The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is fed up - their descendants lived on reservation land and the surrounding areas in North and South Dakota prior to 1700, before the white men arrived. Yet they are still fighting to live on their rightful land without interference from the US government. A few years ago, the government authorized TransCanada Corporation to build an oil pipeline through many cultural sites sacred to the Sioux people, as well as beneath the source of reservation drinking water, Lake Oahe. Since then, Native activists have tirelessly protested the implementation of the DAPL. Finally, in late 2016, at the end of Obama’s presidency, he sided with the Sioux people. It was a historic victory for the Tribe, but as soon as Trump took …show more content…
She appeals to the audience’s emotions through her use of repetition and impactful run on sentences. Specifically, she begins almost every stanza with “For my people.” This repetition shows that her message is important, and meant for a wide audience. By repeating “for my people,” Walker is of course writing to her people, but she is also writing a subtle message to people who could aid in the fight of her oppressors, asking them to help end her peoples’ stresses. For example, the line “For my people… sleeping when hungry, shouting when burdened, drinking when hopeless…” protests the fact that so many of her people are going hungry at night and drinking to cope with their problems, but also asks for someone to put an end to hunger and alcoholism for her people’s sake. In addition to repetition, she uses run-on sentences to highlight the volume of problems her people face as a result of their identity. To illustrate, “For the cramped bewildered years we went to school to learn to know the reasons why and the answers to and the people who and the places where and the days when, in memory of the bitter hours when we discovered we were black and poor and small and different and nobody cared and nobody wondered and nobody understood.” Essentially, the long, crowded sentence gives readers an opportunity …show more content…
Both are fed up with the public’s lack of concern for the problems that continually plague their people, and call for fair treatment. In “For My People,” Walker explicitly says how “no one cared” about her people’s problems. Similarly, Native protesters feel the lack of concern for their problems in the way they successfully organized such a large and visible protest, yet nothing changed for their people. Both Walker and protesters push back against this lack of concern by hoping for a new generation that will act as the catalyst for change. Both hope for the flawed system in place, which treats their people as second-class citizens, to be disbanded and replaced by one where their people share in the freedom experienced by those who are not oppressed. Walker writes, “let a people loving freedom come to growth,” and Native protesters would agree: a more passionate, new generation must be the ones to bring justice to their
The rhetorical occasion of this excerpt is to inform others about the dangers of chemicals on earth’s vegetation and animal life.
Samir Boussarhane During the early 20th century in the U.S, most children of the lower and middle class were workers. These children worked long, dangerous shifts that even an adult would find tiresome. On July 22, 1905, at a convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia, Florence Kelley gave a famous speech regarding the extraneous child labor of the time. Kelley’s argument was to add laws to help the workers or abolish the practice completely.
During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s the fight for equal and just treatment for both women and children was one of the most historically prominent movements in America. Courageous women everywhere fought, protested and petitioned with the hope that they would achieve equal rights and better treatment for all, especially children. One of these women is known as Florence Kelley. On July 22, 1905, Kelley made her mark on the nation when she delivered a speech before the National American Woman Suffrage Association, raising awareness of the cruel truth of the severity behind child labor through the use of repetition, imagery and oxymorons.
Florence Kelley was a social and political reformer that fought for woman’s suffrage and child labor laws. Her speech to the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association initiated a call to action for the reform of child labor laws. She explains how young children worked long and exhausting hours during the night and how despicable these work conditions were. Kelley’s use of ethos, logos, pathos, and repetition helps her establish her argument for the reform of the child labor laws.
In the passage from Silent Spring, renowned biologist Rachel Carson utilizes rhetorical strategies such as ethos, hyperbole, and understatement to call for an end to the harmful use of pesticides. She uses a tactful combination of hyperboles and understatements, and indicates her authority to speak on the topic by demonstrating appeals to ethos.
With hope that they could even out an agreement with the Government during the progressive era Indian continued to practice their religious beliefs and peacefully protest while waiting for their propositions to be respected. During Roosevelt’s presidency, a tribe leader who went by as No Shirt traveled to the capital to confront them about the mistreatment government had been doing to his people. Roosevelt refused to see him but instead wrote a letter implying his philosophical theory on the approach the natives should take “if the red people would prosper, they must follow the mode of life which has made the white people so strong, and that is only right that the white people should show the red people what to do and how to live right”.1 Roosevelt continued to dismiss his policies with the Indians and encouraged them to just conform into the white’s life style. The destruction of their acres of land kept being taken over by the whites, which also meant the destruction of their cultural backgrounds. Natives attempted to strain from the white’s ideology of living, they continued to attempt with the idea of making acts with the government to protect their land however they never seemed successfully. As their land later became white’s new territory, Indians were “forced to accept an ‘agreement’” by complying to change their approach on life style.2 Oklahoma was one of last places Natives had still identity of their own, it wasn’t shortly after that they were taken over and “broken by whites”, the union at the time didn’t see the destruction of Indian tribes as a “product of broken promises but as a triumph for American civilization”.3 The anger and disrespect that Native tribes felt has yet been forgotten, white supremacy was growing during the time of their invasion and the governments corruption only aid their ego doing absolutely nothing for the Indians.
She gets to the point and proves that in our current world we tend to say more than we should, when just a couple of words can do the same. In her writing, it is evident that the little sentences and words are what make the poem overall that perfect dream she wishes she were part of.
