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Comparative essay of Cristina Fernandez’s in favor of gender equality speech and Lou Gehrig’s Farewell to baseball speech

When I try to remember some off the best emotive speeches through out history for me at least it´s inevitable to remember those great stories that my mother told when I was a kid. I remember almost as if it was yesturday, the speech that Alexander "The Great" gave to his soldiers when they were thinking of surrender and return back home, I can honesty  say that i´simplesive how a good speaker can make thousands  follow a him to war. All the usage of figurative language appelling to the emotion of a warrior and just by remember why they were fighting for. But now we are facing a new era were speeches aren´t a motivation to enter war, nowadays speeches should show how a person is feeling or make us reflect of something.  These is why we will compare two speeches one is about a cruel and unfair situation that has struggled the plant for centuries  "Gender Equality"  the speech was pronnced by Cristina Fernadez: and the  second speech would be about pain and sorrow but also of hope in the present that will lead to a great future is  Lou Gerhig´s "Farewll to baseball speech".      

In the introduction of Lou Gehrig´s speech he decided to start with: "Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." at first he  states a  fact that by itself creates an atmosphere of melancholy to all Yankees’ fans. After that  he uses emotive language to say like even though I have these problem and I know that my career in baseball is over it is just a new beginning for a new stage in my life. This type of introduction is really effective to create a contrast in feelings since you feel at first sorrow but then you feel joy, these comparison highlights the good by contrasting it with the bad. While Cristina Fernandez in her introduction part uses :"En principio, hemos sostenido históricamente que tres son los elementos o los ejes para lograr realmente la igualdad de género. La autonomía económica, la autonomía política y personal y la autonomía social." for me a  unique way to use imagery by only giving facts and data to present a really serious problem by this method he makes the person relateing a concept that for example can be “autonomia social” you can perfectly understand the concept and create link to part of your life where you omitted these unacceptable crime and attempts to show you this was wrong. These strategy is a very  strange form to start such a delicate theme but the combination of concepts attempting to impact people by bringing back old memories that weren´t so plasent but they did happen and were wrong is  a really smart pad to present you the purpose of the speech.

Then Lou uses an anaphra like:  "Sure I’m lucky."that helps the people to understand how he felt all those years when he was in ballparks and at the same time he says that it was an honor to play and to have known many people on his baseball career. These makes the speech more emotive and figurative because he remembers  in the: Sure I am lucky because he tells  us how he  feels of these last goodbye to his pasion and parteners on the  team, the good players and also all the trophies and awards the Yankees won during the last seventeen years and all these emptions combine to create a nostalgic atmosphere on the fans. In Cristina’s speech we see that she attempts to create an environment off contrast  because she gives examples like"...supera la participación en el Parlamento, lo establecido por las leyes. Una mujer es Presidenta reelecta de mi país, pero sin embargo la discriminación aún permanece, porque por fuera de la discriminación política, económica y social persiste fuertemente en todas las sociedades una discriminación cultural hacia la mujer." these  things that are being done to end these problem but almost immediately she mentions a fact that rests importance and relevance to the previous argue, which makes the crowds feel grief and sorrow and then the transition to joy and glory when she says another positive fact, but good lasts less when life is not as good as you would like on a cruel world and all these is what you feel from the speech.      

On the next part of the speech we can see that Lou is sanding greetings to all the baseball personal that has been with him throughout his career like"Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy?" in these part he uses a lot of hyperbole to describe all the persons and with these he creates a controversy environment because there can be a lot of discussion only by saying that Joe McCarthy was the best manager in baseball on those days. It must be remember that these is a figurative language because even though there is a lot of information Mr. Gehrig doesn’t give any point to sustain his ideas so it is only based on Lou’s point of view . In this very same part in the speech of Fernandez she uses the model of saying the problem and later how she has already fixed the problem like on "Soñar con la igualdad de género en un país inequitativo, en un país con grandes brechas sociales, es simplemente retórica o ilusión.Por eso en la República Argentina, hemos desarrollado un fuerte proceso de inclusión social que ha traído aparejado también obviamente la mayor oportunidad de igualdad para la mujer; programas y políticas activas como la Asignación Universal por Hijo, la Asignación Universal por Embarazo, la promoción cada vez  más intensa por la educación pública y gratuita desde el nivel inicial hasta la universidad, ha permitido paulatinamente junto a leyes de identidad de género de protección de la mujer, un fuerte descenso en la brecha de desigualdad." and uses it create as parameter on the audience and make them use their heads to put all the ideas together and force you to reflect of your own life, because well on argentine they said these is a problem we must solve it these is how argentinians think why cann´t you think like us  and take a part on the project maybe not exactly like us but you can still do something

