Professor: Terry Hennessy
ENG: 102
20 September 2013
The Cover Letter
1. What is your purpose in writing this essay? In your response, explore the deeper meaning of this question. The goal is not just to complete the assignment but instead to convey a message. What do you plan to accomplish with this essay? What do you hope the reader takes away from this argument?
I believe the purpose in writing this essay was to give students the opportunity to evaluates someone’s work and to see if we can look pass our own opinions and decide whether the person writing the article was able to convey their argument in a way that was understandable.
2. What did you learn from completing this assignment? Did you experience a new
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Murray uses logos to prove that women and men are the same when given the same opportunities to succeed. According to our reading, logos relies on sound logic to determine if a statement is true, as long as all the reasons “add up” to the conclusion (Driver, Gast, Lowman-Thomas). She hinted in her argument that women couldn’t provide a lot of contributions to society because they were raised to be homemakers and not out in the workforce since that was a mans place. She believed that women were denied the opportunities to make an impact on society because they were limited in their education and upbringing. All the information presented in her argument was valid and it shows that one cannot truly conclude who the superior sex is based on gender. Both sexes have the ability to be great and all it takes providing both gender with the opportunities they need to excel in life.
Murray’s argument was very successful because it allows the reader to see what changes needed to be made in order to make the genders play on a leveled playing field and be completely equal. Although equality of the sexes is what most people want, it will never happen unless society removes the stigma placed on women, which make her nothing more than a simple housewife that just here to have babies and serve her man. The void that women felt back in the 1700s, is the same void some women feel today and
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Murray also uses the Biblical story of Job to turn the argument of male superiority against itself and to strengthen the footing of her argument. At first, she concedes by recognizing that there are many passages in
And they can be equals if they believe they are. The basis of this essay is that knowledge is the solution to possessing value. In On the Equality of the Sexes, she believes women to be slandered in society, and they are only known to be inferior to men simply because men have an unjust difference in education. She declares that an educated woman would only increase her domestic skills and rational thoughts. In Observations on Female Abilities, she amasses an enormous amount of concrete detail to prove the general points she made earlier. Murray was clearly optimistic about the prospects of American women in 1798, imagining that a new era of gender equality was dawning in this "younger world." Yet again, as in her other essays on women's issues, Murray argues that women are rational beings, capable of exhibiting the traits associated with Republican citizenship. Once again she maintains that educated women make the most virtuous mothers and wives. At the same time, she continues to insist that women can be brave, strong, and heroic as well as modest, religious, and chaste.
The purpose of this report is to conduct a critical appraisal of a published article.
You and I live in a world were modernism is reaching new heights every day. One day that touchscreen phone is considered new, and then next week it’s old news. These two stories that I am going to compare are about the role of technology, science and how it affects me and you. Based on how it uses new technology and modern science A Sound of Thunder is a better sci-fiction story.
In “On the Equality of the Sexes,” Murray begins by arguing that the inventiveness of women is more than proof of their intellectual capacity, stating “Invention is perhaps the most arduous effort of the mind; this branch of imagination hath been particularly ceded to us, and we have been time out of mind invested with that creative faculty” (132-133). She goes on to give various examples, such as “the variety of fashions… [and] how continually are they
For this essay, you will be taking an unbiased position to discuss your research findings. This essay should follow the following format:
A critical appraisal was completed to assess the value of the research study conducted by Batch & Windsor (2014). This was completed through the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP), which is a tool used to evaluate different research articles (CASP, 2014). I assessed that this article has significance, particularly for the nursing profession. Nevertheless, sections of this article could have been further developed by expanding the topic through using a greater variety of hospital settings and more diverse patient populations. Ethnography in the healthcare setting has been examined in the Nursing 1028 course. This article used an ethnographic framework to develop further assessment on such elements such as culture, disparities and gain comprehension of how nurses communicate (Batch & Windsor, 2014).
“But, suffer me to ask, in what the minds of females are so notoriously deficient, or unequal,” writes Murray with an acerbic wit in the prosaic section of “On the Equality of the Sexes” (Murray, Equality of the Sexes, 132). This first essay written by Murray begins with an extensive poem highlighting the separation of men and women for unsound reasons. In the poem, Murray acknowledges that no two minds think the same, but also notes that women as a whole are viewed as the weaker, lesser sex. Women, as the inferior sex in this time period, must submit themselves completely to their husbands or fathers. Although some Colonial Americans do not view females as lesser beings, “imbecility is still confin'd, And by the lordly sex to us consign'd” (Murray, Equality of the Sexes, 132). Women cannot stop the misogyny against their gender due to society’s twisted views. Following the poetic section of the essay, Murray expresses her reasoning in prose. Based on her commentary, the commonplace perception of women as humans with naturally inferior brain capacities does not occur to Murray; in fact, she claims “their minds are by nature equal” (Murray, Equality of the Sexes, 133). Even though society shows little respect for women’s rights, Murray never once shows the slightest implication of sharing these misogynistic views with the world. The entirety of “On the
When Murray’s essay, “On the Equality of the Sexes” first appeared in print in 1790 in the Massachusetts’s magazine, she began a movement in the revolutionary Atlantic world. This movement seeked to extend equality for women. Murray was a feminist writer, who strived for the rights and equality of women, in addition to women’s recognition. Throughout her essay, she speaks about the difference between a man and woman’s capabilities within several aspects including: reason, memory, judgement and imagination. Murray’s title of her essay is compellingly ironic, being that the entire focus of this piece of writing is composed of the inequality between men and women rather than the equality.
Nature has provided both sexes the same mental capability to learn, yet nurture has limited these opportunities to women. Men are taught to aspire to learn and work, and women are taught to be "confined and limited." Murray ends her argument by questioning whether the unequal treatment of women should be determined by man's social laws. Nature and God made men and women equal, so why would men want to interfere with the "works of Deity," She believes that if every human being, despite is sex, is a work of God, then women should not be degraded. In conclusion, Murray believes that women are worth more than just obeying domestic employments. Also, she believes that women should be given the right to learn and obtain a "cultivated mind." Women are just as capable and equal to men to do anything they set their minds
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