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Paper Abstract: Purposes & techniques , rhetoric & effectiveness of speech by Hillkary Rodham Clinton to people in power, & by actor Charles Chaplin in the film "The Great Dictator" aimed to spur people into action. Paper Introduction: HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON SPEECH TO SPOUSES OF LEADERS SETTING Women in positions of leadership traditionally have been treated as aberrations, and their accomplishments have been portrayed as less important than the sweep of male-dominated history. This attitude is not something that was once prevalent in our past and that is now no more than a relic, and the treatment of Hillary Rodham Clinton by the press (and by various Republican leaders and commentators in particular) shows this clearly. A woman is still seen as an adjunct to her husband, and for the wife of the president this seems to mean to some people that she should confine herself to giving teas and to standing beside the president at official functions. However, she is the wife of the President of the United States and Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. Milton, J. There was considerable oppositionto the making of the film from crypto-Nazis, isolationists, and the studio,which feared financial losses. Parallel construction is used again in the next three paragraphs,each of which means "Too many women" and then raises issues concerning theplight of women in the world today, that women live in fear of violence,that they tend to be poor and less educated and so unaware of their legalrights in the workplace, and that they and their children are trapped in anendless cycle of poverty. After graduation, they brieflyseparated when he returned to Arkansas to teach and run for Congress whileshe went to Cambridge, Massachusetts to begin working with the Children'sDefense Fund (of which she is now chairwoman of the board). Osborn, M. His speech thus begins as a simpleanswer to a question and becomes more impassioned and more broadly based,for he extends his plea to all the world and its people.BODY Aristotle discusses the ability to be in command of the elements ofspeech and says that this requires certain capabilities: 1) to reason logically; 2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms;and 3) to understand the emotions.Aristotle says of his subject: The duty of rhetoric is to deal wit such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument, or follow a long chain of reasoning (Aristotle, 199 , 155).The speech of the little man in this film reasons logically, shows anunderstanding of human character, and appeals to the emotions. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON SPEECH TO SPOUSES OF LEADERSSETTING Women in positions of leadership traditionally have been treated asaberrations, and their accomplishments have been portrayed as lessimportant than the sweep of male-dominated history. Having made this statement and extended it to everyone, heraises the issue that was paramount at that time--something has gone wrong. Yet, these millions are also little people just like he is,people who are despairing, suffering, and victims of torture andimprisonment. Thespeech by Hillary Rodham Clinton is directed at people already in power,people who need to be directed to programs through which they can do good,but people who do not want to hear how those in power are destroying theworld. That would be counter-productive, while the Chaplin speech usesjust that sort if rhetoric to spur the little people into action.Clinton's speech seems written more literarily, but interestingly, thelittle man's speech is more poetic as it reaches its call to arms. She offers a furthercall to arms as she notes that only women can make democracy work forthemselves and their families, and she describes other efforts she haswitnessed and calls once more for all women to work together. The world does not want to hate others and does not want to enjoy themisery of others, but some in the world do want that and are forcing therest of the world into something that has to be stopped. However, she is the wife of the President of theUnited States and deserves the respect accorded to that role. Hillary Rodham Clinton ends on a series of positive notes, first byreporting on various movements that would benefit women, children, andfamilies and then by citing the development of legal reforms and othermovements to benefit these same segments of society. Human beingsare like that." He then extends this idea by explaining it further in a series ofparallel constructions drawing the audience into his speech by using "we"for all that he says "we" want, prefer, would do, and enjoy. She took thename Clinton before the next election and he won. They are now described as "unnatural men" and as"machine men." These are men "with machine minds and machine hearts"--therepetition of "machine" sets the image in the minds of his listeners, andhe solidifies the idea and differentiates his listeners by stating, "Youare not machines. Hillary served onthe American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, a groupformed to examine problems faced by women lawyers (Chua-Eoan, 1993, 55). In the next paragraph, she continues speaking of theassembled group as "we" and suggests that this is a key moment in historyfor "we" to pursue these goals, with the primary reason for this being thespread of democracy. and Osborn, S. The final section of the speech is entirely inspirational, asking theaudience to look up and see the clouds lifting and the sun emerging on anew world. Clearly, this film was made as the war was moving across Europe butbefore America entered that war. That job ended in 1974, and she went to Arkansas to see if she likedsmall-town life. She further states that it is right that the conferenceis being held in Panama because Panama can be considered truly thecrossroads of the Americas, presumably because if its central positionbetween North and South America across Central America.BODY Hillary Rodham