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Creating Change Speech Analysis
Imagine yourself waking up every morning and realizing that you have to literally avoid death from the moment you wake up till the time you are supposedly safe at home. Imagine that you’re told by many people, who you love, that you’re a sin and that you will burn in hell. Imagine that everyday the people you thought cared for you turn you away and threaten you if you don't change, for some people that is something they can never even begin to understand, but now imagine it happening to someone for their entire life. Laverne Cox, a transgender woman and actress, gives a powerful speech during ‘Creating Change 2014’ (an organization that brings awareness to the LGBT community) she talks about the violent injustices and police discrimination against the lives of transgender women of color as a way to spread awareness of the inequalities of transgender within the LGBT community to those who feel the T in LGBT isn't as important. Throughout her speech she appeals to the viewer's empathy to those in pain through personal anecdotes and asyndeton sentences. Within her speech Cox talks about all of the present attacks targeted towards transgender women of color and when talking about …show more content…
Her beginning statement in regards to this incident was “Some days, I wake up and I have heard about another one of my transgender sisters who has been assaulted, raped, murdered.” and then proceeded to go in depth about Cece’s case. Cox uses the experience of this woman to create an emotional connection to the viewers since the natural human reaction to pain and torment is
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