worship for Quakers. Eventually, the couple opened their own upholstery business, drawing on Betsy's deft needlework skills. Betsy Ross is best known for making the first American flag. Betsy died on January 30, 1836, at the age of 84. Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. She was brought up in a Quaker family with long activist traditions. Early in her life she developed a sense of justice and moral zeal. After teaching for fifteen years, she became active in temperance
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(Emilio Estevez) is a Varsity letterman in wrestling. He's spent most of his youth trying to measure up to his father's machismo image of him. This entails winning in athletic competition and preying upon weaker peers. He and Bender clash. Brian (Anthony Michael Hall) is an unhappy honors student who wishes he could be accepted as a person and not valued just as a brain. Upset over a poor grade in shop, Brian has contemplated suicide rather than live with the ire of his disappointed parents. Allison
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vote. “Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote” (Gillett, 2008) There were many women active in the movement of the 1920s, with the help of great leaders such as Susan B. Anthony, Alice Blackwell, Carrie Catt, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Lucretia Mott, the 19th amendment was passed. The 19th amendment basically denied the right to vote based on sex that was the only way
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Mohandas Gandhi The life work of Gandhi created a major mechanism for significant positive change in our world history that we still value and honor today. Gandhi dedicated his life to advocating for civil rights in India and South Africa as well as the philosophy of passive resistance in order to achieve his goals and not cooperate with authorities which he deemed unjust. Gandhi studied law and advocated for Indian rights in South Africa and his home country of India during the many years he lived
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childhood. Only Elizabeth and four of her sisters lived well into adulthood. Her last brother, Eleazar, died when he was 20 years old leaving her mother depressed and her father wishing that Elizabeth was a boy. Elizabeth (sitting) with Susan B. Anthony Not Fair for Women Growing up Elizabeth was exposed to the law through her father Daniel. He was a lawyer who also served as a judge and a U.S. Congressman. She learned that the law was not the same for men and women. She learned that only men
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The first ever woman's rights convention was held I Seneca Falls in July of 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton made her first public statement for women's suffrage. Her call to her to action was codified in the groundbreaking piece of literature known as the declaration of sentiments. This moment in history marks the beginning of the woman's right's movement. The beginnings of the Seneca Falls Convention drawback to the anti-slavery movement, or more specifically the World's Anti-slavery Convention of
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Heller 1 Greydi Heller Professor Kumar English 101 034 ITIS Monday, October 12, 2015 “ We are One ” Kwame Anthony Appiah was born in London, raised in Ghana and educated at Cambridge University. He became Laurence S. Rockefeller University, Professor of Philosophy and faculty member of the universal central of human values at Princeton, he is currently living in New York City. Appiah’s personal and professional experiences make him highly qualified to talk about Cosmopolitanism
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Anthony T. Rossi, Christian and Entrepreneur Introduction A definition of a successful life is hard to come up with on your own. If you look up a successful life in a dictionary you can find the definition to be the accomplishment of one’s goals, the attainment of wealth, positions, and honors. The true definition is much more than that, there needs to be a spiritual aspect. I believe that a successful life is a fruitful life that points to Christ. In my opinion Mr. Anthony Rossi lived a very
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overly pleased about where women stand today is Susan B. Anthony. She not only gave women hope in some day having the same rights as men in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, she also was the enforcer of the whole movement. One of Anthony’s strongest arguments was when she challenged the 14th amendment saying that “women were citizens and that the amendment did not restrict the privilege of voting to men”. This inspired the next act Anthony would make, which is a bit more drastic. Her and 15 other
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The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention held in the United States. It was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a number of women active in the abolition and temperance movements, and was held July 19–20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York. The purpose of the convention was to bring about publically the unfair treatment of women, and was attended by about three-hundred people, forty of these people being men. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a prominent nineteenth century suffragist
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