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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 came to equal rights and citizenship. In their petition they also chose to not identify themselves as wives, mothers or Christians, simply identifying themselves as women, cementing their expectation and desire for…

be tinted in order to placate leaders of a Hasidic synagogue across the alley. The Y members claimed that the tinted windows compromise the building's interior lighting and make it hard to practice tai chi and yoga. About 100 of them have signed a petition defending their workout clothes and demanding that the tinted windows should be removed. Members of the Yetev Lev synagogue, on Hutchison Street, paid for tinted windows at the Y after they complained that their children and youth were…

Fix America's Stupid 25-Year Import Rule?" Jalopnik. Gizmodo Media Group, 12 Dec. 2014. Web. 11 Nov. 2016. Horn, Avery. "25 Year Import Law: Should It Be Reduced to 15?" Enthusiast. N.p., 19 Feb. 2015. Web. 12 Nov. 2016. Kozak, Graham. "Sign This Petition to End the 25-year Car Importation Law." Autoweek. Crain Communications Inc., 11 Aug. 2014. Web. 11 Nov. 2016. Tchir, Jason. "What's Wrong with Buying a Right-hand Drive Vehicle?" The Globe and Mail. The Globe and Mail Inc, 26 Sept. 2016. Web.…

affiliates trump entrepreneurship and foreign direct investment as integral components of a new democracy. According to the Project’s petition, signed almost 20 years ago in Havana by anti-Castro activist Oswaldo Payá, Cubans deserve the “right” to start companies. Dissatisfied with the Castro regime for not supporting private enterprise development enough, the petition called to “free...the capacity of human beings to strive at raising their standard and quality of life”; “the long periods of…

individual's unsecured debts are less than $383,175 and secured debts are less than $1,149,525” ("Chapter 13 - Bankruptcy Basics."). All individuals, including those who are self-employed, are eligible to file for Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Along with a petition for bankruptcy, a $235 case filing fee, and a $75 administrative fee, a debtor must submit: (1) schedules of assets and liabilities; (2) a schedule of current income and expenditures; (3) a schedule of executory contracts and unexpired…

clear that temperance was high on the agenda. For this reason a petition was circulated to every hotel in Wellington in mid-September urging the government not to sign the recently passed ‘Electoral Act.’ Apparently names were duplicated on this petition which demonstrates how fearful the liquor industry was that women would get the vote and it would lead to prohibition. A few members of the Legislative Council also sent a petition to the Governor and asked him not to approve the Bill. The…

Chapter 15 of voices of freedom highlights and prospects the significance of freedom to blacks and the response of white Americans to emancipation. This chapter goes on to talk about the Mississippi black codes, these codes were laws that granted the freed blacks very few rights like owning property and marriage. The Mississippi black codes were passes on to restrict the civil rights of blacks and were used to regulate the freedom of former slaves. “the black codes indicated how the white south…

Although the novel “Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem” by Rosalyn Schanzer is an informational text, it exhibits numerous qualities which can be found in literary works. First of all, a characteristic that sets this novel apart from most informational texts is its theme, which is the moral or lesson of the story. A theme is crucial to a literary work because it demonstrates a piece of knowledge that should be acquired after reading the story. Informational texts do not…

Couvares, Saxton, Grob, and Billias argue that the constant argument over past events constitutes history, yet one particular event has received little argument over the past 140 years. Many historians agree that economic factors caused the Great Strike of 1877, that the Strike represented a sharp break with the past, and that railroad workers led the Strike entirely. After his dissertation research unearthed documents that suggested otherwise, David O. Stowell began investigating the Great…

the Village, one of the key aggravating forces in the Salem witch-trials. Several sets of petitions, primarily those addressing Increase Mather, a minister and vocal contributor to the trials, offer data about these oppositional forces. The documents show, “Of the sixty-two people who belonged to the Village church in May 1695 (not counting Parris himself and his wife) forty two signed the pro-Parris petition and only eight the anti-Parris document,” (Boyer Nissenbaum 80). Salem Village church…