Fight For Women Rhetorical Analysis

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Text #1: Written cite The first written text I will be analyzing is an excerpt titled, Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Fight For Women, created by Elizabeth Cady Stanton herself in her 1898 autobiography, Eight Years And More. The purpose of this historical text is to show the struggle and fight women, and people of color went through to be where we are today. Elizabeth created this to mark a crucial time in her life where she would be taking a step in the direction towards women’s rights. When analyzing this written text, it is important to understand the act Elizabeth was preparing to go do, and how she came about wanting to do marked a critical time in the life of a woman. Being a young woman, who lived a comfortable, happy life and was provided with no wrongful experiences in life thus far. She wrote this text showing the world that surrendered her, as her father was a lawyer. Every day, helpless woman came to her father, and she would see the struggle they went through with their husbands, legally and physically unable to do anything. Back then, women essentially were treated like property if in a marriage, and they had no power what so ever. The women that came in to her father’s office pleaded …show more content…
In a way, the author of this text could be labeled as the gym itself, Snap Fitness. The text can be found at Circleville, Ohio, 43113 and the main reason this specific text was created, is to give people a gym to workout in 24/7, as most gyms are not open past 10 o’clock at night. Snap Fitness in a fairly new gym in Circleville, and it has provided the community with great pricing for it being a 24/7 gym. The other evening I decided to go workout for the first time in a few weeks, due to being so busy with schoolwork, but I found a few hours for myself to workout. I went to workout around 8:30pm when it generally dies down, but the lifting area I normally use, was pretty

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