...Women's rights “We cannot succeed when half of us are held back.” Women and their rights may have succeed since the past, but there is still a suffer of educational rights,violence and discrimination against women all over the world every day. Women should be treated equal to men as they are no less. Back in the middle 1800’s there was a movement called the Women's Rights Movement, this movement changed the lives of women. To begin, before the Women's Rights Movement women didn't have equal rights as do men, they weren't able to file for divorce,be educated or legally own land (“History Of Women's Rights Movement”). Since, the Women's Rights Movement took place on a hot muggy day of July.13.1848, this movement happened because of one house wife named Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She is the reason women's lives are so different today. She's the reason women have freedom(“History Of Women's Rights Movement”). Lastly, when this movement was over women got their rights and today are now able to vote, own land, file for divorce and custody battles(“History Of Women's Rights Movement”). If...
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...The Quest for Equality Debbie Werley U.S. History 1312 Dr. Wendell Hunnicut Final Essay March 21, 2012 Although the United States was founded on the ideal that all men are created equal, many Americans throughout our history have not enjoyed this privilege. Several issues, such as voting rights, labor equality, and equal opportunities in education have faced minorities and women in our country. Many gains in improving equality have been made. Voting rights for all Americans, improvement in workplace discrimination, and equal opportunities in education are some examples of these gains. Various prominent citizens have worked diligently throughout our history to accomplish equality for these groups using different methods. Some of these methods have worked better than others. Boycotts, peaceful marches and courtroom battles were some of the methods that brought better results. Many equality issues have affected minorities and women in our country. The fight for the right to vote was long and difficult for both groups. Although the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in 1870, granting all black men voting rights, (Jones et al, 2009, 373) it was not until after World War II that this right was realized. Women’s suffrage was an even longer battle. Begun in 1866, when women reformers attempted to secure this right along with African American’s right to vote, women would not gain the vote until ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 (Jones et al, 2009, 476). Equality...
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...she draws meaning from the injustice between the sexes in the time and in the industry of literature and art. In her piece, after referring to Shakespeare, she says, “A highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people…No girl could have walked to London and stood at a stage door and forced her way into the presence of actor-managers without doing herself a violence and suffering an anguish…for chastity may be a fetish invented…” (298). Prior to this quote Woolf spoke about the history of Shakespeare and how he had forced himself to be recognized by actor-managers and ventured on his own. Woolf shows the difference between the treatment of two individuals with equal talent, but of one being male and the other female. The male being easily able to trek out on his own, live life as an actor, even meeting the queen and eventually becoming the most well-known playwright in history, Shakespeare. The...
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...Equal Rights Women equal rights had an impact on women's suffrage movement. This was historically significant by inspiring women to join the movement. For a long time, people didn’t consider women have equal rights like men. Men were the head of the house and they were the risk taker for their family. They were not allowed to work outside or to go to college. Women didn’t have rights to work in offices. If women go to college it is hard for them to find a job. The highest job for a woman was being a librarian, a teacher, a nurse, a chef, and a housewife. Women were not hired for the work that was considered males works such as, lawyers, doctors, managers, members of Congress. The News Wise stated that “through history, women have faced intense...
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...decorative bed covering. However, the term actually originates from the sewing method. Quilting is the act of stitching through three layers of material, generally a top, a middle filler layer of down, flax or wool, and then a bottom layer. Stitching the layers to hold them together provides more insulation and warmth (History). ”One of the most universal fabric arts is quilting.” (Bonnice) In addition to providing a layer of warmth for beds, quilts were also hung over windows and doorways to help keep out the cold weather (Johnson). At first, the stitching on quilts was just a rough tying together of the material. (Lewis, p 2). The tufted quilt is tied in enough places to keep the filling from shifting and bunching (History) This method was not extremely durable, and since European women were already practiced embroiders, they began to use those techniques on quilts as well, to hold the filler materials in place better. (Lewis, p 2) Like other household goods, quilts were brough by the colonists when they came to settle here in America. (Lews, p 10) The colonists only had the fabric material they brought with them to use. Quilts were functional items, as the women did not have time for the artistic traditions of quilting which they had learned in Europe (Johnson). As these household goods wore out, blankets were patched, and even combined with old cothes and other blankets as filler material in a new quilt. (Johnson) Fabric was at a premium during these times, and these original...
