Anthony DiNozzo

“Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.” - G.D. Anderson Many years ago, one common practice in many countries was to deny women’s rights. Women were being oppressed and considered inferior to men. They did not have the right to vote because they were considered to have inferior minds. They were only required to stay at home to do house chores and to take care of the children while the male was…

Although the feelings towards women’s rights were rapidly changing during the late twentieth century, not many women were able to have an opportunity to participate in the workplace. Olga Broumas’ “Cinderella” uses the contrast between a women’s want of a perfect fairytale ending and the struggle to make their own way in society to get across the underlying meaning of the women’s movement. Throughout the poem Broumas uses examples of how the women of that day were often shunned from these types…

The theme courage is shown in both of the stories “Making Sarah cry” and “Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote”. Both of the characters in these stories show courage. In the informational text “Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote” she is trying to help all the women get the right to vote even though she could have been arrested at any point in time. In the poem “Making Sarah Cry” Sarah helped the narrator when she sees him starting to cry so she goes up to them and stands up to them even though she knew that…

In “Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887)” Emma Lazarus’s writes in her sonnet “the New Colossus”, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” (Par. 1). Engraved within the Statue of Liberty, the icon of freedom, this sonnet defines the country of the United States. Even before its independence from Britain, the America was vastly recognized as the land of opportunity for those seeking a better life for themselves and their families. Emigrating by the thousands, many…

granted women the right to vote in American elections. Though it was a huge milestone in the quest for women’s suffrage, it omits a complex discussion of its true origins in the mid to late 1800s. Many associate the movement with names like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Additionally, places like Seneca Falls, New York are tagged as the birthplace of the Women’s Rights Movement in America. In The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898, Lisa…

“Home Life” is a manuscript that was written in 1875 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It is unknown where she wrote “Home Life” but it was mostly likely in New York because she was lived there her whole life. Elizabeth Stanton was a white woman, well educated, and an activist for women’s rights. Elizabeth’s characteristics will affect her perspective while writing. These characteristics will shape her perspectives because she is going to support women’s rights in her writings. In her writings, she…

As Jane Addams wrote this source on “Why women should vote, 1915”, she directed an issue that women faced during the early twentieth century, known as woman suffrage. In this historical document, Jane Addams explained the importance of a woman’s right to vote. First, she makes a claim that for all centuries it’s evident that a woman’s role is to take care of everything pertaining to her home, including her family. However, Addams explained that women (in general) cannot fully maintain their role…

Madison Fishman English 11H The Scarlet Letter- Analytical Essay: Women It would be impossible for someone in this day and age to imagine a world without women's influence. Women have and will continue, to make a world on the world, as they believe their voices must be heard. However, this belief was once looked down upon, especially in the Puritan town of Boston during the mid-1600’s. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne places women in a society where they had no voice, no…

Civic housekeeping was essential to women’s contribution to the social and political issues within the U.S along to increase their status with the men of society. Women’s involvement in politics and government recognition was active during the women’s suffrage, the right for women to vote, movement during the middle of the 1800s to 1920. Congress approved the 19th Amendment, the right for women to vote, in 1918 and later became a part of the Constitution in 1920. There were notable women leaders…

Compare the activities if two civil rights activist, one from Australia and on from the US. Rosa Park and Pearl Gibbs, who are both famous Civil Rights Activist that significantly contributed to the Civil Rights Movement, whom brought change to the society and both wanting to put a stop to discriminations against African-Americans. Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, Pearl Gibbs born on 1901 at La Perouse, Sydney. They both stood up for their own rights, and what they…