Ethical Appeal In Elizabeth Glaser's Speech

The 1992 Democratic National Convention Address speech talks about how America needs to start doing something to help people with HIV. Elizabeth Glaser uses emotional appeal in her speech. She talks about how her daughter died from HIV and she says that her and her son might not be able to survive 4 years. She also uses logical appeal because she states facts about America and AIDS. When she says “ America, wake up! We are all in a struggle of life and death” she used ethical appeal. She is saying that not only people with with the sickness need to worry about HIV, but everyone does because it could spread to others. Because she used the three major appeals it made the speech very effective to the people in the crowd. When giving the speech Elizabeth had to keep in mind that she needed to persuade citizens to start caring and to start helping out people with HIV. Elizabeth’s biggest intent for the speech was to get people to stand up for adults and for kids with AIDS.
In 1981 Elizabeth Glaser received HIV during a blood transfusion, while she was having her daughter Ariel. Unfortunately, Elizabeth had then passed the virus to Ariel through her breast milk. Later, she gave birth to her son Jake, she then …show more content…
Elizabeth said “ four years ago my daughter died of aids. She did not survive the Reagan Administration.” That quote got the crowd's attention and made them want to listen to what she was saying. She also used parallelism to emphasize an important part of the speech. At the end of the speech she talks about how her daughter only lived 7 years but she was very intelligent and taught her a lot about life. Elizabeth repeated “she taught me” at the beginning of 3 sentences to get the audience to pay attention to what she was saying. When she repeated those words it made people realize that there needs to be more done for HIV, or adult and kids, like her daughter, are going to keep dying from the serious