Basel Convention

People ask all the time Why am I here in this world? What do I have to accomplish? What’s the meaning of it? Today for my Synthesis essay, I will be using text from the Declaration of Independence, Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie, and Frederick Douglas. By analyzing these works we will have a better understanding on how we should live our lives. These works will bring out examples of how a meaningful life looks like, an example of somebody who portrayed these values and then we will see how…

I personally did a great deal of gatherings of likeminded individuals, such as with the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls. We would later have another convention in Rochester, New York a few weeks later. I also wrote, and that was how most people knew me. Not only did I take part in the writing of the Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls, but I also wrote a variety of pieces…

The women began a reform movement before the outbreak of the Civil War to abolish slavery, specifically in the meeting Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The first state to grant women the right to vote Wyoming In 1869. Leaders in the western states and territories argued that granting female suffrage would pull new residents to the West. There was a split in the women's rights until the founding of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1890. It…

America, the Declaration of sentiments was made famous and quiet convincing at the first Woman's Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, on 19 and 20 July 1848. The Declaration of Sentiments, document drafting and design the rights that American women should be permit to as citizens, that arosed from the Seneca Falls Convention in New York in July 1848. “Three days before the convention, feminists Lucretia Mott, Martha C. Wright, Elizabeth…

Revolution: 1756-1763: The Seven Years’ War 1764: Sugar Act 1765: Stamp Act & Quartering Act 1767: Townshend Act 1773: Tea Act & Boston Tea Party 1774: Continental Congress 1776: Declaration of Independence 1783: Treaty of Paris 1787: Constitutional Convention French Revolution: 1774-1793: Reign of King Louis XVI 1789: National Assembly 1789-1791: National Assembly reconfigured French society 1792: War against Austria & Prussia 1793-1794: Revolutionary Chaos 1795-1799: Directory 1799: End of…

As we read the book, Sisters In Spirit, we truly did learn how these women sparked the revolutionary idea of early feminists. The author Sally demonstrates how these women, at a time when European American women, were able to display so few rights. Together, these women truly were sisters in spirit as they paved the way for not only our generation but for the future. This created a stance on a handful of things such as a woman’s political power, the power they have on their bodies, their…

the first to gain rights to the elective franchise. 300 years past Shakespeare’s time, women were finally granted the right to vote; therefore, women living in the same era as Shakespeare would not have had a niche in politics. At the Seneca Falls Convention in New York in July 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered “The Declaration of Sentiments,” in which she stated about men, “He has never permitted her to exercise…

From 1914 to 1939, America was rapidly changing with events like engaging in the first world war, prohibition, and the great depression to name a few. These events set the mold for a new modern America. Just under 50 years before the 20th century, America had made great strides in improving modern American freedom by implementing the 15th amendment and giving the right to vote to any man of any race. However, it seems that during the time period from 1914-1939 every step America took to…

The role of women has been a controversial issue for many centuries. The idea of women being equal to a man, was never considered until the women’s rights movements of 1848. Since then women have gained the right to vote, and are able to work jobs just like a man, but in many ways women are still viewed as the subservient submissive housewife, as they once were in anglo saxon times. Anglo-saxon women were assumed to withhold specific roles in their society, such as peaceweaver, hostess, and as…

“Each person must live their life as a model for others” said Rosa Louise McCauley Parks. She is also known as the mother of the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks was a woman who was tired of not standing up for what she believed in. Finally one day she did and her actions began a movement that ended legal segregation in America. She made our world a better place, which is why Rosa Parks belong’s in American’s History Hall Of Fame. Rosa parks was born on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee,…