The Iron Lady

Would you ever believe that one african american woman would become a spy for the united states army? Harriett Tubman born as Araminta Ross. Harriet was born a slave and raised on Maryland's Eastern Shore where the lines connecing slavery and freedom were mostly blurred. It was not unusual for families in this place to include both independent and enslaved members.

The first half of Kirstin Downey's book, The Woman Behind the New Deal chronologically explores the Frances Perkins life up until her early years as the Secretary of Labor under President Roosevelt. She was not only a vital labor advocate but a woman's suffrage leader. Her up-bringing, education, influences, alliances, work history, and the changing world around her shaped her into an extraordinary person. She is an outstanding example of the “New Women” in the progressive era. She lived her life like a calculated chess player; practically every step that she took whether it be personal, professional, or in public appeared to be tactical.

Eleanor Roosevelt is the world’s First Lady and is an example for an authentic leader. She stood for women’s rights and for the social justice for the poor and disadvantaged. She worked to empower women to participate in voting and in political leadership (Davidson, 2014). As as an authentic leader, she knew the purpose of her work, established and maintained relationships, had values, self-discipline, and passion to her mission (Northouse, 2016, p. 197). Her purpose was to advance human rights and women’s civil rights.

The women that followed Eleanor Roosevelt had a wider path paved for them and big shoes to fill. When America was introduced to this new kind of First Lady, there were different reactions. People were unaware as to how much freedom the First Lady should be allowed when it comes to their role. It was new to have the president wife actually getting involved with political affairs and advocacy.

The office, President of the United States of America, is one, if not, the most powerful position in the modern world that any individual can occupy. However, there is another office in the same building and even the same family that garners much less attention: the office of First Lady. For the lack of attention both in historical records, and in public focus, First Ladies throughout the history of the United States have had much more influence and impact than they have been accredited. One such woman, Lucretia Garfield began, in her short term, to change the office of First Lady. Lucretia Garfield challenged the gender normatives of the Gilded Age, and she opened up her role for future First Ladies to exert their bold presence in the White House.

Her real name was Harriet Beecher Stowe. Born as a salve on June 14, 1820 on a plantation in Maryland. There were 8 children in her family and she was the sixth. When she was five, her Mother died. Her Father remarried one year later and in time had three more children. Her Father always wanted her to be a boy. When Harriet was only 13 years old, she tried to stop a person from being whipped and went between the two people. The white man hit her in the head with a shovel and she blacked out. From then on she had awful migraines and would sometimes just collapse on the ground while she was working. She served as a field hand and house servant on a Maryland plantation. In 1844 she married John Tubman, who was a free

In the late 16th century, Queen Elizabeth I of England endeavored to establish a permanent settlement in the New World. Elizabeth granted English aristocrat Sir Walter Ralegh the rights to introduce a settlement to spread the influence of the Queen and the Christian faith. In 1585, the first English settlers populated the new colony of Roanoke. By establishing Roanoke, the English hoped to launch trade with the Native Americans and mount piracy attacks on the ships of the enemy Spanish fleet. Queen Elizabeth sponsored “privateering” by motivating English sailors to raid and pillage Spanish ships, and having an English colony near the Spanish colonies would increase the effectiveness of privateering. Elizabeth hoped that once the English controlled the entire Eastern Seaboard of the new continent, the Spanish would hardly be a threat. However, the English were hasty in establishing their first settlement and this ultimately lead to the downfall of the colony. Roanoke failed to last for more than a few years and by 1590, the entire colony had disappeared. If the English focused on establishing a safe and durable settlement instead of developing a base for trade, privateering, and further expansion, the first colony of Roanoke could have been successful.

Harriet Ross Tubman was an African American who escaped slavery and then showed runaway slaves the way to freedom in the North for longer than a decade before the American Civil War. During the war she was as a scout, spy, and nurse for the United States Army. After that she kept working for rights for blacks and women.

Presidents are either remembered forever, or forgotten quickly. Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister of Great Britain used diction, characterization, and metaphors to show how Ronald Reagan was an outstanding individual. Thatcherś Eulogy helps to present how Reagan was such a magnificent person.

Behind every great man is a great woman, behind every great president is a great first lady. Most influential and notable of them all, Eleanor Roosevelt. Eleanor Roosevelt is best known as the wife of thirty-second president, Franklin D. Roosevelt’ but she was so much more. Eleanor Roosevelt was an emissary, feminist, and humanitarian.

The Egyptian queen Nefertiti was the wife of Amenhotep IV, later known as Akhenaten. She is known for both her beauty and for the power she held in Egypt. It is thought by many historians that the Queen and King were inseparable and even ruled Egypt together from 1353 to 1336 B.C. Nefertiti who’s name means “the beautiful one has come” is also somewhat of a mystery. A mystery that is still unsolved today.

The next day my dad, early in the morning, took me out of the Hotel to the French Quarter. He told me we were going to Cafe Du Monde and it was a famous Cafe. We only walked a couple blocks past some other hotels and parking lots, and then the Quarter. We got to a park where there were multiple street artists painting and then you could see Cafe Du Monde. It had a building where the massive kitchen was and some seating inside, but then their was a huge overhang that went

Queen Isabella once said, "I will assume the undertaking for my own crown of Castile, and am ready to pawn my jewels to defray the expenses of it, if the funds in the treasury should be found inadequate." She may be most famous for funding Christopher Columbus on his expedition to the New World, but she was so much more than the provider of that trip. She had a complicated childhood and became a great ruler. Isabella I of Castile, was born April 22, 1451, she was half Spanish and half Portuguese. Isabella’s mother was not cared about even though Isabella’s father was of royal status. Since there was already an heir to the throne, Isabella’s half-brother, Enrique, no one cared much about Isabella’s birth or baptism. Isabella’s childhood

As a mother, teacher, doctor, Professor at Georgetown, and the Second Lady of our beloved nation, the United States of America, I always taught empowering each other is the only way to travel beyond any century as we wish to travel, but we have never seen anything like this. The Vice President and I, alongside our family and loved ones and most of the Professors at Columbia, Harvard, and Georgetown are also loving it, except for one at Yale. What the First Lady of the United States and the First Ladies, Her Excellencies and Her Majesties around the world think of it? You tell me? You tell me can be said for the President of the United States, and the Presidents, Chancellors, His Excellencies, and His Majesties around the globe, regardless of

Back in France, Bartholdi had problems of his own. The structure of the statue located in the interior was a very formidable task due to its intricate makeup. To circumvent this problem, a man named Alexandre Eiffel, well known due to his composition of the architecture for the Eiffel Tower in Paris, was hired as the structural engineer. He was able to make the skeletal framework and the iron pylons for the statue and construction continued. The statue was completed in 1884, surpassing the deadline by a reasonable number of years.