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    Strong, influential women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony—women who changed the face of American politics for women—are the embodiment of feminism at its finest. They, along with many other men and women, fought for equality between men and women. However, to many people feminism is representative of man-hating, excuse-making, manly women who play the victim to gain advantage over men. This negative image of feminism prevents both men and women from fulfilling their potential

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    Jackson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Hanson Robinson, Frederick Douglass, John Ross, Harriet Beecher Stowe and etc. In the period of 1787 – 1861, I feel that the most significant voices to emerge, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Joseph Smith and Andrew Jackson. How open was American Society in this period? Elizabeth Cady Stanton became conversant with the Women’s rights activists for the first time for the Anti-Slavery convention held in London (Keene, 297). “From a youthful age, Elizabeth was distinctly

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    Elizabeth Cady Stanton's rhetoric was very effective in advancing her point of view. She iterates that women deserve the right to vote, and be treated as equals. She is asking the audience to join her in advocating women's rights, because it is simply the logical thing to do. Stanton is a woman, so she knows first hand what it is like to be an American woman in the 1800s. She uses this knowledge to choose how to further her argument. In paragraph 4, Stanton states; "But we are assembled to protest

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    The Solitude of Self is a speech that was given by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was a leader of the women’s suffrage movement. This speech mainly discussed gender equality in every situation, including education and suffrage. Stanton clearly was opposed to the idea of inequality and believed that every person, man or woman, deserved to have the same rights. Elizabeth began her speech with the idea that women are equal to men in every aspect, and in being so, they deserve the same rights. She focuses

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    and discriminatory towards different races, social class, and genders. With an attempted to initiate the change needed to bring about equality for women and fight for an addition of a sixteenth amendment, a popular women’s rights activist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, gave a powerful speech in 1868 at the Women’s Suffrage Convention in Washington D.C. Urging her audience, an array of men and mostly enraged women, to take a stand against the gender profiling women are undergoing. In Stanton’s speech, “The

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    Over the holiday, please read pages 114-143 in the Language of Composition. 1. Analyze Stanton 's use of induction and deduction to support her claim and develop the argument. 4-5 paragraphs. Inductions, a series of examples, can be used to verify a major premise, which can then be the framework for deductions, by applying it to a specific case (minor premise). Deductive reasoning can be structured as a syllogism, a “logical structure that uses the major premise and minor premise to reach a

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    Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady was the third surviving child, and the second of the five daughters of Margaret and Daniel Cady. She was born November 12th, 1815 in Johnstown, New York. Her mother was from a family with ties to the American Revolution. Her father was a prominent lawyer. Elizabeth was always aware of the gender-based power imbalances. After her older brother died her dad said she should’ve been born a boy every time she succeeded. She learned to play chess, learned to ride a

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    3rd document by Elizabeth Cady Stanton it talks about how a male can basically make her do anything he wants. “She had no voice” (Stanton) back then they did not have freedom of speech. The document explains the role of the female and the males. He does not just tell her what she can and can’t to do but the male could take her freedom because she is his property. In page 240 paragraph five line it says “Convent of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband” (Stanton) She has no freedom

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    Radical Women Elizabeth Cady Stanton a 19th center women activist and feminist, and some could say the mother of the modern women rights movement. I read a biography about her in “Elizabeth Cady Stanton A Radical for Women’s Rights” By Lois W. Banner. Telling about Cady Stanton life (1815-1902) thought historical records and testimony from her colleges and from their own autobiographies. As well as Cady Stanton family. But why write this book there are penalty out there about Cady Stanton, and why a

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    which is to be specific about the particular items she want’s resolved in the United States. The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions by Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a spin-off of the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson. Stanton uses language to persuade the reader on how men and women are not equivalent under the law. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Thomas Jefferson use similar syntax structure throughout their declarations to create a stronger emphasis on the point they are making

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