took power. Her family established themselves in Colorado, where her father “worked as both a journalist and a diplomat” (“Madeleine…” 1). Albright grew up learning

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