Essays on Pitiful

The rhetorical situation for Fredrick Douglass in his essay “learning to read” was that he wasn’t educated because in his times, slaves weren’t suppose to learn to read and write while the social rhetorical situation in my writing was that I couldn’t be educated because my mother couldn’t afford to send me to school. My rhetorical situation differs from that of the authors in the way that I wasn’t enforced into my situation by any enslavers. The author’s writing persuades the reader to empathize with the slaves while my writing persuades the readers ...

The Caribbean: From Emancipation to Independence

In his essay, “The Caribbean: From Emancipation to Independence”, Nikongo Ba’ Nikongo writes that emancipation and freedom for a majority of the people in the Caribbean countries has meant little as the class structure of the colonial times still continue. He says that the societal order that was followed in the colonial times still continues with the Caucasians and the Chinese occupying the top rung due to their interests in business and manufacturing while the Indians and the Africans tend to remain on the lowest rungs. The condition of the Africans in the Caribbean islands is the most pitiful. ...

Explain how thinking has changed regarding the understanding of students with disabilities. How has legislation and litigation influenced the education of students with disabilities? At one point in time, Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher, was of the opinion that any child with any form of disability should not be allowed to live under the law. This just indicates the challenges that children with disabilities have had to undergo through history. Though presently the rights of children with disabilities are enshrined in the law, it is important to note that children with disabilities have suffered through history from such ...