National Convention

Twenty-four years of history changed and women’s rights broke open forever. Sandra Day O’Connor was a lawyer, a judge, and the first woman supreme court justice. She faced many challenges, such as being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1988, which inspired her even more. Her career all started as an Assistant Attorney General for for the Arizona Senate in 1965. From she was a judge for the State senate, the Maricopa County trial Court, and the Arizona Court of Appeals. After being an Assistant…

What would raves in the 90’s have been without the use of molly? While it was called ecstasy at the time, the substance was widely popular amongst partygoers. The chemical name for this easygoing substance is 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA for short. Over time, generational nicknames such as ecstasy and X have come to identify the drug. In this day and age however, molly is the most commonly used tag when labeling MDMA (Solanki). Molly, along with its new name, is making a comeback.…

“Susan B. Anthony was a prominent women’s rights activist in 19th century America who initiated the women’s suffrage movement. She was active in the antislavery movement before the civil war.” Anthony was born on February 15, 1820. She was a teacher and a person who fought for women’s rights. Sadly, she died on March 13, 1906. In the newspaper it reports, that Anthony fought for women's suffrage, Temperance, and Abolition. Women back in the day’s didn’t had the rights to speak up for themselves…

Effects and Consequences of Taking Ecstasy Ecstasy has been a popular party drug for a long time. It is a popular drug to be distributed at raves and parties. In the recent years electronic dance music festivals have been a common place for people to go dance and take ecstasy and enjoy themselves. One of the most well known of these festivals is called EDC or the Electric Daisy Carnival and it is held here in Las Vegas annually. The article followed the story of a 19-year-old girl in Austria…

Alisse Theodore is the Assistant Professor of English at the University of Michigan. In her article A Right to Speak on the Subject: The U.S. Women’s Antiremoval Petition Campaign, 1829-1831, Theodore not only summarizes the history of the antiremoval campaign but also studies the strategies women have taken in petitioning against the Indian Removal Act. The antiremoval petition campaign is the earlier known record of women protesting against the federal government in a political manner. The…

State Women’s Right committee. Susan then started to work on women rights. She had helped with the establishment of the American Equal Rights Association. Susan got inspired to fight for the women’s right. She was denied the chance to speak at a convention, just because she was a women. She finally realized that nobody would take a women in politics seriously unless women had the right to vote. Susan had started a petition for the women's right to vote. Also, for women to have the right to own…

It says in that quote that men and women “shall be equal”, so since men can vote, women should have the right to vote too. In the 1890, two different groups of women put all their powers together and invented an Association called the “National American Woman Suffrage Association”. The leader of the association was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Alternatively, instead of getting people upset by saying that directly that all women need everything the same, the women said that they needed the right…

When MDMA is mentioned, people automatically think “party drug”. Although that may be true in many cases, MDMA is also used therapeutically. Methylenedioxy-N-methamphetamine, also known as Ecstasy, is a phenethylamine that includes mescaline and methamphetamine (Bouso, Doblin, Farré, and Alcázar 2008). According to Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary (2012), “MDMA was first synthesized for use as an appetite suppressant, but because of its high incidence of severe side effects it was never…

Stanton was an eloquent strategist, orator, philosopher, and publicist of the women’s rights movement. She worked hard to end discrimination against women alongside Susan B. Anthony. As a result, Stanton was the prime mover behind the Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights in 1848. Later on, Stanton wrote her speech/manifesto “Address to the Legislature of New York on Women’s Rights” in 1854 to demonstrate that men and women should be treated as equals. Her speech was essential to improve…

Throughout the nineteenth century, slavery formed the social economic and political back bone of the United States. It was against this opposition that the abolitionists consisting of men, women, black and white sought the immediate end of slavery. Amongst the radical minority, the abolitionists, were those who were a part of the women’s right’s movement. In the antebellum era, many African American men and women became active abolitionist and supporters of women’s rights. Looking at the United…