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tool of education this great status of wealth would be unattainable to the common man. Rhetorical Devices: Analogy: ?Such fortunes would create a feudalism of a new kind; but one more oppressive and unrelenting than that of the Middle Ages. The feudal lords in England, and on the continent, never held their retainers in a more abject condition of servitude, than the great majority of foreign manufacturers and capitalists hold their operatives and laborers at the present day. The means employed are different, but the similarity in results is striking. What force did then, money does now…? Metaphor: If a savage will learn how to swim, he can fasten a dozen pounds? weight to his back and transport it across a narrow river. If he will invent an axe he can use a tree form a float

and one of its limbs for a paddle. Fastening several trees together, he makes a raft and thus increases the buoyant power of his embryo water-craft. But, even this does not content the adventurous naval architect. he frames iron arms to his ship; and for oars, affixes iron wheels. Into iron-walled cavities in her bosom, he puts iron organs of massive structure and strength, and cohesion insoluble by fire. Now take away intelligence form the ship-builder, and the steamship falls back and the savage swimmer, bearing his dozen pounds on his back, alone remains. Ethos: Establishes himself as an educated man by speaking of feudalism and Economic theories and how they pertain to a lack in massive public education that the nation is facing. Pathos: Logos: The metaphor stated above gives

a real life situation of how education has helped to evolve technology which has greatly improved humanity?s standards of living. Quote: Now take away intelligence form the ship-builder, and the steamship,-that miracle of human are,-falls back and the savage swimmer, bearing his dozen pounds on his back, alone remains. Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions This is a document drafted, for the most part, by Elizabeth Stanton at the Seneca Falls Convention for women?s rights, in Seneca Falls, New York. This document was modeled around the Declaration of Independence and focuses mainly on the oppression of women?s social, civil, and religious rights by their male counter parts. Elizabeth Stanton states that women are subjected her to lead a life dependent upon males

and are obligated to submit to laws in which women have no say so in forming. She state that oppression from males restrict women from gaining independent means of wealth and education as well as declining them of any rights in holding positions in the church. She adds the point that women are required by law to pay taxes to a government that only recognizes her when tax revenue is sought out. The main thing partitioned for in this document is the equal treatment of men and women, and further on that notion is the equal opportunity for women to be allowed to vote. Stanton Adds that it is the duty of all women to speak out against any deprivation of their natural rights, on account of the oppression bestowed upon them by their male counterparts. Rhetorical Devices: Syntax: On page

84 Stanton uses one sentence paragraphs for the next 15 paragraph. She does this with the intention of punctuating the evidence she gives to support her view of the oppression by males on the female gender. Repetition: The above mentioned paragraphs all begin with the phrase ?He has…? This strategy is done so with the intention of providing readers with a simple straight forward list of evidence compiled to support her thesis. Ethos: Pathos: Through the evidence in Paragraphs 5-20 readers are invoked upon a sense of compassion for all the toil and strife the female gender has been forced to endure by the hands of male oppression. Readers are put on a level in which they can truly understand the pretenses of the predigest views males have for females. Lathos: Paragraphs 5-20

list a innumerable amount of evidence to support the thesis. The main evidence listed applies to the fact that women are deprived of creating legislation which they are forced to abide by, as well as the fact that they are deprived of creating avenues of financial wealth for them selves and are degraded to the point at which they are subjected to live a life dependent upon males. Quote: ?All experience hath shown that man kind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.? Address to the Ohio Women?s Rights Convention This speech was delivered by Sojourner Truth at the Ohio Women?s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. The message she set to her audience was a call to take action against the