Susan Hayes was an ordinary woman, unremarkable, plain. She was a simple, predictable woman too. Each morning, the aging, unmarried woman took the B train to city hall, where she worked as a clerk. Susan Hayes spent hours holed up in the basement filing things away, and keeping the books. She completed the tedious work one boring task at a time, with nary a soul to talk to except herself. Her only reprieve from the endless drudgery of paperwork was her lunch hour, which she took promptly at twelve p.m. each day. Needless to say, she was a sad and lonely woman. Each night, when her work was done, Ms. Hayes again caught the B train home to her modest apartment. And so, each uneventful day of Susan's life passed in much the same fashion. As
Louise Day Hicks took a very unconventional path, unlike most women she choose to follow in her father 's footsteps of becoming a lawyer and politician, challenging the changing gender roles of that time, something I find admirable. Hicks had the power to be remembered as a political icon, being the first female Democrat to represent Massachusetts in the House or for her run for mayor of Boston, instead, she is remembered as a symbol of racism, something I can’t overlook. If I could sit down with Hicks I would ask her why she took a progressive stance while she was a representative, but then choose to implement and enforce discriminatory policies while she was on the Boston School Committee and running for mayor. I would ask her if she choose
Being a licentious woman is something that society doesn’t like to speak on. It’s certainly not something that is discussed in high society such as in the political parties. In 1998, a sex scandal would rock the nation when Monica Lewinsky came forward about an affair with President Bill Clinton. This was a vast scandal, but was not the first scandal to happen in the politician world. Before, Monica Lewinsky there was Margaret Peggy Eaton. She would be part of a scandal that would later be known as the “Petticoat Affair”, that would cause conflict in the presidential party and with the wives.
In a general public of hero superheroes inside books and TVs all over the world, what makes a genuine legend? Is it initiative, leadership, determination, courage, dedication?To all, Dorothy Day is the greater part of the above. To many she is a holy person. A lady of genuine magnanimity, who sympathetically put the lives of the broken before her own. She is the symbol of the sort of person that everyone can be, not by changing other individuals but rather by evolving themselves. For the duration of her life, Dorothy Day was a pioneer to the state, and a promoter for poor people.
ruary 15, 1820 by her father, Daniel Anthony, and mother Lucy Read ("Susan B."). Anthony followed her father's religion, which was a Quaker; believes that an Inner Light, or God's spirit, dwelled within each person (Colman 12). Daniel installed the ideas of self-reliance, self-discipline, self-worth and self-sufficient on his children ("Susan B."). Lucy was a wise counseled, tender watching, self-sacrificing devoted mother (Coleman 12). Both of Anthony's parents were strong supporters of the abolitionist: antislavery. Also, they believed in the importance of education and work ("Susan B."). One of the bigger setbacks for Anthony's family was the Panic of 1837, Daniel lost everything, from their clothing, wedding gifts and appliances to the
The coin was small, and its value was only one dollar, but to Betty Friedan, and to women everywhere, it was worth so much more. Every person who looked at the silver coin would see not only a picture of women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony, but also a symbol of the changing world, and how hard people had fought to make that change. This was the first time a woman had been etched into the metal of a coin, and it meant that, finally, the efforts of Betty Friedan and Susan B. Anthony, herself, were paying off. Despite being lampooned and being ignored, both Anthony and Friedan made it their life’s work to grant women basic rights. Though their lives were one hundred years apart, both feminists are responsible for many of the freedoms women
She was educated, independent and was holding on to a position that had been traditionally set aside to young men. In Philadelphia, Susan was sent there to attend a boarding school. She had decided to teach at a female academy boarding school that was in upstate New York from the age of 15 to around thirty years of age. When she got comfortable in her Rochester home in New York, it was here that she
Selina Jamil with Prince George’s Community College wrote this critical essay bringing awareness to the vast array of emotions presented throughout the story “The Story of an Hour.” The main character, Mrs. Mallard, learns of the tragic loss of her husband due to a railroad accident. Learning of the loss of her husband brought her a sense of freedom and emotions that she had never experienced before. Jamil’s essay brings to light the lack of emotions Mrs. Mallard experienced prior to her husband’s death as well as the amazing emotions that her new freedom brought about. Up to this point, Mrs. Mallard had lived a meaningless life as a submissive woman.
Susan B. Anthony contributed and expedited many campaigns that were organised to help push the women's drive further. By Anthony's extreme involvement with all her movements, helps to justify why the history of the world has been greatly added to by the actions of women such as Susan B. Anthony. Anthony created a paper called 'The Revolution', which was first published in 1868, promoted an eight-hour working day and equal pay for equal work amongst all men and women. It also covered a outlined policy made for purchasing American made goods and encouraging immigration to rebuild the south and settle the entire country. With the publication of this paper in New York, it brought her into contact with the women in the printing trades, helping her
Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. Susan B. Anthony was an active woman suffragist who played a big part in the women's rights movement, in 1852. She didn’t only fight for women's rights, she also fought to abolish slavery. Both Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton also helped with social reform. They founded the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Dorothy Day is a strong woman who knows what she wants to accomplish. Her beliefs changed throughout her life but she ended up converting to Catholicism. Dorothy Day was actively involved with worldly issues and problems. To help get attention to these issues Dorothy created the Catholic Worker movement. On August 6, 1976 she was asked to speak at the World Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia (Ellsberg). Her speach was addressing the Feast of Transfiguration and the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. Evidently the Congress scheduled a mass for appreciating the armed forces, how ironic. This threefold event called for a protest. It is said that Dorothy did not like public speaking because it gave her anxiety, this caused her a great amount of stress (Ellsberg). She began her speech by her story of the Catholic Worker and her conversion. She started giving service to the poor and then decided to convert after. She continued to say that the Church taught her the necessity of Penance. She concluded by giving attention to
The battle of women’s suffrage in the United States can best be represented by Susan B. Anthony speech of 1873
It’s not fair that the “culture would take decades to adjust to a woman.”(Women in Congress: Historical Essays).
America has changed over the years in a multitude of way. Women have touched it all, everything from humanities to arts to science to government. When studying history, students usually learn about the fights the men have fought; women are often overlooked. This paper is dedicated to learning about women and their fight to create history; this paper is dedicated to learning about the struggles women have faced that have been overlooked by those that dictate what a history book is supposed to contain. Women's history is just as important as men's history, therefore, this paper will contain just a small portion of history made by two important women.
If most people heard the name Helen Keller, they would think of that poor girl who was deaf and blind. They would think of her and remember the stories they heard about how she was taught how to communicate by a teacher named Anne Sullivan. That is probably all they would think about her. How she was world famous because of how she learned to read through Braille, letters pressed into her hand, and how she eventually learned to speak, however, this is not all there is to Helen Keller.
Jane, being the negative lady, had been so caught up in all the negative things in life that she forgot about the positives of life. Jane walked off, somewhat less irked knowing that her coworkers remembered her Birthday better than herself. But, she soon realized that she hated office parties. Jane was a journalist in a small newspaper in New York, The New York Daily Input. She got to write poems for her section, “The World Around Us”. If you knew Jane, you would think she wasn’t the best candidate for the job due to her prospect on the world around her. But in the end, she wasn’t half bad. She began to write a new poem for the newspaper to be sent out the next morning. It was about how monotonous some people’s lives are. What a surprise