PathosPathos is a type of rhetoric that uses emotion to appeal to listeners in order to persuade them to agree with the speaker, and it is all over "The Children's Era."It's right there in the titl...

Besides the obvious fact that we know that Margaret Sanger stood and delivered this bad boy orally at the Sixth International Neo-Malthusian Conference on Birth Control, how do we know "The Childre...

Accusatory, Frustrated, Satirical, ImperativeSanger cycles through several tones over the course of this speech. She's pretty worked up over the state of maternal and child health, and she makes no...

DescriptiveSanger paints us a picture—actually, more like a gallery—in this speech. First we get the image of "this old world of ours converted into a beautiful garden of children" (6). Aww. Th...

"The Children's Era" is an ironic title, because Margaret Sanger is saying that we're not in the Children's Era. (Other unused titles may have included "The Calorie-Free Pizza Era" "The Cats Are As...

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:My subject is "The Children's Era." "The Children's Era!" This makes me think of Ellen Key's book--The Century of the Child. Ellen Key hoped that this twentieth c...

We want to create a real Century of the Child--to usher in a Children's Era. We can do this by handing the terrific gift of life in bodies fit and perfect as can be fashioned. Help us to make this...

(5) Tree LineThat Sanger sure does like to make outside references. And that's all fine and dandy…but it does kind of make for a confusing read.Sanger was trying to further her own agenda by link...

In-Text ReferencesLiterary and Philosophical ReferencesEllen Key, The Century of the Child (4, 5) Historical and Political ReferencesChild Labor (31)Republicans and Democrats (58)Prohibition (...

1925 was a big year for the U.S.: The Great Gatsby was published, the first motel opened, the Scopes Monkey Trial happened, and Sears Roebuck opened its first brick and mortar store. So before you...