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...Asian American Women Introduction Through out history, Asian American women have required "the armor of warriors" in order to survive. For a period of 150 years, Asian women have labored and raised families in the United States, overcoming exploitation and racism from their earliest days as prostitutes, domestic servants and farm workers. In the present day, Asian American women have a representation in the most prestigious professional and managerial jobs. Today, Asians are looked at as a "model minority" whose growing mobility stands as an illustration for other racial-ethnic groups (Amott & Matthaei, 1996). The first Asian immigrants arrived in the United States from China, with the first huge wave coming in the mid-19th century. As with other cultural minorities, the Chinese and later the Japanese, Asian Indians, Filipinos, Koreans, and a host of other groups immigrated to the United States to serve mainly as a source of cheap labor. These migration trends were related to bigger worldwide transformations started by Euro-American colonialism and industrial capitalism. By the start of the Great Depression, these groups formed the prevalent Asian populations in the United States. According to United States census data and other available reports, there were close to 56,000 Filipinos, 140,000 Japanese, 75,000 Chinese several thousand Koreans and Asian Indians and living in America in 1930, most living on the West Coast (Amott & Matthaei, 1996). The Asian populace in the United...
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...Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott. It also informed us about other men and women who struggled for women’s rights as well. The story as we know it women was not given equal rights as men; they were treated unfairly because they were females. Throughout the book there were American women who rented a stand for themselves and other women in America. Women were finally ready to face the men and state their belief about how men and women should be created equal. The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was the first women’s rights convention in history. This convention lead and created by the founding mothers’ and their peers popularized this myth during the second half...
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...did not take part in the war. However, in 1917, the US Congress declared war against Germany forces due to two main reasons. First, the US government had signed an agreement with the Germany government that the Germany Submarines should not attack passenger ships in the Mediterranean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean. In February 1917, the Germany violated this agreement which annoyed the US government. Second, the Germany government had written a letter advising Mexico to attack the US. This letter was intercepted by the British, and when the United States received it, the Congress declared war against the Germany forces. The First World War was debatable war in America because there were conflicting pubic opinions. On one hand was German Americans, who were with the German government. Most of the Americans with British and France, on the other hand, origin supported the Entente forces and wanted the US to fight against the Germany. Therefore, President Wilson feared that the war would divide the country....
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...Women in the Ancient World From the very beginning of time, women have played a very significant role in development and advancement of life, serving as the companion for men as well as procreating with them to ensure the world would be inhabited and settled. In present-day society, we view women as essential to everyday life. Society sees and treats women as intelligent individuals who are equally efficient for most of the same work and intellectual skills as men. In most cases, we believe that women and men are equal, as women are able to legally run for and hold government offices, perform physical labor, work in medical professions, and basically anything they desire so long as, like anyone else, they attain the required certifications, education, etc. However, this outlook on women’s roles and abilities was not always shared among the social order. Throughout history, women’s roles in society, economy, government and culture have evolved and shifted dramatically. Throughout each culture and society in the ancient world, we find differences in the way women were treated, the responsibilities expected of them, and their learned place in the social order. Women featured in Homer’s The Iliad were some of some earliest examples of women being viewed with poor outlooks in the eyes of men in Greek culture. David Harvey claims that Aristotle had no doubt that women were inferior in this particular society (Harvey, 46). They were mainly viewed as prizes throughout Homer’s...
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...ultimate demise? With human bodies on display in every facet of advertising thrown at us daily, instant comedic gratification at our fingertips with the advent of the internet and smart phones, and interactive entertainment whenever we want, how did burlesque capture the hearts and minds of so many women and men in a world run by mass media? The answers are complicated yet quite simple. Connection. Live shows offer a mini vacation, a break if you will, from our everyday lives in a way that still makes us feel connected. Burlesque offers this connection through the spectacle of glamour and raunchy statements. It connects to the primal human desires all the while using the platform to comment on social, political, and cultural sexual paradigms. It seems in today's society that everyone has an opinion and everyone's opinion is right. Democracy and our first amendment have allowed everyone to speak up and speak out. Though, not many have enough clout to really do much about it. Perhaps this is why the modern burlesquer is making waves. Burlesque dancers take what many of us think and preach about and put it into a pretty or gaudy 3-7 minute package covered in glitter and crystals and hand it to you just how you like it. Quick and easy. Burlesquers also offer it in a confident realm where it is personable yet entertaining. A lot of us dream of “the good ol' days” where women were women and men were men. A time when sex was perceived to be innocent....
