Body Paragraph 3: Topic Sentence (1): Reb's preaching and traditional from the old country cause Sara to achieve her dreams by Sara leaving home to pursue a better life. Developing Sentences (3): Reb and Sara have different perspectives on their life should be, which demonstrates the arguments that occur. Sara states that Reb should work and give his daughters' freedom, which reveals to be one of the arguments. But Reb assumes that a women's job is to serve a man until the man dies, which shows Reb's different perspective. Introduction of Evidence (1): His criticism and his way of handling situations become too much for Sara
The editorial also appeals to the audience’s basic value of life, equality, and justice. In the editorial the police commissioner for the city, states that, “police owned tonight.” This was after a protest in Ferguson, where police where caught using excessive force that was completely unnecessary. This appeals to unlawful justice because it was a peaceful protest that turned bad because of how the police handled the situation and treated the protesters.
In “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, the author uses diction like abstract diction and details by explaining what he exactly wants in life to demonstrate Walter and his dream. To begin, Hansberry uses diction to demonstrate Walter and his dream by using abstract diction. She does this by explaining how he will give Travis anything for his seventeenth birthday and that he will “hand you the world!” (2.2). This shows that he wants to make his sons life as good as possible.
Walker’s statement on the bottom of page 69 and the top of 70,”what now masquerades as World History is largely fictitious.” raises a serious topic that causes extremely heated debates. Agreeing with the statement, I understand that Walker wants the truth of Africa and its people to be heard and believed. European historians seized and intentionally manipulated history in order to create the idea of them being the founding fathers of the African civilization. When Europeans first began their journeys to Africa they were completely baffled in the discovering of something they were intimidated by. Africa was not a place that was meaningless and worthless, but instead to their surprise it was a place that was rich in culture.
Rhetorical Precis “Startling Finds on Teenage Brains” The author Paul Thompson in the article, “Startling Finds on Teenage Brains,” explains that teen brains losses brain tissues in the areas of controlling impulses, risk-taking, and self-control, showing that teens are not yet adults, and the legal system (court system) should treat them as such. Thompson supports his argument by first describing a crime that a young teen did, Brazill of thirteen years killed his teacher on a middle-school without real intentions to kill him, but the jurors found guilty Brazill and they treat him as an adult in the sense of punishment. Many people protested against this unfair action saying that "A child is not a man." He then shows some searches about
The Europeans did not count Africans as civilized humans. They wanted to imperialise Africa to help. Document F states, “your new caught, sullen peoples, half devil and half child…” as a description of the African people. Every single country in Europe believed that African countries were extremely uncivilized “animals”.
Past leaders such as Andrew Jackson, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Marc Antony are evidence that society does not reward morality and good character in leadership. Society is drawn to leaders that have good rhetoric, propaganda, and charismatic personalities, and society supports them despite their immorality. Society is concerned about stability more than the morality of their leaders and will support immoral leaders in times of crisis to provide stability. In history there have been multiple leaders that have used rhetoric, propaganda and charismatic personalities to gain power, despite their morals.
The American Disease In A Raisin in The Sun, American Denial, and To Kill A Mockingbird, treatment of races can be synthesized to reveal the power of society’s public opinion, otherwise known as the American Creed. It has always been society’s way to go with the public opinion whether it be factually correct or not. Public opinion is the collection of views prevalent among the general public. This trend can be seen everywhere, and has been around for a long time.
All of these attributes that made the Africans different from the Europeans, were used as tools to justify their mistreatment. If someone is looked at as ugly or inhuman, they do not deserve to be treated as human. If someone doesn’t deserve to be treated as human, it does not rest on the conscience of the oppressors when they are unjust toward
Reading and writing reflection Reading and writing has had one of the greatest roles in my life,and has made me the person I am today. If I was not able to read or write,my life would be very difficult,school would be very Challenging ,and I would not be able to figure out anything out by myself and for myself. Although I love to read and write,writing not as much,I find some parts very difficult to fully understand. Fully analyzing the text is something i always have trouble with. When I am asked to analyze texts and find rhetorical appeals,I sometimes struggle because I don’t fully understand the story and I do not fully understand some appeals,such as ethos.
Additionally, I also began to understand the real influence Europe, especially Great Britain, had had on Africa. While I had always thought that many Africans worshipped polytheistic deities or were Muslim, it had never occurred to me that a large percentage of Nigerians might be Christian. Furthermore, American media depicts Africa as an impoverished continent with mud huts, starving children, and
In Basil Davidson’s video, “Different but Equal”, Davidson examines ancient Africa, and how Africans were perceived in ancient and modern times. Davidson discusses pre-colonized Africa and its history, and how racism prevailed in the past and in modern day. By discussing early civilizations, as well as modern day perspectives, Davidson allows the viewer to have expansive information on how individuals view Africans and their culture. In Davidson’s video, he discusses how people in the past have viewed Africa and African culture, and how that relates to our perception of Africa in modern times.
Despite the truth, the Dark Continent was visualized as the poor, uncivilized and uncultured Africa that foreigners conjured up for the sake of it. As stated in the previous question, foreigners also thought that the region was ruled like an anarchy, filled with chaos and its people mislead by devious practices such as voodoo and incest. Another way to dehumanize the culture was to target the income in which they thought that their poor economic status was a result of their lack of abundance in food and resources. However, upon further exploration, the Real Africa soon overpowered their views to reveal the true nature of its continent. On the flipside, the Real Africa functioned properly just like any other society which had kings and queens
There are three themes through which the negative stereotyping of Africa is achieved with the Western media discourse. 1, “Africa as a homogenous entity”. Under this generic term, Africa is depicted as a country, making it easy for the Western media to use generic terms to refer to events in specific African countries, as if one problem in an African country is symptomatic of problems in all African countries. 2, Africa as a ‘Dark Continent” (Michira 2002) argues that this ideology depicts Africa as a region without a history, a region in which “backward traditions and practices, superstitions, and weird outdated and repugnant rites are prevalent. 3, “Africa the Wild Jungle”
To some, the continent is a depressing place whose people are bereft of the will to cope with political, economic and moral decline. Others are of the impression that the continent sits on superstition, resentment and xenophobia. According to Harris (1996), the rest of the world treat the African continent as a pet and view them with fear and loathing. Contrary to this uncouth mislabelling, the opinion of Parker et al (2001)is that the problem for historians is how to reconstruct the lived experience of individual Africans within narratives of social change, economic transformation and imperial conquest. Inwhat appears like a defence of Africa, according to his review of Darkest England, Harris (1996)
