Women's suffrage

Jeanne’s Feelings About Her Heritage Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife of Franklin D Roosevelt. She was the U.S president from 1933 to 1945. She was mostly involved in racial and social justice which is why she said this about the Japanese. “You gain courage strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror, I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you…

people have changed america forever. Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg is one of those people. Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg graduated from columbia law school, to become a staunch courtroom advocate for the fair treatment of women and working with the ACLU's women's rights project. She was appointed by President Carter to the U.S. court of appeals in 1980, and was appointed to the supreme court by president Clinton in 1993. Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg was born on March 15,1933, in Brooklyn, New York. She was…

Wollstonecraft, one of the few female enlightenment thinkers, focused on challenging traditional gender norms in her society. Wollstonecraft was a highly influential person in the Enlightenment through her writings on needing women’s education, as well as her views on women’s rights, such the outdated views of her time, and that men and women needed to be equal. Mary Wollstonecraft believed that men and women should have equal education, as well as that they should learn the same material.…

Transcendentalism proved to be one of the most known movements in the mid-nineteenth century. Authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller and more joined the movement to live their lives in solitude and to express their individualism. Transcendentalism proved individualism to be key in shaping individuals’ personalities and lives. Individualism has its good days and its bad days like all human beings. Emerson once stated, “Conformity is the death of…

realized that men would only respect her if was viewed as their equal. She decided that woman needed the right to vote. This began Susan’s pursuit for women's rights. In 1852, Anthony and Stanton created The Women's Temperance Society in New York. Shortly after, the two created a New York women's rights committee. Susan created petitions for women's rights, specifically the rights to vote and own land. She frequently traveled, spreading the news about her petitions and equality. In 1856,…

Feminism & Life-Advice Through “Hidden Figures” Even if you don’t come face-to-face with women as noteworthy as Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson every day, there are a plethora of them across the globe in many different shades and shapes. In Margot Lee Shetterly’s “Hidden Figures”, she says: “…the great diversity of their features and hair and skin color, which ranged from near-ivory to almost-ebony, hues of beige and coffee and cocoa and topaz filling in between. Some of…

Reading Response: Daystar I find Rita Dove’s poem “Daystar” to be interesting because the author is describing the tranquility and comfort a mother can experience by taking a break from the usual routine that mothers usually face on a daily basis. In line three of the poem, it states, “a doll slumped behind the door”. The author here uses the literary technique of imagery to compare and represent how the mother is being compared to the doll. As seen in line 4 it states, “So she lugged a chair…

The Song of Deborah is considered one of the most well preserved and traditional pieces within the Bible. In Judges of the Hewbew Bible, the Song of Deborah accounts tribal conflict and the struggles of society with no king, however most importantly it projects the significant role women have in society. This is reflected through three main individuals: Deborah, Jael, and Sisera’s mother, all of whom can be described as liminal females, as seen through leadership, bravery and maternal roles they…

A particular achievement made collectively by Egypt,Palestine, and Mesopotamia was the use of law enforcement. With the use of the Code of Hammurabi, Mesopotamia developed a set of regulations and punishments that were to be followed by the community.Hammurabi generated this collection of laws to promote the welfare of the people and to guide and direct the land. Egypt opted out for a more religious law enforcement, using the idea of afterlife as a bargaining chip. Those who lived a honorable…

Whale Ride is a significant movie because through Paikea fixing Koro’s motor, winning the speech contest, and helping the beached whale to escape, it helps to show that the old, traditional way of things is not necessarily the right way of things. When Paikea and Koro are on the beach trying to fix the motor of their motorboat, we see Koro try to use a stick to jump start it with a rope. The rope breaks. But then when Paikea tries to start the motor, she takes the broken rope, tries it back…