The United States Government was founded on the basis that it would protect the rights and liberties of every American citizen. The Equal Protection Clause, a part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, provides that “no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”. Yet for hundreds of years, the US government and society have distressed the Native American people through broken treaties, removal policies, and attempts of assimilation. From the Trail of Tears in the 1830s to the Termination Policy in 1953, the continued oppression of American Indian communities produced an atmosphere of heightened tension and gave the native peoples a reason to fight back. In 1968, Clyde Bellecourt, Dennis Banks, and Russell Means founded the American Indian Movement to address issues concerning the Native American community and tackle the situation and position of Native Americans in society. Over the next few decades, the movement led to a series of radical protests, which were designed to raise awareness to the American Indians’ issues and to pressure the federal government to act on their behalf. After all of the unfair and unjust policies enacted by the U.S. government and society, all of the American Indian Movement’s actions can be justified as legitimate reactions to the United States’ democratic society that had promised to respect and protect their people and had failed to do so.
The chemical sarin, is a deadly nerve agent that interferes with signaling within the nervous system (Geggel). This substance was used to kill 89 Syrians and injure 541 others (“Syria Chemical”). Syria is in a state of emergency due to the recent attacks from Russia and their own President Assad, and even more recent attacks from the United States, France, and Great Britain. Nikki Haley represents the United States as an ambassador in the United Nations. Due to the recent Russian bombings in Syria, the UN security council commenced and Mrs. Haley spoke about her concerns regarding what the states will do next. Nikki Haley took notice of the UN’s lack of justice when it came to the inhumane chemical weapons attack in Syria. Haley made a speech
Margaret Sanger, a well known feminist and women's reproductive right activist in USA history wrote the famous speech: The Children's Era. This speech focuses on the topic of women's reproductive freedom. Sanger uses rhetorical forms of communication to persuade and modify the perspectives of the audience through the use of analogy and pathos. She uses reason, thought and emotion to lead her speech.
Although the little girl doesn’t listen to the mother the first time she eventually listens in the end. For example, in stanzas 1-4, the little girl asks if she can go to the Freedom March not once, but twice even after her mother had already denied her the first time. These stanzas show how the daughter is a little disobedient at first, but then is able to respect her mother’s wishes. In stanzas 5 and 6, as the little girl is getting ready the mother is happy and smiling because she knows that her little girl is going to be safe, or so she thinks. By these stanzas the reader is able to tell how happy the mother was because she thought her daughter would be safe by listening to her and not going to the March. The last two stanzas, 7 and 8, show that the mother senses something is wrong, she runs to the church to find nothing, but her daughter’s shoe. At this moment she realizes that her baby is gone. These stanzas symbolize that even though her daughter listened to her she still wasn’t safe and is now dead. The Shoe symbolizes the loss the mother is going through and her loss of hope as well. This poem shows how elastic the bond between the daughter and her mother is because the daughter respected her mother’s wish by not going to the March and although the daughter is now dead her mother will always have her in her heart. By her having her
The AP Language and Composition course is purely designed to help students excel in their own stories, but more importantly, become more attentive to their surroundings. A conscientious goal, that would properly be attained through the collection of nonfiction paperbacks. Because of the purpose of this course and the current state of today’s children, one must undeniably agree that in selecting the “perfect book”, the overall idea of self-reliance would hold a prominent factor. This curriculum not only focuses on the rhetorical analysis of nonfiction texts, but it attempts to make students distinguish how the world plays with the dialectic of persuasion, also known as the art of rhetoric. In doing so, this course aims at making students aware
and Henry David Thoreau’s ideas of how government should not be followed if laws are morally unjust according to religion are reflected in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock, South Dakota. They are a form of independent action and nonconformity that are quite distinct in their nature because they truly mirror ideas of great transcendentalist thinkers, unlike other protests in this era that seem to be unorganized and without clear purpose. The protests at Standing Rock are over the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline that would have to run through Sioux territory. The nonconformity seen at the Standing Rock protests is due to a feeling of a greater purpose due to religion. As a part of the Sioux religion, the people “[attach] religious and cultural significance to properties with the area” (Bailey). Therefore, any changes to the land around them goes against their morals and their religion, so action must be taken. This applies the principles of Thoreau because people are protesting the naturally unjust government, and the ideas of Martin Luther King Jr. can be seen because people are making their own decisions over whether or not the rule of government is just. Furthermore, it is not just the Sioux who are protesting, but also “religious communities such as the United Methodist Church and the Nation of Islam” (Bailey) This is because people of other religions also recognize the plight of unjust laws and act independently. They also
She writes in a manner that speaks to where she grew up. The environment was not one of immense wealth, but the knowledge and the love she gathered in this environment is far greater than any monetary amount. As in the story that makes reference about the quilt, Walker tells her stories in a manner that are bided together. “Among some critics there is a tendency, which finds encouragement in Walker’s writing itself, to claim a strong analogy between quilting and storytelling, which allows one in turn to see Walker’s storytelling as metaphorically subsumable to quilting which in this scenario precedes her story”(Whitsitt 445). Walker expresses a different way for the reader to understand her work, because she “quilts” the story in a manner where all things flow together. The quilt is also an important aspect because it keeps the family warm, and offers a feeling of comfort. This is something that can be seen with the struggles African Americans faced during the period Walker wrote this
...ot satisfied with the government’s policies that put them away from their country’s system. The struggle for equal opportunity of Native Americans has long way to go to make them part of the “new land” which is old enough to them. Their representation in government offices, Media, and investment areas are almost null. Overall, they are hardly participating in every game of this country; they still watch from distance.