2008 Democratic National Convention

women couldn’t vote or do anything, especially the black woman. Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist and women's rights activist who wrote the famous poem “Aint I a Woman?”. On May of 1851 Sojourner delivered the speech at the Ohio Women's right convention. The reason for “Aint I a Woman?” was to get rights for women because woman couldn’t vote or where looked upon as weak and not smart. This poem was intended for head political powers as well as men in america. Sojourner Truth wanted to get…

The film, Suffragette looks at the struggles the women who fought for the right to vote went through. The film takes place in London 1912, prior to women having the right to vote. As a result, women's rights were not valued as much. Caffi states that "Every social institution should have as its sole reason for being that of assuring the happiness of the man conscious of his own individuality" (Caffi 1970). A man's happiness, needs, and desires at this time were much more valuable than a woman's.…

movement got their political start in the abolitionist movement. Through demanding the freedom of slaves due to the way they were being treated, women began to realize their own injustices. The 1848 Seneca Falls convention was one of the key early movements in the United States. The convention brought together over 300 people, advocating…

Susan Brownell Anthony, born in Adams, Massachusetts; and was the second oldest of eight children (only six of the Anthony children lived to be adults) to Daniel Anthony and Lucy Read. Anthony became a feminist and suffragist, abolitionist, author and speaker activist for women’s suffrage rights and remained active until her death at the age of 86. Susan B. Anthony left an imprint on every woman since she spent most of her life working on social causes; raised in a Quaker politically active…

Women could make a considerable impact on the country if elected president. Our constitution states that all mankind is created equal. Everyone should be treated equally, so if a man can be president, so can a woman. Women can be leaders and make a difference, just like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, and Mother Theresa. Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts on February 15, 1820. She developed a sense of justice and moral zeal early in her life. She became active in temperance after…

in the electoral process; now opens it’s election to any citizen eighteen years of age and older. Although elections tend to reflect the popular opinion the democratic primaries, it does not always reflect the popular opinion of the office holders of the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention. In 1868 democratic primary voters selected Senator George S. McGovern to represent their party as nominee for president, at the time America was unequally divided on rather…

ballot in the general. It is imperative that a presidential candidate rallies and excited the grassroots of their prospective parties, since they make the majority of voters. An example of this would be the 2008 Democratic Primary. “The 2008 primary campaign was also historic. On the Democratic side, the field narrowed quickly to pit Barack Obama against Hillary Clinton. A sometimes bitter contest between Obama and Clinton produced the narrowest of victories for Obama (Britannica).” Primary…

The 1860 presidential election led to the dominance of the Republican and Democratic parties, with no major changes in the electoral and political system ever since. As a result, tracking previous elections can possibly give rise to prospective clues, cycles or dynamic regularities (Norpoth 1995). In this essay, the author uses the framework of the Primary Model to understand a few of these prospective clues and dynamic regularities. The author initially describes the steps in a presidential…

“militias” that only included women that would protest with force. Their main reasoning was the right to vote. Which was granted to them in 1918 if you were over the age of 30, and then in 1928 if you were over the age of 21. There was a National Women’s Rights Convention held in 1850. It was lead and held by Susan B. Anthony one of…

analyze Hillary Clinton acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania this July. Her speech was anti climatic: she used prior speakers such as First Lady Michele Obama, President Barack Obama, President Bill Clinton and Cory Booker to build her report. I’ll begin with the first part of her speech, recognizing Bill Clinton and the love and support he had given her, which are front and center at the convention and had major publicity during this election…