Fitzhugh calls the attention of his audience by showing how slaves have to be controlled by the rich and powerful leaders. As a pro-slavery activist, Fitzhugh tries to persuade his audience that higher people need to be in charge. He points out that “protection cannot be efficient without the power of control”, by doing this he shows his audience, abolitionist, that they can be in control. He affects the audience by giving them power and control over the weak. Not only does he state that slaves are weak, but he also states that the poor are considered weak. He includes this to make the weak live in fear and so his audience can gain power and protection. By the time this article came out white, rich people were angry that African Americans were
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” This mantra from Margaret Mead is a somewhat humorous yet slightly satirical spin on how people tend to think of themselves as one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable human specimens. However, one English teacher from Wellesley High School takes this critique one step further with his polemic presentation at the school commencement. David McCullough, a Massachusetts English teacher, gave a seemingly somber sendoff to his graduates in 2012, with a speech that contained some unapologetically harsh sentiments. However, by looking past the outwardly dismal surface of the speech, the students can infer a more optimistic message. By incorporating devices of asyndeton, paradox, antimetabole, and anadiplosis, McCullough conveys to each student that even though none of them is unique, their commonality is not a fault they all have merit and should strive to view the world through a more selfless lens.
In addressing the Wellesley High School class of 2012, David McCullough, Jr., uses rhetorical devices such as logos, pathos and literacy devices to argue the uneasy fact to the grads that every person is not special and thus should not try to accomplish everything in life.
In the 1930s, the time of the Great Depression, most Americans were struggling merely to survive while a select few hoarded the collective wealth of the nation. A man named Huey P. Long stands out from many other politicians and promoted economic equality across Americans. In his speech “Every Man a King,” he blames the rich for the strife of the poor. As a lawyer from a poor agricultural community, Long became the advocate for farmers in Louisiana.
People in the nineteenth century were religious. Sometimes people were able to convince people to do certain things or convince people what they are doing is right by saying it is in the bible. Fitzhugh thinks that “all anti-slavery men should be atheists”(). It is acceptable for a white man to own a slave. On the other hand, Douglas thinks southerners don’t practice what they preach. He was seen how “the man who robs me of my earnings at the end of each week meets as a class leader on Sunday morning, to show me the way of life, and the path of salvation. He who sells my sister, for purposes of prostitution , stands forth as the pious advocate of purity”(135). By mentioning how women are forced into prostitution helps Douglas attain the white northern women. A woman will not let another woman in hell. In addition, he is also able to get the support of christian that are against people that use religion to do bad
They argue that the accruing of property by figures such as Johnson meant that they literally did not think of themselves as living within a racist society, and that, despite the decline of this freedom, it is a mistake to consider their opinions as an “aberration” in a narrative of inevitable racial exploitation (Breen & Innes, 112). Rather, they claim that to understand such people as such an aberration inevitably leads to a situation in which the real equality of their freedom is
A president has to have character, right? I mean, if the leader of the free world has no substance, nothing special about him, then how do we as citizens know that he is capable as far as foreign policies go. How do we know that we can trust him to make wise decisions? How do we know that he will tell us the truth? This concept is exactly what fictional president Andrew Shepherd successfully conveys in his “Address to the Press on Bob Rumson and the Crime Bill.” In the movie, The American President, Andrew Shepherd becomes romantically involved with crime bill lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade. Many characters, including Bob Rumson, believe that the relationship between Shepherd and Wade is hindering the advancement of the country. They believe that this relationship shows lack of character, and it is made apparent to Shepherd through the side comments and actions of those opposing him. In the closing scenes of the movie, Shepherd is found defending himself and his character through the form of a rhetorical speech. He convincingly uses pathos to appeal to his audience’s sense of nationality and pride.
Throughout the novel Douglass shows the damaging effects of slavery on the slaveholders. The excessive and corrupt power that the slaveowners impress on their slaves not only physically abuses the slaves, but morally abuses the slaveholders. Douglass shows this to depict that slavery is unorthodox for all involved. In America’s democratic society that we see today, no one branch of government should have unlimited power. There are checks and balances to keep this from happening. Power corrupts, the saying “absolute power corrupts absolutely” perfectly depicts what Douglass is trying to express. This absolute power is what corrupts the slaveowners. Slaveowners view their slaves as property and have absolutely zero respect for them. The slaveowners
President Obama’s Address to the nation was presented on January 5, 2016. His speech was shown on all of the major network stations. The main goal of his speech was to get the point across to the nation about the increasing problem of gun use. His speech really focused on the issue of gun control and if it would benefit the country. Overall, the biggest idea of his Address was that gun control is a large issue in the United States. The way to prevent deaths caused by firearms can be prevented in other ways than taking peoples guns away. The examples brought up in this Address really stood out to me. The use of personal, national, and global examples really made his speech stronger on the topic of effectiveness.
