Suffragette

At Disneyworld, I was terrified. I faced Expedition Everest, supposingly the worst roller coaster in the entire park. Somehow I, who had always shied away from those terrifying rides, had been coerced into line. My protests about peer pressure were ignored. My friends reassured me it would be fun. In a strange way, I agreed. Not much, but some. I would never admit it, but a small voice in the back of my mind seemed to agree with them. So I resisted the urge to flee in the opposite direction, to…

Lavinia Lloyd Dock (1858-1956) was a nursing pioneer who was decisive, devoted, and vociferous in fighting for the nursing profession, equal access to health care for the poor, and women’s rights and equality. Dock was one of six children; born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania into a prosperous family. Her parents placed high value on education, liberal in their views and encouraged their children to study, which was an evolutionary concept at the time. Lavinia attended The Bellevue Hospital School…

The qualitative analysis method is selected for this research study for providing a thorough and comprehensive description of gathered information. The analysis of this nature does not involve the algebraic methods being directed by the existing material at hand. The qualitative study is based on the collection of personal understanding and demonstration of the researcher of this study. This type of analysis uses the content for the determination of results of reviewed studies within the…

man-haters, When in reality, feminists are just different types of educators. Not all feminists, take things to the extreme, Like burning their bras in order to feel supreme. Feminists like Angelina Jolie aren’t seen to be manlike Neither were the Suffragettes that led the first hunger strike. And this cliché is the reason that people of all ages alike, See…

Canadian women were first given the right to vote in the year 1916. This achievement was limited to only the females of the province of Manitoba. Although the right for a woman to vote was limited to Manitoba, the suffragettes had achieved something that few females had achieved before. The achievement of these Manitoba women casting down the social norm of only men having the right to vote was just the beginning of this social movement. Two years later in 1918, the Federal authorities granted…

What is considered as the term ‘the gaze' can be constructed of how a society views individuals or even a group of individuals of the same qualities. An individual's perception can affect the functionality of society and civilisation. By assessing the gaze, we can determine how groups of individuals will be treated. It is common that the different groups of minorities that make up society, for example- homosexuals, will stand out of the ‘norms' that make up our everyday lives which can, in turn,…

A Canadian woman told me of the groups of anti-Trump protesters being turned away by border patrol. A man overheard and mentioned that the same thing occurred with people from Britain. I met the descendant of a suffragette garbed in violet, white and green in honor of her deceased relative. I encountered a woman of eighty years who knitted for hours, producing and donating nearly a hundred pink hats. I met people of all ages, all religions, all sexualities, all races…

As posthumous honors, a preschool for the deaf and hard of hearing in Mysore, India, was originally named after Helen Keller by its founder, K. K. Srinivasan. In 1999, Keller was listed in Gallup's Most Widely Admired People of the 20th century. In 2003, Alabama honored its native daughter on its state quarter. The Alabama state quarter is known as the only circulating US coin to feature braille. The Helen Keller Hospital in Sheffield, Alabama is in dedication to her. There are streets named…

Radcliffe.Helen took many lessons in speech, but unfortunately, she could never master oral communications to her satisfaction. Helen Keller's speech handicap did not stop her as she went on to become a world-famous "speaker" and author. She was a suffragette, a pacifist and a supporter of birth control. In 1915, she founded Helen Keller International, a non-profit organization for preventing blindness. Helen’s mother Kate died in 1921, from an unknown illness, and in that same year Anne fell…

around for many years, which is where the accusation of it being outdated comes from. The first wave of feminism started in the early 19th century and ever since women have still been fighting for equality. The fight gained traction at with the suffragettes and their fight for the right to vote, to property and divorce. After their win, many saw the fight for equality as over since women could now more or less do everything a man could and as such the movement came to a holt, later being…