Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana

Ain’t I a Woman?

Presentado por:
Issa Zuniga

Alejandro Martinez

Cristhian Rodriguez

Elizabeth Elvir

Ilich Wah Lung

Presentado a:
Lic. Libia Peña

Clase:
World Literature

Fecha:
Tegucigalpa M.D.C, february 2022
 Ain’t I a Woman?
1. Sojourner Truth makes many references to religion in her speech. Why do you

think she does this? Is it effective?

A lot of people justified misogyny through religion and the fact that Jesus was a man, like what

someone in her speech was talking about. She does this to remind them that Christ himself came

to this earth from God and a woman and he was also a role model because he respected his

mother and all women in general. At times when she needed help and someone to listen to her,

she recalls Jesus as being the only one there for her, as she was not treated equally as other

mothers resulting in his children being sold off to slavery. She was a religious person; she

became a devout Methodist. I believe it was effective since religion was the only thing they

shared and could talk about to make them reflect and understand where she’s coming from.

2. Write a summary of her argument for giving women the right to vote.

Her argument was that we are all equal no matter what gender we are or our race. We should all

have the same rights and the same opportunities. Although people say all have the same rights,

not all are respected and in some cases some people have an advantage over the rest. That

advantage that some has is what she wants to be removed and for all to have equal rights, equal

opportunities.

3. Write an essay to persuade an audience that a group of people who do not have a

right to do something should be allowed to have that right.

Every day when I pick up my newspaper I read about crime. What strikes me as tragic in these

discussions is that the solutions which are proposed are simply more of the same: bigger threats,
more punishment. Few people ask more basic questions about whether punishment ought to be

our main concern. Even fewer seem genuinely concerned about victims and what they need.

Consequently, victims’ needs and wishes continue to be ignored. Prisons are massively crowded,

and the call for a return to the death penalty is back with a vengeance. The costs to us as

taxpayers keep soaring.

Actually, there is good reason why we ignore victims and focus instead on more punishment for

offenders. It has to do with our very definitions of what constitutes crime and what justice

entails.