Sample 1:
Dear Society,
I am sorry but after 26 years of careful review, I know for certain that I can no longer accept your influence in my life. I cannot believe that my worth lies in the cleanliness of my home or in the appearance of my body. I am not defined by the size of my pants or my bra and my purpose is much greater than fitting nicely into the shadows of the men around me.
-Whitney Wilson, My Letter to Society’s Expectations of Women
Time has shown that throughout the year’s women roles in society has not changed; women main roles have settled at looking good, cleaning and maintaining a home, and to do it all. My first source is Girl, by Jamaica Kincaid. Kincaid was staff writer for The New Yorker, the author of critically acclaimed books, published four novels, and an instructor at Harvard University. My second source is Today’s Women: Power, Yet Expectations, by Kathy Oneto. Oneto is the curator of WeathervaneForum.com, a blog that attributes movements and perspectives rising in society. Although, Kincaid makes positive and negative points in her argument that a girl should have specific characteristics and talents as a women, Oneto strengthens Kincaid’s argument that societal expectations of women have not improved over the years, in fact their expectations have grown in severity, continuing to be damaging to women.
Sample 2:
Modern Slavery in the Land of the Free
The land of the free is a tittle America holds proudly. They rejoice in the thought of equal freedom and spread it all over the place, but they are blinded with their love for their country. It seems that America isn’t as free as most people think it is. In Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter’s article “Slavery in the Land of the Free” shines a light to modern slavery that America hides in its corners and blind spots. Kevin Bales is very dedicated towards ending slavery. He is the founder of Free the Slaves, a Washington-based nonprofit organization dedicated to ending slavery around the world and an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Roehampton University in London England. Many of his publications revolve around the issues of slavery. Ron Soodalter is respected historian who saves on the board of the Abraham Lincoln Institute and has published material with Bales. Ian Urbina, investigative reporter for The New York Times, reveals the corrupt system the government imposes on detention centers for immigrants waited to be deported in “Using Jailed Immigrants as a Pool of Cheap Labor.” Based on these two sources, I have determined that the land of the free is just a myth. We can no longer call ourselves the land of the free when we still have slavery flourishing in the darkness of America.