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    The author is trying to tell his audience that they shouldn’t be so scared to change things around because being stuck in the past isn’t going to let their businesses move forward. Rushkoff’s goal with this manifesto is to give his audience ideas. He wants to make people realize that we now live in a digital age. With

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    In the mid-19th century‚ amidst a nation grappling with the burgeoning demands of both the abolitionist and the women’s rights movements‚ Sojourner Truth rose to articulate a powerful argument interweaving race and gender. Her famed speech‚ delivered in 1851 at the Women’s Convention in Akron‚ Ohio‚ marked a significant moment in the history of women’s rights advocacy. In "Ain’t I a Woman?" "‚ Truth confronted the prevailing norms that relegated women‚ especially African American women‚ to the margins

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    4. How evenhandedly does the writer present the argument? Is there any mention of counterargument? If so‚ how does the writer deal with them? By refuting them? By acknowledging them and responding to them reasonably? Does the writer treat other arguments respectfully? Dismissively? Counterarguments: Throughout her entire speech she continue to counter

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    all the mothers. Angry:” If my cup won’t hold but a pint‚ and yours holds a quart‚ wouldn’t you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?” She used metaphor. She moaned women didn’t have the same rights as men and Men already have power‚ so just let women

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    artist but his art reflects his calm and easygoing personality‚ something that appears also in the song. When the line “Ain’t no valley low enough” is sung a third circular light appears on stage left. Once again this is a high school lighting project so there will be a chair with the word “VALLEY” on it‚ but if I had actual money it would be a valley cutout. As the chorus wraps up with “ Ain’t no river wide enough baby” blue lights will develop on the backdrop‚ symbolizing the

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    Equality should be the foundation of peace in the world. Sojourner Truth‚ an ex-slave and women’s rights muckraker presented a speech at a women’s rights convention titled “Ain’t I a Woman” (1851). She explicates the need for revision of the rules within her society to motivate the audience to push for rights equal to all. Truth elaborates difference between men and women by using the repetition of rhetorical questions and illuminates the advantage of being a white woman versus an African-American

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    women want any rights more than they’s got‚ why don’t they just take them‚ and not be talking about it” (Truth). Students can learn about past and present injustices from reading and studying “Ain’t I a Woman” by Sojourner Truth. “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches‚ and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages‚ or over mud-puddles‚ or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?” Truth recognizes that white women

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    an equal life‚ justice and respect like the white people are experiencing. She fought for her freedom by her words‚ "That man over there says women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches and to have the best place everywhere". She defended the man and concluded that he was right. Nevertheless‚ she said "Then that little man in black there he says women

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    encountered in Huckleberry Finn do not have very high moral standards. Many of them think and act very irrationally. Huck again and again returns to this idea of being ’sivilized’. During his stay with the widow and Miss Watson‚ he scorns the idea as well as fears it because he believes that civilization is a loss of the freedom that living outdoors without adult supervision brings him. Huck rebels against becoming civilized every chance he gets-perhaps because he thinks that if he should succumb and live

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    As I read the essay‚ “Trayvon Martin and I ain’t shit” by Questlove‚ I could already see the inaccurate negative responses pile up in the original posting on facebook. Not for his writing or stance on the case but for his revelation that the world we live in today is still very racist. I felt the pain and inconvenience of a man who lived his life to extreme measures‚ to protect others while belittling himself. Questloves size‚ and race prohibited him from living his life to his full potential because

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