In the article” Why Women Don’t Speak Out.”, Liane Tessier gives her own interpretations. She begins by explaining the reasons why woman remain silence when they facing sexual harassment and discrimination. Then, Liane continues on to describe the circumstances when she try to speak out based on her own experience. At the end of paper, she offers some suggestion for the employers and unions, and emphasizes the importance of speak out. Most of rhetorical elements Liane used are effective. Because the essay is successful reached the target audience with the excellent exigence, her use of pathos is effectively throughout most of essay, though in some places her pathos is weak. The author has four target audiences. The article was published
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She appeals a large amount of emotion to describe the pain she was suffering and the difficulty for woman to speak out based on her own story when she try to stand out. She start to speak out at 2005. The result is she was being labelled as the “crazy” woman. At 2007, she was being bullied again. After the incident, she feel “uncomfortable and upset.”. Then, her co-worker spread rumour about her, she was “horrified and angry”. Meantime, the union think she took part of responsibility for the incident, she was “furious”. The word she use for emotion is upgrading. Finally, she decided to make a formal complaint with the union. But it did not stop the harassment. It happened again, and she still cannot get the justice that she deserve. Eventually, in 2013, she bring her complaint to the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission. The local newspaper cover it, she got lots of disagreed and unsupported comment. She was “devastated and nearly gave up the fight”. After 5 years fighting, she won the right to a new investigation. Even though Liane is skilled in pathos, her use of pathos seems still a bit of weak since her ethos is weak too. The writer is a firefighter and have been a lot of occupations, her own experience has it meaning but cannot represent all the other woman. Her voice will be much strong and powerful if she has a strong ethos herself or
She appeals a large amount of emotion to describe the pain she was suffering and the difficulty for woman to speak out based on her own story when she try to stand out. She start to speak out at 2005. The result is she was being labelled as the “crazy” woman. At 2007, she was being bullied again. After the incident, she feel “uncomfortable and upset.”. Then, her co-worker spread rumour about her, she was “horrified and angry”. Meantime, the union think she took part of responsibility for the incident, she was “furious”. The word she use for emotion is upgrading. Finally, she decided to make a formal complaint with the union. But it did not stop the harassment. It happened again, and she still cannot get the justice that she deserve. Eventually, in 2013, she bring her complaint to the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission. The local newspaper cover it, she got lots of disagreed and unsupported comment. She was “devastated and nearly gave up the fight”. After 5 years fighting, she won the right to a new investigation. Even though Liane is skilled in pathos, her use of pathos seems still a bit of weak since her ethos is weak too. The writer is a firefighter and have been a lot of occupations, her own experience has it meaning but cannot represent all the other woman. Her voice will be much strong and powerful if she has a strong ethos herself or