Just as we are born, our parents hope for us the best future.
Sometimes we don’t end up with it and that is only because we plan our own futures.
Throughout all the years, our past presidents have tried to make America a great nation.
We had presidents that were astonishing and stunning as presidents, like George Washington, who led the victory of the continental army.
We also had Abraham Lincoln, he freed slaves and gave them hope for their future as American citizens.
The African Americans were finally able to build their own houses and have their own land and animals.
He let the women keep their children instead of seeing them sold and shipped away from them.
That hurts a mother more than anything. To have a child, then when they are old enough to understand
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When they were returned, they were endlessly beat for running away, sometimes beat to death.
We were all born as people, so there is no need to be discriminated.
We are all equal as humans on this earth.
Men and women were separated by their gender due to the creation of a patriarchal society and the thought of men being stronger than women.
In Sojourner truth’s speech, “ain’t I a woman?” she states, “if the first woman god ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!”
She shows that even as a woman we are strong enough to be as equal as a man.
Truth’s speech show so much. She worked as hard as a man. She ate as much as a man, and yet she is a woman.
Many people think that everyone is different by race, gender, and religion.
We are not by any chance different.
Truth’s speech gave women hope for their future as women.
We need someone like her to come and show us that there is hope for our
In Sojourner Truth’s speech that she delivered at the Women’s Convention of 1851, she addresses the inequalities that women and blacks met at that time in America. I will focus on the way Sojourner uses own experiences to get an emotional acknowledgment from her audience, correlating with them as both mothers and women. She also uses repetition and rhetorical questions to rebut opposing cases for gender equality. Sojourner makes biblical references during the speech to connect with her Christian audience and bring her audiences to connect on a more personal level. I will analyze the way Garnet and Sojourner uses rhetorical strategies to achieve a fruitful and powerful delivery of their message and features they share with Garnets speech as
Sojourner Truth gave her speech to address her view on women’s rights and to advocate equal rights of men and women everywhere. Truth was a prime-mover for freedom, justice, and equality. Sojourner Truth's includes repetition, emotional comparisons, and biblical references throughout her speech in order to illustrate the importance of women’s rights to make her speech stronger, and to change her audience. Truth uses many rhetorical devices such as ethos, logos, and pathos. She was a legend in strengthens her arguments.
I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?" (Sojourner Truth, 1851). In this quote her, it is evident that the troubles that Sojourner Truth dealt with were issues she faced on her own, without anyone else's help, and she survived to tell the story of her hardships. Women weren't seen as powerful or as strong as men, and this speech alone provides enough evidence that 1 woman can be as strong as many men.
Additionally, these stories reveal the great diversity among women. Generally, women are grouped together, as stated by Lorde: “As women we have either been taught to ignore our differences or view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than forces of change (Lorde, 1979).” Despite the efforts to categorize women’s issues into one mass of problems, White women perceive the world differently than African American women, Hispanic women, Native American women, etc., and vice versa. This conglomeration of “women’s issues” does not address every aspect of being a woman in patriarchal and unjust societies throughout the world.
Presidents like Lincoln brought freedom to the African American slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation and the following 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments diving them the rights they deserved. Another great one was Thomas Jefferson as he wrote the constitution, with the help of Washington and the Continental Congress behind him helping and launching historic events like the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Most people forget they came after Washington though, he kept this nation alive in times of need and the others live of off his legacy, because who knows we might not be here if Washinton wasn't here to lead and save us at the start. Lincold did free the slaves but still unfair treatment followed and the expediton launched by Washinton could have been done by anyone. Washington had a lot on his plate saving our butts anyways.
This speech was about women's rights. She believed that African American woman get treated differently than American woman. She believes that this should change and that everyone should be treated equally. In this speech she uses different methods to keep the audience engaged.
She does a great job of explaining her point to her audience by repeating her main point over and over again. However, this speech was given twenty years ago, nothing was changed. At the time when Clinton gave her speech, it may not have been appreciated that much by the society. However, she mentioned this speech again in 2008, and this time, many more people came to know the reality of how women are being treated in other countries. Her speech was also considered influential in women’s rights movement.
Thirdly we have yet another amazing leader in american history, I am speaking of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson did great things some of the great things include, served in the Continential Congress, wrote the Decleration of Independence, and purchased the Louisiana Territory. All of these things that Jefferson did had major impacts on America. For example when he wrote the Decleration of Independence he was stating to the King of England that we as the United States no longer will be bullied, Jefferson was saying that it was time for America to become free. This made Jefferson a very strong leader.
Clinton attempts to use propaganda, empathy, and logic to present her point, that women to her audience, and succeeds at it. Overall, the speech is balanced in its argument style and use of rhetoric, such as the factors mentioned above. At this point, Clinton was not a New York senator yet, but only First Lady, yet she used her position to go to conferences, such as this conference, and speak out for women’s rights, as they are the same as human
Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered her speech “Women’s Rights are Human Rights” September 5, 1995 while speaking at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China with the intent to educate and spread awareness in regards to the rights and treatment of women around the world, while encouraging women to take initiative and highlight the potential women have if presented with the opportunity of equality. Early in Clinton’s speech, she uses the power of ethos to establish her credibility and continues to build upon it throughout, bringing attention to the fact she has had years of experience fighting for change among people of all kinds. Clinton convinces listeners that she has made women’s rights a priority in her life
Thurgood Marshall As the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall greatly influenced future generations of black people. His ancestors faced several hardships as slaves, but he was able to accomplish a lot. Marshall was brilliant as a child, but constantly got rejected because of his race. However, these discriminatory ridicules didn’t stop him from chasing after his dreams.
Therein, she expressed her ideas about women 's suffrage. She gave a talk to encourage American men and women to give political rights to women. In her speech, she states that both men and women are created equal and hence due to this equality women should have political rights too. Throughout her speech she emphasizes the discrimination against women, using the right to vote, the roles in marriage, and unequal wages as her evidence.
Equality Equality is about treating people in the same way they treat other people. Equality is not about been segregated. In the poem “Democracy” by Langston Hughes, black people are standing by themselves to fight for their rights and equality. In the speech “Ain't I a woman?” by Sojourner Truth, a woman is speaking and saying that women are strong, they can do everything that men can do. Langston Hughes and Sojourner Truth has a similar perspective on democracy because they both believe about equality between the people.
“Ain’t I a Woman” by Sojourner Truth and “I Want a Wife” by Judy Brady are both popular feminist essays by a historical and modern feminist, respectively. In “Ain’t I a Woman”, Sojourner Truth describes her own strengths and repeats the phrase “ain’t I a woman” to imply that these strengths ring true for all women in order to call attention to the power of a woman and women. In “I Want a Wife”, Judy Brady describes the way men view their own wives by satirically describing the type of wife she wants. Brady repeatedly uses the word “wife” which is important because that word puts a woman’s relationship to her spouse over her identity as an individual. Both essays focus on how men view women, specifically, how men view women as inferior.
Then by appealing to pathos, she reminds the world of the horrendous events that occur every day as a result of the inability of girls to speak up for themselves. Finally, she ties in a sense of hope through a shift in tense, as to present that together, everyone can aid in the success of the program in the end. Overall, Michelle Obama’s speech unites the world in supporting the cause for not only a woman’s right to education but also the right to speak up against those who shame them for being a part of the female