Annie Murphy Paul uses facts, examples, and rhetorical strategies to build an argument. With the use of these devices, Paul is able to persuade the audience that people need to be introduced to deep reading. Paul uses facts and research to make herself sound credible. Those two things, along with rhetorical strategy Ethos, allow for the audience to believe Paul. By saying, “39% of children,” and, “results of a study,” Paul demonstrates that she did her research, making her credible.
Maria Mitchell was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts on August 1, 1818, and was one of nine brothers and sisters. Her family were Quakers and believed in equal education for men and women. Maria attended local schools and was tutored by her father. He taught her how to use a telescope when she was twelve, and she helped him calculate exactly when the annual solar eclipse would be. By the time she was fourteen, she was writing directions for sailors’ whaling trips.
Heather Whitestone McCallum, more widely known as the first Miss Deaf America, was born on February 24, 1973 in Alabama. Today she lives in St. Simon’s Island, Georgia, has four children and is married to John McCallum. She is an author of three different books, the most popular being Believing the Promise: Daily Devotions for Following Your Dreams, in which she talks about her motivation. At the age of eighteen months old, Heather was diagnosed with the Haemophilus influenza virus and a dangerously high fever that caused her to lose her hearing.
Sarah Thiel is a dental hygienist with an alternative career while serving as secretary of the New Mexico dental hygiene committee and as a dental board examiner for two different agencies. She is the CEO and co-founder of CE Zoom, which is a continuing education tracking system. Sarah began in the dental field as a dental assistant 16 years ago and has ten years of experience as a dental hygienist. She graduated from the dental hygiene program at San Juan in Farmington, N.M.
Katie Marie Rivera was born and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts. As a child she went to John Avery Parker Elementary Parker School. There she excelled to be in the honor roll for the 5 years she went there. When she hit 5th grade she transferred to a private all girls middle school, named Our sisters’ School (OSS). OSS was a big change for Katie.
In 1965, a small time family with big time dreams are caught up in the biggest drug smuggling operation in United States history. The family includes Jeff and Annie Hobbitt, as well as their two children, Bobbi and Georgia Hobbitt. The Hobbitt’s smuggled drugs from Mexico on numerous occasions before Georgia was pulled over by Texas State Troopers in 1968 in which she began to believe that their big time operation was under fire; thus, her father, the chemist, began manufacturing crack cocaine. Jeff contributed to five other states for crack cocaine, his son and daughter collected the money, while transporting the merchandise back and forth from the surrounding states. Annie, the mother and wife, created a large barrier around their lab by purchasing razor wire fencing and planted numerous trees around the area for camouflage.
Esther Morris Esther Hobart McQuigg was born August 6, 1814 in the state of New York. Orphaned at the age of eleven, she earned her living doing housework for a neighbor. At an early age she started a millinery shop (Urbanek 5). Esther had been an antislavery worker, and, as a dressmaker, a successful businesswomen, and women’s rights advocate in her early twenties. Esther Morris helped build America through culture by redefining women’s rights.
Mary Jane Patterson Mary Jane Patterson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her parents brought and their family to Oberlin, Ohio to find an education for their children. In 1835, Oberlin College admitted its first black student and eventually became the country’s first coed institution of higher education. It was also the first college in the country to grant women undergraduate degrees. Mary Jane Patterson studied for a year in the college’s Prepatory Department and she was the first African-American women to earn a Bachelor’s degree.
Alice Paul once said “Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.” What was once claimed as insanity is now acknowledged as courage thanks to women like Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt. They had a belief and they went on a journey to get their belief an amendment. They believed that women had the same right as men. That's why Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt were so persistent into getting the 19th amendment ratified and women should not take advantage of their vote today.
Ella Josephine Baker was born December 13, 1903 in Norfolk, Virginia (“Who Was Ella Baker?”, 2015). She grew up in North Carolina and developed a passion for social justice after hearing stories from when her grandmother was in slavery (“Who Was Ella Baker?”, 2015). Her grandmother often told her stories of slave revolts and how oppressive life was as a slave (“Who Was Ella Baker?”, 2015). Baker studied at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina and was elected valedictorian when she graduated in 1927 with a degree in sociology (“Who Was Ella Baker?”, 2015). Baker began to cultivate her radical activism by protesting rules and policies of the university that were discriminating (“Who Was Ella Baker?”, 2015).
Ella Baker and the Civil Rights Movement Ella Baker was a Civil Rights Activist and fought for a lot of women rights but unlike a lot of other Activists she has never been to jail. Baker was committed to economic justice for all people and once stated “People cannot be free until there is enough work in this land to give everybody a job” (EllaBakerCenter.org). She was in many organizations where they would talk about what they could change and what they could make different for both black and white people. In 1930 she joined an organization called “Young Negroes Cooperative League” the whole point of the organization was to help “develop black economic power through collective planning” (EllaBakerCenter.org). Baker's childhood was calm
A. About Us: I enjoyed reading the history of how the library endured and advanced through the years to become what it is today. The efforts of Alice Dugged Cary and Annie L. McPheeters cannot be praised enough since their work was responsible for much of the core collection (the Negro History Collection). Ms. McPheeters was appointed assistant librarian in 1934, served two decades as the librarian before she retired in 1966 – a life dedicated to education. Also of interest to me is the oral history (1914-1948) by Homer Nash, a black physician whose practice was on Auburn Avenue, recalled the (Jim Crow) period . . . when African Americans "had such a hard time getting books.”
Science has proven that reading can provoke positive changes in us as human beings. Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the article ‘Your Brain on Fiction’ published on March 17, 2012. Annie explains how researchers have discovered that reading can initiate different parts of the brain, this is the reason why sometimes literature can make the reader so engaged and attached to a piece of writing. Research also explains how reading has the ability to produce activity in our brain’s motor cortex. Finally, Annie explains how reading fictional pieces can change how you interact with other individuals.
Ella Baker is a civil rights activist who made an impact on the civil rights movement during the 20th century. Her dedication has been an inspiration to many and her legacy continues to be major in modern times. Ella Baker impacts activism on civil rights movements, and the relevance of work in modern times. First of all, Ella Baker was a powerful advocate for social justice and a key figure in the civil rights movement. According to S. Preskill in Advancing Women in Leadership (2005), Baker was a inspiration to many people and was admired for her leadership and commitment to the cause.
In “Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer”, Annie Murphy claims that reading literature makes people smarter and nicer. Specifically, she believes that people who empathize with the characters in the books will be able to empathize with real people hence making them nicer. I have mixed feelings about her argument reading does make you smarter, but nicer is up for debate. Murphy also talks about “Deep Reading” a vigorous exercise from the brain and increases our real-life capacity for empathy. Yes, reading could make you nicer if you’re reading “nice” books and empathize with those characters.
