Assertion Analysis #10: City Upon a Hill

Puritans came to America to find and practice religious freedom. Sometime in the 1500's England had broken away from a roman catholic church. When that was done they built a new church and they were all forced to follow the church and the religious beliefs coming from there, they had to follow the church. The puritans believed in one's participation in the sacraments can't effect one's salvation. John Winthorp says that we should be like a city upon a hill, that everyone and everything is watching us all the time. He says because of that if we do wrong with God or we do not worship him he will not help us or do any good towards us. Once they do something wrong everyone will start criticizing them and speaking bad upon the Puritans. Some techniques and devices Winthorp uses are syntax and pathos to make his audience fear into them and scare them. But he also uses a whole sentence to not allow his audience to stop and think about what he is saying and ask questions but this is his form of writing. He's a puritan himself but he's speaking to everybody he wants to give them knowledge and make sure they follow him and don't do wrong. Him not leaving any room for the audience to think builds up more fear. Other speakers or influencers use this type of writing to also make them feel like they have power and to get a point across with out any questioning. That's how he tries to get his point across.

Assertion Analysis #8: Wooden Leg

Wooden leg was from a tribe called Northern Cheyenne and he was a warrior. He was not only called wooden leg others called him Eats from his hand. He's known from fighting at the Battle of Little Bighorn and also from walking long distances. He talks about how caring the Native Americans are towards the earth and nature. They like to move around and through nature not in an orderly fashion way. "It may be cut off, but it should not be uprooted." It's like saying you can take the girl out of the hood but you can't take the hood out of the girl, there is always going to be hood in her. Which in his words is that the trees and grass he refers to having spirits can be cut but you'll still have your roots but if you don't have anymore roots and you get cut there's no coming back from that you cannot grow anymore. Some devices that are being used are imagery and metaphors. He uses imagery by saying "the trees and grass have spirits." Which causes us to imagine grass and trees literally having spirits. By saying Native culture may or may not go on in the future is how he uses the metaphoric device.

Assertion Analysis #7: Cheif Joseph

The native americans culture is very uplifting. Native american culture is brought down generations by languages and stories they have to be passed down. Native americans culture is them always sticking together and having traditions, languages, and ceremonies these are what makes the native culture who they are. A chief named Joseph is from a band or tribe named Wal-lam-wat-kain. He wrote a quote about the struggle of being in the tribe and the type of things that he has done and sacrificed for that tribe. Chief Joseph says that he’s tired of his people getting killed and he’s just sick and tired of fighting and he wants it to end. His children from the tribe are running away and getting lost without any blankets, food or shelter. Because he is the leader of the tribe or band it’s his duty to care for his kids and look for them because none of them should be left behind. Natives culture doesn’t involve spreading out and leaving each other behind they’re a community. He’s tired of people dying and he wants it to all stop and he just can’t take it anymore so he eventually gives up and fights no more. Some devices that he used are seriousness, anaphoras, and he’s constantly making an anologies in this quote. He’s not being satiric because people are dying and that’s not something to joke about. His people are starving and cold and he won’t go down without a fight but eventually he became sick and tired of fighting for them all the time, he gets tired of looking for them and making sure they’re okay but he’s tired so he says “hear me, my Chief’s! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.“ Key word foever that means he is done.

Assertion Analysis #6: John Lame Deer

Culture is a very important thing for Native Americans because of their language and it is what keeps them united. Language is what also makes them happy and it's what creates new generations. John Lame Deer is a Lakota holy man, a memeber of the Heyoka society and was the grandson of the head man. He acknowledges that natives were too uncivilized. Lame Deer says that we weren't civilized until the white people came to put some sense in us like prisons. They didn't have any laws, locks,keys there was no thieves and when someone was in need they would provide for them but now that the white came they became civilized. They became civilized because now humans are being judged by their wealth, Now they have delinquents,and now they cheat each other. Deer uses satiric terms throughout the paragraph, for example he says "We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another." He says that sarcasticly because he really means that with out all of the laws, prisions and things the white people brought they were equal and they didn't judge each other. But now that they're now "civilized" they have been torn apart.