Rhetorical Analysis of Jennie Finch’s Claim In the article “Jennie Finch makes case for Olympic softball” by Jennie Finch in the USA TODAY Sports she is stating her case on why the International Olympic Committee needs to bring back softball to the Olympics. Jennie Finch is a past Olympic softball player, and she got 2 medals pitching in the Olympics. The International Olympic Committee dropped softball from the Olympics after the 2008 Olympic Games happened. She is stating reasons why softball should be voted back into the Olympics again starting in the 2020 Olympic Games and what it can mean to others. Her audience is the International Olympic Committee and women and girls of all ages. Her purpose is to persuade them to vote to re-add softball …show more content…
She starts to create power by bringing in historical events that were very powerful themselves. She does this by addressing MLK’s speech and how the “dreams of a personal nature as well as dreams of a better world” (Finch) are powerful and worth fighting for. She is comparing the dreams of women being able to participate in the Olympics and the dreams of a better world. As in, women having the right to participate in the Olympics by vetoing for softball would be creating a better world for women. She is effective here because she is using power and history in her writing to persuade her audience. She wants her audience to see how much this means to women in society and how it is a dream for women. She wants them to see it is bigger than many things and not something to ignore. She is effective also in the sense that she is referring to MLK’s speech and thus showing the importance of her words she is stating. She also uses power in her tone to almost attack the values of the members on the International Olympic Committee. She does this by saying that the “IOC’s vote will be a fundamental test of its commitment to women and its own core Olympic values, particularly equality” (Finch). She is combining her passion for the sport and for women with the power of her words. She is attacking the IOC’s ethical stand point and how it would be wrong not to vote to …show more content…
She says that “Like King’s dream, my dream is also shared by millions of people from all backgrounds” (Finch). She is emphasizing how she is just one of millions wanting softball to be re-added to the Olympics. How softball is her dream and the dream of millions of girls around the world of all backgrounds. She also says adding to this that “A world which, for me, would enable more women to participate in the greatest celebration of sports and humanity on our planet, the Olympic Games” (Finch). She is saying her dream of a better world allows women to be celebrated. How softball being re-added to the Olympics would create a better world for women. These two combined are effective in the sense that she is creating passion and using her bias in an effective way. She is using her love for softball to tell them she isn’t the only one who cares this much, but that there are millions of others like her. She wants the audience to know how much this affects her and many others like her who are passionate about the sport. She also uses bias to convey the audience when she wraps up her ideas at the end. In a way to have a final effect hopefully, and she does this by saying, “I ask the members of the IOC, on behalf of the women of the world, to please find a way to give girls their dreams back and put softball in the Olympic Games”
She fought for gender equality during the 20th century. Her argument was straight to the point and convincing through the use of the logical mode of persuasion in her essay “ Now We Can Begin”, to stand up for what she believed was right. It was an attempt to change the way women were seen at that time and end the oppression put upon them by men. Although the problems of this world are inevitable and their solutions may seem unattainable,
She helped to plan the games and she held the flag for Canada in the opening ceremonies. She is a very proud Canadian and has shown that with all her work to ensure that Canada was a great host for the Olympics in this aspect, therefore she has impacted Canada by setting an example for our young people and being proud of her nation. On October 2 2017 she became the governor general of Canada. As the governor general of Canada she represents Queen Elizabeth the second in Canada and is a big part of our government.
Young Elana’s dream was to be apart of the Olympic Softball team. Elana was a star athlete. She was best at softball, but was still an all- star in other sports. Track and field, soccer, and basketball were some sports she played, other than softball.
Because she has such an educated background, she is a high scholar and able to give credibility and trust to the audience. Many women are always ambitious to become a career leader and a housewife so her background will most likely to have an attraction to many women. Women will more willing to accept her argument because she have such a high credibility. However, if Mrs. Schlafy mentions her personal story during the speech, such as the challenges of raising six children and working at the same time and how the ERA will negatively impact her would create a strong and impactful statement because women can be further relatable. Also, the way Mrs. Schlafy dresses up draws women’s attention.
