Growing up, language art has always been my toughest subject since I started school. I lived my whole life in Vietnam till the age of six when my family migrated to America. Additionally, I couldn’t speak proper English until I was in middle school, so you can imagine the complication I experience when it comes to writing assignment. Throughout high school, I would spend hours on a paper just to get the bare minimum passing grade in English class. As a result of this, I view language art as a pointless subject that cannot be utilize in the real world. Eventually I began cherishing writing as I began my English 1101 class. English 1101 taught me how influential and significant writing can be through novels such as “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau and Fredrick Douglass “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” speech. English 1102 taught me how to become a better writer through different writing method and etc. …show more content…
For instance, Civil disobedience advise me to listen to my conscience over the law even if it meant breaking the law. Due to the refusal of poll tax payment, Henry was thrown in jail. During his time spent there, henry explain the importance of following your conscience and doing the right thing over the law. Henry had refuse to pay the poll tax because he did not want to fund the Mexican-American war and fuel slavery. Fredrick Douglass expose a crowed of white and wealthy slave owner for being a hypocrite during his fourth of July Speech through the usage of the Socratic reasoning and syllogism. Fredrick mention in the speech “There are seventy-two crimes in the State of Virginia, which, if committed by a black man (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of death”. This quote indicates since law only apply to humans and not things or animals then a slave must be considered a man thus he or she is entitled to their