Rhetorical Analysis of Mary Fisher’s speech about AIDS
Usually, we think of heroes and great people as those who have fought solid battles. However, there are those heroes who have fought no battles on solid ground but through their speeches. One such great person is Mary Fisher, a Republican who gave a speech on the battlefield of the Republican National Convention in 1992 (Fisher, 1992). She is battling AIDS. In her speech “A Whisper of AIDS,” Mary, who