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Consider Carolyn Heilbrun’s discussion of anger, power, and control and the traditional lack of these elements in women’s autobiographical writings. How is this discussion applicable to a text like that of Sojourner Truth? Does she use anger or other strong emotions as driving forces in her life and her tale […]

Short Writing Assignment Word Count: 600 The Liber Sancti Iacobi or “Book of St. James” was written for medieval pilgrims on their way to the tomb of St. James in Santiago, Spain. This twelfth-century travel guide was designed to identify and describe for the medieval pilgrim all of the “must […]

Instructions: Essay 2 is a research essay, for which you are expected to read additional primary and secondary sources. Consult selectively some of the most appropriate works listed in the “Bibliography” section under this Course Information link. Your completed essay should be between 3,000 and 4,000 words in length, and […]

Discussion Questions: Choose only one. – In “Introduction to Writing a Woman’s Life”, Carolyn Heilbrun writes that “Power is the ability to take one’s place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one’s part matter” (18). How do you see Sojourner Truth taking this power […]

If available, consider using speeches of key nationalists as evidence. Make sure your discussion is time specific.

Part I. All students must answer the following question: Compare and contrast the principles of the Niagara Movement (1903) with the Black Panther Party Manifesto of 1966. How do they compare to the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights? How viable were their proposals? Why were these groups […]