Question 2 (Rhetorical Analysis): 

                          Ever since the advent of the north American industrialization, there has been an avid participation of children in the booming workforce. Florence Kelley, a United States social worker and reformer, delivers a speech in which she laments the child laboring system, along with the issues of women suffrage. Kelley effectively berates the working conditions of children and emphasizes the need for women enfranchisement using many detailed examples that evoke emotional and ethical concerns from the reader. 

                     Kelley begins the excerpt with strong emotional appeals in delineating the hardships the victims of poor labor polices face. She first introduces the magnitude of child labor in the United States with numerical statistics, as she says that "we have... two million children... who are earning their bread..." This immediately captures the reader's emotional consciousness, as it describes how widespread child labor is. Kelley then develops an effective emotional burden for the audience. She says that while we sleep, many girls will be working arduously to make things "for us to buy". This directly connects the reader to the audience to the issue. Kelley establishes responsibility for the victims of child labor in the audience, creating a strong emotional appeal. In describing the working system, Kelley emphasizes the number of hours children work to develop a stark contrast between the childrens' suffering and the audience's idle comfort. This is seen when Kelley repeats "Tonight while we sleep", followed by the working hours of children,. This repetition creates an effective emotional invitation to empathize the children, as the audience becomes aware of their involvement in the issue.

                 Kelley also uses ethical appeals to create a cogent argument for womens' suffrage. She introduces a plethora of background information about the different state laws regarding child labor. Each state has different laws that are all unfavorable for child laborers and working women. She blames these adverse laws on the ineffective state legislatives and poor involvement and concern among those who vote. The solution to this problem, as Kelley states, is enfranchisement of women, who can empathize children as mothers, and promote better working conditions. However, the reader is told that they cannot vote; this creates an ethical concern regarding the righteousness of the state legislative. Kelley further expounds upon the ethical concern by stating that no one can "feel free" from letting child labor continue. This provides a strong ethical persuasion and motivation to agree with Kelley.
            Florence Kelley scorns the poor working conditions of child labor and the disenfranchisement of women. Kelley's use of cogent emotional and ethical appeals create an effective, persuasive argument that helps the reader recognize Kelley's position.