One of the important purposes of nineteenth-century American speeches was to aid in understanding the experience of slavery from a personal point of view. In Sojourner Truth’s speech to the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851, she discusses both the abolition of slavery and women’s rights. During Truth’s life, enslaved people of African descent were denied basic human rights. At the same time, women were denied the right to vote or hold a political office. Women only had very few rights to property or earnings.
The poetic version of Truth’s speech emphasizes the painful experience of African American women who were enslaved. The phrase “13 children,” “almost all,” “cried out” and “grief” appeals to the reader’s emotions to create an aesthetic experience. Through this emotional response, the speaker conveys the central idea of the poem as being the importance of equal rights for African Americans and all women.
Specific goals of feminist criticism include both the development and discovery female tradition of writing, and rediscovering of old texts, while also interpreting symbolism of women's writing so that it will not be lost or ignored by the male point of view and resisting sexism inherent in the majority of mainstream
Answer:
Greenpeace is organization for environmental conservation.
Explanation:
Greenpeace was founded in 1971 and it puts stress on the need to keep balance between the technological evolution and environmental conservation. Members of this organization take peaceful actions against all the threats to environmental safety, such as the dumping of nuclear waste in the sea.
The origins of the organization start back in 1960s. In that time, US tested a nuclear weapon in Alaska. The citizens were concerned that this testing provoked a strong earthquake in 1964, and gathered to protest against further testing.
When it was revealed that the villain knew that the spy was withholding information, tension erupted in the room.
