Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was an ex-slave who became known as a human-rights leader during the abolition movement with his eloquent speeches.

On July 5,1852 Douglass gave a speech discussing African Americans celebrating freedom and presenting the hypocrisy of America.

I. "The fact is ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slavery plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable - and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight."

Douglass explains that the difficulties to get from the slave plantation to the platform he is currently at were challenging and strenuous.

II. "The freedom gained is yours; and you, therefore, may properly celebrate this anniversary."

He means that the freedom celebrated on July 4th is white men freedom and other races do not have this freedom to celebrate.

III. "What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a the reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim."

To a slave, the 4th of July is day emphasizing and remembering the cruelties and injustices they face every day concerning their skin color.

IV. "The Fugitive Slave Law makes MERCY TO THEM, A CRIME; and bribes the judge who tries them."

Douglass points that the justice system of America is controlled solely by money. He is appalled that a country so dedicated to equality and freedom like the U.S bribes their justice system.

V. "I, therefore, leave off where I began, with hope."

Douglass ends his speech by hoping America will see its corrupt ways and fix its hypocritical justice system.

Abolitionist and Women's Rights Movements

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass's speech from July 5, 1852 and the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions from 1848 are very similar, despite their different audiences. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott promoted the first Women's Rights Convention. In their speeches, Stanton, Douglass and Mott discuss the hypocrisy of the U.S. Douglass, Stanton and Mott additionally discuss how their audiences were denied all the "natural" rights that white men were granted and their treatment. They also discuss how their audiences were denied the money they were supposed to earn. They mention the struggle and fight their audiences had with freedom.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucertia Mott

Current Events: Antarctica Warm Up

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/01/travel/feat-antarctica-highest-temperature-ever-recorded/index.html

Headline: Antarctica hits 63 degrees, believed to be a record

Topic: 63.5 degrees was recorded in Antarctica on March 24, 2015.

Summary:

• The temp. was recorded at Argentina's Esperanza Base
•  The World Meteorological Organization will collect relevant evidence
• The World Meteorological Organization will check equipment to make sure:

                  a. it was in good working condition

                  b. the correct monitoring procedures were followed

                  c. it was placed in correct place

                  d. temp. matches corresponding results from other weather station

• Researchers are carefully watching the weather changes in Antarctica

Analysis:

If Antarctica is 60 degrees, there is a serious problem. Antarctica should never reach 30 degrees, let alone 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The warm up of Antarctica just screams global warming. The overuse of polluting agents in our normal everyday lives has gotten out of hand. There is a serious problem now. The Earth's atmospheric temperature is changing because of the polluting agents of car, bus and factory exhaust. Our laziness is changing the Earth both geographically and atmospherically. The warm up of Antarctica is only the beginning of Earth's change. Soon, the Earth will warm up and books like The Maze Runner and the rest of its series will no longer seem so far-fetched; they will be our reality whether we except it or not.