Catharine Beecher

From Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, feminism is defined as “the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.” Throughout history, feminism has existed and along with it, so has many different theories offering different guiding principles and politics for how to act in the world (Bromley, 2012). As time progresses, different social and political reforms emerge and with that, so does the reorganization of feminist theories. During the early 1960s, a new wave of feminism…

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an author a civil rights activist and she was best known for her popular anti-slavery novel called “uncle sam’s cabin”. Harriet Elizabeth Beecher was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut. She was 7th out of 13 children born to religious leader Lyman Beecher and his wife, Roxanna Foote Beecher.Her mother died when Harriet was a child. Harriet’s seven brothers grew up to be ministers, including the famous leader Henry Ward Beecher. Her sister Catharine…

We have all heard of feminism or at least heard of a feminist. Now what is feminism? Feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. Women have come a long way from not being able to work and basically being forced to stay home and do housework all day to being able to vote, get an education, and have a job. It was always believed that men were superior to women. In 1895 Susan B. Anthony, a civil rights leader, said “No man is good…

Langton’s article “Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts ” argues that pornography silences women. This is similar to Katherine MacKinnon’s thesis and throughout the rest of her article, Langton labels pornography as a speech act, or an utterance, which has illocutionary effects that support MacKinnon’s claims of: 1) pornography subordinating women and 2) pornography silencing women. Langton introduces the terms locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary to explain the effects of pornography. To…

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, also known as Harriet Beecher Stowe, was born on June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut. She was the sixth child of thirteen children. Two of them died as a child. She had seven brothers and three sisters. Her father, Reverend Lyman Beecher, was a Presbyterian Minister. Her mother was Roxanna Foote Beecher. She died at the age of forty-one because of tuberculosis when Harriet was five years old. Following her mother’s death, Harriet was…

The poem “Good Hours” by Robert Frost is a poem that alludes the feeling of solitude and loneliness to its readers. Frost himself faced a great deal of heartbreak in his time. While “Good Hours” is one of his lesser known poems, it is no doubt beautiful and artistic in the least. Much like almost all of Frost’s poems, this poem uses nature to reveal and analyze the narrator’s feelings. Renowned poet, Robert Frost, in his poem, “Good Hours”, describes a scenic walk through a village on a winter…

and the mentally ill. The various reform movements that took place during this time achieved varying levels of success. The temperance movement initially began with a goal to reduce the alcohol consumption of Americans. This changed when Lyman Beecher condemned any use of alcohol at all. Evangelical Protestants created the American Temperance Society. The goal of this group was to use moral suasion to persuade people to take a pledge that they would abstain from any use of alcohol. The…

The short story of The Yellow Wall-Paper written in 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is very unique in the way the author portrayed the story to the public in a psychological manner and made a feminist art piece. The short story is told by the narrator who is not named throughout the story seems to have mental illness and feels abandoned. The narrator mentions how she feels depressed and her husband John who is a physician does not believe she is sick. According to the narrator, “ John does…

He has a sister named Olivia (but they call her Via), Daisy their dog, and August’s parents. He has been homeschooled because of the surgeries to fix his face until he was old enough to be in fifth grade. His parents enrolled in a school called Beecher Prep and brought Auggie to school for a tour around the school. He gets to meet the principal, Mr. Tushman, and met another teacher Ms. Rubin. They talk for a very little time, and then some kids show him around the school. The kids’ names were…

your parents decided it was time for you to start school, with facial deformity, after being homeschooled your entire life? This is exactly how August Pullman felt in R.J Palacio’s “Wonder”. Many would argue that Auggie’s experiences at his school, Beecher Prep, had a negative impact on his life. I, on the other hand, believe it had a positive impact. In fact, I believe that Auggie going to school changed his life for the better. I have reason to believe Auggie going to school had a huge…