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  • Essay / Persuasive speech: Buy an automobile in 1908

    Henry Ford made his invention public. It's a horseless carriage that he calls the automobile. He told us that this machine would eventually be made available to the whole world. This is going to have a radical change in our society, as we know it. Every person should have a car. Each person's daily working time would be cut in half. Daily trips to the city would be completed in just a few hours. Supplies from cities would be twice as fast to small towns. Leisure will reach new levels as everyone will be able to travel wherever they want, whenever they want. Opportunities will reach new levels in the job market. You could find a job TWENTY miles from home without having to move to an urban area! A person, like you, could travel the country alone or with your partner, stopping and going as you please, unlike boring and inconvenient train schedules. Everyone's dream of traveling to new countries without having to plan a train schedule will come true. Do you know what the best part of all this will be? Ford told us that the price of the automobile would be very reasonable, so that everyone could afford one of these luxurious technological advances; it is not only the richest sections of society that will be affected. Every person will be transformed. Families will be able to travel in a family car and will be able to financially purchase one of the greatest manufacturing of all time. The middle class man will be able to enjoy luxuries of life that only the rich of the past were able to enjoy. I tell you, first hand, we are all going to be affected and our lives are going to be affected. change. Don't you think this machine is exciting for our future? Each automobile is offered in a most desirable style. The sleek black bodywork accompanies every automobile and shines to your liking. The narrow wheels on each corner can power through any bad weather while still being equally balanced so your ride is like gliding down a calm river. Dual headlights allow you to ride at night so your travel plans won't be hampered by missing sunlight. Two benches will make up the interior which can accommodate 5 people. The roof of your car can be easily compacted so that you can enjoy the pleasant view of the moonlight reflection...... middle of paper ...... to each person2. A middle class man can have Cara. not only rich people can have carbs. even workers and their families can enjoy luxury3. Every person will be affected4. Famillesa. brings families together in carsb. change in the proximity of familiesIV. Visualization and vivid descriptionA. Description of the car itselfB. Imagine yourself in the automobile1. Families picnic together2. Couples together in open fields3. Travel abroad with those you love by your sideV. Action and conclusionA. Every person should buy a car nowB. Buying an Automobile________________________________________________________________________Works CitedAnderson, Rudolph E. Henry Ford: Beautiful Lives Observed. Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1950. Caldwell, Cy. Henry Ford. New York: Julian Messner Inc., 1947. Herndon, Booton. Ford: An unconventional biography of the men and their times. New York: Weybright and Talley Inc., 1969. Nevins, Allan. Ford: the time, the man, the company. New York: Charles Scribner's Son's Publishing, 1947. Rae, John B. Henry Ford: Great Lives Observed. Cliffs of England, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc.., 1969.