Frederick Law Olmsted

bargaining power of knowledge.” (Reader page 203) This means if we're in an imaginary society where laws and social structure has been made, it is our job to make it as just as possible. His first principle of justice is that everyone is entitled to basic liberties. The second is the difference principle, which is meant to show there can be inequality within society if it can help those who are disadvantaged. “Laws and institutions, no matter how efficient and well arranged, must be reformed or…

From within the two passages I was able to analize the information provided by the authors and produce a compare and contrast essay. In “The Lonely, Good Company of Reading", reading is considered irrelevant or to comprehensive for most, but Richard Rodriguez was determined to break the mold placed upon learning by individuals in his societies. In " Superman and Me", the author Sherman Alexie shows how he was able to overcome and become more than what his community expected him to accomplish.…

“Truth said that she used to be sold for other people’s benefit, but now she sold herself for her own” ( McGill 4). Sojourner Truth was born a slave to a dutch owner who later sold her to a northern plantation owner at the age of six. When action in the states took to emancipate slavery, her slave owner refused to let her be free. She managed to escape, then experienced a revelation from God that said she must spread her story as a female slave. Sojourner Truth’s American impact lies in her work…

In the first place, inhuman control methods are administered to the slaves with absolutely little remorse. In Document 7, we learn that various savagely violent punishments are used to keep the slaves under control for petty crimes, such as absence from work, eating the sugar cane, or theft. In return, many slaves either receive a whipping, beatings, breaking of bones, seclusion in the dungeon, or a breaking of limbs to guarantee amputation. There is a clear loss of morality when it comes to…

time, whilst the white citizens of America rejoiced in their nation’s values claiming freedom for all, the Land of Liberty’s black inhabitants were shackled to toil and suffer in captivity. Baffled by this hypocrisy in America’s conduct, it was Frederick Douglass’…

Frederick Douglass and the Power of Knowledge Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an influential African-American writer, news paper editor, orator, civil rights activists, and diplomat. He was born into slavery and had a deprived and tragic childhood, which he has described in his Narrative of Frederick Douglass. Once he escaped the suffocating chains of slavery he proved himself an intelligent and powerful figure, and become the symbol of the abolitionist movement, which was blooming in the…

He only retuned after his freedom was purchased by abolitionists. Douglass published the most influential black newspaper North Star, Frederick Douglass’ Papers, and the Douglass Monthly. Years later, he wrote his second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom, which was on racial equality. In Douglass’s third and last autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, he looked back on his previous works, the progress of the nation, and his hopes for the…

Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass are two African American activists who lived in different centuries. The former fought for African American civil rights in 20th century while the later strived for abolition of slavery in 19th century, but they both carried one single agenda or goal in common –fighting for the equality and integration of African-Americans. In the Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Narrative of an African American Slave, Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass have…

Education is a term affiliated with knowledge and growth which are considered to be two positives. Not very often do you think of education with a negative connotation. In Frederick Douglass’ narrative he is able to provide his personal evidence with both of these claims. He uses irony as well as character development to explain how although education can give you the power to grow and gain knowledge, sometimes knowledge is also left better off being unknown. Irony was a very common device that…

I was lucky. I read books late into the night, until I could barely keep my eyes open” (Alexie, pg.17). Alexie’s purpose was to show he can over come obstacles. Similar to Alexie, Frederick Douglass is well known for coming out on top of being a prodigy coming from a less fortunate era. Frederick Douglass came from a time where being a slave was quite common for his race in the 1800s. Like Alexie, “education and slavery were incompatible with each other” ( Douglass pg.119).…