Clinton begins the main portion of her speech bydrawing her audience into what she has to say with the repeated use of theword "we," beginning with a reference to why "We have come together herefrom across our hemisphere." that reason is because of a hope that theycan build a better world together for women, children, and families, thecentral focus of her speech. Herspeech asks for assistance and change, and his virtually demands it afterproving to the audience that such change is needed. They datedfor some time after that as Hillary sought her law degree and pursued hergoal of joining a major big-city law firm. At the Seventh Conference of the Wives of Heads of State andGovernments of the Americans held in Panama City, Panama on October 1 ,1997, she gave a speech on the general subject of democracy and itsbenefits to the nations of the world and also on the issue of human rightsand how those are served by democracy such as she is promoting.INTRODUCTION Hillary Rodham Clinton begins her speech by acknowledgingspecifically Mrs. Perez Balladeres, wife of President Ernesto PerezBalladeres of Panama, and so the hostess of the conference, followed byreferences to the First Ladies assembled and all representatives of thenations of the Western Hemisphere. We all want to help one another. You are men." What this means isfurther explained with a biblical citation from the seventeenth chapter ofLuke--"the kingdom of God is within man"--which the little man furtherexplains as meaning "not one man, not a group of men--but in all men--inyou, the people." This phrase then becomes a repeated mantra in the last section, acall to arms as the little man exhorts his listeners by informing them oftheir power to create machines, to create happiness, to make life free andbeautiful. Hillary's speech waseffective in context but may have limited power over time, while the speechof the little man was effective in 194 --"the ticket-buying public, by andlarge, was content to take the speech at face value" (Milton, 1998, 381)--and remains effective to this day. Hillary Rodham Clinton next shifts her rhetorical emphasisto that word and repeats "empowerment" four times in the next paragraph,with a parallel construction--meaning "a repetition of the same initialwords in a sequence of phrases or sentences" (Osborn & Osborn, 1999, 328)--of three sentences beginning "'Empowerment' means" as she offers differentdefinitions extending the idea she is trying to get across to her audience,leading to her specific argument in the next paragraph that she is talkingabout empowering women. He hascriticized our growing reliance on machinery, and now he names specificmachines such as the aeroplane and the radio. He says that greed has poisoned our souls andbarricaded the world with hate, and he then states that greed "has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed," a clear reference to the Nazis ofthe time. In the next paragraph, he extends his criticism to many elements ofthe modern world that man has created to make life easier but that haveendangered the soul because man is not really in control. She was electedpresident of her high school class and earned many honors. Having set the nature of the problems facingwomen, she offers hope as she begins the next paragraph, "But let us notforget that we already know many of the solutions to these problems."Here, again, she draws the audience as a whole into her view of theproblems and the solutions, generating consensus by assuming that she hasconsensus. However, by the time Chaplin began making dialogue features with TheGreat Dictator and others, audiences were less receptive to the visualstyle he used. The essential meaning of the speech appears in the opening paragraphas the little man states that he does not want to rule or conquer anyone.Emperors and leaders like the dictator want to do that, but the common mannever wants such a thing: "I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew,gentile, black man, white. These things have brought uscloser together--again he links himself with his audience--but they havenot brought out the goodness in men that they should have. He mentions themachines, our body of knowledge, are intellect over our emotions, and heagain uses parallel constructions and repeated phrases to suggest that weneed "More than machinery" and "More than cleverness." The qualities thesethings replace are humanity, kindness, and gentleness, and "Without thesequalities, life will be violent and all will be lost." The little man goes then from the general to the particular. (1999). She and Clinton were married in 1975, at which time shekept her maiden name. Her speech is largely a feminist statement ofthe power of women to effect major political and social change. Chua-Eoan, H.G. In the first paragraph, she again implicates Panama with a referenceto the canal and how much more difficult the present task is than thatgreat achievement. You are not cattle. She states that she is honored to bepresent at the conference, the third one she has attended. How can thisbe accomplished? Only one sequence manages to dothis as the dictator plays with a globe of the world as if it were a toyballoon. Public speaking. She grew up in Park Ridge, a suburb ofChicago, where her father owned a textile company. SPEECH FROM CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S THE GREAT DICTATOR Charlie Chaplin was hailed as the leading comic actor of the silentera and was recognized around the world for his Tramp character. (1993, January 25). She graduated from Wellesley College and then wentto Yale Law School, which is where she first met Bill Clinton. She later wentto Washington to work on the Nixon impeachment inquiry. He thus uses color for "emotional intensity" and "vividness" (Osborn& Osborn, 1999, 332). Chaplin saw himself as a humanitarian anddid indeed capture the danger facing the Jews as no other filmmaker woulddo during the war. After all, there are always despots ofone stamp or another trying to dominate the people, who need to be remindedthat