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Madeleine Albright's speech at Mount Holyoke College emphasizes perseverance through the use of repetition, illustrating the importance of not giving up in the face of challenges. She highlights historical context, shares examples of strong women from diverse backgrounds, and motivates students to overcome obstacles while aiming high. Albright's serious yet encouraging tone reinforces the message that success is attainable for all women, regardless of ethnicity or gender.

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Madeleine Albright's speech at Mount Holyoke College emphasizes perseverance through the use of repetition, illustrating the importance of not giving up in the face of challenges. She highlights historical context, shares examples of strong women from diverse backgrounds, and motivates students to overcome obstacles while aiming high. Albright's serious yet encouraging tone reinforces the message that success is attainable for all women, regardless of ethnicity or gender.

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Albright Revised Timed Write Luca Castillejo

In a speech to graduating women in Mount Holyoke College given by 1997’s secretary of

state, Madeleine Albright uses repetition to convey her message of not giving up because the

patterns show the importance of the repeated phrases arguments on perseverance.

The beginning of Albright's speech establishes the historical context, which is important

for creating a base for her oration. Albright then starts the first repetition, using the pattern “We

could … Instead…”(Line 9) to display all of the measures being taken to protect Americans, and

to show all of the advancements being made in human rights. The repetition pattern shows all of

the progress being made by comparing what society expects, or the ‘easy’ option, with what

decisions are actually being made. This decision also makes Albright’s message resonate more,

for if those aforementioned measures were not taken and the parties taking them had given up,

many freedoms would have been avoided.

The second use of repetition employed by Albright is a small transition where she gives

examples of strong women she's met who have changed the world. One part of this repetition

begins with “In Burundi,”(Line 51) or ,”In Guatemala,”(Line 56) or ‘in’ the place Albright met

each of these women, followed by “I have”(Line 49) and the manner in which they met. This

repetition emphasizes the disbursement of “in all corners of the world”(Line 48), and is meant to

encourage any students who come from ethnical minorities to persevere, for their descent does

not determine their success.

The final use of repetition is used to motivate and empower the students by displaying

past struggles, and then encouraging the students to persevere to overcome struggles like those.

The pattern repeats “...if you aim high enough…” (Line 70) followed by obstacles the students

may face while striving to excel, “,,,but no matter how…’’(Line 79) much the students may

struggle in their journey to success, they need to “…persevere”. This pattern is a way to prepare

each student for their futures: it shows what impediments may lie in their path if they dare try
Albright Revised Timed Write Luca Castillejo
their best, followed by a motivating message on why they need to continue trying, and in the end

persevering is the most important. Repeating phrases is the main way Madeleine Albright

influences the recipients of her speech in Mount Holyoke college, for the repetition highlights

the importance; the tone employed by Albright is serious yet encouraging, for she wants to

convey that perseverance is important, but also that the women in the audience can do anything

regardless of ethnicity or gender.

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