Student Submitted: Miss Namfar, Preme

Subject: English 1 (ENC1001)

Instructor: Ms. Stacey Bush

Module 2
BASED ON SPEECH ANALYSIS PAPER
Purpose and Persuasion

Assignment 6: The Art of Persuasion

Amelia Earhart: Projection of the Woman in the Man's Fields

PART I: SPEECH BACKGROUND

Amelia Earhart: Projection of the Woman in the Man's Fields
Rhetorical Speech Detailed Background

Speaker: 
Amelia Earhart

Topic: 
[The Future of Women in Flying] as part of 'A Woman's Place in Science.'

Speech Delivery: 
  [location unidentified]1935 Radio Broadcast after Earhart became the first woman who flies
solo across the Atlantic Ocean

Historical Context: 
Post-suffrage women equality's political progress in terms of gendered dynamics of
employment and career path within the Aviation and other male-dominant industries such as
science, during Earhart's lecture tour, to encourage women to make their mark on science and
aviation industry.

[Personal Addition of Speech Background]

Primary Substance of the Speech:  The Thesis of Speech

Women deserved respect and recognition in the men dominant world of Science and Aviation
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PART I: SPEECH BACKGROUND
Amelia Earhart: Projection of the Woman in the Man's Fields
Rhetorical Speech Detailed Background

Speaker's Claims:

Amelia Earhart gained her place in the aviation industry, and she was encouraging
women to follow their goals and dreams with the reflection of her love for flying and
science. And she aimed to connect the women audience with the charm of aviation
technologies and inspired them to cross into the aviation world that considered to be a
male-dominant field of interest even though the thought of women attempting a career
in science and aviation was highly unconventional at the time.

Speaker's Reasoning Support 

Claim with deductive and inductive reasoning statement

Earhart claimed that aviation was a man-dominant career path because of the previous
period of women's equality suffrage with her deductive reasoning statement;
"Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women
and the creations of science. Although women as yet have not taken full advantage of
its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men." Then create a
contrast dramatic conclusion by inductive reasoning that stated how women were held
accountable for their path of career choices: "As so often happens in introducing the
new or changing the old, public acceptance depends particularly upon women than
the attitude."

Speaker's Evidence Support

Evidence of credibility with [almost] indirect deployment

Earhart's claim of accomplishment and recognition in the aviation industry as she

"gained her place in the man's world" was after she told the story about how pilots use
technologies to be able to travel fast above the ground. As an indirect way to
introduce 'again' the charm of aviation and then claimed her place in that world on the
quote, "He [the pilot] sits behind engines in the liability of which measured by
yardsticks of the past is all but unbelievable." And then directly inserted herself into
the sentence that previously uses the pronoun "he" as she continuingly said that "I,
myself,  which is carried in over the North Atlantic part of the Pacific to and from
Mexico City and the many times across this continent." Earhart has used an ethical
claim to emphasize the audience of her experiences and expertise subtly. She
established ethos through actions as simple as using technical terms from the aviation
field to imply her knowledge of it.

ADDITIONAL
Side Note:
Earhart is credible without having to include her accomplishments in her speech  even if didn't mention
about her flight's achievements, she is already well-known as the first woman who flies solo across the
Atlantic Ocean
PART II: ARISTOTLE'S 3 PRIMARY MODES OF APPEAL
Rhetorical Speech Analysis

Assignment 6: The Art of Persuasion

Amelia Earhart: Projection of the Woman in the Man's Fields

ETHOS | Ethical and Credibility Appeal

Personal Character of the Speaker
Evidence in Persuasive Technique in the Speech:

Earhart’s Ethos Projected

 Reference her competences
“I, myself, which is carried in over the North Atlantic part of the Pacific to
and from Mexico City and the many times across this continent.”
 Show good intention towards her audience
“As so often happens in introducing the new or changing the old, public
acceptance depends particularly upon women than the attitude.”
 Empathy on the societal inequality between women and men
“Within the industry itself for women who work are still greatly outnumbered,
they are finding more and more opportunities for employment in the ranks of
this latest transportation medium.”

