The United States of America is a country unlike any others, in which the people have the maximum amount of freedom citizens can have. Before this freedom was established a man named Patrick Henry was tired of not being free from the British so he gave a speech. In the speech to the Virginia Convention by Patrick Henry, he realized that we needed to be free and pitched the idea of fighting and going to war to receive this freedom, to the people of the convention which eventually led to independence. In the speech from the Declaration of Sentiments by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she uses these rights of freedom to announce her opinion about rights specifically for women and to persuade others that women need more fair rights. These speeches have
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To display these beliefs they both voiced their opinions in an effort to gather support and obviously the strategy worked as both Henry and Stanton got what they were striving for. These tactics and beliefs definitely apply to the world today as everyday there are people speaking for the movement “Black Lives Matter” in an effort to gather support to obtain equal rights for African-Americans. Another recent example of this is when numerous people all over the country spoke in support of gay marriage. Similar to Henry and Stanton they stayed persistent with the effort and very quickly gathered more and more support everyday. Eventually they had to much support to ignore, so the government looked into it and officially made gay marriage legal in the United States.These actions are just as evident today as they were centuries ago and will continue to be as long as the United States exists.
Both authors have very similar beliefs and speeches and that is why both were successful in accomplishing what they set out to achieve. These speeches will forever serve as examples to future generations on how to be a leader and fight for what you believe in. Both Henry and Stanton’s speeches are very similar as they both were aiming to achieve freedom, used an appeal to logic, and most importantly both ignited successful movements that helped establish America as it is known
To display these beliefs they both voiced their opinions in an effort to gather support and obviously the strategy worked as both Henry and Stanton got what they were striving for. These tactics and beliefs definitely apply to the world today as everyday there are people speaking for the movement “Black Lives Matter” in an effort to gather support to obtain equal rights for African-Americans. Another recent example of this is when numerous people all over the country spoke in support of gay marriage. Similar to Henry and Stanton they stayed persistent with the effort and very quickly gathered more and more support everyday. Eventually they had to much support to ignore, so the government looked into it and officially made gay marriage legal in the United States.These actions are just as evident today as they were centuries ago and will continue to be as long as the United States exists.
Both authors have very similar beliefs and speeches and that is why both were successful in accomplishing what they set out to achieve. These speeches will forever serve as examples to future generations on how to be a leader and fight for what you believe in. Both Henry and Stanton’s speeches are very similar as they both were aiming to achieve freedom, used an appeal to logic, and most importantly both ignited successful movements that helped establish America as it is known