Rhetorical Devices In Black Hawk's Speech

In Ceremony  Tayo observes what media has done with colonialism and how it has affected the way he views himself and whites. He was out trying to retrieve his uncle 's cattle from Floyd Lee 's position. Additionly, when trying to retrieve them he contemplates how they got there in the first place. Furthermore, he is struggling internally to figure out why a white man would want to steal the cows.  “Why did he hesitate to accuse a white man of stealing but not a Mexican or Indian?” (Silko, 177) To elaborate, the answer to his internalized struggle is how colonialism has in bred whites as the saviors to the savage Indians. Moreover, it has brought him to believe the lie that whites are there to save him and can not do any harm. Also, how he

WWII helped create what culture and society in America looks like today. In Ronald Takaki’s Double Victory, Takaki examines a narrative from the viewpoint of different individuals and societies and their experiences surrounding WWII. In 1940, the U.S. passed an act that revised the existing nationality laws more comprehensively. This revision stated that a person born in the U.S., as well as being born abroad to a parent of a U.S. citizen, was eligible for nationality. The Nationality Act of 1940 also outlined the process for which immigrants could become a citizen through naturalization. However, it did outline specifications concerning race (Pineiro-Hall). After the start of WWII, many societies

As I went up to John Shine I said "If he dares to shoot, give him a solid volley, boys". He looked around. And he gave me the box of goods, and I knew that when I left he would realize that the “rifle” men were just sticks. And the second I left, I knew that I would have a price on my head.

It was a time when white men wanted to claim everything. They wanted to let Native Americans know they had all the fire power to do as they pleased. Sitting Bull did not agree to this IRA because in his speech he said loved the freedom to go where his people pleased, to hunt wherever, and set up teepees where they chose to set up home base. It was this act that led to Sitting Bull’s important speech. The additional information I knew prior to reading Sitting Bull’s speech is everything I had learned in high school about Native American history. Mentioning my background knowledge, had helped me want to write more and read more in depth about Sitting Bull’s speech. I had known about these IRA’s, but I never knew how famous Sitting Bull’s speech could

Many assume that the Whites gave the Indians many freedom when conquering their land. The standard way of thinking about how Whites treating Indians has it by biased history. It is often said by the Native Americans that they are forced to do actions without their actual opinion on them. The standard way of thinking about religion is allowing people to express themselves in the beliefs and get worship on their own. Chief Red Jacket’s 1805 Speech purpose is to acknowledge that the Indians will not allow the Whites to force conversion in Christianity upon them by using pathos , repetition and imagery.

On the 25th of June 1876 on the ‘greasy’ grass of Dakota the Battle of the Little Big Horn occurred. Sioux and Cheyenne Indians defiantly left their reservations, outraged over the continued intrusions of whites into their sacred lands in the Black Hills. They gathered in Montana with the great warrior Sitting Bull to fight for their lands. Determined to resist the efforts of the U.S Army to force them onto reservations, Indians under the leadership of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse wipe out Lieutenant Colonel George Custer and much of his 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. This essay with try to determine why the U.S. Army lost this, every so important battle against the Sioux.

Slavery is equally a mental and a physical prison. Frederick Douglass realized this follow-ing his time as both a slave and a fugitive slave. Douglass was born into slavery because of his mother’s status as a slave. He had little to go off regarding his age and lineage. In the excerpt of the “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave,” Douglass discusses the horrors of being enslaved and a fugitive slave. Through Douglass’s use of figurative language, diction and repetition he emphasizes the cruelty he experiences thus allowing readers to under-stand his feelings of happiness, fear and isolation upon escaping slavery.

The website I chose for this assignment is http://www.legendsofamerica.com/na-ghostdance.html. I chose this website because it looked like it had a lot of information about my topic and there were pictures on the side to help me. It also was last reviewed not too long ago so that shows that the information should be reliable and trustworthy.

