Learning about the History of Women's Work through Diaries

Another eighteenth century revolutionary woman, Jane Austen, declared, “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.” Like acclaimed novelist Jane Austen, Abigail Adams and Martha Ballard rejected the patriarch’s ideal image and norm for women. They challenged gender differences and stereotypes and advocated additional opportunities and further education for women. In Abigail Adams: A Life, Woody

Since the birth of Puritanism in what is now the United States of America, education has been shaped and molded time and time again with each movement of North American history. Most early American literature was persevered not in the form of novels, but in letters, diary and journal entries, and memoirs. These works often focused on the daily struggle of the author and the author’s love for God even in straining situations. The Pilgrims, as well as the Puritans, believed that a firm education was

to be wrong as employment of women increased from 24% in July 1914 to 37% in November 1918 but this growth tended to be in traditional industries such as clothing and footwear (Mendenwald N.D). The varying attitudes towards women were established through the statement a factory administrator, who claimed “Women were seen as quick learners and that in some departments they are more efficient than men, although those departments have been employing men exclusively for years”. During World War 1, not

Education is the process of learning and acquiring knowledge at school from a teacher, receiving knowledge at home from a parent, a family member, and even friend. Education is a key that allows people to move up in the world, seek better jobs, and succeed in life. Education is one factor that affects job positions people hold, advance in their further career, the income they make, and the title they hold. The more educated a person is, the more prestige and power that person holds. Education improves

The Holocaust is one of the most inexplicable and heinous periods of modern human history. Historians have spent years trying to understand why the perpetrators did what they did, and why the victims reacted in the ways that they did. For those who experienced it, the Holocaust was a time when very little made sense and lives were turned upside down and left looking nothing like they previously did. Despite studying the event for years, survivors and historians are still left bewildered at how such

always tried to remind myself that ‘Hey, you always have someone else to live for. (Drash)’” “We were liberated today, April 23, 1945,” Acevedo says as he reads from his diary. His story is one of the few that was never supposed to see the daylight. “We had to sign an affidavit saying that we never went through what we went through. We weren’t supposed to say a word.” Acevedo followed the agreement for decades but he says that it is too important to be forgotten. The prisoner of war, including Acevedo

Women 's Achievements “as she was the only Native child at school and was not fluent in French or English. As well, she experienced prejudice and racism on a daily basis and was regularly beaten up by her schoolmates. In history classes she was forced to listen to "teachings" about "martyred priests being tortured to death by Indians.” (collections) Obomsawin struggled

In “Hungry” and “On Becoming Educated” by Joy Castro as well as “Our Secret” by Susan Griffin, personal and political history work in similar ways to uncover the magnitude of similarities everyone contains. Castro uses her personal stories to emphasize societal norms, in relation to feminism, and how they affect and have affected learning similarly in history and modern times. Griffin takes on a similar task, but she relates her childhood interactions with family to those affected by the Holocaust

environmentalism. Published in 1975, the piece was conceived during a period of intense political action. In America, the seventies was a decade characterized by a significant push toward progressivism in terms of women's rights, anti-war movements, and in creating contemporary beliefs about environmental issues. Ecotopia draws upon this time-frame in an almost self-aware manner, giving it the ability to translate into the 21st century quite appropriately. This awareness allows it to establish the tone

The Role of Women in The Stone Diaries      Gender inequities have existed since the beginning of time.  The various roles assigned to men and women in society have served to perpetuate differences that even until the present have not been overcome.  These gender differences are evident in The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields.  Initially the main character, Daisy Goodwill, is a pathetic, weak woman whose only joy comes from appreciating the small things in life.  After a series of personal events