Edmund Hillary

Recently, rapper and producer T.I. made a statement that he will not vote for Hillary Clinton for president, because she is a woman. His statement became important in the news, because his opinion is shared with many people throughout the United States and the world. Many people stereotype women as being extremely over emotional and believe they have a tendency to make rash decisions. T.I. believes that they would permanently and negatively affect the United States. He also believes they would…

As candidates battle it out in hopes becoming the next President of the United States, two women are gaining momentum in their respective parties’ polls. Hillary Clinton and Carly Fiorina are both strong female candidates in this current race for the White House. These are two candidates who are claiming to represent the female vote and are invested in women’s rights yet they have opposing views on a very important issue, Planned Parenthood. Clinton, representing the Democratic side, is a very…

At the annual CPAC hosted by the American Conservative Union in National Harbor, MD, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton attacked Hillary Clinton, calling her “a threat to national security.” Bolton said, “Hillary Clinton is a threat to national security roughly equivalent to Barack Obama. And the greatest proof of that threat is her utter, total disdain for the protection of classified information entrusted to her as secretary of state. If she doesn’t have the wit to…

While it should be no surprise that Sanders, who stands behind a podium with the White House seal and regularly lies to and misinforms the American people, would borrow a line from an average cat caller on the street, it is doubly upsetting for another reason: Sanders is only the third woman to serve as White House press secretary. But let's recall that her job is basically to justify the actions and/or deflect accusations away from a man who was infamously heard, loud and clear on tape,…

“The human rights of women and the girl child are an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights” (Hodgson 1). On September 5, 1995, in Beijing China, Hilary Clinton delivered her speech Women’s Rights are Human Rights at the United Nations fourth world conference on women. While giving her speech Clinton spoke forcefully and passionately to a room full of men and women. Clinton made sure to speak from experience and emotion, and that’s how she connected with her…

Speeches can be inspiring, powerful, compelling, and even revolutionary-these speeches being unforgettable. Ain’t I a Woman, I Have a Dream, Women’s Rights, and the Gettysburg Address all are unforgettable speeches from the past that stand up and successfully fight for a right. All the speeches project their views through literary devices such as, plain folk language, illiterate phrases, rhetoric, anaphora, and illusions. Many speeches can be just as successful as others without using the same…

In her essay, “Dreams of My Mother,” Anna March speculates, “Is the daughter’s work to fulfill the unrealized dreams of her mother…?” March describes the emotional days following her grandmother’s death, campaigning hard for Hillary Clinton with her own mother, in the days just before the 2016 presidential election. Her grief does not immobilize her; the opportunity to rally behind Clinton, a presidential candidate and woman three generations of women in her family support, motivates March to…

On June 1, 1990, Barbara Pierce Bush delivered a speech to Wellesley College graduates. She was the second choice to deliver the speech after Alice Walker, a feminist author who penned The Color Purple, declined the offer to speak. Some of the feminist students who attended the small women’s university near Boston were outraged that Barbara Bush was to speak at the commencement. After dropping out of Smith College after two years to get married, her only accomplishment, they argued, was being…

to shape a person and how it will impacted them in the future. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump all had different education systems, childhood relationships, and life experiences that would shape, form , and impacted who they would become today. Everyone has a weakness, if it's either the lack of money, cultural disapproval, or simply not having enough support. In the following, you will know what Hillary, Obama, and trump dealt with in their lives. Donald Trump's…

There are strategies in topics, that Hillary Clinton can take, to win the Democratic vote and pursue during the closing months of the campaign. First, she will need to petition to young people of all backgrounds and ethnicities, in regards to the nation’s immigration laws and policies. Currently, our immigration structure, in the United States is not working well. I believe this necessitates pressing attention to this topic. Hillary Clinton should continue to pledge that there will be no…