During the 19th and 20th centuries Men reigned supreme. The lack of rights for women and poor people sparked protests and were the cause of the appearance of rights activists. Civil liberty issues in the American past have been resolved in the aspects of women’s rights and poor people’s rights but based on perceptions, little has been resolved. Women’s civil liberty issues have been resolved through Women’s rights activists and many years of pushing for constitutional equality. A well known suffragist in women’s history is Susan B Anthony. She gave speeches, led protests, and formed committees to help the public realize that “women are citizens” and therefore should be able to participate in events that male citizens are authorized to (Source …show more content…
Martin Luther King was a determined activist for equality for all. King spoke for the weak that did not have the voices to speak for themselves; for example, he represented the poor. Recognizing that citizens in poverty were not able to support their families while away from home at war, Martin Luther King included that “ war [and being enlisted in battle was] … an enemy of poor” to demonstrate how even though any man could be drafted, the economically stable left behind support for their family while the impoverished were ineligible of doing so (Source A). Rhetorical devices are included in Martin Luther King’s speeches to prove conflict. For example, this quote personifies war as being an enemy. This quote is referencing how poor and rich people were drafted to war but the poor people had no one left to support the family. Issues have been resolved because now the draft is less common because more people volunteer for war so the poor are not forced. Likewise, during this time period, “America [put little effort into] ... rehabilitation of its poor” creating an even harder life for them (Source A). Encompassed within this quote is pathos because the harsh accusation leads the reader to think poorly of the government while pitying the poor. The rhetoric helps prove how the poor lived worse in the …show more content…
The goal Susan B Anthony was striving for was to “form a more perfect union” through her works and the works of fellow suffragists. The rhetoric used in this quote is important because it encourages people to strive to create a union with equality because we as a nation are still not living in one. This quote supports the idea that civil liberties have not been resolved because if the issue is still being discussed, it is still a problem in the world. A perfect union can not describe the United States because of perception and even though women can have the same jobs as men, there is the potential for a difference in wages and opportunities. Along with unequal opportunities for women, there was “cruel manipulation of the poor” as described in Martin Luther King’s speech. Readers can infer that poor people were deprived of food and possibilities because of the strong use of pathos and imagery. Also, the substandard jobs were reserved for the poor because they were ineligible of equal opportunities because they were deemed uneducated. Americans still view poor people as being uneducated and wrongfully inferring that as the cause of their poverty. This incorrect thinking leads poor people to have less rights than others because they have to
1. One of Madison’s proposals that was rejected, was the idea to give Congress the power to veto any state laws. This would have changed the government today because every state law would have to be sent to congress in order to be passed. This would delay the nations lawmaking ability and create a jam. There would be thousands of laws in Congress waiting to be approved and it would end up taking years for one law to be passed.
Pathos dominates the article when Ehrenreich allows her nephews mother in law, grandchildren, and daughter to move into her house. The situation focuses on pathos because in Ehrenreich’s personal story she includes that “Peg, was, like several million other Americans, about to lose her home to foreclosure” (338). She is effective in her writing by appealing to the readers’ emotions through visual concepts and personal experiences. When I read the article, I felt emotional because the working poor are not fortunate to know if they will have a house or food the next day. I agree with Ehrenreich in which the poor are as important as the wealthy group who get more recognition.
For anyone who does not know, a DBQ is a document based question. The questions that they can ask on a DBQ can range from the pre-columbian indians to the current day, so you have to be able to decipher documents because there is no way you 're going to remember all that history. Why do we use documents in an essay? Let 's send it to the thought bubble… (Anything {} should have a picture to identify it) Documents give a {bigger} grasp of people in the time period.
The most effective rhetorical device, I think, used by Martin Luther King is, ethos and pathos because he used the colored people's belief to get them to support him in his journey and he used their emotions to compare it to the whiteś emotion. First, Martin uses ethos,¨Like paul, i must constantly respond to the macedonian call for aid.¨ (SB Page 207) This means, in martinś speech he wisely used the belief of his people (God) to inspirate them. This is a clear example of ethos. Next Martin uses Pathos ¨We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor.”
