Eleanor Bergstein

“... the New Women of the 1920s boldly asserted her right to dance, drink, smoke, and date...” (Zeitz). During the early 1900s, women were considered inferior to men. Women were expected to take care of the home, children, and religion. On the other hand, men took care of politics and business (Benner). Significant changes occurred in the 1920s for women regarding politics, labor, and appearance. A major event for women during the 1920s was the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment. On…

Eleanor Roosevelt was born in October, America and died in New York in the month of November 1962 and she was Franklin Roosevelt’s wife, the first lady of America (O'Farrell, 2010).Eleanor’s parents were Elliott and Anna Roosevelt whereby she grew up in a wealthy family who were committed to serving the community. However, Eleanor’s at the age of ten years went to stay with her relatives after the death of her parents. The coursework explains how Eleanor Roosevelt positively impacted the…

‘Sometimes I think I 'm crazy because I 'm different from everyone else.’ with this quote constantly running through my mind, I personally understood what Madrid meant when he said that the Other”results in us feeling excluded, or even disdained and scorned.” As a child I always felt as if I played the role of the other. I was different in ways such as loving to learn, and being an overly outgoing person with different points of view, and as a result; I found that other children…

Proverb: “what you see in yourself is what you see in the world” / Afghan. People have look at themselves to recognize something in the bigger picture. This quotes background is for the most part explaining that the soul is the mirror of the world. This quote fits societies beliefs by telling people to look into themselves and realize who they really are, once they do that they are going to eventually see the reality that they are missing out on. The book Keller: Sketch for a Purpose by Van…

The lure of our American Dream is one that has enticed people from all over the world to come to America. We have made great bounds and leaps toward making America a place for love and freedom to ring, yet we still have a long road ahead of us. The American Dream is to have the freedom to live as equals, to work for what you want, and to fiercely love your life. The freedom to live as equals is essential to the American Dream because without it we would dream no more. I argue that while it is…

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, the First Lady of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is down in history as one of the most influential of all the First Ladies (Maney 1). Eleanor accomplished many things, from being a writer and an activist, to co-founding Val-Kill Industries. Eleanor often traveled across the country to inspect the social conditions that the citizens of that region were living in (Freedman 2). If the conditions did not meet her standards, she would attempt to reform through the…

working for Woodrow Wilson as the assistant Secretary of the Navy. In this job it made him more and more prepared for president. On March 17, 1905 Franklin married Eleanor Roosevelt. In 1916, however, he started having an affair for a younger lady named Lucy Mercer who Eleanor had recently hired as her social secretary. In 1918, Eleanor discovered…

face, she will be beautiful” that was Eleanor’s quote. Eleanor is known as one of the first ladies of the United States. She had many ways that she helped make the world a better place, by helping in the Great Depression, through her work in the D.A.R and serving as a leader for the commision on human rights. ` Eleanor was born on October 11 1884 in New York City. Eleanor's parents and brother died when she was 10 years old. Eleanor and her surviving brother had to live with their…

Born into a family of 3 in 1884, Eleanor Roosevelt was was not granted a happy childhood. Her father, Elliott Roosevelt, had married Anna Hall in 1883, and all thought that they would be bound to have a happy life together. But Elliott Roosevelt had a history of drinking and was prone to depression. When Elliot’s mother died do to typhoid fever in 1884, he sank into grief and started to drink heavily. Soon after this tragedy, Eleanor was born and her brothers, Elliot Jr. and Hall, soon came…

The Unmatched Queen of Many Talents Eleanor of Aquitaine appeared to live life disregarding any normality expected of her; she reaped a reputation of being rebellious and unconventional from an early age, surely, that did not change once she was older. She was one of the most desired heirs in Europe grounded upon the land her family possessed; positioning her to become the most powerful woman during the middle Ages. One of the greatest abilities Eleanor developed was to subdue the people around…