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Wk 3 - Stories, Traditions, and Emotion

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Wk 3 - Stories, Traditions, and Emotion


 



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By the time of the Civil War, the United States had a substantial history, and well-established literary and rhetorical traditions. As the term Reconstruction indicates, after the Civil War, the United States had to rebuild itself in many ways, redefining itself. This meant making sense of the past in new ways and finding new places for the South and former slaves. With the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, which addressed women's rights, followed decades later by the founding of the National American Woman Suffrage Association more national revision was needed.


In this assignment, you will examine how the nation's rhetoricians addressed this pressure in their works. To be specific, you will examine the stories and images they use to evoke emotion as they adapt history and tradition to these new realities.


 


Choose one of the following for your topic:



  • You may examine one specific aspect of a series of texts, such as how a concept or image changes over time.

  • You may examine one work closely, looking at how the author uses images and/or stories to pave a path for the new.

  • You may examine two works that are in dialogue with one another. For example, "The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments" echoes the title of "The Declaration of Independence." The Constitution of the Confederacy is a new constitution and must be compared to the U. S. Constitution.


I have chosen two speeches on Women Suffrage and attached them.  (Both can be found in the Library of Congress for citation purposes)


 


 


Construct something more free form, like a dialogue in which the two authors speak to each other across time. This could be in the form of a two-page script that you can also narrate.



  • Cite your references on a separate page according to appropriate course level APA guidelines.



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Running head: WOMEN'S STORIES, TRADITIONS & EMOTIONS1
Women's Stories, Traditions & Emotions: A Critical Engagement of Selected Readings
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WOMEN'S STORIES, TRADITIONS & EMOTIONS2
Women's Stories, Traditions & Emotions: A Critical Engagement of Selected Readings
For centuries, women's rights has been an issue of varying degrees of interest in response to just as varying circumstances. In 21st century, women's rights might sound as a worn out issue of ages ago. However, the critical examination of what is at stake in women's rights uncovers different worldviews clouded by wide and longstanding yet mistaken perceptions. The issue of equality is, for one, a major argument still echoing in current, ongoing “conventions” over gender equality at home, school and workplace. The comparative “openness” gender equality is currently argued among opposite sexes is not, in fact, a novelty and, given women's struggle for equality, one can identify a string of powerful and just as open conversations about gender equality as far back as 170 years ago. Specifically, 19th century America was an age of great expansion, growth and, for that matter, increasing awareness of political, economic and social rights. The emergence of a group of women, empowered by self-will or supported by families and/or special personal circumstances, in 19th century America as early and pioneering models of women's independence offers solid evidence on growing importance of women's equality – and, for that matter, rights – as a matter of far-reaching consequences in public and private life. To put matters into perspective, select primary sources are necessary to showcase ways pioneering women, or Feminists as are usually referred to, spoke on matters of women's rights. For current purposes, “Temperance and Women's Rights” (Stanton, 1853) and “ The Responsibilities of Women” (Nicholas, 1851) are examined, rhetorically, to showcase strategies each speaker used to sway audiences into accepting a given point of view on women's rights. This essay aims, accordingly, to analyze rhetorical strategies used in “Temperance and Women's Rights” and “The Responsibilities of
WOMEN'S STORIES, TRADITIONS & EMOTIONS

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Women” speeches by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Clarina Howard Nichols, respectively, to show ways each speaker uses to influence audience reactions over matters of women's rights.
In “Temperance and Women's Rights,” Stanton speaks on moderate, or temperate, alcohol consumption. Starting off questioning men's and women's (equal) rights to found a Temperance Society, Stanton, questions are underlying causes that make women unequal to men in founding a society by putting under critical light social problems women married to "drunkards" suffer. The shift from a more immediate issue at hand, i.e. women's and men's rights to found a temperance society, into a more comprehensive (critical) discussion of social and legal problems women married to alcoholic husbands face is performed using an ingenious instance of logos:
It has been objected to our Society that we do not confine ourselves to the su...
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