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...the history of colonization with traditional Navajo stories of creation. The poem “In 1864” remembers the Long Walk in the course of a car trip that apparently retraces part of the ancestors’ journey into exile. Published in 1993 with Tapahonso's collection Sáanii Dahataat: The Women Are Singing, the poem claims a terrible piece of Navajo history in order to remember and mourn the people’s suffering. “In 1864” continues and responds to the oral tradition, and does so in ways that are both structurally and thematicly advances the decolonization imperitive. By retelling the story to a new generation, it confirms Navajo continuance and thus constitutes as an...
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...African American Women Under Slavery This paper discusses the experiences of African American Women under slavery during the Slave Trade, their exploitation, the secrecy, the variety of tasks and positions of slave women, slave and ex-slave narratives, and significant contributions to history. Also, this paper presents the hardships African American women faced and the challenges they overcame to become equal with men in today’s society. Slavery was a destructive experience for African Americans especially women. Black women suffered doubly during the slave era. Slave Trade For most women who endured it, the experience of the Slave Trade was one of being outnumbered by men. Roughly one African woman was carried across the Atlantic for every two men. The captains of slave ships were usually instructed to buy as high a proportion of men as they could, because men could be sold for more in the Americas. Women thus arrived in the American colonies as a minority. For some reason, women did not stay a minority. Slave records found that most plantations, even during the period of the slave trade, there were relatively equal numbers of men and women. Slaveholders showed little interest in women as mothers. Their willingness to pay more for men than women, despite the fact than children born to enslaved women would also be the slaveowners’ property and would thus increase their wealth. Women who did have children, therefore, always struggled with the impossible conflict...
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...They were a direct pipeline of information, but those who dared, who held within themselves a new level of bravery and humanity by going back to the very source of their sorrow and oppression. This highly dangerous expedition required former slaves or freedmen and women to go back and forth, funneling information in secrecy from one side to the other. Such a treacherous task often required a significant amount of discretion. Many of the documents regarding these brave individuals reportedly were destroyed in order to protect their true identities. As viable a reason as that may seem, even still, with knowledge that these people at least existed, why aren’t they acknowledged as much as they should be? To play such a pivotal role only to be lightly brushed over in most history lessons is a sad reality for these historical figures, particularly the women. Black women truly had little to go by, being the two things at the time that many were prejudiced against the most; black and a...
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...around us to a way that is not a good way to improve our generation. The word gender is a society concept of how men and women are expected to act and behave. In American culture males are most likely to be observed as masculine role with strength and females to a way where they are associated with passivity, subordination and nurturing. In today’s modern society is easy to outfit an infant boy with blue and a girl with pink. It is amazing to realize that is not always been this way, but until the beginnings of the 20th century, “boys were more associates with pink and girls with blue illustrating how socially constructed these associations rally are”. Some major agents of gender socialization...
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...many equality issues in the United States. Over the course of history many people have fought to change their status from inequality. In today’s society there are still instances of discrimination. However, there are laws to help when a situation has become an act of discrimination whether it is in the workplace, real estate, or public establishments. The status of women throughout history in the United States has changed a great deal over time. Women have often been revered in many cultures as a symbol to create life. Also, many nature-based religions often refer to the mother goddess as their primary supreme being. However, throughout our history women have often been considered inferior to their male counterparts. Many men today still hold negative views towards women in regards to thinking that their only duties should those of a wife and homemaker. For many years women did not have the opportunities to perform what was considered to be a man’s job or even vote. However, “women in most nations won the right to vote and increased their educational and job opportunities.” Today woman are working side-by-side with their male counterparts and they are also allowed into the military. For many years women were not allowed to be soldiers. After women were allowed into the military they were still denied military occupations especially those that would lead them into combative situations. However, we now have women who are proving themselves, so to speak, and fighting to even...
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