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Annie Fischer: respect

purpose

outside: it doesn’t matter about your body image, race, or religion; respect comes from love and honor.

inside: “I respect what is holy to other people, and I want others to respect what is holy to me.”

audience

outside: I think this essay sounds more of a testimony. Fischer is talking to other Jewish believers, and also the general public.

inside: “To do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God is my constant prayer. My religion is my way of life, here and now.”

persona

outside: A women who lives by faith, and a loves for everyone.

inside: “What brings happiness to one is shared by all. And that feeling goes from my family, to my neighbors, to my country, to human beings everywhere. “Love thy neighbor,” is a holy duty.”

argument

outside: respect yourself before you respect others.

inside: “One of the things my parents taught me was to look to myself before complaining about how others treat me.”

Mrs. Smith Went to Washington, Kendall

purpose

outside: you must stand up for what is right, for the greater good.

inside: “She shared those doubts on June 1, 1950 during an address on the Senate floor which became known as the Declaration of Conscience speech.”

audience

outside: political figures and “true Americans”

inside: “With eloquence and dignity, she helped our nation retain its soul during one the darkest periods in its history.”

persona

outside: a follower of Mrs. Smith

inside: ” And I believe that our country is a better place because Mrs. Smith went to Washington.”

argument

outside: if you are a true American you will stand up for whats right in America.

inside: “For that, I am grateful that Mrs. Smith made the trip and I believe everyone who loves the Bill of Rights should follow in her footsteps.”

1. Jim bought a new car. He buys new rims for the car. Shortly after, his tires blow out. He thinks becuase of those rims, his tires blew out.
2. Earl overhears Derek talking about a party. Earl concludes that Derek is a real party man.
3. You should never lend money to people. Before you know it, every body will be asking for money.

1. “with scientific certitude” (para. 1) – I think that scientific certitude means you are trying to prove with scientific evidence. The European anthropometrics were trying to prove with science that women were inferior.
2. “there is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth” (para. 2) – Gould is saying that Broca believes there is no faith but there is respect, and no interest but there is legitimate. Because of this, Broca believes since women have smaller brains than men, they’re not as intelligent, no matter what.
3. “sexual mass” (para. 11) – I think sexual mass is the different factors that can influence brain size. Like, height, weight, age, etc.
4. “Men of the black races have a brain scarcely heavier than that of white women” (para. 13) – I think this quote is self explanatory.
5. “In such an epoch there will really be superior human beings, there will really be men strong in morality and in sentiment. Perhaps in this way the reign of women approaching, when the enigma of her anthropological superiority will deciphered. Women was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honor.” (para. 14) – Gould is saying that Maria Montessori believes that someday women will or finally show that they are smarter than men.
6. “scientific” (para. 15) – I think Gould is just being sarcastic.

I can’t seem to find the other 4 quotes.

All these quotes seem to have something in common. All of them has to do with Gould’s or someone elses belief in the subject.

Q’s for Discussion

1. The scientists think that brain size is determined my height, weight, and age.

Q’s on Rhetoric/Style

3. I think Gould question the scientific methods in paragraph 12. He uses that theory and proves that women are not as stupid as Broca proclaims, by explaining about all the great works women made.
6. The point Gould makes in paragraphs 9-12 is that who can really trust Broca’s data? All the data Broca presents is not exactly claim that men’s brains are bigger than women’s brain. Broca claims that men are more developed for more brain capacity when really men and women are completely different eliminating the body size and structure factor.
7. Paragraph 13 shows what Broca thought of the intelligence of women and blacks. Broca is saying that black people and women have the same brain capacity of an white child.
9. Gould opposes Broca’s theory. Gould says that both women and men are equally smart, more or less. He proves this point by saying that “women [have] extraordinary talent” such as George Eliot and her prelude to Middlemarch.

Postman is revealing that Huxley’s vision is more devastating to society than Orwell’s vision. Huxley’s vision is saying that something we love will eventually ruin us, while on the other hand Orwell’s vision is the exact opposite; that something we hate will ruin us.