Ever heard of the saying, “ Stand up for what's right even if you stand alone.” During the 1900’s many reformers stood up for what's right, and eventually their voices were heard. During that time period many women were being treated unequally, and men were always a couple steps ahead of them. Many women were ready to fight for equal rights, and were willing to go to great lengths for it, such as Susan B Anthony. She was a reformer who left a big mark for the women of the United States. Due to
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I was very nervous when I first received this exercise because I had the not even the slightest idea on how to handle a negotiation. The Thompson reading definitely helped ease my anxiety about the exercise and taught me all the basic skills needed to have a successful negotiation. This negotiation went a lot better than I thought and both parents got what they wanted and we tried to arrange everything while having the children’s best interest at the center of every decision that we made. One of
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Gertrude Bell was a British political officer and archaeologist best known for setting up advanced Iraq after World War I. Bell worked for the British government in Cairo over World War I. According to the article “Gertrude Bell Biography” (n.d.), "she contributed to the construction of the Iraqi state in 1921, as well as the National Museum of Iraq." The area that she aimed to concentrate on in her life is the interests in the Middle East. Through World War I, Bell worked for the Red Cross in France
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In the words of Bernadette Cahill, the Equal Rights Amendment was an attempt “to finish the unfinished business of the Civil War” (Cahill, Bernadette). The main purpose for the ERA was to create equality for women under the law. The last time that anything like this was attempted was in 1870. Women’s Rights leaders of the time launched a campaign to reword the Fifteenth Amendment to include the word “sex.” The amendment in the constitution states, “race, color or previous condition of servitude.”
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In the earliest days of our country’s government women had no voice and did not have the basic and fundamental rights that should be given to all people. However, in the face of this social injustice, one woman decided it was time to take a stand. Abigail Smith was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts November 1, 1744. She would later become Abigail Adams and follow Martha Washington as the next First Lady of the United States and was one of the first proponents of feminism. Abigail Adams had the greatest
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The 19th century had many problems that needed to be solved. With the help of reform movements like women’s rights movement and the temperance movement, some of these problems were decreasing, which made these movements very successful. The temperance movement was a movement with the purpose of banning the use of alcohol, while the women’s rights movement was focused more on women fighting for their rights. The women’s rights movement was triggered after women were tired of having limited rights
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Two documents in history that argue a certain viewpoint are the Declaration of Sentiments and the Pearl Harbor Speech. The Declaration of Sentiments, written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was created in July 1848 in order to move the women’s suffrage movement forward. The Pearl Harbor Speech was written and delivered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to inspire the military stationed at Pearl Harbor the day after the attack. Although these two documents are different in their subject and how they are presented
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a woman’s rights activist and an influential person in gaining voting rights for women. Stanton helped start the Women’s Labor Reform Association, co-organized the Women’s Rights Convention with Lucretia Mott, and co-founded The Revolution, a newspaper that was written for suffragists. Stanton also co-wrote the History of Woman’s Suffrage with Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper. At her father’s law office, Stanton was insulted by the sections
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strong advocate for women’s rights and the abolition of slavery. “We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men and women are created equal.” She pushed for women’s equality throughout daily life beginning by speaking at the Seneca Falls Convention, which would become to be known as The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. Women’s protests for equal rights would eventually take off. She believed that women had equitable intelligence that made them deserving of equal treatment through
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The Women’s March took place on January 21, consisting of hundreds of people chanting for women’s rights. Some people came from Flint, Michigan to remind the government that Flint still does not have safe water, and others protesting in fear of losing their health care and other subjects. People held signs, sang, and chanted, hopeful and fearful of what Trump may do. Many people also wore pink hats shaped like cat ears for the protest. Although, this march was not only active in DC. Global protests
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