Dear Mr. President,
In today’s society, civic and political participation is so important. To keep our government functioning, the people must participate in both their citizen’s duties as well as their citizen’s responsibilities. The more people that participate, the greater insurance of equality and freedom there is. If people ignore their civic responsibilities and don’t help make important decisions, then only a few people are deciding on who deserves government positions. It’s our duty as citizens to protect our rights and participate politically.

Now being the President for the past 7 years, you obviously know all this information and might women as to the point of this letter. Well, I write you to tell you that I strongly believe we need a new national holiday for Dorothea Dix. While she is featured in Woman’s History Month, I believe a national holiday should be invoked in honor of her true patriotism, bravery, and belief in human rights. In the 1800’s when she lived, women were treated as the obvious “seen and not heard” of the two genders. But even from a young age, Dorothea was challenging that statement. At only fifteen years old, Dorothea began a small school for girls, who were not welcome in public schools at the time. She continued to teach for many years; until she heard of a troubling experience in a Massachusetts jail influenced her to take up a new cause of observations of the appalling conditions that mentally ill prisoners.

Even in such a male dominated time Era, Dix stood up for those who did not have a voice to do so. She believes in freedom and equality so much, that she went against all principals and stood up for what she believed in. Dix traveled throughout the United States and even to some parts of Europe in her quest to improve the lives of the mentally ill who received unfair punishment in prisons and mental institutions. In