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    2017 Analysis Essay #3 United States social worker and reformer Florence Kelley, in her speech, explains the harsh working conditions of children under the age of 17. Kelley’s purpose is to convey the idea that, adjusting voting laws and contributing to diminishing child labor will help make the nation better. She adopts an accusatory tone in order to convince the people of the United States that child labor laws must be changed. Kelley begins with forceful emotional appealing to the guilt of…

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    political reformer, Florence Kelley, avidly fought for child labor and woman suffrage. Kelley delivered a speech regarding child labor before the Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia on July 22, 1905. Kelley asserts that child labor is inhumane and morally wrong. Kelley supports this claim by appealing to her audience through the use of statistics and logic. As well, as eliciting strong and overwhelming emotions from her given audience. Kelley…

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    Florence Kelly (1859-1932) was a United States social worker and reformer who fought for child labor laws and improved conditions for working women. In the speech that she delivers at the convention for the NAWA, she is able to use rhetorical devices (repetition and diction) to build powerful rhetorical strategies (persuading and guilt). With the mentioned strategies, Kelley is able to guilt and persuades her audience into believing child labor is a abomination, thus making them take action (to…

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    people are sleeping? Do you approve or disapprove of child labor? Florence Kelley was a United States social worker and reformer who fought successfully for child labor laws and improved conditions for working women. She uses rhetorical strategies or devices to express her message about child labor to her audience. The rhetorical strategies or devices she used were: inclusive language, emotional language, and sarcasm. Kelley uses inclusive language in her speech. Her use of inclusive…

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    A safer workplace environment Florence Kelley is one of the leading advocates for children. Kelley declared that Americans must rally to protect “a right to childhood.” In 1893, Kelley persuaded the Illinois legislature to outlaw child labor and limit working hours for women, and she became head of the National Consumers’ League, which prepared consumer pressure for improved factory conditions. The workplace safety rely on expert research. The bacteriologist Alice Hamilton, a pioneer in the…

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    Civil right’s movements often cause a variety of strong and influential leaders to come to light. Florence Kelley was a strong and influential leader during the Women’s Civil Rights movement; she spoke at the National American Women’s Suffrage Association in 1905 to persuade in favor of change for the greater and common good. In her speech, Kelley utilizes pathos, anaphora, and connotative diction to convey her claim that the injustices of child labor can be reformed by women attaining political…

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    Florence Kelley delivered a moving speech about child labor laws to the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association on July 22 of the year 1905. Her speech was well accepted in the association, but it wasn’t just because she jotted down a quick speech in her free time. Florence Kelley used very specific principles of rhetoric in her speech. She knew her audience, and knew what to say to persuade them. Logos, ethos, and pathos are all present in the speech, and that is why it was successful.…

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    childhood, and interferes with their education. Child work, on the other hand, is when a child is working under safe and legal conditions. Florence Kelley uses logos and pathos to elucidate her point on why child labors conditions were so horrendous. Child labor was an immense problem in the world, due to the fact that it puts children in danger. Florence Kelly explains how children six and seven are years of age are working in the cotton mills, and eight nine and ten in the coal breakers.…

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    Florence Kelley: Rhetorical Analysis Essay In the 20th century many woman and little girls were forced to work in horrendous conditions. Florence Kelley, a social worker and reformer has expressed her disappointment through a speech she delivered in 1905 and passionately and successfully fought against the labor policies and work conditions through out the nation. In her speech at the National American Woman Suffrage Association Kelly argues that child labor laws should be changed and work…

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    Florence Kelley, a social worker and activist, found an unusual audience for her speech on child labor reforms. After all, the primary goal of the National American Woman Suffrage Association was to extend the right to vote to American women, not to reform factories. Yet, Kelley effectively persuaded the convention that both males and females should politically participate to the fullest extent of their ability to free the children from harsh factory work. Kelley appealed to her audience both…

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