Florence Kelley Persuasive Speech

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Imagine being a young child in Georgia, working in the textile mills, all hours of the night. You’re robbed of education because you have to work. You hear that Alabama does not allow children under sixteen to work for more than eight hours, well you’re twelve, so why are you working eleven hours at night while your family sleeps? You think to yourself that this isn't right, isn't there someone out there who can stop all of this, isn't there someone out there who cares about you? Luckily there is. Florence Kelley, United states social worker and reformer, expressed in her speech her fight to end child labor and better working conditions, by using pathos, factual events, and rhetorical questions, not only to let women work, but also to free
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