Hague Conventions

As we read the book, Sisters In Spirit, we truly did learn how these women sparked the revolutionary idea of early feminists. The author Sally demonstrates how these women, at a time when European American women, were able to display so few rights. Together, these women truly were sisters in spirit as they paved the way for not only our generation but for the future. This created a stance on a handful of things such as a woman’s political power, the power they have on their bodies, their…

the first to gain rights to the elective franchise. 300 years past Shakespeare’s time, women were finally granted the right to vote; therefore, women living in the same era as Shakespeare would not have had a niche in politics. At the Seneca Falls Convention in New York in July 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered “The Declaration of Sentiments,” in which she stated about men, “He has never permitted her to exercise…

From 1914 to 1939, America was rapidly changing with events like engaging in the first world war, prohibition, and the great depression to name a few. These events set the mold for a new modern America. Just under 50 years before the 20th century, America had made great strides in improving modern American freedom by implementing the 15th amendment and giving the right to vote to any man of any race. However, it seems that during the time period from 1914-1939 every step America took to…

The role of women has been a controversial issue for many centuries. The idea of women being equal to a man, was never considered until the women’s rights movements of 1848. Since then women have gained the right to vote, and are able to work jobs just like a man, but in many ways women are still viewed as the subservient submissive housewife, as they once were in anglo saxon times. Anglo-saxon women were assumed to withhold specific roles in their society, such as peaceweaver, hostess, and as…

“Each person must live their life as a model for others” said Rosa Louise McCauley Parks. She is also known as the mother of the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks was a woman who was tired of not standing up for what she believed in. Finally one day she did and her actions began a movement that ended legal segregation in America. She made our world a better place, which is why Rosa Parks belong’s in American’s History Hall Of Fame. Rosa parks was born on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee,…

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen: The Rights of Woman The background of Marry Wollstonecraft author of From a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, living in 1759 to 1797 it is a clear understanding about why she wrote about woman’s write and she could have been one of the leading people in the women rights movement with a continuance with the Feminist movement. “Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In every…

history in favor of more famous figures, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. These six ordinary women organized a meeting in Albany to discuss women’s rights and place in society before the famous Seneca Falls Convention, which is often marked as the first convention to discuss women’s rights in America. The six women were also remarkable for the fact that they wrote a petition in the vein of the Declaration of Independence, stating that women possessed “inalienable rights” when it…

INTRODUCTION Blake Martin is the senior pastor at Wallace Avenue Baptist Church (WABC) in Shawnee, Oklahoma and has been there since August 2016. Blake is married to Bryse Martin who is a student at Oklahoma Baptist University (OBU) and they have been married since August 2015. Blake was hired at WABC after serving at two other churches in Shawnee. At only 23 years of age and little experience under his belt, most people assume that WABC is a church of mostly college age students, however the…

Susan B. Anthony was a suffragist and a pioneer for women’s rights. She was a founder of Daughters of Temperance, Women’s Loyal League and The National Women’s Suffrage Association. Anthony delivers a Stump Speech on voting rights in all 29 postal districts of Monroe County, New York in 1872, after being convicted of voting illegally in the 1872 presidential election. During her speech, she focuses on the equal voting rights for women at the ballot just as men have. The purpose of the speech was…

Ecstasy was made in 1914 by German chemists. It was originally patented by Merck, a pharmaceutical company. It was made as a diet pill. But it was never sold for that purpose. In 1965, ecstasy was re-created in the United States by a chemist named Alexander Shulgin. He shared his discovery with a small group of friends and physiatrists.The history of ecstasy use in the United States began in the 1970s and has been a problem since. In the 1970s, groups of physiatrists began to experiment with…