Historical Representation

Margaret Thatcher is a former prime minister who worked closely with Ronald Reagan. In the sincere and appreciative eulogy for Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher utilizes characterization, rhetorical appeals, and specific diction to recall all of Ronald Reagan's life and the wonderful things he achieved during his presidency.

In the 1900s, women could not vote or run for office. Makayla Williams wanted to make a change and vote to be a part of her country. She thought that being discriminated by her sex was senseless to women. Then that’s when she decided to make a difference in society.

Marie Maynard Daly was an African-American biochemist, and the first woman of her race to receive her doctorate in chemistry in the United States (“Marie Maynard Daly”). Marie's father enrolled at Cornell University to study chemistry in his youth, but was unable to due to financial constraints, and was a postal clerk throughout her youth (“Marie M. Daly”). Inspired by her father to accomplish her own academic goals, she attained her doctorate in only three years at Columbia University, an impressive feat,

It was not until a few years before her death she started growing up a bit, finding interests and hobbies. She really got into natural stuff and homeopathic medicine and was excited to be an expert in something. She wanted to help people. It was exciting for her. It was nice to see her becoming the person she wanted to be. But, she never got the chance to finish the metamorphosis.”

Chavez uses the “Latino Threat Narrative” to compare the Hispanics to the “German language threat, the Catholic threat, the Chinese and Japanese language threat, and the southern and eastern European threats.” He suggests that “each was pervasive and defined “truths” about the threat posed by immigrants that, in hindsight, were unjustified or never materialized in the long run of history.” Chavez was trying to explain that the Hispanic would pattern these other threats by upsetting the America people. He states that “… the Latino Threat Narrative is part of a grand tradition of alarmist discourse about immigrants and their perceived negative impacts on society.”

Margaret Louise Higgins, who later became Margaret Higgins Sange, was born on September 14, 1879 In Corning, New York. She was a birth control activist,nurse, and sex educator. Margaret’s parents were Michael Hennessey Higgins, an Irish stonemason and Anna Purcell a catholic Irish-American. Margaret’s mother Anne and her family immigrated to canada when she was young. Margaret’s father Michael moved to America and enlisted into the US army during the Civil War at the age of15. Margaret’s father was also a catholic turned atheist and also an activist for woman’s suffrage. Anne Higgins went through 18 pregnancies and only 11 of her children were born alive. Margaret was the sixth child of eleven. She spent a lot of her childhood years helping with household chores and also had the responsibility of caring for her younger siblings.

While also working as a nurse in a predominantly poor neighborhood, Margaret treated many women who had attempted to self-terminate pregnancies as well as those who had gone through illegal back-alley abortions.Around this time, Margaret started to dream of an easier and safer alternative, envisioning a pill that could be taken to prevent pregnancy from ever occurring, and thus saving these women from being forced to undergo unsafe and illegal operations. It is because of these beliefs that she began the fight to make birth control information and contraceptives widely available to

Margaret was inspired to help the cause of birth control because of the difficulties caused by too many pregnancies. She believed women had a right to control their own body and make the

Margaret Sanger, born on September 14, 1883 in Corning, New York. She was not born with the name of Margaret Sanger, she was born as Margaret Higgins (Simkin, John). Taking on

Women were a lot more involved in political issues and were ranked higher in significance. There were many political milestones after women won the vote, some being nearly a century ago to few being quite recent. The date 12/03/1921 was the day when the first woman, Edith Cowan was elected in parliament. She served in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for 3 years. Millicent Preston-Stanley was the first woman member to deliver a speech in the New South Whales parliament on the 26/08/1925. This marked a big day in women’s history. In 2004 Zelda D’Aprano received an award of Officer of the Order of Australia for campaigning women’s workplace issues in 1969. 35 years prior to receiving the award D’Aprano had chained herself to the Commonwealth Building in Melbourne to raise awareness of her campaign and had been remarkably recognised. In 1975 the first Australian national conference was held by the Australian government from the 31st of August to the 6th of September regarding the rank of women and committed the country to celebrate international women’s day along with other United Nations. This day is presented on March 8 to remind people of the disadvantages and struggles women still go through due to gender inequality today. Very recently (2010) Julia Gillard was the first female to be elected as prime minister. Before her no other woman had

Margaret was a pioneer in special education. Margaret believed that all children have the right to learn and that educators and doctors have the responsibility to find out everything about all different types of children.

31 year old Agnes Macphail, became the first women elected into the House of Commons (Milestones for Canadian Women in Politics). In 1921, during her campaign she said “I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.” (Milestones for Canadian Women in Politics) She was a monumental figure for all Canadian women to realize that had the same say as men do and can be leaders if they desire to do so.

And rightfully so. The people that she looked up to all worked very hard; perhaps they were the inspiration in her life. She made a great effort to become the British Prime Minister and, at one point she made a very ironic statement. After having lost the election twice before, she said that “There will never be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.” And for a while afterwards, she settled for raising her twins (Carol and Mark) with her husband, Denis Thatcher, whom she married in 1954. Margaret Thatcher never gave up on politics full scale, though. And she always pushed herself to be a few things:

Taking on the new role was a tribute to her father, a research scientist who

Fist we will discuss some of the key characteristics that helped Margaret to become a strong woman leader. Determination, clarity in thoughts and beliefs, ideas and objectives different from masses of people, confidence. From the very beginning, while working in her father’s shop, she is clear in her future goals and is determined to find her place in political life rather than locking herself at home and serve as a housewife. Young Margaret goes on participating in parliamentary elections irrespective of failures several times, she finds power in herself to