This speech is from 92, but it was really interesting and I really wanted to step away from the political stuff a little bit.

Fisher gave this speech in order to inform people about the HIV and AIDS epidemic that was beginning to spread across the United States. She created ethos in her speech by informing her audience that she herself was HIV positive, and that she and her family and friends had been doing research on the virus. She was trying to acheive a closeness with the audience to herself and even with each other, and attempted to break the stereotypes that the virus can only be caught if you are a homosexual or an intrevenous drug user. She proved that not only those types of people can get the sickness because she was a married women with a family. She wanted to acheive people's awareness of the disease and make them realize that everyone is at risk, not just these certain groups of people. With these things, she appealed to pathos, but to further that, she began to speak of her children and the children of everyone in the audience. She appealed to her children saying that because of the awarness that will be built, they will not have to live in fear of HIV, and they will know how to be safe from it. She wanted to connect with other parents in the audience and convince them to help in spreading the awareness for these same reasons. In order to appeal to logos, she was able to provide many facts from her research which included the great number of people who had, and are still suffering from the disease. Because her speech was to inform and to lay out a path for the future in order to obtain the goal of awareness and being able to live without fearing the disease, her speech was deliberative and that tone need and urgency rang throughout her speech.

*I know that the Latin words are supposed to be italic, but something was wrong with the function when I was trying to use it.