Mary Fischer-The Fight Against Aids

The Fight Against Aids It was August 19 when the famous Mary Fischer gave her historic Whisper of the Aids Speech. She gave it at the Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas. At the time back then speeches were not usually given but she took the chance. When she first started speaking nobody was listening to her but as she kept on speaking. She stilled the noisy crowd and everyone had her undivided attention. In my source, Defined by words not a disease, Shaw wrote that “TWENTY years ago this month, Mary Fisher took the stage of the Republican National Convention at the Houston Astrodome and delivered a 13-minute prime-time speech that was seen by many as a sharp rebuke of her party’s negligence in the face of the growing AIDS epidemic.” Mary Fischer was …show more content…
While fighting off potentially lethal infections and the side effects of medications, she has raised two H.I.V.-negative sons as a single mother; their father, whom she divorced in 1990 before he tested positive for H.I.V., died in 1993. So many people around the globe are not only inspired by Mary Fischer but just so thankful for her and her speeches that she delivered to everyone who is or was living with hiv and or aids. In my article rhetorical analysis of whisper of aids speech says “While her own position and representation of the issue produced concrete ethos, the frightening statistics surrounding the HIV virus created the essential component of logos necessary to convince the audience of the urgency and ominous nature of her exigence. She logically presented her statistics, alarming listeners with numbers and projected numbers of HIV victims. ” her ideas have been used around the world to everyone who would listen. Many people are believing that she is an angel sent from heaven because just her words alone has saved their life. The article also says “Fisher pulled hardest on the