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Violating an Ambiguous Confidence? An Ethical Dilemma In a September 7, 2016 publication of “The Ethicist” in The New York Times Magazine, Kwame Anthony Appiah responds to an ethical dilemma posed by a widow. The widow states that her husband of fifteen years had passed away. It had been a second marriage for both her and her husband. Upon his death, she found many journals he had kept over the years before they had met, which he seemed to have stopped writing shortly after their marriage. He…

Is it OK to Find Sexual Satisfaction Outside Your Marriage An article in The New York Times Magazine, states that a married woman with three children is dissatisfied with her sex life. She also states that they get along for the most part, and that he is a great father to their children. When they initially started dating, she mentioned her concerns to him. She thought that things would change. However, they are now seven years into the marriage, and she is bored to death. The woman states that…

Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jane Addams, and most importantly, Virginia Minor. These women worked for centuries to gain women the right to vote, equal work wages, and equality next to men. While each of these women had a major part in women’s history, they each took a different approach at their successful efforts. Susan B. Anthony was born February 1820 to a Quaker family. Anthony’s parents encouraged education…

Gender roles have evolved significantly in the past two centuries. From females not having equal basic rights compared to males in the late 1800’s, to now females marching openly in Washington D.C to protest elections. When writing “A Doll’s House”, Henrik Ibsen really showed what the roles of male and female were like in the late 1800’s. Between now and then there have been plenty of movements for a woman to be treated as equal as a man, and in today’s western world women are not conforming to…

Nicole Moorefield Macpherson AP English III September 5, 2017 Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls On July 19, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton changed the course of American history forever. Standing before a crowd of almost two hundred women, Stanton read aloud the document she had prepared. The “Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances” or the “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” was structurally based on the Declaration of Independence,…

about universal suffrage in America, until 1880. About that time, one of her most important speeches, ‘Our Girls’, came into play mostly talking about gender equality. Also in 1880, she stopped leturing and became dedicated to her writing. Helping Anthony write two volumes of their “History of Women Suffrage”. She also co-authored “The Women’s Bible”, in 1895. October 26, 1902, Stanton died in her home from heart failure in her sleep. She felt as if she had a life that was meant to mean…

of female equality. Elizabeth was born on the 12th of November in 1815. She grew up and was born in Johnstown, New York. Stanton was not only an activist but an abolitionist and a great writer as well as an editor. She worked closely with Susan B. Anthony who was a feminist and an american social reformer. Stanton was the president for the National Women Suffrage Association. Stanton was a part of this association for twenty years. Stanton graduated from the Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary.…

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,…

Do you know who sparked Susan B. Anthony into women’s suffrage protests? She was the writer of “Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention,” Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Do you know who John Adams’s wife is? She was the writer of “Letter to John Adams,” Mrs. Abigail Adams. These two stories are fighting for the same liberty, women’s suffrage, but they use different tones and the writers come from different backgrounds which can influence their opinions and ideas.…

Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 - 1883) Run through plagiarism check In 1851, a middle-aged woman of almost six feet, with a deep speaking voice and an unerring eye for a catchy phrase, got to her feet in the midst of the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. “ I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well!” Sojourner Truth declared to the audience. “And ain't I a woman? I have borne 13 children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried…