A Brief Speech Analysis of Shirley Chisholm Abstract This essay is a brief evaluation of the speeches given in the documentary of Shirley Chisholm. The tools used to analyze the speeches are identified throughout the paper. It concludes an analysis of the introduction‚ body‚ conclusion‚ language‚ and delivery. The accomplishments of these tools are discussed to give an overall evaluation. The sources used to identify the tools are internet and non internet based to conclude the analysis.
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In Shirley Jackson ’s short story "The Lottery" she represents an average society with seemingly common order and widely developed traditions which everybody is forced or even glad to follow whatever they are. First we see how everybody has traditionally defined roles within the community: men‚ women and even children know well how they are expected to behave. Men are the dominating part; they have the right to make decisions for their families. Women have a subordinate position: they are supposed
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Introduction “The emotional‚ sexual‚ and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says‚ “It’s a girl”. ” – Shirley Chisholm Shirley Chisholm was an American politician‚ educator and author. She was the first black woman to be elected to Congress and she was also the first major-party black woman candidate for President of the United States. In 1982 Chisholm told the Associated Press: "I’ve always met more discrimination being a woman than being black. When I ran for the
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The story of “The Lottery”‚ written by Shirley Jackson is very different in terms of the ways you and I may see the lottery today. The lottery today is looked at as fun‚ entertaining and almost as a type of recreation for many Americans but not in this short story. The lottery in this story is the total opposite of the way we view it today. It does not deal with entertainment but it deals with your life literally‚ almost as if they are playing Russian roulette. But this all seems like a normal everyday
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In the short story “The Lottery” published in 1948 by Shirley Jackson three years after World War 2. The story was originally published in the New Yorker. In the short story we follow the story on a small town of 300 people going through a lottery system. This short story has been recognized as a very powerful story with many layers of meaning that could be interpreted in many different which is why it is still apart of school curriculum. An interesting topic that comes from this story is the idea
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English 102 September10‚ 2012 The Lottery “The Lottery” written by Shirley Jackson‚ focuses around an unnamed village on a particular day in the mid summer on June the twenty seventh the time the annual lottery usually took place. The main purpose the lottery served was to make the happening of enough rain in order to have good corn crops the following month after the ritual. In a way the story evolves around the misguided belief that when the villagers sacrificed one of their own to what may
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human history. Events like the Holocaust in the 1900s‚ segregation of white and blacks during the mid-1900s‚ and the denial of women’s civil rights in the 1900s all serve as prime consequences of humans not willing to change. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ she use the black battered box as a way to illustrate that human kind must continue to evolve and not always conform to unethical traditions. This is important because if the town members evaluated their beliefs and did not conform to unethical
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The short story‚ The Lottery by Shirley Jackson‚ is about a village is the past that had some traditions. One of the traditions was that every year one person would be chosen for sacrifice. They thought the sacrifice would bring a good growing season for the crops. This lottery only took 2 hours‚ but some took as long as two days. The theme is luck goes a long way because mathematically there’s a small chance of winning‚ luck is random‚ and luck isn’t always good. One reason is‚ mathematically
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Similarly to Bread Givers’ Sara Smolinsky‚ Maya Lin is the daughter of immigrants who fled to the United States in 1948 before the 1949 Communist takeover of China. On the date of October 5‚ 1959‚ she was born in Athens‚ Ohio (Biography.com Editors). Lin’s parents were intellectuals who eventually became professors at Ohio University; teaching ceramics (father) and English (mother). As a result from accompanying her parents to the university‚ she and her brother (a poet) were encouraged to be creative
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Most people believe the lottery is a win but in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson it is exactly the opposite. In this short story a small town of villagers stone to death one of their own‚ once a year‚ for the sake of crops. There are several characters the reader encounters that play significant roles in the story‚ such as Mrs. Delacriox and Mr. Summers. Mr. Summers‚ a “round-faced‚ jovial man”‚ is essentially the mayor of the small village. He puts all his time and energy into the town’s activities
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