Emmeline Pankhurst

writing in response to Mr. Bob’s last week article about why we should not support “The Women’s Social and Political Union” (WSPU). My letter is to shed some knowledge to the public and more so Mr. Bob in why supporting that actions taken by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters can benefit us and help us to understand our rights as women; not allow those men in society to belittle and oppressed us from achieving. It’s time for us women to speak out! The Women’s Social and Political union (WSPU)…

Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was born in Moss Side, Manchester. In fact, it is her birth certificate, which states so; else she believed that she was born a day earlier on Bastille Day (The National Celebration) that had a special influence on her life. She was a British political activist, leader of the suffragette movement and was the major contributor in helping women to win the right to vote. She was born and brought up by her politically active parents in England. Out of ten children she…

Two specific speeches given by Susan B. Anothony and Emmeline Pankhurst, though given years apart, argue the same point; by denying women the same rights as men, society admits to viewing them as lesser humans. In Anthony’s speech, she claims that the Constitution was always meant to “protect the people in exercise of their God-given rights”(lines 25-26). She asserts that the government has betrayed their mission to defend the rights of the people by not allowing women those rights.…

The Suffrage - Word vs. Violence “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” This simple line written by Mary Wollstonecraft in her book A vindication of the rights of Woman (1758) produce a sentiment that many today takes for granted; The right for a woman to have power over herself, to live her own life and to vote. The sadness in this remark is that it would take another 160 years before all women in Britain over the age of 30 with the minimum property…

Throughout Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson, a major concept is negativity toward conformity. Emerson was born in the early 1800s and grew up during the age of transcendentalism. Non-conformity was a key idea in transcendentalism, a philosophy which Emerson was a significant contributor to. It was believed that self reliance is how humans function at their best. Non-conformity mentioned in Self-Reliance creates unnecessary conflict and leads to a stagnant society Non-conformity creates a…

Maud off the beaten path so you can show signs of improvement perspective. Meryl Streep seems once as Emmeline Pankhurst, the development's nonentity. Pankhurst, needed by the police, leaves concealing making a discourse from a gallery. In a 1933 article, Rebecca West (suffragette, writer, and, close to the end of her life, one of the "witnesses" in Warren Beatty's "Reds"), alluded to Pankhurst as a "reed of steel." Streep, in the two minutes (tops) she's on-screen, puts a proper overlay of…

their life, whether it’s in the workforce, at home, or in class. Some of these barriers are known as underrepresented in leadership roles, gender bias, and prejudice. Whether it’s a woman or a man they both represent these kinds of barriers. Emmeline Pankhurst stated, “We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half.” This quote shows how many women fear to speak up for them self’s in the work forces. It also shows how many women are trapped in…

In the United Kingdom, an important democratic change was the right to vote for women. It might be obvious in the 21st century that women and men are politically equal but during the 20th century, a militant suffragist stepped in front of horses running a race and received fatal injuries only to acquire the right to vote. To overcome an established culture and gender stereotypes, women protested peacefully, had strong organizations and showed their productivity. In the United Kingdom, just…

Peaceful protesting/resistance to laws positively impacts free society. Peaceful protesting is a given natural right and is a very important right. In the 1st Amendment it states, "the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances". This allows people to change the way the government and the country is working, and usually in a positive way. When people protest it is normally because they feel something unjust has been done and that it…

The Great War was largely determined by the technological progress that was pressed upon each country in order to subsist. The most notable advancement, displayed in the photograph above, is the infamous machine gun. It was “capable of sustained rates of extremely rapid fire; it could fire 600 bullets per minute with a range of more than 1,000 yards” (World War I, Britannica). Unlike its ancestors, the machine gun is able to stay in position after fire and doesn’t require readjustments after…