16-year old Malala Yousafzai gave the speech given at the United Nations regarding education for girls in Pakistan. Yousafzai is an activist who promotes education for girls in Pakistan. Malala plays an essential role in the insurrection against the Taliban regime in multiple Middle-East countries, but primarily Pakistan, when it comes to educational rights for children. Her actions became internationally known after the Taliban shot her in the head.
Malala Yousafzai is not just an average 16-year old Pakistani girl. She is a Women’s Right and Education activist who believes in the best of humanity, who believes in equality, opportunity and education for children. These beliefs are also mirrored in her speech: “I speak - not for myself, but …show more content…
This, as well as her first-hand experience with the Taliban, is how she uses the ethos-appeal. Her respectability and being an activist who’s faced the enemy makes her a reliable, trustworthy speaker. In her speech, Malala also uses feelings as a form of appeal. This is seen in paragraph one where she continuously says thank you, as well as when she speaks of her incident: “…the Taliban shot me on the left side of my forehead. They shot my friends too. They thought that the bullets would silence us. But they …show more content…
In her speech, Malala uses many repetitions of words and phrases, such as “thank [you]” when talking about the support she’s received, “dear [brothers and sisters]” when addressing her target audience, “their right” as well as “we must” when talking about the hopes for the people she wishes to help. Likewise, she also uses many oppositions, for instance: “Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.” She generally uses oppositions in coherence with biased words, to put distance between the violent measures of the Taliban and her righteous ways. She uses negative loaded words when speaking about the Taliban - “wars” , “killed” and “misusing” - and positive biased words when speaking of her cause, “power” , “strength” and “peace”
Malala Yousafzai is not just an average 16-year old Pakistani girl. She is a Women’s Right and Education activist who believes in the best of humanity, who believes in equality, opportunity and education for children. These beliefs are also mirrored in her speech: “I speak - not for myself, but …show more content…
This, as well as her first-hand experience with the Taliban, is how she uses the ethos-appeal. Her respectability and being an activist who’s faced the enemy makes her a reliable, trustworthy speaker. In her speech, Malala also uses feelings as a form of appeal. This is seen in paragraph one where she continuously says thank you, as well as when she speaks of her incident: “…the Taliban shot me on the left side of my forehead. They shot my friends too. They thought that the bullets would silence us. But they …show more content…
In her speech, Malala uses many repetitions of words and phrases, such as “thank [you]” when talking about the support she’s received, “dear [brothers and sisters]” when addressing her target audience, “their right” as well as “we must” when talking about the hopes for the people she wishes to help. Likewise, she also uses many oppositions, for instance: “Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.” She generally uses oppositions in coherence with biased words, to put distance between the violent measures of the Taliban and her righteous ways. She uses negative loaded words when speaking about the Taliban - “wars” , “killed” and “misusing” - and positive biased words when speaking of her cause, “power” , “strength” and “peace”