though freedom of speech and of the ballot have for the present fallen before the shot-guns of
\nthe South, and, the party of slavery is now in the ascendant, we need bate no jot of heart or hope.
\nThe American people will, in any great emergency, be true to themselves. The heart of the nation is still sound and strong, and as in the past, so in the future, patriotic millions, with able captains to lead them, will stand as a wall of fire around the Republic, and in the end see Liberty, Equality, and Justice triumphant. \u2013 Frederick Douglass, \u201cSpeech delivered in Madison Square, New York,
\nDecoration Day.\u201d 1877.<\/p>\n
I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Too-hul-hul-sote is dead. The
\nold men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led on the young men is dead.
\nIt is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are\u2014
\nperhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I
\ncan find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired; my heart is sick
\nand sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever. \u2013 Chief Joseph, surrender
\nspeech, as recorded by Lieutenant Wood, Twenty-first Infantry, acting aide-de-camp and
\nacting adjutant-general to General Oliver O. Howard, in 1877.<\/p>\n
For this assignment you are required to write on TWO topics. the two topics are the speeches provided above. <\/p>\n
For each topic try to make about four to five points, and do not write more than 800 words or fewer than 500. <\/p>\n
follow these questions: a. it will identify the document and context (including its language, whether the text
\nprovided is a translation, and the place where this document was done), its
\npurpose and the main characters involved;
\nb. it will comment on the particular point or points raised in the extract (ask yourself,
\nwhy was this extract set?);
\nc. it will explain any distinctive words or phrases;
\nd. it will then, towards the end, comment more discursively on some of the broader
\nissues involved. Is this a true or accurate narrative of events? Are the hopes of
\nthe protagonist ultimately realized? Where does this extract fit into the wider
\ncontext of what we know from our sources?<\/p>\n
Do not use any AI writing tools or Cyrillic letters in writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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