Sojourner Truth

As I read the speech “Ain’t I a Woman” by Sojourner Truth I felt that I was carried back in time where I could see Ms. Truth as an older woman of color giving this speech in front of a group of women at The Women 's Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851. I could vision her in a modest dress for the time period. Somewhat dirty from working all day in the fields and then coming to the gathering to speak for the black-woman. A strong woman is what I envisioned. Strong in the fact of working to keep her family fed, clothed and the mother of children she watched sold into slavery, “I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother 's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain 't I a woman?”(Truth, 1851) She stands tall and stout, speaking from her heart. As I hear Cicely Tyson speak the speech, she just doesn’t sound like I imagined. Maybe it’s because I know of Cicely Tyson from Tyler Perry Movies such as “Diary of a Mad Black Woman”, Madea’s Family Reunion and Fried Green Tomatoes. Cicely’s voice was not that of a strong woman, in my opinion, Cicely Tyson, in my

Nothing out of the ordinary when reading an article in the paper. Yet, as I read Tragedy of Omayra Sanchez (BBC News) seeing the picture of the young girl and reading how the she was trapped in the water and standing on her aunt’s body to keep her head above water then seeing her face made it all so much more real. To see her face made her a real person unlike just reading an article. Putting a face to the person who died makes it all the more realistic and not just words on paper. Using the picture made you connect with the situation, unlike just the article where you read it and thought it like any other natural disaster, you don’t feel the pain as much as you do with a