Florence Kelley

According to Florence Kelley´s speech, she gives her view on how child labor should be restricted. To convey her message to the audience, Kelley uses factual information, establishes credibility, and evokes emotions. Kelley wants to elaborate her views on child labor and how wrong it is. One way Kelley explain her view is by using factual information, specifically, statistics. ¨We have in this country, two million children under the age of sixteen years who are earning their bread. They vary in…

In her speech, Florence Kelley advocates for children's rights (in the working field). She believes that children should not be forced to work for extended hours in factories. To convey this argument, she uses appeals to emotion, repetition, and rhetorical questions. Kelley uses appeals to emotion to emphasize the seriousness regarding child labor. She does this by describing the intense labor children go through. For instance, she puts emphasis on the phrases “little girls” “all night…

In the speech, Florence Kelley uses rhetorical strategies such as imagery, appeal to pathos, and appeal to logos to convey to her audience that child labor is pitiful, unfair, and hard on kids. Kelley uses imagery to paint the disaster that is child labor. She starts off with, “Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills, all the night through…” When reading this, it is quote conveys how unfair it is for these young girls who work for us while we do…

Florence Kelley, a social worker and reformer, presented a speech about child labor, she argues that women should be able to vote to stop the harm done to children from working. Kelley uses connotations, imagery, passionate tone, personification and emotional appeal to convince the National American Woman Suffrage Association as well as feel guilty and to be sympathetic to fight for the right to vote so they can abolish child labor. Kelley argues that the states that have age limits to prevent…

Brimmer 1 Paige Brimmer Mrs. King AP English 22 August 2015 United States social worker and reformer, Florence Kelley, in her speech at the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia on July 22nd, 1905, illuminates her views on women and children’s rights. Kelly’s purpose is to enlighten the audience of the lack of rights present for these members of society. Kelly intentionally uses syntax, diction, and imagery to motivate the audience to alleviate these citizens. Kelly…

Florence Kelly, a passionate social worker and reformer, was an avid fighter for the improvement of child labor laws and women's working conditions. At the Convention of the National American Women Suffrage Association on July 22, 1905, she gave a powerful speech to her audience to reveal why child labor should be nonexistent. In this speech, Kelly uses her ability to invoke sadness and guilt, speaks as one of the privileged people compared to the working children, and gives solutions to the…

spend your 14th birthday? Imagine instead waking up extremely early to work in a factory that is very dangerous. That is how many young kids spent countless birthdays, and agonized mothers had finally had enough. United States social worker, Florence Kelley, in her speech she delivered at the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, highlights the fact that the laws and regulations in our country need to be modified. Kelley’s purpose was to expose the unruly laws and…

Florence Kelley, a chief inspector of factories for Illinois, advocated Women and Children’s rights. Not only did Florence Kelly help win passage of the Illinois Factory Act in 1893, which persuaded the court to limit work hours, but she prohibited child labor and limited women’s working hours in the United States. For the most part, Kelley argued to the court because she cared about children and women. Prohibition, a banning of alcoholic beverages, involved Prohibitionist groups who feared the…

Among all my essays that exhibited varying degrees of success from effectively investigating Pudd'nhead Wilson to neglecting half the prompt, my greatest essay analyzed Florence Kelley's rhetorical strategies in her speech denouncing child labour. Opening with historical background on the necessity for a workforce in the early twentieth century, the introductory paragraph investigated the era's controversy regarding child labour and Kelley's position on the topic, citing Kelley's "ardent and…

The Suffragette Struggle In her 1905 speech before the National American Woman Suffrage Association, social worker Florence Kelley fought for the abolishment of unfair child labor policies with the help of voters and petitions. In this fight, she depicts the horrible state of child labor throughout America, contrasting the “little white girls … of six or seven years” (29-33) from the women privileged enough to be in her audience, and speaks in both questions and exclamations, empowering her…