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Emma Watson and Malala Yousafzai are both informing the United Nations members that a woman deserves the same as a man and vice versa and needs to be treated with the same respect no matter the person’s gender. In Emma Watsons United Nations HeForShe: Gender equality is your issue too speech she is speaking on behalf that she seeks help from her audience. By stating I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness unable to ask for help for fear it would make them look less macho…, – she is showing that she cares about not only women’s rights but mens rights too. She is saying how gender inequality is an issue for both genders and she wants to make a difference with her campaign and achieve her goal of not having gender matter regardless of decisions or the way a person chooses to act or portray themselves. When Watson repeats the words when at, she is emphasizing her point that women deserve equal rights. By sharing her personal experiences of going through gender inequality she makes her point that she is passionate about what she is talking about because she knows how it feels to be mistreated and she hasn’t even been through the worst of it. She shares her experiences because they are heartfelt on the audience and make them really understand about the issue of gender inequality. Additionally in Malala Yousafzais address to the United Nations, July 203 she is informing the members mainly that women all across the world deserve education. By stating Poverty, ignorance, injustice, racism and the deprivation of basic rights are the main problems faced by both men and women, – Malala believes that there are just certain rights that all humans deserve but many of those things are not a reality for men and women everywhere. By discussing this with the United Nations members she is striving for them to hear what she is saying and change how they run their countries. By Malala repeating the words thank you to, she is genuinely thanking everyone who has helped her through her journey of achieving gender

equality. She makes a heart-to-heart connection with the people that have stood by her throughout the process of her advocation. This demonstrates that she is positive and seeks out the good in bad situations. Therefore, she only wants good for this world and she is trustworthy to help make that happen. The UN members want to help her because of her passion to make a change. By Emma Watson and Malala Yousafzai using these strategies they work together to enhance the message of receiving gender equality worldwide. They make themselves clear and reliable of getting what they want.
Malala Yousafzai and Emma Watson are both educating the United Nations on gender inequality and how this problem needs to be solved. Emma Watson takes a logical appeal and uses an allusion. By stating And at current rates it won’t be until 2086 before all rural African girls will be able to receive secondary education, – she reveals that she needs the help of the UN now in order for these girls to get secondary education drastically sooner. By stating the reality of the time before African girls get secondary education if we don’t make a change fast it really puts things in perspective for the UN and gets them to think that it’s up to them to make big changes. In addition, Malala Yousafzai also takes a logical appeal and uses an allusion. She states On the 9th of October 202, the Taliban shot me&. By sharing this she shows the gruesome truth of an innocent woman just trying to get an education for women and because of that was involved in an act of violence. This allusion states straight facts and gets the UN to want to help Malala. By incorporating this tragedy in she is informing the UN that she herself has been through the worst and she is still fighting because of how much she cares about girls receiving education and that shows great dignity and confidence. These rhetorical strategies work together to enhance the message of both Malalas and Emmas speeches to create the message that gender inequality needs to come to an end.