Susan B. Anthony led the women’s suffrage movement, a movement that impacted the lives of American women forever. Although Susan B. Anthony participated in other movements, such as the temperance movement and the abolitionist movement, but she mainly focused on women’s rights. As a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, she was determined to bring American women their rights. To accomplish her goal of gaining full citizenship for women, she attempted to vote on Election Day, and then suffered the consequence of being arrested. However, this incident did not stop Anthony from achieving her goal.
Poor people can read this essay and use it as a tool to take action and work with the wiling upper class to help their communities succeed. As a team, both classes can make improvements economically. Just because a person is poor, does not mean that they are worthless, they just do not have the resources to do it on their
Susan B. Anthony was a great leader during the Women’s Rights Movement, and she was a role model to all women that she encountered. Susan B. Anthony was an effective leader that many people followed including more women followers, leaving an impact on these people’s lives. Susan B. Anthony was a suffragist, abolitionist, author, lecturer, public speaker and a dedicated writer; during the time in history, women could not have a say in politics or legal matters. Although, Anthony did become the president of the National American Women Suffrage Association. Anthony was the type of leader that everyone wanted to follow in her footsteps.
In the article “How I Discovered the Truth about Poverty” Barbara Ehrenreich gives her view in poverty and explains why she think Michael Harington’s book “The Other American” gives a wrong view on poverty. She explained that Harrington believes that the poor thought and felt differently and what divides the poor was their different “culture of poverty.” Ehrenreich goes on to explain on how the book that became a best seller caused so many bad stereotypes on the poor that by the Reagan era poverty was seen as “bad attitudes” and “faulty lifestyles” and not by the lack of jobs or low paying jobs. And they also viewed the poor as “Dissolute, promiscuous, prone to addiction and crime, unable to “defer gratification,” or possibly even set an alarm clock.”
During the Progressive Era, the federal government and reformers were mostly successful in bringing about national reform. An increased effort to improve working conditions, equality for race and gender, and the nation’s economy and government was taken. This action was enforced by the federal government, therefore showing that they were involved in the process.
The Daughters of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty was a group of women activists who fought for the freedom of the colonists from the British Parliament. They were a major factor in protesting against taxes and boycotting British goods. The Daughters of Liberty did whatever it took to free the Patriots from British rule. They accepted women from all ages and all backgrounds.
Throughout the speech he is answering the question of “Why a civil rights leader has become a anti-war protester?” He uses rhetorical strategies such as; diction, similes, and specificity to strengthen his argument. To answer those who question him Dr. King gives three claims all of which resonate with people in different
The leaps that American society has made since Margaret Fuller’s lifetime, grow closer to fulfilling her petition for equality among all people and more specifically, women’s right to be individuals. In the 19th century, Fuller looked for an improvement to society which could only start with a new establishment of principles (Fuller). Men had a similar “tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves” throughout history, and it was this way of thinking that caused men to treat women as inferior (Fuller). Instead of providing rights to women, lawmakers gave power to only men to the extent that a man could kidnap his own children to control his wife.
Abstract In America, women did not have the right to vote as same as men in many years ago. At long last, today of women deserve to vote and have a same basic right as men. Susan B. Anthony is one of the important civil right leaders who fought for the women’s rights in history. Her dedication to women changed America dramatically.
While most of the counterculture movement did not identify as communist, some praised the writings of Karl Marx and C. Wright Mills. Those who had opted-out of the political sphere found themselves living in one of the 2,000 communes that manifested in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They rejected both the capitalist society and suburban lifestyle that their parents had preferred. Communal living included shared duties of all community members, who also held their own elections and made their own laws. While communal living died down over time due to exhausted funds, this period of history would be known as the “Third Great Awakening” by scholars (“Flower Power”).
Women's rights Women are strong, powerful, and smart, women accomplish as many things men do. They accomplish them just as great as men do. Women like mary wollstonecraft, elizabeth stanton, and margaret sanger are reason why we have things we have and the power and freedom they proved that women are just as good as men. Mary Wollstonecraft was an english writer, philosopher,and an advocate of women's rights.