Summary: 
Earhart was successfully recruiting women audience after the female equality suffrage era
to work in science and aviation industry

Technique Details and Usage:

As one of the "female" pioneers in the aviation field, Amelia Earhart confers the
chance for her to urge her primary audiences to be more confident and achieve their
dream. Earhart concentrated on encouraging women to begin careers in aviation,
and this speech fits right into that mission as a role-model and career coach.

Personal Opinion: Earhart knows what she's talking about as she mentioned 'the research,'
and she was in the air transportation industry that means there must be plenty of open
opportunities for the women in that field.

Highlight Ethos Passage:

“Obviously, research regarding technological unemployment is as vital today as
further refinement or production of labor and comfort living devices. Among all the
marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air
transportation. Flying is — perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific
attainment.”

Impact of the Technique Used:

The speech has convinced me to believe that women could be a part of what we used
to think we don't belong like becoming a pilot. As we knew at the time, she already
accomplished something phenomenal, and she showed her concern about the vitality
of technological unemployment the way she projected air transportation sounded like
a very much possible career path to start with.
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PART II: ARISTOTLE'S 3 PRIMARY MODES OF APPEAL
Rhetorical Speech Analysis

Assignment 6: The Art of Persuasion

Amelia Earhart: Projection of the Woman in the Man's Fields

PATHOS | Emotional and Influence Appeal

Emotional Influence of the Speaker on the Audience
Evidence in Persuasive Technique in the Speech:

Earhart’s Pathos Technique Projected

 Relatable storytelling
"Perhaps I'm prejudiced, but to me, it seems that no other phase of modern progress
contrives to maintain such venom of romance and beauty coupled with utility
aviation."
 Values her beliefs in women’s abilities
"Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women
and the creations of science."
 Create favorable emotional affection
"In aviation, they are arbitrary of whether or not their families shall fly and if such,
are a potent influence."  

Summary: 
Earhart used contrast speech structure to persuade her listeners to the foreign field of a
career in science by emphasized on the perks of joining the aviation field

Technique Details and Usage:

Earhart concedes the image of science and aviation as mechanistic, remote, and
challenging, then counters with descriptors like "romance" and "beauty," addressing
with an intimate enthusiasm for drawing the contrasts. These word selections create
openings of wonder in the speech that keep her audiences' attention and also shows
her attempt to persuade the listeners with such novelistic ideal.

Personal Opinion: Amelia Earhart's forward-thinking aspect eventually came true, but only
in wartime. Because as for today, the field still male-dominant, and some of the commercial
airlines just started accepting the female pilot.

Highlight Pathos Passage:

“Perhaps I'm prejudiced, but to me, it seems that no other phase of modern progress
contrives to maintain such venom of romance and beauty coupled with utility
aviation. Within itself, this industry embraces many of those scientific
accomplishments, which yesterday seemed fantastic impossibilities.”

Impact of the Technique Used:

This speech is quite unusual for me in many respects. Still, it sure reflects Amelia
Earhart's passion for science and how she strives to connect her audience, especially
the women, to the same idea. Earhart made the case that women had a role to play in
improving and practicing science in aviation.
CONT.
PART II: ARISTOTLE'S 3 PRIMARY MODES OF APPEAL
Rhetorical Speech Analysis

Assignment 6: The Art of Persuasion

Amelia Earhart: Projection of the Woman in the Man's Fields

LOGOS | Logical and Factual Appeal 

Verbal Reasoning Ability of the Speaker on the Audience
Evidence in Persuasive Technique in the Speech:

Earhart’s Logos Technique Projected

 Prove the correctness of her argument (women possibility in science career path)
" …technological unemployment is as vital today as further refinement or production
of labor and comfort living devices."
 Deliberate change of opinion in the audience with the use of logical reasoning
" Although women as yet have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air
travel is as available to them as to men."
 Create a relationship of facts given in the speech towards the reality of the audience
" …whether or not [aviation] families shall fly and, if such, are a potent influence.
Within the industry itself for women who work are still greatly outnumbered, they are
finding more and more opportunities for employment."  

