Throughout her essay, author Sarah Vowell explains her views on patriotism. Vowell, tough is cloudy, still defines herself as a patriot, but as she ridicules those around her on the ways they choose to express patriotism she contradicts herself and proves to be a hypocrite. Vowell describes the time when she viewed the blockbuster “The Patriot” and the man she met a week after while she was out with some friends for dessert. Andy, the man Vowell met, described himself as “feeling jingoistic.…
Dorothea Dix (DT 1 & 2) Dorothea Lynde Dix was a reformer and advocate in the early 1800s. She was born in Hampden, Maine, in the year 1802. Her advocacy mainly centered around mental health reforms and civil, humane treatment for the inmates of mental hospitals and prisons. Dix was raised in a neglectful home, and then moved to live with her wealthy grandmother. It is also thought that she may have suffered from depression or another mental ailment, which is why she may have chosen to take up reforming mental health institutions (Parry, 2006).…
Perhaps the most overwhelming rhetorical device seen in Mary Ewald’s plea, is an appeal to ethos. She proclaims that she and her family have been a friend to the Arabs and states that her husband was a member of the White House Staff that led to several countries backing away from war. She does this to gain the president's trust. If the president realizes that they are a family of importance and are credible people, he is more likely to respond to her call of action. She discusses all the positive things that she has done in hopes of friending and persuading the president.…
How would you feel if you were to work eight hours and over while other people are sleeping? Do you approve or disapprove of child labor? Florence Kelley was a United States social worker and reformer who fought successfully for child labor laws and improved conditions for working women. She uses rhetorical strategies or devices to express her message about child labor to her audience. The rhetorical strategies or devices she used were: inclusive language, emotional language, and sarcasm.…
Mickey Pearlman interviewed Mrs. Tillie Olsen, Pearlman explained how Olsen was a fantastic teacher also saying she is a great writer. Mrs. Olsen is very organized with time and energy. Perlman went on to say that Olsen did not have anything prepared as some writers might for an interview. Olsen had survived during wars, which resulted into three wars total during her time. She also survived during times when management was at a struggle dealing with labor.…
Speaker: The narrative voice in the text is Sarah Vowell. Vowell provides the reader with hints that she possesses a liberal quality that is contrary to judgements of her father whom seems to align with a conservative way of thinking. An example of this would be when Vowell quotes, “I’m not saying who was the Democrat or who was the Republican – my father or I – but I will tell you that I have never subscribed to Guns & Ammo, that I did not plaster the family vehicle with National Rifle Association stickers, and that hunter’s orange was never my color.” Vowell introduces some of thoughts belonging to her father, in which the reader can evaluate those characteristics and align them with them to match the qualities of being a liberal or a conservative thinker. Indeed, it is…
She is proving that they are not objects that are incapable of expressing their concerns and complaints on their own with regards to the abuses they suffer, that they are not unaware of pain and suffering after being beating, or that they are not brave enough to raise their voice before so much injustice. She is saying that she and the other slaves are also human beings like any other person who can feel joy or sadness as well as the white or rich people. Slaves are not guilty that they do not control their own lives and they do not deserve that based on the color of…
People’s attention span is short. Blame it on the fast-paced world, television, or 30 second advertisements. People are drowning in information, clichés, and want short simplistic answers. There are three reasons not to give simple answers. (1) It produces weak people.…
shouldn't women have rights along with men? how do most women feel on their rights compared to those of men? two enraged authors, Sojourner Truth and Susan B. Anthony express their opinions and feelings on women's rights using pathos, ethos and logos in their writing. The most effective text was Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a woman?". she uses feelings, facts and ethics opinionated on women's rights and how she and others view women.…
Change is contradictory. Change can be as predictable as the tides rising and falling against the beach. It can also be as unpredictable as an earthquake that splits the ground and swallow homes whole. Many may try to resist the turn of the tide or the rumble of the earth, but there exists no way to avoid the inevitable. In a South Africa divided by apartheid, the old minded tribe struggles to strike a delicate balance with the new white rule with neither side willing to give into the other’s demands.…
In Maria W. Stewart's lecture in Boston in 1832, she conveys her position on the injustices of slavery and the cruelty that slaves experiences through the use of diction, figurative language, and her own personal experience. Altogether, these create a sense of injustice and desparity for the cause of the African Americans and their freedoms and aspirations to be something more than just servile labor. Diction is a major influence in this lecture. With a variety of words, such as "chains", "ragged", "drudgery and toil", "exhausted", "death", and "cruel", Stewart appeals to the feelings of people in an attempt to make them understand the hardships and extreme injustice that encompass the life of a slave. To continue, there is also another set…
What issues regarding the plight of black women and poor women, does Sojourner raise in her speech? In your opinion, are they valid? The issue regarding the plight of black women and poor women that is brought up in Sojourner speech is regarding equal rights of women in the south. The speech emphasize that the women in the south are being neglected and are not being brought up in the issue.…
Mere months after the September 11th attacks on the United States, Alan Jackson released a song that he titled, “Where Were You?” He debuted the song on the Country Music Awards stage in November of 2001. The nation was crying out in shock and despair and Jackson joined in that cry with his song. In writing “Where Were you?” he did so in a time of national confusion.…
Throughout her speech, Truth points out how Negro women are believed to be less significant than white women. From here on, she emphasizes how she, herself, is an African American woman and states, “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?” This shows how from her point of view she is expressing the emotion most African American women feel when they are undervalued.…
She sets herself at the same spectrum of social hierarchy as the slaves because she feels so attached to helping them, that she is suffering right along them, not in the same way, but she is still suffering. This exemplifies the fact that slavery affects more than just the lives of slaves. Although Kemble was a slaveholder’s wife, she didn’t act like Mrs. Flint, but instead tried to help her slaves by talking to them and making sure they were being treated in the best way possible. She describes a situation where the slave “affirmed that she had been flogged for what she told me, none of the whole company in the room denying it, or contradicting her.…