She is very inspiring because, she has won Olympic medals, and has been NPF Co-pitcher. She just proves that anything is possible and go after your dreams. Also she is just very kind. Also she said she has always wanted to have a Softball line and that
She was also named one of the “50” makers and breakers in Canadian sport as she has made tremendous records and broken some rules. After being 10 years with the Olympic association, in 1993 she started working as a Director General in the Women’s for Health Bureau. She pointed out that women need a lot of healthcare as they have to face a lot of stress because of fewer wages and family responsibilities. She also took part in the International Amateur Athletic Federation and was a speaker at many conferences and addressed a lot of women issues. She became a part of Canada’s sports hall of fame in 2004
The Influence of Ann Meyers in Woman in Sports Jasmine Gutierrez California State University, Bakersfield As difficult as it could have been for a woman to begin a career in a competitive sport back in the mid 1900s, Ann Meyers made sure to attain her dream of being a basketball player. Many women in the 1900s suffered a lot from discrimination, doubts and rights. Before Title IX passed, it was only right for women to stay at home and take care of their families. On the other hand, Ann grew up in San Diego with a family who taught her that she could do the same as her older brothers and play whatever sport she desired. Even as a young child, she was never interested in fashion; she lived and died for sports.
She thinks that women shouldn’t have to decide if they want their dream job or dream family. She also believes that “The best hope for improving the lot of all women,…..is to close the leadership gap: to elect a women president and 50 women senators; to ensure that women are equally represented in the ranks of corporate executive and judicial leaders” (Slaughter
She subtly interjects a commentary on the absence of sufficient historical research concerning the role women played in shaping our society, past and
Jennie Finch was an amazing softball player. From starting at the very young age of five, all the way to winning a gold medal in the Olympics; her softball career was quite successful start to finish. Finch has also created programs for young girls post Olympics and still continues to today. Finches softball career started at a very young age, it began soon after her fifth birthday when her parents signed her up for a T-Ball team. Throughout the years, she developed a strong love and passion for the sport.
During her time, a woman was not allowed to have a huge voice in the society, as women are perceived to be the weaker ones from the men. With that perspective in mind, she transformed to something that every other women found impossible to do in the society that they live in. She shows that women can stand up in a society no matter what obstacle they may have encountered. She showed that women are as powerful as the man are and share many of the same strengths as them as well. She shows that a woman can work in a labor factory just like man, and can stand her own ground in the factory when she knows something does not feel right.
If softball does not make it back into the Olympics soon, the IOC (International Olympic Committee) will be robbing softball players of their dreams. There is a good deal of little girls in the world that would do anything to be part of and Olympic team. Lauren Gibson (an infielder for the U.S. softball team) agrees with this statement when she says she wants “for everybody else who dreams about playing in the Olympics, to at least have the ability to have that chance” (qtd. In Hays). Softball should be in the Olympics because it has enough competition from other countries, it needs the chance to be able to spread worldwide, and it is desired by the future Olympic hosts, like Japan.
For instance, she claims that women must be “audible and credible” in order to have “true” empowerment and survive the argument of a man
She believes that women have not done enough to make themselves something, they wonder what they could have become. She also in her work describes her severe judgement of woman’s character: lacking in a sense of fact and accuracy, passive, without a grasp of reality, a believer in intuitions, and servile – lacking in real pride. I believe that she is a little too off on her descriptions, however she does believe that women need to change their economic dependence on men. From a historical perspective, this has been a major contribution for women’s rights being limited. Women did not have access to education nor jobs let alone careers.
It has 11 short stories, and majority of them deals with the immigrant’s cultural crisis along with subjugation of women. She has written with an insight and consideration, in a language that is expressive as well as uncomplicated. It takes the readers deep into the many-layered worlds of her characters, the world that is crammed with terror, optimism and discovery. In an interview in The telegraph, March 13th 2005 she says that women in particular respond to her works because she is writing about them- women in love, women in difficulty, women in relationship. She wants people to relate to her characters so that they can feel their joy and pain, since it will be harder to be prejudiced when they meet them in real