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In this book Glory is overwhelmed with how her town is handling people who are different than they are. She realizes that her favorite local pool is closing down so colored people can’t swim with the whites. Glory becomes an activist herself and writes a letter to the newspaper lining which makes her preacher father proud. Therefore, the theme of this book is to treat everyone equally, such as when Glory’s friend Frankie from Ohio drinks out of the “colored fountain”. Also, when Glory’s sisters boyfriend that he was arrested for sitting with a “colored friend” at the white table.
In her speech, Mary Fisher uses specific diction choice to bring awareness to the AIDS epidemic as well as words that are meant to heighten the fear much of the public had about AIDS at that time. Fisher addresses her primary audience to be the general public of America as well as those who have AIDS. Her purpose seems to be to make the audience more aware by scaring them into believing what she says. When she states, "It does not care where you are Democrat or Republican; it does not ask whether you are black or white, male or female, gay or straight, young or old," Mary shows that she is talking to everyone. She is successful in making her audience more aware of inflicting fear and saying that AIDS can affect anyone.
For my Written Task 1, I chose to write a speech from the perspective of Romaine Patterson, who started Angel Action. Romaine Patterson founded Angel Action in 1999 in order to fight back against Westboro Baptist Church when members picketed with hate-filled signs during the funeral of Matthew Shepard, the 21-year-old who was beaten to death in Wyoming for being gay. During class, we discussed hate crimes predominately focusing on The Laramie Project involving the Matthew Shepard case. We also discussed other cases involving hate crimes such as the Brandon Teena case. In the speech, I talk about how Romaine Patterson feels about these hate crimes and the reasons she created Angel Action.
Sydney Lopez History 1302 Professor Lewellen July 23, 2016 Two Speeches by Mary Elizabeth Lease (circa 1980) One of the two speeches by Mary Elizabeth Lease was about how the government is being run by money and by the infamous Wall Street. That money has enslaved many people and that it has put many lives in peril. The second speech of the two speeches by Mary Elizabeth Lease was about how women and men are equal because it was given to the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.
In 1974 the house judiciary committee recommended Articles of impeachment of President Nixon during the water gates scandal. The water gates scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break in at the DNC headquarters at water gate office in Washington D.C. and President Nixon’s administration tried to cover it up. On July 25, 1974 Barbara Jordan gave a speech on the impeachment of President Nixon during the impeachment hearing. She gave a strong passionate and well-rounded speech.
It was during her first couple of years as a public speaker when she spoke before the International Congress of Women. She felt a special responsibility to do well being that she was the only women of color at the Congress. The European representatives were complaining about how the English and Americans were speaking in English. A language that majority of them did not speak. Mary Church Terrell was fluent in German, French, and Italian but hadn’t spoken it in fifteen years.
Mary Chesnut was born on March 31, 1823, in South Carolina. Chesnut is best known for her Civil War diary, A Diary for Dixie. A Diary for Dixie tells us the story of women role during the Civil War. The first entry is dated February 18 1861. She had just found out that Mr. Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th President of the United States.
Despite the court’s order to desegregate the country in the 1960’s, many Afro-Americans were still second-class citizens. In the book “The March: Book one” the authors John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell, introduces the audience to the segregation conflict. Also explains how John Lewis, an important character for 1960’s civil rights movement become a leader for the Afro-Americans. Even though John Lewis’s grew up apart from the segregation conflict, some turning points redirect his life into it. Although John Lewis’s techniques to promote civil rights were not conventional.
America’s Founders believed that liberty was important and must be supported. Finding a balance between individual rights and a strong union was important because it determined their productivity as one. The Founding Fathers consisted of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. . James Wilson felt as if law,liberty and nature belonged together and without one it would disrupt everything. The Founding Principle is that “all men are created equal” and the following rights cannot be taken away from them “Life,Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The Voting for Rights Act and repel of many Jim Crow laws wasn’t going to change or erase racial tension. The realty was that political rights wouldn’t put an end to the poverty and mistreatment of African Americans. Ms. Moody believed that the non-violent demonstrations rallies weren’t really that effective to the degree that was needed. They weren’t being respected as people of color regardless if they were being humble. African Americans couldn’t eat at white restaurants or use the bathroom and drink form the same bathroom as whites.
In this reflection, I will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of my speech on Elizabeth Cady Stanton. By recognizing the areas I need to improve on, I can take that knowledge and apply it to future speeches. The same concept applies to the strong points of my performance, I can use the things I did well on in future speech deliveries. I will not only explain what I could do better on, but ways I can effectively improve my delivery.
The essence of the speech relies on Chisholm’s fundamental ability and her own personal
This is the world one would have seen if men like Booker T. Washington successfully imposed their dream throughout the American public. In the “Atlanta Exposition Address,” Booker T. Washington clearly portrays this “dream world” of segregationists. Throughout his speech, Washington makes it obvious the segregationist ideas he aspired to bring to the real world. In the “Atlanta Exposition Address,” a major segregationist theme seen throughout is Washington’s logic that blacks will never advance in the way white people hold.
American journalist and politician, Clare Boothe Luce, in her opening speech at the 1960 Women’s National Press Club meeting, prepares her audience, qualifying and defending her forthcoming criticism. Luce’s purpose is to provoke thought in the journalist’s minds on what journalism is really about at its core. She adopts a frank and humorous tone to best capture the attention of her intended audience of female journalists. Through, appealing to the ethos, logos, and pathos with flattery, syllogism, and rhetorical questioning to prepare the audience for her message: “the tendency of the American press to sacrifice journalistic integrity in favor of the perceived public demand for sensationalist stories.” In the first paragraph of her speech, Luce assures the audience that “[she is] happy and flattered to be a guest of honor…”
Many people believe that America is the place where they can do anything. It is the American Dream to achieve such a thing. Many are retained from doing so, however, due to their gender, race, or sexual orientation. These individuals do not fit the status quo and because of that, they are more often than not discriminated against. An example of one of these individuals is Malala Yousafzi.