true political power emanates from them. He reminds his audience of what he is saying as he specificallylinks misery the consequence to greed the cause. Having excited this vision in his audience, he calls on them tounite to fight for a new world, explaining in short phrases what sort ofworld this will be, one "that will give men a chance to work, that willgive you the future and old age and security." These are the very thingsthe brutes promised to gain power and then denied the people, and thisknowledge should cause men to unite and fight back. References Aristotle (199 ) "From Rhetoric." In Patricia Bizzell and BruceHerzberg, The Rhetorical Tradition. She praisesPanama for being a friend to the United States and refers to the comingmillennium as one where these ties will only grow stronger, just as it hadduring the previous century when the Panama Canal brought the two countriescloser together. America was still gripped by isolationismand would be for at least another year. To answer this, he speaks more directly to specificsegments of the audience--soldiers, who should not give themselves to thesebrutes and who should not serve as cannon fodder. He is speakingto millions of people at that very moment over the radio hookup, and thuswhen he links himself to his audience, he is in effect linking himself toall humankind. The daring subject matter cannot overcome the archaicnature of the visual style of the film. She also was servingon 17 civic and corporate boards (Carlson, 1992, 19). He says to his manylisteners, "Do not despair." He offers a certain kind of hope by assuringeveryone that this, too, shall pass--the dictators will die and the powerthey have taken will return to the people where it belongs. She ends bythanking her audience. Hillary Clinton wasnamed one of the top 1 lawyers in the United States by the National LawJournal twice. A woman is still seen as an adjunct to her husband, and for thewife of the president this seems to mean to some people that she shouldconfine herself to giving teas and to standing beside the president atofficial functions. This methodlinks all human beings together in the same category and so contributes tothe central idea of the commonalities of human beings and the unity ofhumankind. Even here, thelittle man links himself and everyone else in complicity in these crimesagainst humanity: "But we have lost the way." He is almost poetic in theway he describes what has happened, and the words he chooses are carefullyselected to point to Germany even though that country is never named in thefilm. The circumstances, ofcourse, are quite different and call for different kinds of rhetoric. He has said that greed is causing this, and he has said people aremiserable. Again and again, the little man evokes this idea that thereare the greedy rulers who are calling the shots and there are the millionsof little people who are suffering for those decisions. Carlson, M. (1992, January 27). He is not an imposing figure, and he does not begin his speech asan oration but as an answer to someone who has challenged his integrity,asking if he does not want to be an Emperor like most people would want.In the film, the nation is under the thumb of a dictator based on Hitler,and the barber is Jewish and in danger. Before Bill Clinton started running for president, she wasa top litigator at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock. Democracy now becomes the word that is repeated, appearing five timesin the next paragraph and leading to a statement about how democracy leadsto empowerment. COMPARISON The purpose of both these speeches is to inform the audience of aneed, to indicate how members of the audience can participate and help, andhow the world can be made a better place if they do. Martins. The little man now rearranges his metaphors, or rather brings the twothreads together, as he begins to describe these brutes, these dictators,as machines themselves. He had anumber of imitators--Billy West was a silent his position far longer thanthey. New York: Da Capo Press. Acomparison of Chaplin's films from the silent era and those from the soundera has to be performed in a different way than films of other filmmakersfrom the two eras because Chaplin continued to make films without sounddialogue into the mid-193 s. This attitude is notsomething that was once prevalent in our past and that is now no more thana relic, and the treatment of Hillary Rodham Clinton by the press (and byvarious Republican leaders and commentators in particular) shows thisclearly. New York:Houghton Mifflin. Boston: Bedford Books of St. "Hillary Clinton: partner as much aswife." Time, 19. She also suggests actions she will be taking by visitingVenezuela, Brazil, and Argentina with her husband where she will seemicrocredit programs, family planning, and education programs. He also wrote and directed most of his films after a certain point,and he made better use of the Tramp character as a social commentary. She organizedcircuses and amateur sports tournaments to raise money for migrant workersand was always a leader, able to get others to do what was needed for aproject of this sort. Tramp. "Power mom." People, 52-55. When Clinton lost a bid for a second term asGovernor, it was believed that this was partially due to voter resentmentat Hillary's being a feminist and keeping her maiden name. In any case, Hillary Rodham Clinton has achieved much on her own andshould be recognized for this. (1998). The speech is very effective and rousing. The film as a whole and the speechChaplin makes emphasizes that this is a war that involves all mankind andthat the Jews in particular are being singled out for oppression, somethingmost films of the time glossed over or ignored.INTRODUCTION This speech is given to a crowd of people by a barber in a smallvillage. This is one of the most overtly anti-Hitlerian films of theera, offering a caricature of the Nazi leader and his ideas as well as asympathetic portrait of a Jewish barber. If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.