The Legacy Of Louise De Koven Bowen

In the Documentary ,Girl Trouble, the lives of three girls are recorded over the course 3 years. During those three years the lives of the girls were evaluated while they were incarcerated in the San Francisco’s’ Juvenile Justice system. According to youth advocate Lateefah, and other delinquent advocates, the prison system is not adolescent friendly when it comes to girls. Lateefah insists that there is a worldwide misconception about bad girls, being that there is no meaningful way to rehabilitate, which results to the system throwing away children lives forever. In order to shy away from this misconception, Lateefah and other lobbyists for at risk youth gets girls like the three in the documentary, to attend rehabilitative centers such

I’m going to speak on the introduction and also some of the procedures to the juvenile system in America in the early 1900’s, and also in today’s generation . When people think of the juvenile justice the first thing that comes to mind is probably all of the bad children that end up in jail or prison. When we forget that these are just children that can be helped in other ways: such as reformed schools, Big Brother programs, Boot camp, etc. In the early 19th century courts would punish and confine juveniles in large penitentiaries, not taking in consideration the psychological affect it would have on the juvenile: sleeping, having conversations, showering, fighting, eating amongst grown adult whom can easily manipulate these children

HR 1445 is a bill passed on March 26, 2015 in the 84th Texas Legislature to recognize March 2015 as Women’s History Month. Jessica Farrar is a democratic from District 148 and sponsored this bill (Open States). I chose this bill because, quoting from the bill itself, it “provides an ideal opportunity to acknowledge the historic contributions made by women in the Lone Star State and beyond” (Farrar). First, the bill discusses about how women have played crucial roles since the Texas Republic was found. Then, the bill later on details about some of the actual women that have impacted the state of Texas greatly: Minnie Fisher Cunningham, Hortense Sparks Ward, Edna Gladney, Oveta Culp

Florence Kelley was a United States social worker and reformer who fought successfully for child labor laws and improved conditions for working women. Throughout her speech to the Philadelphia Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, she stresses the importance of changing the working conditions that are in place for children. By using child labor as her baseline, Kelley is able to talk about her main point, which is her suggestion for women’s rights with the help of repetition, strong word choice, and opposition.

In May 1914, Anne Dallas Dudley helped bring the National Suffrage Convention to her hometown where two-thousand women march from Nashville to Centennial Park, making it one of the largest conventions held in Nashville. A year later Anne was elected head of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association where she tried to introduce a suffrage amendment to the state constitution but failed. A year later Anne was announced as the Third Vice President of the National Women Suffrage Association where she played a big role in advancing legislation on the issue of women’s suffrage.

It is true that Lucy Flower didn’t act alone in working to bring about a court for children. Nor was she the only woman who was concerned about poor and delinquent children. But teaming up with Julia Lathrop, a social worker in Chicago, the two women were a formidable team, together developing a vision of a court for children and then attaining the necessary political clout to ensure that a bill was passed by the Illinois legislature to create a juvenile court.

Many feminist felt as though women should evolve from the domestic sphere to the public sphere where they could exercise their rights as citizens and have a say in things such as healthcare, voting, political issues, labor, and working wages. Another feminist Jane Addams, creator of the Hull House, supported the movement. The Hull House was fundamentally one of the most of the earliest homeless shelters created for women. The creation of the Hull House was pivotal toward social change. Jane Addams, the House's originator, trusted that the poor should be assisted and encouraged by people who were equipped for doing as such. The Hull House for the most part was for immigrants, who came to America jobless and poor, and required help adjusting to Western society and culture. In this limit, the Hull House did give shelter, provided English education, and expanded the immigrants odds of discovering occupations to support their

During Sandra's stay with her grandparents, she attended Radford School for Girls. Radford taught not only academic skills, but social skills. The prissy behavior confused her and she also missed her family.

Mercy accomplished lots of things that women did not even know could exist in her time. Mercy Otis Warren was a writer a poet, historian, dramatist, a patriot propagandist, play writer and a satirist in the eighteenth century. She was born in west Barnstable, Massachusetts in the United States of America which is named Cape Cod on September 14th, 1728. And died in her hometown on October 19, 1814. She was one of the first women to write about the war in the American Revolution. She spoke up and fought for what she though was right. She is really inspirational to all the women. And became a leader in the agitation when they were against the Stamp Act of 1765. When she was an adult she had five kids they all were born in West Barnstable, Massachusetts. Her first child was named James Warren. He was born in 1757 and died in the year of 1821. He was named after his father James Warren. Her second youngest kid named Winslow Warren was born in 1759 and died in 1791. Her third oldest the middle kid was born in the year of 1762 and died on 1784. The second oldest kid was named Henry Warren. He was born on 1764 and passed away in 1828. Her son named George Warren was the oldest one out of all of them. He was born in 1776 and died in the year of 1814. He had lots of responsibilities in his childhood. He would take care of his little brothers since he was the oldest out of all of them. They all died in their hometown in West Barnstable, Massachusetts. The purpose of this paper is to

The struggles of African Americans to establish their freedom is a big part of American history. From the time of slavery until recent days, changes have taken place to better the lives of many. Names such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and Jackie Robinson are names forever recognized and remembered by every American black or white. Many of those people led the way and instituted themselves leaders in the movement which directed everything that is connected to the life of African Americans. The biography of Anne Moody Coming of Age in Mississippi chronicles the many events she lives while enduring the harshness of discrimination. Moody’s traces her life from the age of four to twenty three divided into

In “Until There Is Justice", Scanlon corrected this neglect by sifting through Hedgeman’s unpublished papers and published memoirs and this begs the question on How did a naive girl, growing up in the only African-American

In her 1905 speech given to the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia, Florence Kelley emphatically states the need for change in society’s acceptable working conditions for children. Kelley does this through the repetition of main topics, explanation of various instances in which children in the workforce have been treated unfairly, and by admonishing against the current laws allowing for children to work a much extended workday. In doing this, Kelley effectively gains emotional involvement from her audience, which allows her to eventually relate her speech to inviting the audience to respond to the labor conditions for children, but mainly she invites them to support a change in women’s rights

Before the Progressive Era, children who were over the age of seven were put in jail with adults. In the early part of the 1800’s reformers started to become concerned with the overcrowded environment in the

When one thinks of the juvenile corrections system, they tend to gender this institution, focusing mainly on young boys. Due to this, one often neglects the thought there are also young girls that are in the system. This may be due to the fact that when compared to young boys within the juvenile corrections system, in previous years the girls consisted of a small portion within in this space. However, according to recent studies, girls in the juvenile system has been rapidly increasing over the last 20 years (Levintova, 2015). This is an issue which needs to be acknowledge due to the fact that young women are caught in this system for starkly contrasting reasons when compared to young males. These reasonings are described in the book Girls in Trouble with the Law by Laurie Schaffner which we will further explore.

In 1841 Elizabeth Barrett returned to the family home in London as an invalid. She stayed confined in her room and worked on book reviews and articles. “The Cry of the Children” was published one year later. This was a popular work that helped bring about the regulation of child labor. In 1844 she published a two-volume edition of her poems; in October of that same year, an American edition with an introduction by