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A Critique Of Women's Speech In 1998

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“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, --women together ought to be able to turn it back – and get it right side up again” was a quote of Sojourner Truth referenced in Donna E. Shalala’s Women’s Movement speech in 1998. The message in this quote is one that I’ve pondered on my own. If using the Bible as record of true and accurate ideas and way to live then it’s easy to see how at some point how a person would find themselves questioning Eve’s position in the relationship if she was able to get Adam to submit to her will to eat the forbidden fruit. This was not conducive behavior to that of a lowly order following wife. In fact she showed characteristics such as audacious, disruptive, and uncontained which are some of the characteristics that the Women’s Movement is looking to inspire in women today. In this paper I will critique the Women’s Movement speech given by Donna Shalala, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, at the 150th Anniversary of the First Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York on July 17, 1998. I will critique this …show more content…

After applying the ratios it was clear that the Agency was the dominant term as it influences the direction if the second term. In the speech the agency are the words the speaker uses to increase women’s desire to take leadership. In doing so women will create a louder voice in politics. In the speech Shalala asks the audience to image in women controlled 51% of Congress. She does this to have the women in the audience image what kinds of changes they could make in the world for themselves and for their

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