Hughsey’s oral history tells is a secondary source about a man who had been a sharecropper. His statement tells us that the sharecropper, who “couldn’t read or write”, was given very little to live on, after paying his sharecropping debt. This tells us that the now free African Americans were still extremely discriminated against—to a point where they were not even paid a higher amount to live off of because of these so called “sharecropping debts”. Also unveiled by Hughsey is that white superiority is still a major instrument used against blacks. For example, when the sharecropper and the “gentleman” that he worked for began an argument about who cheated whom, the “white man jumped on him, hitched the horses to him… and drug him through the street… and hung him,” making a statement in itself that says that the white man could do whatever he wanted, whether he was right or not.1 Minnie Whitney’s interview unveils how she saw that the sharecroppers were basically slaves with a different name, because they followed what “the white man would tell them” and also believed everything that was said to them by these “white m[en]”. Also displayed by Minnie’s story was that not all sharecroppers were treated badly, unless they decided that they didn’t want to do what they were told.
'With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.' In the delivery of Lincoln's 'Second Inaugural,' many were inspired by this uplifting and keen speech. It had been a long war, and Lincoln was concerned about the destruction that had taken place. Worn-out from seeing families torn apart and friendships eradicated, he interpreted his inaugural address. It was March of 1865, and the war, he believed, must come to an end before it was too late. The annihilation that had taken place was tragic, and Lincoln brawled for a closure. The 'Second Inaugural' was very influential, formal, and emotional.
In this book, Marable challenges us to think about the meaning of “race” in America. For instance, he offers his intake on the history of racism since the 17th century and showing us the weird adaptation to every different age in the form of history (Great wells democracy). “The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder” (wells). This means, the white race has always been on top due to their cruel violence, intimidation, and murder. Meanwhile, Manning Marable is showing us how power is formed through racism and how racism comes to be when you cruelly take it, or inhumanly enforce it. In fact, it was making a social movement by saying in the history of the white race we have treated other race’s poorly, unfairly, and fairly cruel to obtain all the much
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass also proves that Fitzhugh statement that slavery prevents rivalry between the master and slave is wrong. Fitzhugh explains that with equality among men they all aspire for self-promotion and self-elevation. In “Slavery Justified” Fitzhugh writes, “A state of independence always begets more or less jealousy rivalry and hostility”
Slave-owners looked upon the African Americans as lesser people who were in desperate need of support. They were not capable of surviving on their own without white guidance (Boston). Dr. Flint, the master over the plantation where Harriet Jacobs lived showed a great example of paternalism. He cared for Harriet but in a possessive way to which he continuously sought the woman for his personal needs. For Dr. Flint, the slaves he owned should be grateful towards him and be willing to do what he asked with no rebuttal. This wasn’t the case with Harriet. She simply refused him at every chance which only angered the slaveholder. Jacobs resisted the doctor and his paternalistic ways. Harriet Jacobs sheds light onto the self-interest that drives the paternalism displayed by the masters. The slaves were property and who wanted to showcase poorly groomed property? If there was someone visiting, the slaves, except for those within the house, would be hidden away and those who worked within the master’s home would dawn nicer clothes and better meals would be prepared all in a show for the
In, “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” written by Benjamin Franklin (one of the Founding Fathers) in 1747, brought up the disparities that were between men and women within the judicial system. Also, “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” also briefly points out, how religion has been intertwined with politics. All throughout “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker,” Benjamin Franklin uses very intense diction and syntax to help support what he is trying to express to the rest of society. Also writing this speech in the view point of a women, greatly helps establish what he is trying to say. If Benjamin Franklin was to write it as a man, the speech my have not had the same passionate effect as it currently has.
Fitzhugh surprising does not carry himself as a racist which enables him to tolerate the opposing view of his fellow countrymen as he explains why it is important to conceptualize both sides of the debate. Evidently the style of arguing for George Fitzhugh reciprocates his political background which causes him to sympathize with both sides, which during this time is uncommon if you are an advocate for non-abolition. Fitzhugh’s perspective on slavery seems confusingly ignorant, since he considers negroes as naturally inferior to all other races and incompetent of developing like western ideologies or practices. He feels as though it is critical of the United States as a nation to heed to the negro population and care for them through private ownership by whites. He suggests that this is the most beneficial approach to the inclusion of negroes and whites in the same land. Not only is his ideology morally rotten, against natural law and a violation of human rights, but wrong on the intellectual