Bitch, story speech revision

Pathos: Serious, genuine

Ethos: Guilty, challenged

Running for "Community Organizer"

Ethos: Serious, knowledgeable, and competent

Pathos: I want the audience to feel assured that my stance is derived from something once-respected and well-known. Conventional ideas often guarantee comfortableness. What also should give reason for the audience to confide in me is that I have good judgment of what old principals to take and believe in. My last line, "I will jump-start you to make the change", and my finger pointing at the camera should invoke awe in the viewer and inspire him or her to make change. By voting for me, he or she will be taking the next step in doing so.

Most interesting details of all of my conducted research on Asian American history

Throughout all of the research I have done so far related to the Asian American experience, I found the history of early exploitation of Asian American immigrant labor on the now-Hawaiian islands the most interesting. History of such exploitation dates back to 1835 when William Hooper of Boston arrived to the islands to establish sugar plantations. There, the company which ran the sugar plantations first exploited the island's natives to work for them. When paying the natives turned out to be too expensive for the company, the company brought over those who were Chinese from overseas to replace the natives. The cycle continued on with those from other Asian countries; the sugar plantation company continued to replace their workforce with workers from different Asian countries in order to gain more profit. It is often viewed in our American society that the only group of people of color that have been oppressed through out American history are those perceived as Black. However, based on my research, that is in fact not true as Asians have also been oppressed in our country and by our government as far back as the early 1800's. This conducted research not only informs me that my Asian ancestors and predecessors have been in America for longer than I believed them to have done so but also gives me a greater sense of comfort as an American in this country because of their long, historical presence. I feel less of an alien and feel more of one who belongs in this country.

Bitch

Ethos: Serious-mannered, genuine supporter of Feminism
Pathos: I want my audience to feel guilty and slightly intimidated. I am strongly assuming that the young and male audience I am speaking to has used to word "bitch" before. My purpose is to "scare" my audience into being honest with themselves about whether or not they have been oppressive of women before and to invoke my audience's feelings of guilt that what they have done is not right. My serious tone is intended to indicate that the use of the word "bitch" is a serious issue.

The Sugar Kingdom: The Making of Plantation Hawai'i

The essay "The Sugar Kingdom: The Making of Plantation Hawai'i" written by Ronald Takaki is an informative essay on the history of the sugar plantations in Hawaii during the 1840's. The information is relevant to the Asian American experience and Asian American Movement because it reveals that those who are white have oppressed Asians long before the timeline U.S. history textbooks state so.

In 1835, William Hooper from Boston would arrive to the island of Kauai in order to establish a mercantile trading house called Ladd and Company. Him and other settlers would hire the natives of Kauai to work in their newly acquired and established sugar plantations. However, these natives would continue to develop great distrust towards Hooper and his partners and so Hooper would eventually bring those who are Chinese to work on his plantations. Exploiting Chinese immigrants would save Hooper labor and profits. These Chinese workers would also ultimately develop a lack of trust towards their employers. Hooper would continuously use the method of continuously bringing over and exploiting labor from immigrants from all over Asia like Koreans, Japanese, and Filipinos when those he previously brought over would decide not to work anymore.

Asian-American Movement

http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=UHIC&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&source=&sortBy=&displayGroups=&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ2338230577

This database article gives a fairly long history of the Asian American Movement. More in-depth information on the influence of the Vietnam War on the Asian American Movement was found in this article in comparison to the other resources I have cited thus far.

According to this article, the Vietnam War was heavily influential factor that sparked the Asian American Movement. The racism experienced by Asian Americans affected their anti-war protests to be different to those of white people. Asian American activists during the 1970's thought hard about the Vietnam War and about how it underscored racism towards Asian people. Due to the racist nature of the war, Asian American activists held signs that protested against the war's racist aspect instead of ones that advocated for general peace and bringing American soldiers home.

"All Power to the People" Social Movements for Justice

http://allpower.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/discussion-asian-american-movements-1/

""All Power to the People" Social Movements for Justice" is a blog run by a Pomona College professor whose students discuss topics reviewed in their history course on. I found this discussion on injustice towards Asian Americans through out the years informative. I viewed it as a reliable source because the students do refer to the titles of books they have read in addition to their thoughts and opinions stated in the posts. One post in the discussion by student Abbie Wang caught my attention specifically among all the posts I read:

"What resonated with me the most from discussion was the issue of identity that the Asian American movement faced. There was a subset of this issue brought up in class that concerned where Asian Americans’ loyalties lay—whether it was with their ethnic country or with the country where they lived. I think this loyalty was a more immediate issue because of the greater amount of immigrants that came to the United States at this time. Several of them still had strong connections to their ethnic countries and identities, yet had to assimilate into American society in order to support themselves. Immigrants also faced a problem with the American-born Asians—on what level could they connect with them, and perhaps more importantly on what level could they not? Something that was brought up late in class today about Amy Uyematsu’s “The Emergence of Yellow Power” related strongly back to differences between immigrants and American-born Asians. Someone mentioned that Uyematsu was calling out Asian Americans for being “soft-spoken” and allowing the whites to take advantage of the “silent oriental” stereotype. While I am not disagreeing with this, I think it’s important to look at this through the eyes of the Asian immigrants as well. At least in particular, in Japanese culture and lifestyle there is much less emphasis on the individual and speaking out against those in control is not encouraged. Changing from this lifestyle to the outspoken American one can be jarring, and I think it is an important factor to keep in mind when we look at the different Asian American experiences."

Wang brings up a point relating to a prevalent issue many Asian Americans faced in their communities. Identity has always been huge issue for many Asian Americans as they have to deal with the conflicting ideas of Asian culture and what is perceived to be American culture.