In the very last part off Lou´s speech he opens with a melancholic phrase to bring all he fan´s attention to his injure "So, I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break,...".  and can you imagine that second it most be one of the worst mosments in sports when you have to say goodbye to your captain the one that has been on the team for so much time is no longer playing in thes particullar case I can only compare these sadness to the one Yankees nation felt whe Derek Jeter left baseball but he closes by saying "..., but I've got an awful lot to live for."pure emotive language telling the people not to be sorry that he was steel going to live the rest of his days with exitement  that is the most heartbreaking phrase I’ve ever heard. Cristina ends appealing to people hearts by saying: "Por eso, señor Presidente, señores y señores presidentas, quiero hacer un firme llamado a los corazones y a las mentes para derrumbar tabúes y prejuicios respecto de nosotras y que las críticas que recibamos sean exactamente del mismo tenor que reciben ustedes los hombres, que no tengan que ver con nuestro sexo, que no tengan que ver con nuestro género. Ese es, finalmente, el gran llamado que queremos hacer." in which she has been attempting to create a final impact on the presidents gathered there  by saying a solution and also attempting to end other tipes of descriminacion all the emotion can be described as an attemt to reach the people´s feelings to make them change  the way maybe some were missbehaiving .

The 2 speeches proved that even though their contents were so diferent and the  ways of expressing were so diferent i could only end by saying these Lou and Cristina, was and is a very good speeches speaker because to every part of the speech they gave feeling devosion and pasion  that overloads any speech said by any other on the course of history and back there what it was said here wil always be an untouchable part of humanhistory becuse it highlights the values that only humans posses.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Nació un 19 de febrero de 1953 en La Plata, Argentina. Actualmente es la presidente de su país natal cargo que ostenta desde 2007. Estudio para ser abogada en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata donde conoció a su futuro esposo Nestor Kirchner.

Ademas cabe mencionar que ademas de presidente de la nación Argentina tambien ha fungido como  la Primera Dama, Senadora de la nación Argentina por Buenos Aires y Santa Cruz; y por si fuera poco también Diputada de la nación Argentina por Santa Cruz y Diputada de la provincia de Santa Cruz.

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Dialect in Perspective

·         Is dialect a help or a hindrance? What resources does it make available for scene setting and characterization? Does it enlarge or restrict one's vocabulary?

I think they help because in a story I prefer to listen or in these case to read about anything but that reading usually tells you a lot of the place where you go on vacations it’s preferable to read in these kinds off dialects because they represent better the traditions and the people that live on that certain place. The resources he uses for the scene setting are the authors own experience with region since he was a river boat captain and characterization because he new the people that lived all over that area and he has the experience to say what he hae seen. I think it enlarges it because these dialects have particular ways of say something and if you learn both ways you can engross your vocabulary with these two ways of saying the same.

·         How does dialect influence plot development and narration? Does it limit one to the "and then, and then" connection of incident to incident typical of oral storytelling? Does it open opportunities for sliding easily off on a tangent?

The development of all the story is set all over a determined time line which is based on the author’s ideas so if the author is a rich guy that lives in New York, the things that he would write about would be mainly of rich people that have had wonderful lives, and obviously he would speak and by consequence write as a rich person that was born in New York does. No It does not limit with the oral tradition because these is much more extensive and is more ordered than the oral tradition since in these texts even though it is not written in formal English it’s much more well understood. I think both kinds of texts can go off a little bit of topic since in oral the person can start talking about Napoléon and end up speaking of the latest movie off Liam Neeson and in the variant way  it might happen that you misunderstand some words and in consequence you may not understand the story in a 100%

·         Comment on Twain's use of dialect, what goes into the dialect he creates—misspellings? grammatical mistakes? inventive punctuation? loose sentence structure? colloquial turns of phrase? Have students point out examples of each of these stylistic tricks and describe the tricks they used to create a dialect effect.

