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    Anthony. She spoke many times in lectures in front of the people around her. Throughout her life span, as well as having written and lectured about 75-100 speeches. Susan would travel to different countries to speak, however, many of her speeches that she had written and given were in the US. She was the founder of the National Women’s…

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    2017 Susan B. Anthony the Right to Vote Have you ever wondered why Susan B. Anthony was a historical figure who took a stand to challenge the rules? Susan B. Anthony was a woman who decided to fight for women’s rights. In her generation, Susan was possibly a widely known suffragist. Susan knew it wasn’t going to be easy and had to face the consequences for taking a stand to challenge the rules, but with her courageous heart and determined mind she accomplished her goal. Susan B. Anthony was a…

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    Don’t Give Up the Fight and Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote share a common theme which is being different. Both stories have two female protagonists, whether real or not real, who get looked down upon because they’re different. In Don’t Give Up the Fight, Ava is the only girl on the track team, which means she gets picked on by the boys. The boys thought because she is a girl, she is weak and slower than the team. In Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote, Susan B Anthony believes that women should be able…

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    The suffix “-less” means without. The author states the Susan B. Anthony was a “tireless leader." What do you think the word tireless means? The root word tire reminds me of the word tired. I think the word tireless means that a person keeps working without getting tired. Susan B. Anthony worked her entire adult life to fight for civil rights and women’s suffrage. Take a look at the illustration on p. 29. The text says that Susan B. Anthony “was a three-cent postage stamp.” What does the author…

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    such as Susan B Anthony, Ida B Wells and Alice Paul made a huge impact in the way we view feminism. Important women that fought for feminism shaped the world we live in today. First off, A famous historical figure, Susan B Anthony, made drastic changes to how women are treated today. Women’s suffrage was a period in time where women had no rights. When the law that prohibited women to vote was still not repealed, it caused women like Susan B Anthony to take action and protest. In 1853, Anthony…

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    Anthony fought all her life to do the right thing and to help women who didn’t have a voice, but she was only made fun of and punished. Susan B. Anthony was a social reformer who initiated the struggle for women’s right to vote, but who “endured years of public abuse and sarcasm” (“Susan B. Anthony”) from those against women’s suffrage or who saw her as a threat. Anthony never did anything to those that mocked her, yet she suffered through…

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    In the poem Making Sarah Cry and the article, Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote! the theme is being dIfferent. The theme is being different in Making Sarah Cry because Sarah was unlike the rest; She was slow and not as smart, And it would seem to all his friends She was born without a heart. The theme is being different in Susan B Anthony Dares To Vote!” also because After charging her with voting on November 5, 1872, he added, At that time she was a woman. Even some members of the jury smiled.…

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    is very similar to what Susan B. Anthony was trying to prove back in 1873. In the speech “ Women's Rights to the Suffrage” by Susan B. Anthony, she persuaded all of the citizens of the United States, men as well as women that everyone is equal, and that women should have the same rights as men--as promised by the Constitution. Susan B. Anthony uses many rhetorical devices to persuade the audience that every woman has the right to anything a man can do. Susan B. Anthony used very effective…

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    Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1890 in Adams, Massachusetts. Susan died on March 13, 1906 Rochester, New York. Susan was the second out of seven 7 children in her family., Hher parents were Daniel and Lucy Anthony. Anthony lived in a very proactive family they were abolitionist, temperance workers, and she was also a part of fighting for women’s rights. Anthony moved with her family moved to Rochester, NY and who were participating in the anti-slavery movement. The Quakers would meet at…

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    Every person who looked at the silver coin would see not only a picture of women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony, but also a symbol of the changing world, and how hard people had fought to make that change. This was the first time a woman had been etched into the metal of a coin, and it meant that the efforts of Friedan and Anthony were finally paying off. Despite being lampooned and ignored, both Anthony and Friedan made it their lifes’ work to grant women basic rights. Though their lives…

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