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Susan B. Anthony and Women’s Rights. What would you do if you were a woman in the 1800’s and your rights were taken from you? Would getting arrested like Susan B Anthony be worth it? Any female in this day and age definitely would (Ohrenschall). Anthony would be very proud, us women have come a long way since the 1800’s, and it is all because of her act on civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is when a protestor/protestors break a law, objecting and protesting (Suber). The purpose of civil…

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is a significant figure in the women’s suffrage movement due to her dedication in the fight for women’s right to vote. In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton presented her Declaration of Sentiments at a women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. In this document, Stanton explains the establishment of the oppressive patriarchy in the United States through the eyes of a feminist. Stanton’s Declaration lists reasons for the rebellious nature of the movement in the same…

both Heart of Darkness and Things Fall Apart. Slavery dates back centuries to pre date the discovery of Africa. The need for work force people’s apathy and treating people as sub-human is centuries’ old practice. Heart of Darkness and Things Fall Apart illustrate the different ways of presenting Africa in literature. In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad portrays Africans as savages through the viewpoint of the colonizing Europeans. Chinua Achebe wrote Things Fall Apart through the view point of…

Isolation is a very prominent theme in The Metamorphosis, Frankenstein, and Things Fall Apart. In these books, Kafka, Shelley, and Achinebe exploit the effects of isolation and alienation to portray the requirement of personal interaction and social inclusion for all humans. Franz Kafka seeks to uncover the potential dangers of social rejection through Gregor’s transformation, that ultimately leads to his separation from both his family and his past life. Kafka’s clear isolation of Gregor…

Selma In the film, Selma, people are able to see how much hard work was put into ensuring that voting rights were truly equal for all of the citizens of America. This film goes deep into the hearts of the people who played key roles in the civil rights movement. We can see that desegregation was not enough. Citizens need voting rights and to have all of the freedoms that is promised when becoming and American. In the beginning of the movie, a lady is trying to register to vote. It is clear that…

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been a stalwart supporter of women’s rights and LGBT rights. Her rulings on cases concerning women's rights and as LGBT rights have continued the impression Justice O’Connor gave in her decision in Roe v. Wade that gender may indeed matter in rulings with this trend most likely going to continue with Justices Sotomayor and Kagan. She is considered as one the 100 Most Powerful Women and has spent time advocating for women's rights in the duration of her career. The…

Women did not have the same rights as men for a long time and it was unfair to all the women. One way that the women did not have the same rights was that women did not have the right of speech. The women were not allowed to speak freely like men. The freedom of speech was a denied right for women in places like courts or conventions. (Document 1) In 1840 Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. The had a lot to say ,but they had to sit…

In the novel, Steinbeck presents strengths and weaknesses in many different ways, from how Crooks and Curley's wife deal with daily injustice because they are easy targets, to George who looks after Lennie every day but then loses out on other aspects of his life because of it. Then there's Lennie who's learning difficulties cause him to be yet another easy target of society, and lastly Slim is seen as the prince of the ranch, but there is a possibility that he is keeping his problems to himself…

Throughout Edgar Allan Poe’s life, he has gone through many harsh experiences, such as losing his mom and wife to Tuberculosis, which is the basis for his great stories. Poe’s goal is to leave the reader with an emotional effect of the horror of premeditated death and the sadness over the death of a loved one after reading his stories. These emotional effects are show in “The Tale-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” “Hop-Frog,” “The Raven,” and “ Annabel Lee.” Edgar Allan Poe’s style is…

novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the often violent syncretism of the European superpowers invading African causes many hardships and different responses to the people living there. The book follows the life of Okonkwo though the first wave of the European invasion and how he reacts to their arrival. Okonkwo’s first response is shock at the lack of respect, followed by rage when he feels abandoned by his clan, and finally he is swallowed by self pity after seeing his world fall apart.…