History is something we can always look back on, to make sure it won’t repeat itself. Student learn all about the roman empire, the spanish conquest, the holocaust and even about France’s Reign of Terror in world history. The United States of America still, being so young compared to other nations, has a lot of history that lie in our nation's history books for an eternity. 100’s of years of oppression, discrimination and inequality, and although times have changed, people of kinds continue live an oppressed, discriminated, and unequal life. One of these groups being women. Many might agree that our nation has progressed a lot, but how much have we really progressed if women continued to live a life of unequal treatments and where gender equality
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Some of them being Abigail Adams, Emma Watson, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions which was written by Stanton and was presented at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848 (Stanton). The language in this document mock the language of the Declaration of the Independence. For example, the Declaration of Independence says, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” (Jefferson). While the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions says, “We hold …show more content…
People think that men aren’t capable of raising a child on their own, even making TV shows about it. For example, the 2012 Free From TV show Baby Daddy is about guy named Ben whose one night stand leaves their newborn baby girl at his door step with a note basically tell him that she didn’t want the baby girl. The first couple episodes are about him debating if he can even do this, living with two other guys, he doubts himself. His mother and female friend also doubt he could do it. But in the end he ends up taking full responsibility for her and ends up raising her. Six seasons later, the female friends is now having her own child and it is Ben who is telling her everything is going to be okay, and he is more than willing to help her raise her own baby. This show has many truth to it, as many men who have to raise a child by their own probably doubt themselves a lot at the beginning but also as they have the love and support of their family and friends, they should be able to accomplish anything. Even today, men can been seen as vulnerable or weak and can’t show a sign of femininity because people will immediately assume that he is gay. We raise our sons saying phrases like, “don’t throw like
Some of them being Abigail Adams, Emma Watson, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions which was written by Stanton and was presented at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848 (Stanton). The language in this document mock the language of the Declaration of the Independence. For example, the Declaration of Independence says, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” (Jefferson). While the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions says, “We hold …show more content…
People think that men aren’t capable of raising a child on their own, even making TV shows about it. For example, the 2012 Free From TV show Baby Daddy is about guy named Ben whose one night stand leaves their newborn baby girl at his door step with a note basically tell him that she didn’t want the baby girl. The first couple episodes are about him debating if he can even do this, living with two other guys, he doubts himself. His mother and female friend also doubt he could do it. But in the end he ends up taking full responsibility for her and ends up raising her. Six seasons later, the female friends is now having her own child and it is Ben who is telling her everything is going to be okay, and he is more than willing to help her raise her own baby. This show has many truth to it, as many men who have to raise a child by their own probably doubt themselves a lot at the beginning but also as they have the love and support of their family and friends, they should be able to accomplish anything. Even today, men can been seen as vulnerable or weak and can’t show a sign of femininity because people will immediately assume that he is gay. We raise our sons saying phrases like, “don’t throw like