Outline Format
Topic: #Metoo Movement
Purpose: The purpose of this speech is to analyze the rhetoric within the poster and how it influences the civic to act in a certain way.
Thesis Statement: Using the new commonplace of #metoo along with representations that indicate diverse characters, this poster responds to the long-silenced exigence of sex discrimination, harassment, and assault to illustrate that the problem affects all women and to inspire an emerging ideology of strength and a civic action of shared enterprise.
Introduction
Attention Strategy: How will you begin this presentation in a way that appropriately garners audience attention?
I want to start my presentation by showing a startling statistic of the number of people that brought the # to social media in the span of 24 hours.
Orienting Material: Help audience understand what the topic is; contextualize
- Me Too movement was founded in 2006 to help victims of sexual violence, particularly young black women from low wealth communities
- Founded in 2006 by Tarana Burke
- Vision from the beginning was to create a network of survivors that would help enable a community of support and justice around sexual violence
- In less than six months the #metoo went viral worldwide, especially in the wake of rising technology and social media
- Today the goal has been a little bit adjusted since the beginning, now the movement is focused on a wide range of survivors including young women of all races, men, LGBTQ+ community
- I would like to discuss the history of sexual assault and why the movement is revolutionary
Preview: Give us a brief synopsis of what we can expect to hear from you—main points
Body
- Main Idea – The Me Too movement poster reflects the power the entire movement aspires to take back by speaking out against sexual assault and discrimmination.
- Pathos
- The poster includes various people of different ethnicities raising their hands, and on the palms of their hands it says #metoo. This appeals to pathos because it makes the citizen viewing the poster feel empowered and fosters an emotional connection to the victims who are raising their hands.
- The actual words “me too” created an emotional appeal to the citizen viewing the poster. Those specific words mean that they too have experienced sexual harassment or sexual assault and they have created a connection with one another by claiming, me too.
- Support/ Why is it civic? Why does it draw people to do something? Rhetorical situation
Ethos: makes people wonder; what type of person is this? Are they credible? To accept someone’s argument is to trust them. Ethos decides if they are credible.
- The hands of a variety of different women and people make the poster credible to the audience and instill trust because it’s not just one certain person, its acknowledging a whole sphere of different people.
- Main Idea – The use of powerful visuals converys the idea of strength and empowerment that comes from the Me Too Movement.
- Rhetorical situation
- Why it draws on the civic to do something about it
- Draws on the civic to use the hashtag and take the issue to social media and continue the conversation.
- Ethos
III. Main Idea – The use of the hashtag reflects the emergence of social media and the effect it has had on the topic and conversation of sexual harassment.
- Talk about age of social media
- audience it appeals too
- how it makes the civic react
Conclusion
Summary Statement – Remind us of the main points you addressed
- Importance of the overall movement
- It caused a worldwide conversation about sexual assault and sexual harassment
- How it applies to the civic
Concluding Remark – A closing statement; last words
The #metoo movement calls to the civic by drawing on citizens to raise their hands and speak up against sexual assault, an issue that has faced our society for decades.
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