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Samuen, Mia, Julia, Kayla Mrs. Greene English 1102 22 January 2018   Learning to Read and Write Rhetorical Response In Frederick Douglass’s “Learning to Read  and Write”, Douglass executes the concepts of  determination and perseverance. He depicts this through overcoming the struggles he experienced  as a slave during this time. His objective was to show the audience it is important to have to have faith  in order to succeed. The intended audience were other slaves who could relate to his situation and  seeked hope in their times of need.     Douglass learned how to read and right in a very difficult way, and I found his experience intriguing.  His mistress was the person who initially taught him how to read, but in the end there was nothing  but pure hatred from her. Douglass had to learn how to read from other sources because of the  mistress’s neglect. In our current time...

Samuen, Mia, Julia, Kayla Mrs. Greene English 1102 18 January 2018 Ain’t I Woman  Rhetorical Reading Response In Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I Woman” speech (1851), Truth suggests that women-especially woman of color- should obtain more rights than what they are given. This essay is developed through some of her own experiences; she was a woman capable of working like a man and being beaten like a man. If that was the case, then why wouldn’t she share the equal rights of one? Her purpose is to persuade her audience to accept the equality between women and men. The audience being white women and men at the women women’s rights convention in Akron, Ohio. I felt a sense of empowerment after reading Truth’s speech. Her use of personal experience when dealing with slavery added to the loss of her children makes the reader and audience feel her pain and suffering as a strong black woman. Truth relays her past sorrowfully, “ I have borne thirteen chilern, and see...