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Diane Ackerman's 'Why I Want A Wife'

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A famous saying is “a closed mouth doesn’t get fed” that represents how if a person does not put words onto their thoughts then they will never be heard. Diane Ackerman writes, “ ...although it is possible to have a thought without words, it’s rarely possible to know what one thinks without bronzing it with words.” Ackerman’s claims are valid, words need to be used in order to hear a person’s thoughts.
Feminism is a political and social movement that is geared towards creating equality between males and females in various aspects of life (e.g work, education etc). Feminists throughout the world have different views on what they consider feminist goals based on the societies and cultures they live in. The first wave of the feminist movements …show more content…

Brady uses words and various rhetorical elements to bring more awareness towards the feminist movement towards readers. In the essay, Brady establishes ethos by allowing the readers to know that she is a housewife with the first line, “I belong to that classification of people known as wives.” Throughout the essay, Brady uses irony and sarcasm to show the absurd standards that women have to meet in the household, “I want a wife to go along when our family takes a vacation so that someone can continue to care for me and my children when I need a rest and change of scene.” Brady successfully delineates her criticism of societal expectations of housewives by their husbands through her use of words. She effectively crafts her thoughts into words that make the goal of creating equality between females and males more …show more content…

As a child, I never knew how to properly express my thoughts, I never knew how to tell people they were cruel with their words so, in turn, I ended up with a low self-esteem. While reading, Zora Neale Hurston’s, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” the author wrote on her experience on becoming “colored”. I was able to connect to the reading because in some way I too felt as if I became colored whenever I was around whites. Being around black people has a different, lighter, and stress-free atmosphere that 's non-existent around white

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I choose to analysis the ethical approach of “Zora Neal Hurston’s “How it Feels to be Colored Me.” I think the author used a very unique to say how she feel about herself. I can relate to the author, when she speaks of her town, and how she didn’t realize her skin until she left her. Growing up I really didn’t know how different my skin was, until I found myself in predominate white church. For a while, people treated me differently, until they realized I was human with a great heart and attitude.

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Zora Neale Hurston’s essay “How If Feels to be Colored Me” is a piece that is directed towards the stereotypes about race. An example of this is in the opening statement: “... I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.” This analysis of this statement is that colored Americans fallaciously believe that they have Native American ancestry. This statement also reveals how the racial identity is a factor that is discovered through our interactions with each other. Another statement that reveals this is Hurston’s observations about her “white neighbor” and how different people and maniacal racism against the colored is detrimental to other races as

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“I Want a Wife” Rhetorical Analysis In an essay by Judy Brady, the author asserts that husbands (men) expects their wives to cater to their every need; therefore, she too wants a wife to do the same for her. Brady supports her claim first by explaining how a wife should keep track of household duties; second, by explaining how the wife should take care of physical needs; and third by explaining how a wife must satisfy sexual needs. Brady’s purpose is to illuminate the hardships of the perfect wife in order to raise consciousness for women's equality and create social change in American society. Based on her purposeful use of anaphora, catalogue, and pathos, Brady is writing for the feminist community of 1972 so that they may speed the word

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