Dr. Jeanine Canty: Speech Analysis

IExperiencing gender inequality at CU reflected an ugly truth: The United States has not moved past discrimination! In uncovering, the country’s gruesome treatment of black women, I found that gender and racial discrimination overlap because they are simultaneously experienced. The United States has a long history of treating women unequally, especially black women. Before the enactment of the 19th Amendment, white women did not allow black women to join the Woman’s Suffrage Movement because of racial prejudice, and they feared that the government might dismantle the organization (Dumenil 2007). Fortunately, in 1920, women gained the right to vote through the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. However, because most states in the country

The date is June 6th, 1984, and American President Ronald Reagan stands solemnly before a massive stone monument on what he calls "a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France." On this historic day, the President of the United States stands solemnly before a small crowd of some of the bravest men living. The men assembled before him know these cliffs well. These are the Rangers who scaled the cliffs 40 years ago to do more than win the cliffs on the shores of Normandy. These are the Rangers who began the retaking of the entirety of Europe from Axis Control. That was 40 years ago, now only 90 of the original 225 sit before him now. All that can be heard are the crash of the waves on beach below and the occasional cry of a seagull

On October 28th, 2015, Lone Star College of Kingwood hosted an event called the human library. It was held on campus for students who were interested to participate. The human library was created for students to gain knowledge of obstacles individuals experienced in life, such as living in the south as a black woman in the 1950’s, being homeless, and being a religion that is frowned upon in society. The purpose of the event is to teach students about other cultures, social classes, and hardship. The speakers inform our generation their own personal experience rather than information in a text book.

The short story “Speech Sounds” is a science fiction story written by Octavia Butler. This essay portrays a central theme that really opened my eyes as well as many others. This theme is to never take your ability to communicate for granted. Communication is a huge part of our culture and civilization. I never truly realized how important communication really was until reading this story. Without it, we cannot express our feelings in a correct manner. Not being able to connect with other individuals results in it being very hard to cooperate with others, causing chaos amongst society. In a short amount of time, the world would turn on each other causing mass amounts of violence. Likewise, this is similar to the story “Speech Sounds.” There are many takeaways one can have after reading this story.

In the United States of America, during the late 1950’s there were tensions amongst citizens because of segregation laws and the treatment of the black community. Also known as the Civil Rights Movement that ultimately changed how our society is today. There were many standpoints but the two main point of views were; Integration or segregation ,of dark colored races. Throughout this paper we will analyze the two sources that show both the perspectives of the people who wanted integration and those who wanted segregation. First we will evaluate the speech Dr. Martin Luther King Jr gave in Montgomery on segregation and why integration was needed. Secondly we will evaluate the perspective of segregation in the Southern Manifesto on Integration.

On January 30th, 2017, I went to a Courageous Conversations talk offered by the Center of Faith and Justice in the Gallagher Student Center at Xavier University. Dr. Kyra Shahid, associate director of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, lead the discussion which focused on the experiences of LatinX people on college campuses pre- and post- the US presidential election of Donald Trump. The discussion focused on people of Latino decent including the countries of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South and Central American and how President Donald Trump’s executive orders has and will affect them. People from many different countries apart from the ones listed about were invited to speak up and ask questions about the situation.

Never before have I encountered a student body with such an outpour of support, until my visit to George Washington University. Apart from being mesmerized by GW’s prime location, I was in awe by the activism of the student body. I felt the love between the GW community and social change, watching a diverse crowd of students assemble for the Women’s March on Washington. Displaying strong awareness of intersectionality, they gathered, not solely, for women’s rights, but also in support of indigenous peoples, immigration, and environmental justice. I witnessed compassion as the GW community prepared for a march that made history. Unlike many, the women and men of GW acknowledge the problems and injustices of society. It fills me with joy knowing that one day I may join their fight for justice as a friend and member of this

Recently, society has been making many efforts to reduce prejudice and hate. One of the major things that have been going on to help reduce prejudice is protests. A lot of people have been offended by gender discrimination and have had many protests against it. One of the major events was the Women’s March on Washington. Many smaller women’s marches were held on the same day in many different cities and towns across the country. The people participating in the march were promoting women’s rights and also protesting against President Trump (Bouie). There also have been many protests that have been starting at colleges. Most of the protests have been against racial discrimination. Hundreds of students at Ithaca College in upstate New York were demanding the resignation of the college president Tom Rochon, for his lackluster response to complaints of racial insensitivity on campus (Hartocollis and Bidgood). Both of these were great efforts to eliminate prejudice, but they were not nearly enough.