I personally liked the way Twain wrote because he wrote with the language of the people and wrote about situations that some characters could live like so he was realistic exposing some of his ideas and some concepts like the dog Andrew Jackson were also creative, I didn’t really understood some words, the grammar was in some cases very different, some punctuation marks were inexistent, the sentences were in some cases loose in structure or ere very colloquial I must say that for me it doesn’t matter because for me it looked nicer in its original way because for me it represents better the authors. The stylistic trick for me is to speak in the F language and it consists in dividing every word in syllables and then add an F to each one.

life in the Mississippi river in the 1800's

My story, it begins at night  in the middle of a dead silece and freezeing cold, it was there at that specific moment when you think nothing is gong to happen, back then it seemed like a completely normal day you con even qualify it as an extremely fortunate day for all comerciantes across the river because the president, Zachary Taylor has just died and the country was faceing a new trancision of power but mean while the people weren't paying taxes so they were astonishingly happy all across the river, but it's as my friend Bid Mcphee told me once:  "Who knows when the hurricane will strike?". And as a presage of destiny, that fatidic night a boat came out of nowhere making no noice ond only noticed by the non only non-sleeping presence on the boat  Jackie Robinson my families's dog. We adopted him after we found it just outside Dr. Joe Morgan's dental ship, it was love at first sight, and sice then they became very close until that tragic night. Jackie Robinson woke me up by licking my tongue, at first i thought he was trying to drive me crazy or he maybe just wanted some water so I jumped out of my bed and headed to the deck.

I will always remember that ship geting closer the silence was  terryfing I won't forget how fear invaded me that night it seemed to me like a nightmare that would make a young kid pee his clothes but I was not longer that kid, in that precise moment I experimented another fear these one was different these one was not made up from my mind these was the worst fear of all the fear of uncertainity and doubt, I remember the next 3 minutes if my life very well I simply stood there watching, trembling, suffering but couldn't move my legs didn't repond to my command,my voice was gone like all the good things semed to dissapear.

The next thing that came was the worst of all when the ship was just a few meters away a light was turned on the deck of the ship it was then when I first felt releif on that night but it was only was the peace before the storm. when i was on the stairs towards my room Iwill not forget all the shouting that i heard. The first thing they shouted was "Fire" it was only then that my parents woke up took me on their hands  took me to the deck and i saw it as red as the sun and as hot as hell. the next thing  I rember was the trembling made by the crash of the 2 ships all the rest is on red and orange

The next thing i remembered was that pestilent smell like a men that hasn't taken a shower in months. When I finally recovered consiousnes  was amazed I was expectong to be all wet but when  Ithink that now I've realized that was the less important problem that I had. just a few moments later I opened my my eyes there it was clay lots of  products made of clay and at the other side an old looking face man with an scareon his right chick was sitted on the opposite corner from where I was my first feeling was to jump out of the boat but when I tried  I felt powerless it was only then when he realiced that I was awoken.

  The next part  I would describe it as the end of my suffering the man presented himself as Bobby Doerr a comercaint that traded native southern american tribes products in the north he described himself as an ordinary comerciant but belive me he wasn't he was more like James Monroe he was good in all the arts of trading buying and selleing some could even say he invented the loans all across the river the only thing Ican say about my savior is that he is the honest person I've ever met and the less prejudiced person because he always was open to negociate anything to anyone it doesn't matter he was a slave a native american indian, another american etctera he was famous all across the river for all it's qualities and was loved from north to south every body new him and thats how my next 7 years past always traveling north and soth ther and back.

 Until one day at Craig Briggio's vapor boat Bobby made the worst mistake of his buisnes carrier he bet. the was  in a poker game I had a bad feeling about these game Ioften feel I should have warned my master but Ididn't so I had to see the game my master bet all he had to his last hand the damned hand two pairs eights and aces he really that he was going to win but unfortunatelly for him Briggio had a Full House threes with sevens. And these is the moment that changed everything Bobby and me lost everything we had exept for our spirit.

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