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    Shirley Chisholm Analysis Speech In the speech, Equal Rights for Women by Shirley Chisholm, main rhetor in the speech. She is the first African American woman to be elected to Congress. She is part of the House Representative in Washington D.C, from May 21, 1969, to 1983. She entered the primaries for the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1972. Chisholm purpose is to fight for equal rights for all citizens, most specifically women. She wants to help as an advocate by providing more

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    garment reflect on the strength and power of this woman. The varieties of warm colors that spill across her body provide fullness to the confidence suggested by her outfit. However, the exposure of skin that is revealed can be analyzed two ways. One-way, an individual sees what is generally expected of a woman: dresses that suffocate, that remind others of breasts, and that objectify a woman through her curves. The other way, an individual sees a woman who exhibits influence and

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    is a Lonely Hunter, Singer has strong feelings of love toward his roommate, Antonapoulos. His affection and yearning for his sick companion “disarm the reader’s homophobia” by showing that love between two men is just as valid as the love between a woman and a man, just less socially accepted (Bigelow). There is evidence that McCullers also did not conform to heterosexual expectations, something that was shamed by society during her lifetime.

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    four texts. In Say Yes, a husband and a wife have a conversation that leads the wife to a realization of someone she was in life with. The wife poses a simple question to the husband: “somehow got on the subject of whether white people should marry black people.” (pg 1). The question is simple, but brings a greater problem to the wife's head. Her simple curiosity is not easy enough for yes to no, it is a question of trust and humanity. When her husband replies no, she now begins to dig deeper into

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    The life of a woman was limited and restricted in every aspect of her life. A woman had only one option and one road to follow: to marry young, bare their husband's children, and devote their lives to homemaking. Woman did not have a life outside the home and had to conform to the life society had created for them. However, even though society painted this picture of what the average/typical women should act and look like, they fought against it. We see a shift in the 1920's with the creation of

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    [Yunus Sanni] English 1020 Campbell [6 oct 2017] Rhetorical Analysis of [“I Ain’t a woman” by Sojourner Truth] Ain't I a Woman?" ,the name given to a speech, delivered extemporaneously, by Sojourner Truth, (1797–1883),she gave this speech to the Women’s Convention of 1851, she speaks on the inequalities that women and blacks faced at that time in America. she uses rhetorical strategies in order to achieve a successful and powerful delivery of her message.Sojourner uses personal experiences

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    Woman in the early days weren’t considered the luckiest people. Although they faced a lot of discrimination due to gender, they did have few rights. “During the 1920s, the amount of working woman had actually increased by 25 percent.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/usa/1920srev2.shtml . Women were also given rights to vote and they were known as flappers. Divorcing was a lot easier for the woman in the 1950s. Woman still weren’t granted as many rights as men. During the 1920s

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    every woman wears the hijab in the home. Marji is not influenced by others people around her. She does not wear it at home. She preserves her own identity by believing herself, she felt not wearing the hijab is the most comfortable way when she stays at home. Even though she lives in a country where is very religion that every woman should wear their hijab outside or inside of the house.

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    bruise her ribs. “You 're the easiest of all,” said the black thing in a voice she recognized. It was Dr. Wright 's. Already Wright 's body was being deformed by the being that cohabited it, but when Jayna pulled out her glowing sword, there was enough of him left that she recognized him. She shuddered when she realized this would have been her fate if that thing was still inside of her. The thing extended its hand in her direction and black tendrils rose up out of the ground and wrapped around the

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    The booty (plural: booties,) also known as the “bandonkadonk,” “junk in the trunk” or simply “butt,” is two rounded portions of gluteal muscle located on the posterior pelvic region. Anatomically, the structure enables weight to be taken off the feet while sitting; however, in many cultures the masses of fat play a role in sexual attraction. Many find the swaying of the hips, which jiggles and bounces the booty, to be exceptionally arousing when featured on a female. Recently, this ideology has been

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