National Women's Rights Convention

happen, others make it happen.” -Michael Jordan. That quote describes what I felt like after being in Chicago.Last February I was given the opportunity to attend the LEAD conference for Student Council. The LEAD conference is national Student Council leadership convention. The opportunity to go was an experience that I will never forget and an experience that changed my life. Going into this event, I thought it would just be some seminars and would be a pretty fun time with my friends. I…

December 10th, 2015 was the day my life would change completely. That was the day that I joined the petitioning crew to get medical cannabis put on the ballot for the 2016 election in the state of Florida. I was nervous, because Florida had already voted that same issue down not even two years prior. I was not going to allow that to happen again. We traveled all around Florida, staying in hotels, working seven days a week, ten to twelve hour days. The work was difficult and extremely tiresome,…

characters.” Stan Lee is one of the original people who worked with Marvel comics. She brought up the Walking Dead characters for my brother, who’s a fan of them. Wizard World is a traveling convention that goes to several major cities. This particular one is called Wizard World Chicago, even though the convention…

political beliefs and views- many who had no legal defence. He also had the capacity to disallow the King a trial and placed a case for execution arguing that the monarchy had been downfalling due to the Revolution. As a consequence, members of the Convention disagreed with Robespierre and suggested that the King should have the chance to defend himself and vote for acquittal. Unfortunately, all the 693 Deputies were in favour of the King guilty while no one had voted for acquittal. In other…

On Thursday, October 22, 2015, I took part in the National FFA Convention. Keynote speaker, Rick Rigsby, spoke about the impact of wise teachers and parents, and how with that knowledge, the students of the FFA, could make a difference. Rigsby is the president of Rick Rigsby Communications and founder of Rick Rigsby Ministries in Dallas, Texas. He is a popular speaker at colleges and public schools, and speaks before top corporations on Wall Street. Rick’s speech was held at the Bankers Life…

political opinion that really put pressure on the government. Another issue that began to arise was the fact that the country was still in debt so the National Assembly began to come up with ideas on how to pay off this debt. The National Assembly realized that the Catholic Church of France had special privileges and an untapped resource of wealth. The National Assembly took notice of the Catholic Church privileges then decided that clergymen should not have a salary and they changed many rules…

day in the summer, my grandma called me and asked if I wanted to go with her to a convention. I say to myself, “Might as well go out and have some fun.” So I wrote down the information of when we were going and what time she coming to pick…

The National Convention tried to make France a stable and prosperous society by giving all men the right to vote. They created the committee of public safety. It was made up of 12 members and they had absolute power, which they used to try to save the revolution. Since the country was threatened by many…

punishments only as are strictly and obviously necessary,”. This is part of number eight in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, but it was not practiced during the latter part of the French Revolution. The French Revolution was an unprincipled time of sudden change and violence. The Revolution was sparked by the National Assembly, which also helped continue the revolution. The National Assembly was a group formed from the people of the third Estate. The third Estate wanted each person to…

creatures who were dependent on men and had no voice in society. They did not have l rights that men had such as the right to vote, being able to participate in jury duty, and the right to file a lawsuit or sign legal documents without their husband’s permission, the right to own/control their own property or being able to hold political office. The lack of these rights, especially the lack of voting rights, prompted the women’s suffrage movement. Women wanted to challenge the “proper” roles…