Yes We Can

          In Barack Obama's speech he used repeatedly used repitition and parallelism in pairs of 3 which resulted a pathos effect because the crowd was roaring with positivity. Obama also used a mixture of ethos and allusion because he made references to historical figures to make his speech stronger. His catchphrase is, "Yes We Can." basically the whole speech consisted of speaking, and the crowd cheering. It was pretty boring because the speech wasn't meant for us, it's made for people of politics, democratives and adults 18+. Will.i.am's music video was much more lively. During Obama's speech, everybody was bored but with Will.i.am's video everybody was attentive. We were more attentive because our young generation consists of visual arts and music which this video had. Plus the video didn't stay on just one shot, there were many celebrities present too, capturing more of our attention thus making us more attentive and waaaay less bored.

Ain't I A Woman? Response

           Sojourner Truth is trying to inform the reader how women rights were back in the day, especially colored women rights. In her poem, she discussed how women were treated like they can't get around their own problems so the men treat them ever so delicately, carrying them over drifts, giving them a boost when boarding a carriage and how women deserve the best place. Women had less rights then men and even less rights if you were colored. Soujourner writes a poem from her perspective: a colored woman.
          Based off of the poem, you could tell that Sojourner Truth wasn't an educated woman based off of her diction but what really mattered and added 10x more emphasis in her poem was her tone. Although she is not here today you could which parts of her poem where she was aggressive and simply being informative. Imagery wasn't one of the big pointers of her poem but throughout the poem, there were some parts where I could picture whats actually happening or what happened.