Culture is what defines American Society. It has been heightened every generation that has passes. Today people take part in cultural landscape. Cultural landscape is what people in societies do to the land or change about land. Culture has always been adapting to societies and will continue to expand and elevate. Though in the past we’ve had the cases of slavery, child labor laws, women not receiving fair rights, and other occurrences that oppresses individuals, the American Society today is revolved around technology. Benjamin Banneker expresses his thoughts through a letter towards Thomas Jeffrey about slavery. Florence Kelley was a reformer and fought for women’s and hard labor law rights through a speech. A lady speaks on how no one acknowledges …show more content…
He is very forthright in his letter about helping slaves. This is likely because throughout the letter the word brethren is repeated. His audience, which would be Thomas Jefferson, could appear to be reflective on what Banneker is telling him. Banneker reminded to Jefferson how he was almost brung into servitude under the British Crown, but it was a miraculous act that didn’t happen. Banneker is implying that Jefferson send a miracle to the slaves, as he was given one, to do something about the injustice of slavery in the states. Still, in this time people were heavily religious. “All men should be created equal” was remembered through all the ages. Thomas Jefferson believed this quote and was a man of God. Banneker argued how Jefferson upheld this quote, but didn’t act on trying to detain the slaves from their cruel activities, such as hard labor and the harsh abuse from their masters. Banneker takes advantage of the use of imagery. He tells Jefferson to imagine himself in the bodies of the slaves. If he can do that, he will feel the solemn, benevolence in their hearts. Once he does that, he will see the right answer for himself and won’t have to seek direction from anyone …show more content…
Technology shapes an everyday society. It all falls under a family tree. Cars were invented, then roads, road laws, licensing, etc. It’s like technology has an effect on what is yet to come. In the passage Last Child in the Woods, the author Richard Louv delineates how this he is noticing how people forgot about the qualities of nature and are set on technology. Louv displays logos, paradox, and detailed explanations. Louv appeals to logos because he explains information about how corporations want to use nature as an advertising area. “Advertisers stamp their messages into wet sands.” Louv doesn’t like this because he wants the corporation to know that using nature as an ad space demands that you acknowledge and respect their cultural importance. He feels as though it is a privilege to have corporations use nature as space to document ads. “The logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of “true” nature.” This is a paradox that he uses to contradict the meanings of synthetic, fake, and true being real. Louv is mocking the corporation and thinks they should take advantage of synthetic nature, because true nature isn’t even worth looking at. Synthetic nature is unrelated and doesn’t tie in with genuine true