“On November 2nd, a coalition of students called Next Yale marched on University President Peter Salovey’s house to submit a list of measures the administration should take to improve the racial climate on campus, including an ethnic studies distributional requirement for all Yale undergraduates” (Victor, 2015). A majority of the students at Yale University voted in favor of making ethnic studies a requirement for undergraduates. In Arizona, around July, legislators decided to prohibit students from taking a Mexican-American ethnic studies class because they believed the class would promote ethnic solidarity instead of promoting the treatment of the people as individuals.

2B. In the field of speech-language pathology, a therapist needs to be prepared to work with individuals from diverse backgrounds with respect to language, dialect, culture, socioeconomic status, religion and sexual orientation. Describe some potential benefits and challenges to a speech-language pathologist in working with diverse populations? How would you address the challenges and benefits you described. We are all one.

Octavia Butler, the author of “Speech Sounds” and many other short stories, is a well-known author for her feminist point of view which might be attributed to her father who died when she was young and her mother taking on the role as the father figure as well as the mother figure. After the bus stop, Valerie Rye, the protagonist in this short story who goes by Rye for a lot of the short story, met Obsidian who Rye assumes his name to be; also, he used to be a LAPD officer. Rye immediately trusts Obsidian to drive her to Pasadena to see what is left of her family. In Octavia Butlers “Speech Sounds,” the men and women have reverse gender roles throughout this short story than we are used to because men in our world tend to have more power over women.

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill gave the 2017 All Bonaventure Reads keynote at St. Bonaventure University this past Monday. During the summer, the freshman class all read Hill’s book, “Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on The Vulnerable from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond.” In the book, many thought-provoking events that are a part of America’s history were discussed. The theme of the keynote was why people are put into the category of a “nobody.”

One of the speakers that I was able to connect to was the SSU UndocuScholar Coalition, I’m also an undocumented student and I was able to share my experiences with these speakers. I can speak for myself, when I first came to SSU, I experienced some discrimination because I’m an undocumented student, and because I’m brown. It sounds ridiculous that these things still happen, specially here at Sonoma State University. At some point I felt like dropping out because of how I was treated, but I told myself I’m better than them, and I’m going to prove them wrong. It’s not an easy journey to college for undocumented students, specially for first generation students, who have never been exposed to this type of environment. Not just in education but we also struggle with having some type of representation on this country. Specially now with the new president we have, we don’t feel safe anymore, we are not criminals or rapist, we just want to be educated and pursue a career to have a better future for us and our family. I feel like we have been the target of a lot of

Week three’s lecture, received from Trish Hill-Wall, a member of the stolen generation, was an incredible speech. It was horrifying to hear about Trish being removed from her parents, growing up in an abusive orphanage, to being told she is good for nothing, but pregnancy. Nevertheless, despite her childhood, Trish is now studying at university, completing her master’s degree. Additionally, at a mature age, learning her Aboriginal language, culture and re-establishing her identity. Undoubtedly, Trish exhibits a resilient character, to survive her negative upbringing and push through historical boundaries. Trish’s strength is demonstrated, when she comforted an upset student, although, in the first place, Trish is the one that suffered. To a

The role of women in government exists on a painful pendulum. Even in post-modern culture, women receive derision for their involvement, however, one election in the year 1784 marks for the first time England’s need for forced acknowledgment of power in the female voice. History recalls the reactions as vindictive and abusive; however, for the people alive, it only equaled satire of male opponents. Georgiana, the fifth Duchess of Devonshire, gathered literary and political figures to meet at her Chatsworth home and Devonshire house, and influence them enough to break through as propaganda manager, fete ruler, and even created a speech affectation that plagued each member. However, she did not stop there; Georgiana, her sister, and various other