2008 Republican National Convention

On Thursday, October 22, 2015, I took part in the National FFA Convention. Keynote speaker, Rick Rigsby, spoke about the impact of wise teachers and parents, and how with that knowledge, the students of the FFA, could make a difference. Rigsby is the president of Rick Rigsby Communications and founder of Rick Rigsby Ministries in Dallas, Texas. He is a popular speaker at colleges and public schools, and speaks before top corporations on Wall Street. Rick’s speech was held at the Bankers Life…

political opinion that really put pressure on the government. Another issue that began to arise was the fact that the country was still in debt so the National Assembly began to come up with ideas on how to pay off this debt. The National Assembly realized that the Catholic Church of France had special privileges and an untapped resource of wealth. The National Assembly took notice of the Catholic Church privileges then decided that clergymen should not have a salary and they changed many rules…

day in the summer, my grandma called me and asked if I wanted to go with her to a convention. I say to myself, “Might as well go out and have some fun.” So I wrote down the information of when we were going and what time she coming to pick…

The National Convention tried to make France a stable and prosperous society by giving all men the right to vote. They created the committee of public safety. It was made up of 12 members and they had absolute power, which they used to try to save the revolution. Since…

and violence. The Revolution was sparked by the National Assembly, which also helped continue the revolution. The National Assembly was a group formed from the people of the third Estate. The third Estate wanted each person to get a vote, instead of each Estate, this is because the third Estate could have 600 people rather than 300. The National assembly did have an effect on the French Revolution, but it was not a lasting one. The National Assembly could have been crucial to the French…

Quaker family, which believed women are equal to men and learning is necessary. She could read and write at the age of three. At the age of six, their family moved to Battenville, New York. As a woman, Susan B. was not allowed speak in public at a convention since she was a woman and she realized that in politics, no one would take her seriously unless women could vote. This is when she…

Sojourner Truth, a strong black women, wrote a speech in order to get her point across, because she believed in her own rights not only as a black but a women as well. Sojourner Truth read her “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech in 1851 at the Women's Rights Convention. Her short, simple speech was powerful, and a strong criticism to many antifeminist arguments at the time. It became, and continues to be, as a classic expression of women’s rights. Truth was, and still is, a symbol of a strong woman. I…

1914, Wald marched with 1,500 woman down 5th avenue in a “ Woman's Peace Parade” ( www.jwa.org). Lillian achieved many things for civil rights, but the most notable work she did was her involvement with the “National Negro Conference”. That conference became the “founding meeting” of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. (…

John Faucheraud Grimké, Mary Smith. Sarah and her sister were something special and courages, here are some of the things they accomplished.In 1837, Grimké and her sister made a prominent appearance at the Anti-Slavery Convention in New York for the firdt time . After the convention, they launched a public speaking tour in New England, during which they continued to express their abolitionist sentiment, this also gave other Women hope. Their audiences became increasingly diverse, and began to…

When the woman would start to farm, she would only be allowed to grow “womanly crops” such as cassava, plantains, and coco yams not men’s crop like yams. If she were to grow yams, her fields would be burned to rejuvenate the land from evil. The gender roles that take place in the Igbo culture, not only affect their agriculture but every other aspect of Igbo women’s lives. Igbo woman are subjected to abuse by their significant other, men are allowed to beat their wives regardless of the reason.…