Describe one of Wollstonecraft and one of Young’s writing strategies that gets your attention. Explain what she is doing and why it caught your attention. Just hit “reply” for this assignment–you don’t have to make a new post!(Remember: for the Unit 1 Assignment, you will be writing your own speech or letter.)
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One writing strategy used by Young was the way she persuaded the audience with her own experiences in a comically but straightforward way.
One writing strategy used by Wollstonecraft was the way she informed the audience in a direct way with facts and solutions to the problem at hand.
One of Wollstonecraft’s strategies is the way she anticipates bad consequences if the issue persists. One of Young’s strategies is the way she uses her own life experiences as examples to explain her point.
Wollstonecraft’s strategy is to eliminate ideas or the beliefs that contributed to the inequality against women during the french revolution. she was a supporter of women’s rights . she believed in the right of humankind, regardless of gender and in her letter, She talked about so many things such as implementing the rights of women through methods of consideration in order to change the morality of society. She also promotes reason and rationality and discusses the deleterious effects of absolute patriarchy. The statement that she clarifies in the letter made me realized so many things. in order to fix the issue of inequality is by educating both men and women in order to have the same knowledge. She explains that giving women equal rights will benefit both men and women because it will enable women to raise patriotic children and be better companions to men and also enrich society. She argues that because women are equally capable of reason, they are equally deserving of rights. She concludes by explaining that not giving women equal rights is unjust.
Young’s strategy is to change society’s perception in thinking that people with disabilities are a disadvantage of society or seeing them as an inspiring concept. Her statement caught my attention because it open my eyes in understanding the point of view of an individual with disabilities. The images that she demonstrated in the video objectifies disabled people in benefiting for those who aren’t disabled.
Wollstonecraft’s main strategy was to use some of Talleyrand’s own convictions against men who support him. Before even mentioning women’s rights, she goes into a lengthy discussion about “proper” manners and women’s duties to men and society, thereby gaining the trust of an audience that was probably not receptive to her ideas before they started to read the letter.
Young addressed a very serious topic using humor as a writing strategy. Due to the subject matter and the speaker’s appearance, the audience needed a laugh to open the door for honest reflection. Young’s ability to make a room full of non-disabled people laugh also drove home one of the central points she was there to make.
Stella Young uses a strong opening statement to attract the audience’s attention at TED’s Talk conferences when introducing her speech entitled ‘I am not your inspiration, thank you very much. The speaker reflects on her early age in school and her relationships with friends as a disabled child and young lady. The speaker demonstrates her first achievement to be proposed as the nominee of the community achievement awards. The speaker vividly stresses that despite her parents accepting the suggestion, they felt she had never achieved anything yet. The opening statements and critical reflection of her early life portray challenges experienced by disabled children in the families and communities. The speaker uses her life story to introduce the content of the discussion that describes challenges encountered in their daily lives.
Mary Wollstonecraft implements the audience targeting strategy in delivering her speech by addressing women directly. Wollstonecraft points out challenges experienced by women in society and the perceptions men have towards women. The speaker stresses her points while referring to women to indicate that women are the subject matter of the speech. The speaker acknowledges the strides society has made in improving women’s education. However, she points out that women are still considered the vulnerable sex and ridiculed by their male counterparts. She mentions women in her statements to send a message to the audience, who are majorly women in this case.
One of Wollstonecraft’s strategies is that she is very straightforward. She talks about the problems and she also gave the solution for it which makes the audience to read the article more. She also give examples of how women are being looked down and any audience can easily get connected with it.
Young’s strategies was the way she talks and connects it with her real life. Not only that, sometimes she would crack jokes which makes the audience keep focused and not get distracted. She would give out examples which makes it more interesting to hear.
In the letter of Wollstonecraft I like the way how she formulated the message. She knew to whom she direct this letter. Wollstonecraft couldn’t write a letter that straightforward demand rights for women, which would be disrespectful towards the recipient. She wisely pointed out arguments showing that women rights will help create a patriotic nation.
Young’s speech in my opinion was catchy and interesting. From my perspective mostly because she incorporated humor into it. In a funny way, giving personal examples, she showed that except her’s disability she leads a normal life.
One of Youngs strategy was to include jokes in her speech. She made it funny and understanding to audience making her more relatable and easier to grasp the material.
Meanwhile Wallstonecraft made it very sophisticated. She was trying to sound persuasive for her time period. It made sense so the men could take her seriously.
One of Wollstonecraft strategies was that she was very critical in her explanation and gave an example of the massive detriment the problem had in society. This helped her to appeal to the men better.
One of Youngs strategies was using personal experience and experiences of others in her situation. This allowed her to get the audience to empathize with her and truly understand what she was talking about.
Wollstonecraft’s strategy is how she narrated her point towards making the reader realize the consequence of not having an effective change.
Young’s strategy is personalizing her point through personal experience.
Wollstonecraft strategies women directly and stresses her points while referring to women. The speaker acknowledges the strides society has made in improving women’s education. However, women are still considered the vulnerable sex and ridiculed by their male counterparts. She mentions women in her statements to send a message to the audience.
One of Young’s strategies uses her life story to introduce the content of the discussion. The opening statements and critical reflection of her early life portray challenges experienced by disabled children in their families and communities.
Wollstonecraft’s letter was straightforward and clear. It was easy to understand what she was trying to say. She talked about problems using examples and provided solutions for them. She was also persuasive. Young engaged her audience by sharing personal experiences and making jokes from time to time while not getting distracted.