This article analyzes the speech of Elizabeth Glaser, who was one of the major American AIDS activist and a child advocate. She had got the AIDS virus via blood transfusion that had the HIV strain. In this speech, she mentions that she had a son and a daughter who she transferred the virus to unknowingly by breastfeeding. She states that her daughter died at the age of seven when she could no longer capable of fighting the disease. In her speech, Glaser mentions that the daughter gave her hope when she was hopeless and taught her to care about others when all she ever wanted was to care for herself. Glaser mentions that she learned the hard way to care about people and that was what motivated her to be a child advocate and an AIDS activist…show more content… She does not show any signs of being furious in her speech delivery. She starts by stating her name and directly going to the point. She does not beat around the bush, but she is straightforward in addressing the audience. She delivers the speech in a simple way for everyone to understand and uses simple English dialogue as well. Some supporting materials that she used in her speech were for instance, claiming that she had written to the president and even went all the way to Washington to see head of state, but her endeavors were futile. She acknowledges the fact that some efforts have been done in the medical realm, but a lot more has to be done. Some Techniques utilized in the speech include Emotive language. She uses words that appeal to the listener's emotions rather than their power of logic or reason. She also utilizes balance technique for phrases and sentences to appeal the ears of the audience. The last technique that she uses is rhetorical questions. In her speech, she States that "even the drugs that I hope will keep me alive are not accessible to other individuals. Are their lives any less valuable?" She utilizes these techniques because she wants the audience to remember what she talks about that day and take an active measure towards the same (Beebe and
