Bias, Rhetorical Devices, and Argumentation
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “Remarks to the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women Plenary Session” (1995)
The speech that was given by former first lady Mrs. Hilary Clinton is basically about the empowerment of woman. Mrs. Clinton’s speech was intended to “bring new dignity and respect to women and girls all over the world”. I guess the most obvious bias is that Mrs. Clinton is a woman; therefore of course she would want more empowerment for her own gender. She can relate to woman because she is one, therefore it makes sense why she would want to fight for our rights. I want to say that one fallacy that Mrs. Clinton may have used is apple polishing. The reason that I say this is because since this is a woman’s conference she mentioned that if we women are healthy and educated our families will flourish. As a woman listening to her say that I automatically feel invested in her speech. I agree with this because us woman are normally the back bone of the family, often putting ourselves last for the good of the ones that we love. The audience must have agreed as well and felt empowered also because they clapped when she was finished with that paragraph. I’m not 100% sure but I want to say that in that same paragraph she also used slippery slope. She mentioned that if woman are free from violence and have equal opportunities, this will cause a chain of events that leads to the rest of the nation flourishing as well because of this. One rhetorical device that Mrs. Clinton used was when she used a metaphor, “These abuses have continued because, for too long, the history of women has been a history of silence”. She is comparing how our history as woman has been a history of other people trying to silence the words of woman. Mrs. Clinton’s main argument is how we need to focus the world’s attention on bringing dignity to woman and respect. She backs up her reasoning by mentioning the different ways that doing this can help the rest of the world. I think Mrs. Clinton backs up
The speech that was given by former first lady Mrs. Hilary Clinton is basically about the empowerment of woman. Mrs. Clinton’s speech was intended to “bring new dignity and respect to women and girls all over the world”. I guess the most obvious bias is that Mrs. Clinton is a woman; therefore of course she would want more empowerment for her own gender. She can relate to woman because she is one, therefore it makes sense why she would want to fight for our rights. I want to say that one fallacy that Mrs. Clinton may have used is apple polishing. The reason that I say this is because since this is a woman’s conference she mentioned that if we women are healthy and educated our families will flourish. As a woman listening to her say that I automatically feel invested in her speech. I agree with this because us woman are normally the back bone of the family, often putting ourselves last for the good of the ones that we love. The audience must have agreed as well and felt empowered also because they clapped when she was finished with that paragraph. I’m not 100% sure but I want to say that in that same paragraph she also used slippery slope. She mentioned that if woman are free from violence and have equal opportunities, this will cause a chain of events that leads to the rest of the nation flourishing as well because of this. One rhetorical device that Mrs. Clinton used was when she used a metaphor, “These abuses have continued because, for too long, the history of women has been a history of silence”. She is comparing how our history as woman has been a history of other people trying to silence the words of woman. Mrs. Clinton’s main argument is how we need to focus the world’s attention on bringing dignity to woman and respect. She backs up her reasoning by mentioning the different ways that doing this can help the rest of the world. I think Mrs. Clinton backs up