Convention

Convention and Visitors Bureaus are extremely important to the hospitality industry. They are responsible for many things including assisting tourists interested in traveling to a desitination, informing brides of the many wedding locations and vendors, marketing their area effectively, and aiding meeting planners interested in hosting events in the area in which they support. I am very interested in toursim and working to bring more tourists and events to Alabama. Because of this, I decided to research a convention and visitors bureau where I would be intersted in working. I selected the Greater Birmingham Destination Maarketing Organization. First of all, Birmingham is a wonderful location for hosting an event in the south. It is right in the middle of the southeastern states and is a metropolis of new inovative ideas and cultural experiences. It was easy to find their website by googling “birmingham convention…

Geneva Convention Iraq Reevaluating the Geneva Convention The Geneva Convention originated in the year 1864, designing the main principals of the committee, and only 16 states were represented. That was only the first successful conference as the quickly gained reorganization. They hosted many well-known conferences like the convention in 1907, which talked about adapting the principles of the convention on the wounded and sick, and the convention of 1929 that discussed the rights of prisoners…

The Historic Seneca Falls Convention July 19th and 20th in 1848 will forever be in our history books as one of the most important conventions advocating for women 's rights. The Seneca Falls Convention was the very first of its kind in the United States. Hundreds of people, mostly women and a handful of men, attended the convention, which was organized by a group of women involved in the abolition and temperance movements. The main hosts of the event were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia…

On July 19th, 1848, the inaugural women’s rights convention in the United States was held in Seneca Falls, New York. This first meeting was essential to the beginning of the Women’s Suffrage Movement and the Equal Rights Amendment. Two weeks after the Seneca Falls Convention a similar, and preponderant meeting was held in Rochester, New York. Multiple conventions similar to these followed annually, these conventions launched the Women's Suffrage Movement. During the years leading up to 1848,…

In 1848, the first women 's rights convention took place in Seneca Falls, New York. Three hundred women attended the convention to achieve equal rights in society. As an illustration women in the 1840’s couldn’t vote, own property, have custody of their children after a divorce or even share the same religious rights as their male counterparts. Thus, leading to the Seneca Falls Declaration. The Seneca Falls Declaration shared a similar style to the Declaration of Independence except that it…

century. Among the events that have actually contributed to the development of the movement, much attention and high level of recognition is devoted to the Seneca Falls Convention that was held in 1848. At the modern time, this convention is referred to as the most prominent event in the history of women's rights movement designating the beginning of the worldwide campaign for the recognition of the equality of men's and women's rights. While the Seneca Falls Convention actually was the first…

The Seneca Falls Convention was a major starting point in the women’s rights movement. There the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was read by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, which grasp the attentions of many men that participated. This document sparked the pathway for equal women’s rights. It addressed the many complaints that impacted women during this period. Through their well crafted document, they hoped that it would change the mindset of an unequal country. The Declaration of Sentiments…

The Seneca Falls Convention The world has always been a hard place for women they get degraded, judged , and treated unfairly. Even today in the twenty first century women get treatment that is different than the treatment that is given to men. Women’s issues are not handled the same even if it is something small they have to fight harder to get solutions. Women who think fighting for equal rights is irrelevant degrade women who see the issue and are trying to fight for what they deserve;…

The Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention in 1848 was the start of the women’s fight for the right to vote. The convention was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, when they were both denied entry to the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention in London. Stanton had written the Declaration of Sentiments, this declaration pointed out ways that “history was a record of men’s injustices toward women,” (Nash, pg. 11.) After the convention in Seneca Falls, New York, more conventions…

The soundtrack to the 2016 Democratic convention is not only to please the ears of those present, but also to excite supporters and potential supporters nationwide through multi-platform distribution, including, but not limited to TV, social media, and the general media. Naturally, the target audience is younger and more liberal than that of the Republican convention. However, even among Democrats, the day should especially appeal to a younger, more liberal audience as the three major speeches…