Seneca the Younger

Stepping Stone Lucy Stone played a large role in the women's rights movement and also was the first women to attend college in Massachusetts. Her and her husband stood up against societal norms and became an inspiration to couples across the nation. Lucy stone is significant in my eyes because I believe in women's rights. I greatly appreciate the women in history who paved the path, creating the society we are lucky to have today. I wanted to look deeper into women who were not necessarily…

because women demanded change. Women issues were also left unresolved, and they are finally seeing improvement in the gender equality. Women across the world demanded change. In 1848, a group of abolitionists, the majority made up of women, met up in Seneca Falls, New York. They were invited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to discuss the problems of women’s rights. In 1962, Betty Friedman’s book “The Feminine Mystique” expressed the frustration of trapped and unfulfilled women,…

fight. Like the women did for their rights, and abolitionists did for the slaves. The United States brought opportunity to most by giving transportation, economy, and the freedom of speech. Women's rights are what women and some men fight for, the Seneca Falls Convention was a women's rights gathering to give women power and the right to vote. Elizabeth Stanton, one of the women's rights movement's leaders. This would give opportunity to women. The Declaration of Sentiments, written mostly by…

There are very few moments in peoples’ lives where they have the opportunity to do something that may actually affect change. While learning about the Romantic Era, I was introduced to a woman, by the name of Mary Wollstonecraft, who harnessed that rare moment when she wrote her manifesto: A Vindication of the Rights of Women; kick-starting the revolution of women’s rights. Her advocation for women’s rights to education equality lead to what we now know and are capable of today. I felt the most…

“The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” is a speech by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the purpose of which, was to bring light to the unfair treatment of women, domestically, politically, and socially, as well as to entice both men and women to join the woman’s equal rights movement. In order for the speech to be a success in a male-dominated society Stanton modeled it after the Declaration of Independence, by likening the oppression and mistreatment of women under men, to the oppression and…

Elizabeth Stanton’s Vision Elizabeth Stanton shared her vision with the world when she said,“we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal” (Stanton). Elizabeth was born in New York on November 12, 1815, a time when women were not equal to men. Stanton went on to become a powerful women’s right suffragist who organized the first convention in the United States for women’s rights. Elizabeth died in October 1902, and after her death women finally gained more…

Ever wondered where your ancestors came from? What were they like? What did they become? Well for Cathy Song, her heritage was the success of her life. As a young girl, Song grew up as Chinese-Korean American and knew that she wanted to write about her family’s history. Song has taken her written career serious and tries to educate her readers with the terrible lives of arranged marriage women, through the art of poetry. Not only does she write about her family’s ancestry, but she loves to…

values. The Seneca people were one of the six tribes of the larger Iroquois tribe located in present day New York. The Seneca culture has evolved over the last 600 years. However, there are some ideals that have remained since the formation of the Iroquois. As seen through The Seneca creation story, the Seneca people seemed to value women and men for different tasks, the importance of good and evil, and hunting was also a prominent part of their culture. Since the creation of the Seneca…

The writer Seneca, who is also known as Seneca the Younger, was believed to be born between 1 and 5 A.D. and was relocated to Rome at a young age. Seneca was very educated in philosophy and was raised to believe that you should live for knowledge, not extravagance and that one living under the Sextii philosophy, they should also avoid politics. Seneca wrote as a philosopher but was often ridiculed for being a hypocrite for his lifestyle. Seneca began his disfavor by Romes emperors by defaming…

the beginning, Seneca women were authoritative, dominant and abundant in territory. They “had possessory rights to all cultivated land within the tribal area”. They also controlled distribution of the food given to the members and residents in long houses and tribes. The women’s power over the agriculture reflected in their way of life as well. They worked on fields, keeping it in good condition and growing crops. In addition to having power over distribution and land, the Seneca women also had…