https://padlet.com/keljohnson/3fmxnuwc3xqpma0k en-us 2020-10-22 15:12:45 UTC 2020-10-28 14:48:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/keljohnson/3fmxnuwc3xqpma0k/wish/865555931 2020-10-27 13:20:30 UTC https://padlet.com/keljohnson/3fmxnuwc3xqpma0k/wish/865555931 https://padlet.com/keljohnson/3fmxnuwc3xqpma0k/wish/869771495 Downe then effectively uses an allusion to the Declaration of Independence to show the values of America so his wife will be inspired to join him in America. The Declaration expresses the desire for life and liberty which forms Downe’s idea of “rational liberty to its fullest extent” that is alive in America. In America liberty is not some abstract idea, it is present on the street, in every person's actions, in the society around them. Freedom reigns in America, a place where "servants and masters sit down together at the same table..." This example of liberty would shock Down's wife. This is not the reality that her and her children experience in England. Downe alludes to the Declaration of Independence and this example of liberty to show his wife that the Declaration was true. People are free and happy in America. All of the stories that Down's wife has heard about America, are not fairy tales, but are true. The wife can now look back on the Declaration and not just interpret it as a speech of what people want to hear but what America is achieving. Downe wants his wife to know that liberty in America is real, and that it is wonderful. This fact will make her want to move to America and see this for herself, and allow her children to grow up in this place. Downe opens his family's minds to what America is like and the life that they could experience if they all moved.

]]> 2020-10-28 14:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/keljohnson/3fmxnuwc3xqpma0k/wish/869771495 https://padlet.com/keljohnson/3fmxnuwc3xqpma0k/wish/869773025 A particularly striking rhetorical strategy Downe uses in this text is hyperbole. Early in the text, Downe states, “If a man like work he need not want victuals,” which he then follows up with, “I would rather cross the Atlantic ten times than hear my children cry out for victual once.” By first describing how easy it is to provide for yourself in America, then stating with conviction that he would suffer through the Atlantic passage many times, he makes a persuasive argument, as he shows the outcome is worth it. With regards to his audience in particular, his wife, it would be tremendously successful, as the main responsibility of a parent is to care for their children. By contrasting the situation in England with that in America, then making a hyperbolic statement, Downe makes it easy for his audience to see that his position is the best one.]]> 2020-10-28 14:25:33 UTC https://padlet.com/keljohnson/3fmxnuwc3xqpma0k/wish/869773025 https://padlet.com/keljohnson/3fmxnuwc3xqpma0k/wish/869773353 2020-10-28 14:25:37 UTC https://padlet.com/keljohnson/3fmxnuwc3xqpma0k/wish/869773353 AshAnt262 https://padlet.com/keljohnson/3fmxnuwc3xqpma0k/wish/869774179 Banneker utilizes Jefferson's own words in the Declaration of Independence to prove that Jefferson's stance on slavery is hypocritical, and that slavery goes against the ideals that American is founded on. Banneker speaks of the true and valuable doctrine,  that states “ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Banneker points out that the backbone of American ideals centers on individual, God-given rights. However, slaves in the United States do not have these individual rights. By using the Declaration of Independence, Banneker points out the hypocrisy of slavery. Jefferson himself owned slaves, and yet ignores these men's rights. Banneker describes that Jefferson had “tender feelings” about human rights, had been honest and as he wrote the Declaration of Independence, and yet denies those same rights to slaves. Banneker argues how pitiable it was that Jefferson easily overlooked and ignored a whole group of people.  ]]> 2020-10-28 14:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/keljohnson/3fmxnuwc3xqpma0k/wish/869774179