Socialist Party of America

Isabel Peron was born on February 4, 1931, in La Rioja, Argentina. Isabel’s real name was Maria Estela Martinez Cartas. Isabel changed her name after her confirmation in the Catholic Church. Isabel was born in the low to middle class. Her father was a banker and he died when Isabel was a young girl causing her family to have financial issues. Isabel learned had training in French, the piano and dance. However, after the fifth grade Isabel dropped out of school and became a dancer. That’s when…

strived to be this ideal father-like figure for its citizens. According to Katherine Verdery in her book, What Was Socialism and What Comes Next?, “socialist paternalism” was the claim that “the Party would take care of everyone’s needs by collecting the total social product and then making available whatever people needed” (Verdery 24-25). The Socialist Party also claimed that they were…

perspectives of the characters. The first half of the novel sets-up the characters and provide juxtaposition to the second half. Beginning in roughly 1900-1910, the stagnation of life, especially for the wealthy is evident. The dominant political party holds control and seems interminable, while the impoverished suffer without great opportunity for social mobility. The novel’s latter half depicts the cultural and political revolution, taking place in the 1960s-70s. Many of the people are…

Propaganda in “The Jungle” The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a novel exploiting the lives of Lithuanian immigrants in Chicago during the Industrial Revolution of the early 19th century. The immigrants have a goal of achieving the American dream, and as the story goes on they are faced with the horrors of the meat packing industry. Upton Sinclair is a yellow journalist and muckraker during the progressive era, therefore the story is bound to have exaggeration in order for him to succeed in…

Helen Keller, a woman who at a very young age, had to adapt to a whole new way of life, and no one around her knew about it.” Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880,” Helen was a healthy newborn until the age of “nineteen months” when she developed an illness which led to the loss of her sight and hearing. Because of this, her parents didn’t know what the next step to take was so she could be led down the right path. Eventually they found a woman named Anne Sullivan who could potentially…

children per women. This rapid and social change can be traced back to the life work of Margaret Sanger. Sanger used her own strategies, by becoming a public nuisance, by interfering with the Catholic Church, the United States judiciary, and the Marxist party. Sangers also became politically active and used her writing skills to create writings to promote her way of thinking. Lastly Sangers created, and founded clinics that would change US forever. Sangers ability to pursue her dreams of women…

idea of parties and political battles between parties” (Flanders). Washington, Madison, Hamilton, and Jefferson all disapproved of parties, but would be the ones who founded the first two great American political parties. In 1789 Jefferson even went as far to say, "If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all” (Flanders). As time goes on, our political parties and how they function are always evolving. In politics, an eye is being kept on third parties…

third party candidates to participate in the debates if they felt that they were qualified or that their views would add substance to the debates. Since Democrats and Republicans are the majority parties, they are given automatic entrance into the Presidential Debates. The phrase “third party candidates” references those who are not part of either the Democratic or Republican party. Third parties include the libertarian party and the green party amongst others. These different political parties…

James Connolly was an Irish Republican and Socialist leader who was born in the slums of Edinburgh, Scotland in the tenements of Cowgate in the year 1868. Connolly is perhaps most fondly remembered for his role as the military commander of the Easter Rising of 1916 in Dublin . Connolly was born into an Irish Catholic immigrant family, his father, John was born in some part of Ireland and it is believed his mother, Mary, originally came from County Monaghan . Connolly had five other siblings and…

In the 1940s and early 1950s Communism in America also known as the “Red Scare” was very powerful and affected the people in America. Communism is a social, economic, and political ideology. In America communism produced early, which brought an unprecedented economic crisis. The people are supposed to own everything communally, from business, and to food. Communism in America was affecting the peoples jobs and ruining their careers, because it was so effective and powerful, however the people…