Summary: 
Earhart has using the speech structure and reasoning to create a sense of wonder for the
audience thus created the resonate logical reality in her audiences’ perception at the time

Technique Details and Usage:

Earhart takes time to describe progressions of science both at home 1930s modern
appliances and technologies in-flight at the time her audience witness so recently, and
those things in the audiences' perception seemed as impossible reality for them.

Personal Opinion: Whenever anyone shares their passions, excitement, and even gee-whiz
wonderment about any of their beloved alienated fields such as science, they're connecting
with "simpletons" in the audience effectively, on several levels.

Highlight Logos Passage:

“Profound and stirring as have been accomplishments in the remoter fields of pure
research, it is in the home that the applications of scientific achievement have
perhaps been most far-reaching, and it is through changing conditions there that
women have become the greatest beneficiaries in the modern scheme. Although
women as yet have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is
available to them as to men.”

Impact of the Technique Used:

The enthusiasm or frustration or curiosity Earhart’s speech displays is contagious and
builds emotions that resonate with the logical thinking to which the audience can
relate, even though scientific concepts obstruct them. Because it is a one-sided
argumentation, which Earhart believes that there is no consent or choice present in
the audience at the time the speech occurred. Consequently, her ability to create an
argument that seems sound is enough because rhetoric deals principally with
functionality, not with correctness.
PART III: RHETORICAL DEVICES
Rhetorical Devices Usage Analysis
 
In the lesson "rhetorical devices' examples" are;
 Repetition: Repeating the same word or phrase for emphasis.
 Rhetorical Questions: Posing a question that does not require a response because the
answer should be obvious.
 Figurative language: such as symbols, metaphors, and allegories
 
Rhetorical Devices:  also known as stylistic devices, and effective methods are ways or
language applied to convey a point or influence the audience.
 
The Rhetorical Devices Used in 1935 Earhart's Speech
  
Figurative Language
Rhetorical Device: Apophasis 
Form of irony relating to denying something while still saying it
 
  "Perhaps I'm prejudiced, but to me, it seems that no other phase of modern progress
contrives to maintain such venom of romance and beauty coupled with utility aviation."
 
Effect of the rhetorical device used in the direct quote: 
Stating things like this, by pretending not to say them or saying the opposite, make the
point so much more interesting and it does support Earhart’s pathos appeal.
 
Figurative Language
Rhetorical Device: Asterismos
Using a word or phrase to draw attention to the thought that comes afterward
 
"Obviously, research regarding technological unemployment is as vital today as further
refinement or production of labor and comfort living devices."
 
Effect of the rhetorical device used in the direct quote: 
Even if at first, I did not feel more inspired to hear her point about the research, I
paid a bit more attention because Earhart broke the expected form by starting the
phase with ‘obviously’.
 
Repetition
Rhetorical Device 1: Amplification
Using repetition to expand on an original statement and increases its intensity
Rhetorical Device 2: Triads (Rule of Three)
Using the Rule of Three allows the speaker to express concepts more completely, emphasize
her points, and increase the memorability of the message
 
"I, myself,1 which is carried in  over [1] the North Atlantic part of [2] the Pacific to and from
[3] Mexico City2 and the many times across this continent."
 
Effect of the rhetorical device used in the direct quote: 
The way Earhart uses amplification on to "herself" to expand and dive deeper into
her argument to show the assuring importance of women's capability.
 
Also, we can see that she amplifies that she had been across the continents and places
many times as a pilot.
PART IV: FINAL THOUGHTS
Qualifying the Rhetorical Great Speech

When we speak of great speeches, they mean something more than just the flourishes
and elaborations that vivify poetry and literary prose. Public speaking is the skill of
constructing clear, concise, compelling sentences that suit an argument. It encompasses the
techniques of word choice and sentence composition. It also includes vivid imagery and
brilliant metaphors that enable an audience to see and understand. As Amelia Earhart stated
beautifully in this 'diction' style passage, "...no other phase of modern progress contrives to
maintain such venom of romance and beauty coupled with utility aviation." Using a careful
choice of words is a hallmark of powerful prose. Vivid images and proper analogies help
capture an audience's attention and imagination, but they can also create subtle touches.

