Comparative essay of Cristina Fernandez’s in
favor of gender equality speech and Lou Gehrig’s Farewell to baseball speech
When I try to remember some off the best emotive speeches through out history for me at least it´s inevitable to remember those great stories that my mother told when I was a kid. I remember almost as if it was yesturday, the speech that Alexander "The Great" gave to his soldiers when they were thinking of surrender and return back home, I can honesty say that i´simplesive how a good speaker can make thousands follow a him to war. All the usage of figurative language appelling to the emotion of a warrior and just by remember why they were fighting for. But now we are facing a new era were speeches aren´t a motivation to enter war, nowadays speeches should show how a person is feeling or make us reflect of something. These is why we will compare two speeches one is about a cruel and unfair situation that has struggled the plant for centuries "Gender Equality" the speech was pronnced by Cristina Fernadez: and the second speech would be about pain and sorrow but also of hope in the present that will lead to a great future is Lou Gerhig´s "Farewll to baseball speech".
In the introduction of Lou Gehrig´s speech he decided to start with: "Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." at first he states a fact that by itself creates an atmosphere of melancholy to all Yankees’ fans. After that he uses emotive language to say like even though I have these problem and I know that my career in baseball is over it is just a new beginning for a new stage in my life. This type of introduction is really effective to create a contrast in feelings since you feel at first sorrow but then you feel joy, these comparison highlights the good by contrasting it with the bad. While Cristina Fernandez in her introduction part uses :"En principio, hemos sostenido históricamente que tres son los elementos o los ejes para lograr realmente la igualdad de género. La autonomía económica, la autonomía política y personal y la autonomía social." for me a unique way to use imagery by only giving facts and data to present a really serious problem by this method he makes the person relateing a concept that for example can be “autonomia social” you can perfectly understand the concept and create link to part of your life where you omitted these unacceptable crime and attempts to show you this was wrong. These strategy is a very strange form to start such a delicate theme but the combination of concepts attempting to impact people by bringing back old memories that weren´t so plasent but they did happen and were wrong is a really smart pad to present you the purpose of the speech.
In the introduction of Lou Gehrig´s speech he decided to start with: "Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." at first he states a fact that by itself creates an atmosphere of melancholy to all Yankees’ fans. After that he uses emotive language to say like even though I have these problem and I know that my career in baseball is over it is just a new beginning for a new stage in my life. This type of introduction is really effective to create a contrast in feelings since you feel at first sorrow but then you feel joy, these comparison highlights the good by contrasting it with the bad. While Cristina Fernandez in her introduction part uses :"En principio, hemos sostenido históricamente que tres son los elementos o los ejes para lograr realmente la igualdad de género. La autonomía económica, la autonomía política y personal y la autonomía social." for me a unique way to use imagery by only giving facts and data to present a really serious problem by this method he makes the person relateing a concept that for example can be “autonomia social” you can perfectly understand the concept and create link to part of your life where you omitted these unacceptable crime and attempts to show you this was wrong. These strategy is a very strange form to start such a delicate theme but the combination of concepts attempting to impact people by bringing back old memories that weren´t so plasent but they did happen and were wrong is a really smart pad to present you the purpose of the speech.
Then Lou
uses an anaphra like: "Sure I’m lucky."that helps the people to understand how he felt all those years
when he was in ballparks and at the same time he says that it was an honor to
play and to have known many people on his baseball career. These makes the
speech more emotive and figurative because he remembers in the: Sure I am lucky because he tells us how he feels of these last goodbye to his pasion and parteners on the team,
the good players and also all the trophies and awards the Yankees won during
the last seventeen years and all these emptions combine to create a nostalgic
atmosphere on the fans. In Cristina’s speech we see that she attempts to create
an environment off contrast because she gives examples like"...supera la participación en el Parlamento, lo establecido por las leyes. Una mujer es Presidenta reelecta de mi país, pero sin embargo la discriminación aún permanece, porque por fuera de la discriminación política, económica y social persiste fuertemente en todas las sociedades una discriminación cultural hacia la mujer." these things that are being
done to end these problem but almost immediately she mentions a fact that rests
importance and relevance to the previous argue, which makes the crowds feel
grief and sorrow and then the transition to joy and glory when she says another
positive fact, but good lasts less when life is not as good as you would like
on a cruel world and all these is what you feel from the speech.
On the next
part of the speech we can see that Lou is sanding greetings to all the baseball
personal that has been with him throughout his career like"Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy?" in these part he uses a
lot of hyperbole to describe all the persons and with these he creates a
controversy environment because there can be a lot of discussion only by saying
that Joe McCarthy was the best manager in baseball on those days. It must be
remember that these is a figurative language because even though there is a lot
of information Mr. Gehrig doesn’t give any point to sustain his ideas so it is
only based on Lou’s point of view . In this very same part in the speech of
Fernandez she uses the model of saying the problem and later how she has
already fixed the problem like on "Soñar con la igualdad de género en un país inequitativo, en un país con grandes brechas sociales, es simplemente retórica o ilusión.Por eso en la República Argentina, hemos desarrollado un fuerte proceso de inclusión social que ha traído aparejado también obviamente la mayor oportunidad de igualdad para la mujer; programas y políticas activas como la Asignación Universal por Hijo, la Asignación Universal por Embarazo, la promoción cada vez más intensa por la educación pública y gratuita desde el nivel inicial hasta la universidad, ha permitido paulatinamente junto a leyes de identidad de género de protección de la mujer, un fuerte descenso en la brecha de desigualdad." and uses it create
as parameter on the audience and make them use their heads to put all the ideas
together and force you to reflect of your own life, because well on argentine they said these is a problem we must solve it these is how argentinians think why cann´t you think like us and take a part on the project maybe not exactly like us but you can still do something
In the very
last part off Lou´s speech he opens with a melancholic phrase to bring all he fan´s
attention to his injure "So, I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break,...". and can you imagine that second it most be one of the worst mosments in sports when you have to say goodbye to your captain the one that has been on the team for so much time is no longer playing in thes particullar case I can only compare these sadness to the one Yankees nation felt whe Derek Jeter left baseball but he closes by saying "..., but I've got an awful lot to live for."pure emotive language telling the people not to be sorry that he was steel going to live the rest of his days with exitement that is the most
heartbreaking phrase I’ve ever heard. Cristina ends appealing to people hearts by saying: "Por eso, señor Presidente, señores y señores presidentas, quiero hacer un firme llamado a los corazones y a las mentes para derrumbar tabúes y prejuicios respecto de nosotras y que las críticas que recibamos sean exactamente del mismo tenor que reciben ustedes los hombres, que no tengan que ver con nuestro sexo, que no tengan que ver con nuestro género. Ese es, finalmente, el gran llamado que queremos hacer." in which she has been attempting to create a final impact on the presidents gathered there by saying a solution and also attempting to end other tipes of descriminacion all the emotion can be described as an attemt to reach the people´s feelings to make them change the way maybe some were missbehaiving .
The 2 speeches proved that even though their contents were so diferent and the ways of expressing were so diferent i could only end by saying these Lou and Cristina, was and is a very good speeches speaker because to every part of the speech they gave feeling devosion and pasion that overloads any speech said by any other on the course of history and back there what it was said here wil always be an untouchable part of humanhistory becuse it highlights the values that only humans posses.
The 2 speeches proved that even though their contents were so diferent and the ways of expressing were so diferent i could only end by saying these Lou and Cristina, was and is a very good speeches speaker because to every part of the speech they gave feeling devosion and pasion that overloads any speech said by any other on the course of history and back there what it was said here wil always be an untouchable part of humanhistory becuse it highlights the values that only humans posses.
