Please check the attached file s Check the attached files. the instructor is very restricted about the grading policy please follow the instruction. For we
Please check the attached file s Check the attached files. the instructor is very restricted about the grading policy please follow the instruction. For week 2, we have two reading assignments. One is a speech by Sojourner Truth and
Issue No. 2 from “Understanding Rhetoric” by Losh et. al. I suggest reading Issue 2 first in
order to make sense of what you should write about in your C.I (Critical Inquiry) #1.
The Critical Inquiry is an opportunity for you to make an argument based on a given text
and a selected quote or paragraph.
a. After reading Truth’s speech, you should select a quote that you find
meaningful/appealing.
b. Use some of the strategies presented in “Understanding Rhetoric” to work on your
analysis.
c. Your C.I should be argumentative.
d. Your C.I should include 5 pages (Page 1 should include the quote you chose, and the
questions you are attempting to answer. Page 2-4 include your introduction, argument,
supporting ideas, and conclusion. Page 5 should be your Works Cited Page, MLA style)
e. Find your reading assignments under “Modules.”
f. You should follow MLA style and include a scholarly and popular source to support your
argument.
MLA
link: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_st
yle_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an
external site.
Speech Entitled “Ain’t I a Woman?”
by
Sojourner Truth
Delivered at the 1851 Women’s Convention in Akron,
Ohio
Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something
out of kilter. I think that ‘twixt the Negroes of the South and the women
at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty
soon. But what’s all this here talking about?
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? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have
ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head
me! And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a
man – when I could get it – and bear the lash as well! And ain’t I a
woman? 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?
Then they talk about this thing in the head; what’s this they call it?
[member of audience whispers, “intellect”] That’s it, honey. What’s that
got to do with women’s rights or Negroes’ rights? 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?
Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much
rights as men, ‘cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ
Sojourner Truth “Ain’t I Woman?”, Speech Delivered at Ohio Women’s Rights Convention, May 1851
come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a
woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world
upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it
back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it. The
men better let them.
Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing
more to say.
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