A great speech should be a practical and essential set of concerns and techniques that
allow the speaker to captivate the concentration of an audience and effectively communicate
an idea. Furthermore, using the personification of aviation and science in Earhart's speech,
"Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the
creations of science." Then she made the address even more effective by using a paradox
statement right afterward; "Although woman  as yet has not taken full advantage of its use
and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men."  In this sentence, we can also see
that Earhart injected the metonymy to distinguish a trope of synecdoche. Here, the singular
"woman" stands in for all women. Using the metonymy also creates a firm "pathos" that
resonate with the women audience. Another critical aspect of a great speech is a delicacy not
just to the denotative or explicit meaning of words but also to the purpose—that is, the
specific or associative meaning of words. Amelia Earhart knew her audience not just the one
in front of her, but those sitting at home listening to the broadcast. Earhart's ability to connect
with groups and individuals, in person and on radio, earned their trust and successfully
encouraged more women to join in the workforce even if it usually was the man's world. Her
confidence convinced them to believe in a brighter future in science and aviation with
equality. Amelia Earhart's forward-thinking aspect eventually came true, but only in wartime
because the field was still male-dominant. Change does not happen overnight, but it does
happen. 

Amelia Earhart has given a great speech and memorable, but still, there are more for
us to learn from others, if we listen to other great speakers and leaders' speeches. She still
needs more figures of speech that repeat keywords and ideas, vary sentence construction, and
make the concepts more vivid are all critical components of great public statements.
Anything that helps her audiences remember will help get the message out. In conclusion, the
most important after clarity of speech, to qualify as a great speech, are vivid images, stories,
examples, and, as I already mentioned, concrete words will make the words memorable and
make the points heard.

Epilogue

I have begun to appreciate the power of language after this journey. And I wish to make use
of rhetorical bits of knowledge to advocate for the causes I believe in. I also hope the other
students have become more attuned to the way’s others use persuasive language. Media
producers are incredibly proficient in the art of persuasion. As citizens and consumers, it is
up to us to evaluate their thoughts and separate logic from other modes of appeal. But what
happens when those in power use rhetoric to manipulate or even hide the truth? How do we
know our own biases while defending ourselves from "fake" news?

(And that's the end with the 'rhetorical question')

ADDENDUM for Assignment 6: The Art of Persuasion
Subject: English 1 (ENC1001)
Instructor: Ms. Stacey Bush

Submission Addendum

Amelia Earhart's 1935 Speech Transcript:

[The Future of Women in Flying] as part of 'A Woman's Place in Science.'

Obviously, research regarding technological unemployment is as vital today as further

refinement or production of labor and comfort living devices. Among all the marvels of
modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation.
Flying is. Perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of
thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor's dream first materialized by the Wright
brothers at Kitty Hawk to become an everyday actuality. Perhaps I'm prejudiced, but to me, it
seems that no other phase of modern progress contrives to maintain such venom of romance
and beauty coupled with utility aviation. Within itself, this industry embraces many of those
scientific accomplishments, which yesterday seemed fantastic impossibilities. The pilot,
winging his way above the earth at two hundred miles an hour, talks by radiotelephone to
ground stations or other planes in the air. In sick weather, he is guided by radio beams and
receives detailed reports of conditions ahead through special instruments and new methods of
meteorological calculations. He sits behind engines in the liability of which measured by
yardsticks of the past is all but unbelievable. I, myself, which is carried in over the North z
Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the
creations of science. Although women as yet have not taken full advantage of its use and
benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men. As so often happens in introducing the
new or changing the old, public acceptance depends particularly upon women than the
attitude. In aviation, they are arbitrary of whether or not their families shall fly and, if such,
are a potent influence. Within the industry itself for women who work are still greatly
outnumbered, they are finding more and more opportunities for employment in the ranks of
this latest transportation medium. May I hope this movement will spread throughout all of the
applied science and industry and that women may come to share with men the joy of doing
can appreciate most who have helped create.

Transcript Source Credit:

Center for Applied Linguistics collection (AFC 1986/022), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
DIGITAL ID: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc1986022.ms0904