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__Dorthea Dix Succors the Insane (1843)__ A- Dorthea Dix. She was a schoolteacher that visited an insane asylum and tried to help them. P- The eight insane asylums across the United States. 1843. P- The mentally handicap were treated very poorly. They weren't really helped by the government. They weren't treated to become better. They were brutally beaten and treated like they weren't even humans. Mentally handicaps were outcasted by the socities they lived in. A- The audience of this document was the State Legislatures. I don't think that this affects the reliability of the source. Dorthea would have to be completely truthful because if they found out she wasn't being truthful all of her efforts would have been for nothing. It is also an official document becuase she was speaking to people of immense power in the government. R- Dorthea produced this document because she wanted to show the government that the way the mentally handicap were being treated was incredibly wrong and unfair. She felt the need to product the mentally handicap from the rough and autrocious treatment they were receiving. T- The document is trying to show the government that mentally handicap people need to receive better treatment because they were being treated in a horrible manner. S- This document is important because it's a first hand account of how people were being treated. Dorthea wanted to show that it was very wrong that they were treated so awfully. She felt that it was her responsibility to help this people. She knew that she needed to give the government knowledge of what was happening to these people. She showed the government that it was necessary to help this people, not hurt them.