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    Susan Brownell Anthony (Feb. 20, 1820 - March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and a feminist who played an important role in the woman’s suffrage movement. She began to collect anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and herself founded the New York Women’s State Temperance Society after Anthony was not allowed to speak at a temperance conference because she was a woman. She began the movement to equality in women, although we are still looked at as minorities,…

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    Iron Jawed Angels Essay

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    women votes, but at the end of the movie we see the harsh and diligent steps the members of the National Women’s party takes to nationally pass the bill. The viewers really got to better understand real life women suffragettes such as Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. The movie first starts out introducing Alice Paul. We learn she has come from Britain and is a Quaker. She has begun organizing a parade for…

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    The Suitcases Analysis

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    The Suitcases This story is written about 3 orphan children during the Great Depression. The mother dies and the oldest child does not go to school. Their grandfather used to take care of them but now he just lays in bed for most of the day and they do not go for walks anymore. The three children live in Charlotte, NC and before their mother passed away they would go on walks until their legs ached and could not walk anymore. When the kids got tired dad would put them on his shoulders and…

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    Published in the early 1950s, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, took 7 years to get off the presses to the public, according to “The Parallel World of Narnia” by Chad Walsh, and became one of Lewis’s best-sellers (2005). In this story four siblings, stumble upon The Wardrobe in their guardians room, which leads them into a secret mystical world, filled with mystical beings and magic, no one knows about. The Witch has taken over the world and has left it cold for many years,…

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    Chapter one when I ment Thomas Edison,I was wearing a lab coat.Thomas asked,”why I was wearing a lab coat.”I said”Because I like to invent things and make inventions.Thomas said”So do I!”I had to go home,so then I told my parents about who I ment and that we have a lot in common.So the next day I went to Thomas’s house.We were plainning to build a lab.Thomas went and got the blue prints as I was getting the wood,lights and tools. Chapter two When Thomas and I were looking at the blueprints,are…

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    Victorian Women In Dracula

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    characterized through the three female vampires, Lucy Westenra, and Mina Harker. Jonathan Harker met the three female vampires in Count Dracula’s castle. The vampires were describes as sexualized characters. In Victorian society women should be pure and innocent, yet the vampires were flirtatious and promiscuous. The three female vampires tried to seduce him and drink his blood.…

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    The Library of Souls is the last installment of the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children Trilogy. By Ransom Riggs, the last installment immediately takes place after the second installment, and hooks the reader until the end, with a great conclusion to the trilogy. The unique part in the book does not disappoint, with the creepy-looking vintage pictures, they help you visualize more of the story. The story first takes place in present London, where Emma, a girl who can control fire, and Addison, a…

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    King Edmund In 901

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    Edmund whose father is killed in battle when the Vikings overrun East Anglia. Edmund flees to the Kingdom of Wessex to join forces with the young King Alfred. Edmund is in many battles which at first the Saxon lose, then as he and young Alfred get talking they decide to use and adapt Roman warfare methods such at the 'turtle' and tight formations in wedge shapes. Edmund begins to win and becomes notorious, but it isn't enough the Danes keep coming. King Alfred in desperation tries to pay them…

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    stunned. Help? Edmund’s prattle had skipped with such confidence that James half believed he already knew the answer, but it turns out Edmund wholly knew nothing--the newt hadn’t just presented himself, he had sacrificed himself, and even bargained to do so. James yanked Pip and Sheena into a huddle. They needed an answer. “Think!” he said, unable to do so himself. Sheena processed out loud, “More than life. Perhaps love? No, a contended man would not desire that…” Pip bit his thumb and stared…

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    Although there has been other genocides, the Holocaust has been the worst event that took place in history. Two million Jews and other minorities were targeted and killed. The Holocaust was successful in carrying out all the atrocities they did under the regime of Hitler, because Hitler and his followers were organize and tactical when caring out their reign of terror. Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir, Maus, written by Art Speigelman’s (1991). The author writes about his father experience…

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