Analysis Of Speech To The Ohio Women's Conference: Ain 'T I A Woman'

Ella Braganza Ms. Jasper Language Arts 8 1 March 2024 Words Hit Harder There's this old saying that goes, "actions speak louder than words." But have people ever stopped to think about the flip side of that? Words can be pretty powerful, too. Think about it - a single sentence can make someone smile, cry, or even stop in their tracks. Words have a way of sticking, long after they're spoken. To begin with, in a Gettysburg address by Abraham Lincoln, he delivers a speech that inspires the hurt soldiers. In “Speech to the Ohio Women’s Conference: Ain’t I a woman?” by Sojourner Truth, she expresses how she feels by telling a group of white men about her lack of equality and rights. Lastly in Blind by Rachel DeWoskin, she uses her actions by throwing

Now in the excerpt, the sojourner truth is being introduced, and she is saying how she can do as much, and even more than a man can. She’s also trying to prove to these white men that she can be better. I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man I’ve plowed, reaped, and husked and chopped and mowed, and a man can do more than that” (Truth 552). She used her words to go and talk to a group of white men who wouldn’t listen to her, but she used her words to change their minds. And help them understand, and give them more rights. Because she worked just as hard as any man could. Then did what they didn’t think she could, then she used her words to communicate to them and prove to them that she’s better. She used her words to go and talk to a group of white men who wouldn’t listen to her, but she used her words to change their minds and spoke up when things were

To start, in a Gettysburg address by Abraham Lincoln, words are used in a powerful way to continue the war so people don’t die in vain. Therefore, in “Ain’t I a woman” by Sojourner Truth, this shows that words are used in a powerful way to speak up when the actions are wrong. In contrast, the selection, Blind by Rachel DeWoskin, shows that actions are more powerful than words. There’s a saying that goes: actions speak louder than words, but on the flipside of that, words are stronger than actions. The impact of words is significant. Think about it, a single sentence can make someone cry, smile, or even stop in their tracks. Writing without powerful words would make a story boring and un-intriguing, actions do not always speak louder than