Equal Rights Amendment

“You’re always one decision away from a totally different life.” - Anonymous. This quote ties in with the women’s rights movement due to the fact that if it weren’t for one meeting in the summer of 1848, women across the world would probably be in the same predicament as they were in early history. The women’s movement matters because women demanded change. Women issues were also left unresolved, and they are finally seeing improvement in the gender equality. Women across the world demanded…

The dream that Dr. Martin Luther King envisioned that all men and women would be considered equal and be able to fulfill their ambitions to become who they want to become in America society levels for upward mobility status through their hard work and dedication to obtain personal and professional goals in the land of…

the topic of feminist criminology. Feminist criminology is the ongoing fight and battle that woman be granted the same rights as those of men, and that they be treated equally, which erupted in the 19th century. Women got tired of not receiving the same treatment and rights that were being granted to men. I believe that women are just as deserving of having the freedom and right to exercise their opinions by voting, posses the qualities making them capable of working, and have the knowledge and…

unity and expanding social justice” (Crash Course #30). This possibility enabled ratification of the 18th Amendment, prohibiting the sale and distribution of alcohol. Progressives accomplished this largely because of “the strong anti-German sentiment that gripped the country, which…

contradict them. Convicted felons lose many of the civil rights that are given to citizens without a record. Annulling these civil rights increase the opportunity of recidivism, dehumanizes the former offenders and overall damages the treatment process. Miller & Spillane, (2012). There are over five million U.S. citizens involved in some kind of correctional program…

“I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.” - Mother Teresa. In my opinion under rare circumstances abortion should be illegal because it murders an innocent human.People should not engage intercourse if they are not responsible to wear protection, if they are not responsible enough for that , they are not responsible enough to have a baby or even engage in…

learned about the Women’s Rights Movement and how we recognize that due to that, modern women now have rights. We were reminded of how women were not allowed to obtain a decent job, education, nor could they partake actively in politics. Basically, women were denied their basic rights and were treated as nothing more than property. Until, brave American women decided to take a stand demanding equality and rights before the states. Thanks to those activists we now have rights before the…

Abortion Illegal Abortion is a widely hot topic across the nation, especially with the legality or illegality of it. The simple matter of fact is that abortion under almost all circumstances should be illegal— disregarding rape cases. Not only does aborting an unborn human constitute as murder, which is illegal within the United States, but also violates laws already granting protection to the child. The first violation is clear as day, it’s murder. Allowing abortions to be conducted is the act…

There were some significant changes in the U.S. in the early 1900’s. One change was that the 19th amendment was ratified, resulting in women being guaranteed the right to vote in the U.S. There had been a great amount of debate focusing on whether women should be guaranteed the vote leading up to the ratification. By looking at what leaders of the suffrage movement were saying at the time we can gain insight of what the most significant arguments for the vote were. Although, intuition might tell…

1. Autonomy is having the freedom or the right to do whatever you desire. Heteronomy means someone’s will. When someone does something that is desirable, the person’s will is drawn closer to the thing. The idea of autonomy is that people are free to choose anything they want to do and because of autonomy, everyone has the right to decide whether they want to go back to school, or stay home with their kids. In this world, we have the freedom to decide to treat everyone with respect and love each…