National Women's Hall of Fame

Eddie Rickenbacker, a World War I hero and Medal of Honor recipient, once said “Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” In The Alchemist, Santiago first meets the crystal merchant and is in desperate need of money, having been robbed by a thief in Tangier, a city through which he was passing on his way to Egypt. The crystal merchant hires Santiago as a clerk and warns him that even if he worked for a year, he would not have enough money to…

Nike is a corporation founded in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports, it was an outlet for the current shoe brand called Asics. The name Nike was official in 1971. (Businessinsider.com, 2014). The creators were Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, their initial offerings were mostly shoes. Today the Nike Corporation offers not only shoes but several athletic related items, for instance, there is a clothing line dedicated to the casual athlete to the professional. One of the biggest names associated with this…

Megan Smith W. Seals English 12 7 April 2017 Beatlemania Let’s talk about some music that has transcended “Across the Universe.” On February 7th, 1964 The Beatles touched ground in America, ready to take the country by storm. No one could have foreseen the incredible impact that the four quirky boys from Liverpool would make in America, and around the world. “Like certain other key individuals in the history of American pop, such as Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis Presley, they caused…

Nike History “We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.” -Phil Knight ("Phil Knight Quotes") Nike, a popular athletic shoe company, began small and slowly grew. The progression of shoes has definitely changed over the years and is still proceeding to do so. Nike is a well established shoe company; and the origin and advancement of their shoes brought…

The Company that I chose is Nike. It was founded on January 25, 1964.Created by Phil Knight. The brand is Air Jordan introduced in 1984 by Michael Jordan the basketball player. Jordan is one of the most marketed sports figures in history. MJ came out whit his first pair if Air Jordan’s in 1985. I decide to talk about the Product Nike because I’m formula with the Brand. The company is using an adaptive approach they treat each county as a separate market. It target’s the…

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shocked that Stanton could interpret the work of Thomas Jefferson, one of America’s greatest thinkers, nonetheless have the audacity to alter his work. Furthermore, most of the population, men and women alike, had not even considered the possibility of women’s suffrage. According to historians, even Lucretia Mott Thomas, a suffragette who worked on the declaration with Stanton, was hesitant to include the right to vote (Burns). Additionally, this choice is also symbolic. The Declaration of…

.In 1971, women’s activist Judy Brady wrote the legendary feminist piece “I Want a Wife.” The essay looks at women through the eyes of married men and their seemingly endless expectations of their wives. When the essay was written, it was “first delivered aloud in San Francisco on Aug 26, 1970. Judy (Syfers) Brady read the piece at a rally celebrating the 50th anniversary of women’s right to vote in the U.S., obtained in 1920,” (Napikoski, Linda). Many men of the time dismissed the essay, but…

adivasis and religious minorities. She was modern India’s first women teacher, a radical exponent of mass and female education, a champion of women’s liberation, a courageous mass leader who took on the forces of caste and patriarchy who struggled against social evils of Indian society certainly had her independent identity. They started the first women's school at Pune in 1848. She is considered a pioneer of modern Marathi poetry. Biography…

In 1851 at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio, an African American woman named Sojourner Truth gave a speech defending women’s rights. In this speech, she proved that women were capable of doing tough jobs like men. That they had the ability to go to school and get an education, and make the world a better place just like any man can do. Truth proved that the stereotypes given to women were inaccurate, and showed the audience what women were capable of doing. She fought for the rights of both…