• Both “Why I Want a Wife” by Judy Syfers and the “Always #LikeAGirl” video portray the same message through different means. Syfers writes about how women are expected to be almost like property or servants, available for any task at any time. The video uses a group of people to portray how the phrase “like a girl” is degrading. Even though they were written during different times, both pieces illustrate how females are still considered lower in society compared to males.

Ronald Reagan was the president of the United States of America from 1981 to 1989. He is beloved by conservatives today, and this is no accident. Reagan worked hard to control the legacy he would leave behind after he was no longer president, often working very subtly to do so. One striking example of this is in Reagan’s farewell speech – he repeatedly mentions the word “freedom,” often linking it with other concepts Americans love, such as money. In doing so he subtly links his presidency not only to freedom, but to a lot of other positive concepts as well, even things not directly linked to him or freedom. Reagans popularity shows that Americand have an idea of freedom that doesn’t match the standard- it is so much more than that to Anericans. to the people of 1989 (at least the ones Reagan was focusing upon) freedom was the embodiment of everything good in the world, and relatedly, it was also quintessentially American to them.

Although Martin Luther King Jr.’s foreshadowing in “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” was effective, Martin Luther King Jr.’s allusions were what made the speech powerful in displaying his feelings about the inequality African Americans face in his speech.

Only when one experiences death and loneliness, then can one truly communicate with nature and understand it. Sylvia Plath’s poem, “I Am Vertical,” and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s piece, “Nature,” both include the narrator being accepted by nature through death.