Post #3: Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness, and Women’s Rights
Due by the class period on Friday, September 9
On Friday, we’ll start considering historical examples of discourses on various public issues in various global contexts. We’ll also consider your selections in relation to the texts we have reconsidered this week in the context of an election year: The Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Sentiments.
By Friday’s class, do some search to identify a relevant online text from the current or historical presidential debates (a portion of a debate, a speech in the context of presidential debates, or other artifacts)–this should be a text that resonates with the narratives in the Declaration of Independence or the Declaration of Sentiments.
Then, create a new post in your own Course Blog which either embeds or includes a link to the text of your selection, and explains the “intertextuality” of your selected text and one of the declarations. In other words, how is one text related to the other? How does the latter text reference the previous text? How are their narratives overlap or diverge (in terms of the narrative’s treatment of a group, or its messages about American cultural values, etc)?
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