W. B. Yeats effectively depicts the struggling society in “The Second Coming” during World War I. The poem begins with a metaphor: “Turning and turning in the widening gyre” (Yeats 1). A turning gyre, entailing a negative connotation, vividly depicts an endless spiral of currents that swallow anything they touch. It symbolizes the war killing millions of people. The use of diction in the word “widening” represents the expansion of the war, and the increased impact it created on citizens. A metaphor is used to describe the falcon and falconer to soldiers and their leaders: “The falcon cannot hear the falconer” (2). Dependable predators like falcons become aimless when they lose connection with their falconer; the same way soldiers are worthless

There he used his leadership ability to settle conflicts between white settlers and Native Americans. In April 1832, a band of the Sauk Tribe led by Chief Black Hawk disobeyed orders from the U.S. Government to leave their homeland of Illinois, and the Black Hawk War broke out. The war lasted 118 days, but Black Hawk was eventually captured and handed over to Colonel Zachary Taylor (19-20). Taylor assigned Davis to escort the prisoners to St. Louis (20). Along the way, Davis befriended Black Hawk, protecting him from the obnoxious curiosity of passing settlers. Black Hawk later wrote of Davis in his autobiography, saying “We remained here a short time, and then started for Jefferson Barracks, in a steam boat, under the charge of a young war chief, (Lieut. Jefferson Davis) who treated us all with much kindness. He is a good and brave young chief, with whose conduct I was much pleased” (Patterson, 110-12). Davis was good enough to Black Hawk that the chief specifically decided to mention him in the tale of his life. Such an endorsement from the chief of a society based on honor and valor shows how Davis’s intrinsic qualities helped him in his life and on the

Most likely, one has heard about the story of Pocahontas and John Smith. However, John Smith was not as loving and kind as he was portrayed. In the letter Address to Captain Smith, the speaker, Chief Powhatan, Pocahontas’ father, takes a condescending tone and addresses to the English settlers, especially John Smith, how the chief’s generous hospitality has not been appreciated. Literary devices such as rhetorical questions, antithesis, and repetition, diction, and pathos and ethos are exercised by Chief Powhatan to address his purpose and produce it as impactful as fully possible.

From Page 127, “I wanted to throw off my clothes and shout—we were going to rear the black soldier, like an animal!” Based on the context, should we interpret the animal reference as to the black soldier, or to the village people who exhibit savage thought of executing the black soldier?

“You won’t win in the end, savage. This is our land now, and there’s nothing you can do about it,” Custer tauntingly said to the wounded warrior. Right before he took his shot, a bullet sailed through his chest. He fell to the ground, crimson spread across his chest. His eyes rolled to the back of his head, and the life left his body. Every soldier from his regiment had been slaughtered. Not a single one of the 210 people that made up Custer’s force had

it all changed when Jonathan Penhallow, the most respected man in the small South American colony Roanoke, which was named after the original English colony, showed up on Sebastian Pendragon’s house at the crack of dawn.

As they began to decline as a tribe, they began to turn on each other and lose faith in those in charge. They were starving and sick, and many of them were growing upset that the fact that nothing was being done to fix the suffering and struggling. Members of the tribe began to lose respect for Sitting Bull, as he struggled to keep his people together. However, this looked like he was letting his people starve and die and tension began to grow. When the parents of a sick daughter begged Sitting Bull for permission to return home for better treatment, he refused. After catching the family trying to run away, Sitting Bull shot their horse and forced the family to stay, even as the daughter grew worse and eventually died. Tension grows as the Sioux are accused of hunting on the neighboring tribe’s grounds and stealing their horses. When Sitting Bull finds the culprits, and realizing that to prevent his entire tribe from being driven from the land, he decides that must punish the two thieves. In front of the officers and the entire tribe, he hangs the two men by their wrists and whips them. Although Sitting Bull obviously felt compelled to punish two men for the good of the whole tribe, soon the tribe begins to look at Sitting Bull with anger and hatred. Later, we see that the tribe has lost much respect for Sitting Bull and a group of boys call him a coward for "hiding under his blanket" during the Battle of Little Bighorn (George & Simoneau, 2007). The filmmakers also made it clear for the viewers with the message: "Every man a chief," to show us that there is no longer a respectable leader to follow and that everyone now must make their own decisions. The filmmakers clearly wanted to point out the tension that divided the Sioux and show that although Sitting Bull is still seen as an emblem of Native American resistance today, members of his own