Declaration of Sentiments

decide what their family was going to eat. Many complains started to come out about this treatment, starting with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who wrote The Declaration of Sentiments. The Declaration of Sentiments is a way to complain in how females were not comfortable with the treatment they had. This essay is an overview of The Declaration of sentiments, a little throwback about the history of the author and what it was going at this time. Women’s suffrage was in the 1840s. During this time…

because they are women. Elizabeth Cady-Stanton used the Declaration of Independence as frame of reference when she wrote Declaration of Sentiments. Stanton’s point of view when writing this is that the interpretation of the American beliefs in freedom and liberty can change, and be used for a different purpose. On the other hand, Jefferson is fighting against equality between men and women. When writing the Declaration of sentiments and the Declaration of Independence, both Stanton and Jefferson…

A stifling, sweltering heat came over her. She wasn’t sure whether it was the generally feverish July weather, the soaring tenacious grip of her high neckline, or the unwavering perlustration of 300 pairs of eyes gazing up at her. She knew in her heart this event was the beginning. She knew they were making history. With this knowledge she began her address, articulately and academically, leaving no room for reproval or ridicule. Who was this woman who felt so vulnerable? This woman was…

“Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions”: A Stance on Suffrage The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 is marked as the official start of the suffrage movement in the United States. In a chapel holding roughly two hundred women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton makes a stance with her speech “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution” (Burns). Stanton makes bold statements in this piece about inequality and the oppressment of women by a government where men solely held office and calls for radical change.…

In the speech given by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a leader of the women’s rights movement, (July 19th 1848) Stanton demands that women should be given the same rights, specifically the right to vote, that men have. The speaker emphasizes Aristotle's rhetorical appeals: pathos, ethos, and logos through the use of figurative language, allusions, appealing to religion and others. The speech was written in order to call the nation into actions that would result in equal rights for men and women.…

‘The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality”-Elizabeth Cady Stanton.I am Elizabeth Cady Stanton. I was born on November 12, 1815. I passed away on October 26, 1902. I graduated from Johnstown Academy. The college I graduated form was from Emma Willard School in 1832..I have a husband named Henry Brewster Stanton. We got married on May 1, 1840. We have 7 children. Daniel Cady Stanton, Henry Brewster Stanton, Gerrit Smith Stanton, Theodore Weld Stanton, Margaret…

In 1814 the Seneca Falls Declaration of sentiments was created. The document helped with the women's suffrage movement. The document was true and some of it was related to documents written by a man. For example, many man used a the quote “all men are created equal” but they didn't read in-depth to find out the true meaning. The quote is saying that all men and women are created equally. Women were never apart of elective franchise because men thought they were dumb. The document was also…

“You’re always one decision away from a totally different life.” - Anonymous. This quote ties in with the women’s rights movement due to the fact that if it weren’t for one meeting in the summer of 1848, women across the world would probably be in the same predicament as they were in early history. The women’s movement matters because women demanded change. Women issues were also left unresolved, and they are finally seeing improvement in the gender equality. Women across the world demanded…

The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions is a political text. This text was presented in the first women's rights convention of the United States, held in Seneca Falls (New York) in 1848. During this convention, seventy women and thirty men gathered to discuss about the conditions of the rights of women in social, civil and religious life. At that time, the country was enjoying a period in which only free men (white, non-slaves) had the right to vote. In consequence, slaves,…

The Declaration of Sentiments and the Pearl Harbor speech are both respective historical arguments. The Declaration of Sentiments, written in 1848, was the first women's rights convention organized by women. The author, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, wrote "that all men and women are created equal," saying that women can do anything a man can, and women are no less of value than men. She includes points of where men make women civilly dead because men are considered more dominant and capable rather…