Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt’s even just after her first year changed the moods of many Americans. Eleanor shared in the adulation that flowed toward the White House from a reviving people. But it was more than that. Eleanor and her husband set a precedent on how people would look at the Roosevelt era. It’s ironic because Eleanor did not want the job of being this first lady she thought it would hamper her own self-development as an independent person. Through the efforts she transformed what it went to be…

A. Plan of the Investigation This investigation analyses the role and how significant Eleanor Roosevelt was in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). To asses the role that Eleanor Roosevelt played in the drafting of the UDHR, this investigation will focus on “her appointment as U.S. representative to the United Nations from December 1945 until January 1953”(Beasley 214) and how this “led to her leadership of the Human Rights Commission, which produces the Universal…

Early life for Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was not the easiest for one to bare. A family plagued by alcoholism and abuse shaped the woman that had so much impact on the America we live in today. A distant mother and an outcast, absent father were the makings of her home life. Her mother Anna’s death, after a long period of illness, in 1892 was closely followed by her father Elliott’s just nineteen months later of depression and alcohol. At the age of ten, Eleanor was orphaned and put in the custody…

Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884 in New York City. When Eleanor was 8 years old, her mother died of diphtheria; her father died from a fall two years later. In 1905, Eleanor Roosevelt married future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). Together they had four sons and one daughter. When FDR was diagnosed with polio, Eleanor did a lot for him, because of this, she became more involved in politics and making an impact. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was noteworthy in history…

The New First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” Known as the reluctant first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt accomplished many tasks that previous First Ladies’ thought they could not do. With no option of becoming the First Lady, she refused to accept the “housewife” role and changed the way the United States viewed the role of the First Lady by her outspoken personal views, participation in the media, and her numerous trips around the world while…

world you could be risking everything. Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Robinson, and Martin Luther King were inspired to make a difference. They gave it all they had, risked it all and changed the world. Many people new that the way of life needed to change. Why did Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Robinson, and Martin Luther King feel that they were the ones who should change the world. Eleanor Roosevelt was a very important woman in history. Her husband Theodore Roosevelt was a victim of polio, and it…

Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt By: Aubrey Zozaya #33 HER Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884, in New York, New York. She died on November 7, 1962, at the age of 78 in the same city. She was born into a wealthy, but dysfunctional family. As a child, she was a shy girl and suffered an extreme loss. Her mother died in 1892 and her father died in 1894, she was very young when her parents died. Her grandma criticized Eleanor’s looks which lowered her self-esteem and made her become…

just about presenting a pretty face, but some outstanding women proved that stereotype wrong. Whether it was Eleanor Roosevelt changing the roles of the First Lady for good, Dolley Madison saving George Washington's portrait during the War of 1812, Jacqueline Kennedy redecorating the White House and being a fashion icon, or Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton giving women…

One main reason Eleanor Roosevelt became interested in helping the handicapped, was when her husband Franklin became ill with polio in 1921.It was the hardest time of life from that moment on (1921-1945). Talking about Eleanor and her work with the handicapped cannot be done without mentioning and extraordinary man who has done astonishing things throughout his life. One man in particular comes to mind and his name is Henry Viscardi. Henry Viscardi was a man born with underdeveloped leg…

Heritage Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife of Franklin D Roosevelt. She was the U.S president from 1933 to 1945. She was mostly involved in racial and social justice which is why she said this about the Japanese. “You gain courage strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror, I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” (Eleanor…