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Assignment

Among other issues, each of the articles in this module considers how we might respond to the ways that social environments and norms influence us.

Audre Lorde suggests that people may try, at all costs, to accommodate socially imposed constraints, writing, "What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?"

Lorde, however, also suggests an alternative to either suffering silently to fit in or rebelling-she encourages listeners and readers to speak out and use language and action to change the social conditions of our lives.

After you have considered Lorde's question above and the alternative she subsequently proposes,

write a speech that proposes meaningful action in your community.

(This may include thinking differently about an issue, acting differently by creating new programs, behaving differently as individuals, or reinforcing norms and behaviors already valued by some parts of the community.) Decide on an audience to address who can help to improve the situation-your classmates; parents; younger (or older) students; coaches; administrators; teachers; church, city, or community officials-and compose an argument both describing a particular "tyrann[y]" or challenge and proposing changes that may improve the lives of those who endure it.

Like Butler, Chira, Brooks, Young, and Lorde, you may use your own or others' personal experiences (including, if appropriate, those of the five authors in this module), hypothetical situations, and reflections to make your caseMy topic is going to be Should we bring extinct species back from the dead?