Justin Tucker
English 1310-SEC 049
Essay#1 Hillary Clinton, Women’s Rights Are Human Rights
September 15
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights
Clinton uses the three key tools to a great speech, logos, ethos, and pathos. The speaker’s claim is that women rights are human rights.
In Clinton’s speech, the Kairos is rather implicit. The timeliness of the speech is very important in understanding the main idea of the essay. An example of the Kairos occurs here: “Tragically, women are most often the ones whose human rights are violated. Even in the late 20th century, the rape of women continues to be used as an instrument of armed conflict. Women and children make up a large majority of the world's …show more content…
I have met doctors and nurses in Belarus and Ukraine who are trying to keep children alive in the aftermath of Chernobyl. “Clinton applied problems resembling the Chernobyl to link to the right time and demonstrate the way women (of the region) are influenced or touched by the occurrences of the …show more content…
Clinton makes a reference to all women in our lives and she demonstrates the terrible experiences women experience (violence, rape, slavery of prostitution, murder and abortions). Clinton states 7 examples of the horrible experiences women have gone through, which all start with, “it is a violation of human rights…”. Clinton draws powerful images for the audience with the graphic and visual statements. The images play with the audience's emotions and persuade them to understand Clinton’s claim. The statements are directed at the claim because they show how women are not considered a part of the human rights. The speaker uses Anaphora for her 7 examples to increase the effectiveness and intensity of her statements, and the audience's emotional perception. Clinton wants to speak up for women who are fighting for a better environment, for women who are working all night to be able to spend the day with their families, but also for the women who do not have time to do everything expected of them. In the previous statement, the speaker again plays with the audience’s emotions, by showing them how powerful women can be and how much they accomplish for their families and society. The previous statement shows how many set expectations society has for women, with this argument Clinton uses logic to persuade her audience by leaving them with the rhetoric question of why women rights would not be