Phillis Wheatley Letter To General G Washington Summary

One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, an orator, and a revolutionary leader, Patrick Henry, in his “Speech of the Virginia Convention,” engages the Virginia delegates into the war of England explaining that the longer they waited to take action, the harder it would be to win. Henry’s purpose is to convince the Virginia House of Burgesses to send their troops to aid the cause of the Revolutionary war and to also fight for independence. He adopts a passionate and dramatic tone in order to appeal to the emotions of the people of Virginia.

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In this chapter, Joseph J. Ellis tells us about how George Washington’s retirement for being the president. He thinks that it was a good thing because there was no sign of failure and everything got stronger and they were ready for what the future held for the nation. George Washington knew that, from his powerful influence, the country was going to be strong because of the two years he served as president. Joseph J. Ellis also looks at how George Washington’s bad health and his hate towards the press criticism influenced the decision. Then, in the end, the chapter concludes with Washington’s Farewell Address and the discussion of the major points in the text.

Phillis Wheatley was the the first African American writer to have her books published in the United States. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral written by Wheatley was viewed as a model for the importance of education with religious aspects, as it was often seen throughout her poetry. Formulated mainly of neoclassical elegiac poetry, Poems on Various Subjects triggered several discussions concerning the length to which Wheatley can be deemed a minor poet or whether she wrote to express politics and moral trouble.

Jane Addams’ speech explains her stance of George Washington's legacy as a soldier, statesman, and a Virginia planter. In this speech, Jane Addams references George Washington’s accomplishments in his past, including how things would be if he is to be present today. The most significant uses of rhetorical devices in this speech include hypophora, rhetorical questions, enumeratio, distinctio, and metaphors.

An analysis of George Washington’s Farewell Address shows that there were three points he wanted to stress. The points being his decision not to be considered for a 3rd term, his advice to the country to stand united, and his advice to the future leaders of the country concerning foreign policy.

George Washington’s Presidential Farewell Address consisted of three critical elements that were considered vital for the functional survival of the country that had just won its independence. On September 19, 1796, President Washington advised the nation to stand together as one united country, warned the people about the dangers of political parties and he established foundational reasons for the country to not become over involved in foreign affairs. These three principles set forth an understanding that was monumental for American society. Their level of importance serves as a near perfect reflection to both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution as the building blocks to a great nation. Each of these three principles, even though they were not written as laws, went on as a tradition for this nation; each being clung to with the same level of importance and integrity as the Founders sought in the aforestated documents of freedom.

In the persuasive letter written by Abigail Adams to her son, John Quincy Adams, A. Adams uses the rhetorical strategies of emotional appeal and logic. John Quincy Adams and his father, “a United States diplomat and later the second president” of the United States, were traveling abroad. During that time A. Adams sent a letter to her son, she encouraged her son to take full advantage of the opportunity of the “voyage.” She wanted him to use his own knowledge and skills to gain experience and wisdom to grow into the man he will be in the future, a leader. A. Adams supports her position by using analogies, allusions, a nurturing and guiding tone, and an abstract word choice. These appeals are used to reassure her son of her love and affection, to convince him of his great attributes and potential for the future, and to initiate his patriotic responsibility.

Ms. Wheatley was born in Senegal or Gambia in 1753 and brought to America when she was around 7 years old, on the slave ship “The Phillis”. She was bought by a tailor named John Wheatley to be a servant for his wife Susannah. John assigned her the name Phillis because of the ship that brought her to America and as was customary, Phillis took the last name of John and Susannah. Susannah soon realized that Phillis was a very gifted child and began to encourage Phillis to learn with her own children. Phillis learned to read and write English in a very short amount of time and the Wheatley’s 18-year-old daughter began to tutor her in numerous

George Washington, the first president of the United States, had written a very important historical speech and document towards the end of his time in office. He had written the Farewell address which focused on helping America understand the importance of preserving unity, acknowledging the rise of political parties forming, strengthening religion and morality, and he stated his position on American foreign policy. He addressed these ideas with strong tone and used incredible amount of dictions that strengthens his tone as well as representing his appeal to ethos to a strong degree. However, today’s society seemed to forget Washington’s position on foreign policy and has created a new form of the policy. But nonetheless as time grew,

“Washington’s Farewell Address” speech is a compelling and inspiring speech that lifted the spirits of Americans while George Washington rejected taking the third term of President of the United States. This speech is very easy to read because of the rhetorical and literary devices he uses. This speech's significance is to reject Washington’s third term and motivate America, and it accomplishes both. “Washington’s Farewell Address” is a compelling and remarkable speech because of how Washington captivates the reader with ethos, pathos, logos, and figurative

Phillis Wheatley was an African American poet who contributed to American literature, but also influenced African Americans living in America, and inspired their knowledge about how they were treated during the Revolutionary War. Phillis Wheatley was an African American female who was born in 1753 in West Africa, and she died on December 5th, 1753 in Boston Massachusetts. (“Phillis Wheatley.” Discovering Biography). In 1761, she was captured and brought to America and was sold to John and Susanna Wheatley. Unlike other household slaves, Wheatley was treated well and had a very upright education. (“Phillis Wheatley,” UXL Biographies). Wheatley started to write poetry when she was twelve years old and published her first poem when she was fourteen years old. Later in her life, having not yet found her sense of freedom, Wheatley promoted her work and became well known during the Revolutionary War. (“Phillis Wheatley.” Discovering Biography). She was granted freedom in 1773 and moved to Providence, Rhode Island where she pursued her career once more. Later in 1784, she died after a miserable marriage to John Peters, but her legacy still lives and emphasized problems of equality during the Revolutionary War. (“Phillis Wheatley,” UXL Biographies). Phillis Wheatley’s, “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” demonstrates her personal experiences upon leaving Africa as a slave and demonstrates African equality beyond her Pagan background and life living as a servant in

One of Wheatley’s better known pieces of poetry is “On being brought from Africa to America.” While it is a short poem a lot of information can be taken away from it. She begin the poem with establishing her experience with slavery as a beneficial thing to her life. She makes this clear by telling the reader that slavery brought her to Christianity, an important piece of her life. One reason the subject of Christianity is prevalent in the poem is because as an African American poet not many subjects were “safe” to write about without receiving criticism or even punishment. Christianity, however, was one of the more accepted

Wheatley’s criticisms steam mostly form the figurative language in the poem. The speaker uses metaphors, when reading in a superficial manner, causes the reader to think the speaker is self-deprecating. The speaker says, “Taught my benighted soul to understand” (2) The metaphor benighted to describe her soul as spiritually unaware into religiously enlightened. Wheatley continues to use a hyperbole saying, "Their color is a diabolic die."(6) The language use could be viewed as if the speaker is belittling African natives. This was a rhetorical device helps the American colonists compare their Christian teaching to their behaviors. The author, Wheatley, “oppositional discourse on Christianity, she anticipated the moral arguments of pro-slavers, especially in her characterizations of the Christian God.” (McBride) the speaker draws the reader in with the dialectal that appears to be gracious for their intervention while reminding them of their deceit with

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