In the early times of the Revolutionary War in America, the role of women had always been subpar and limited in comparison to the men of the country. Faced with domestic expectations and viewed as the significantly weaker sex, women would always remain in the men’s shadows in the workplace and in politics. However, due to the efforts of suffragettes and associations from the mid 1800s to 1920, the role of women vastly expanded in the face of new opportunities. Although the role of women remained…
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Throughout the history of America, we have had our hearts broken and taken losses by the tragic disasters throughout our country. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was considered a disaster of epic proportions due to the sudden shock, Women's Suffrage, and change in women's rights. On March 25, 1911 a factory burned down to ashes in only 18 minutes, along with the 145 people inside of it. Many of these people were young women as young as the age of 14 getting left with no choice but to jump off the 9th…
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Florence Kelley, through her brilliant use of rhetorical strategies, brings awareness to the public of a tragedy plaguing the nation. Her speech on the hazards of child labor and the importance of women’s suffrage coherently describes the dangers of everyday life and the solution to the turmoil. By using repetitions, the laws and the atrocities the laws allow, and the stark contrast of the consumer versus the producer, Kelley crafts her argument and uses and emotional appeal to draws her audience…
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The modern era was very important, especially involving women. The disposition in the modern age was to treat a woman neither as an inferior nor superior to man, but to treat her as having a status of her own, and not necessarily to be judged in comparison with man—even though we all know that’s not what happened. From hearing all types of stories from history, we have established that men lived superior to women. We, women, did everything for men—practically waiting on them hand and foot. The modern…
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Stemming from continued, incessant inequality, articulated and fought against with biting acrimony throughout the women’s suffrage movement, supposedly ended with the signing of the Equal Pay Act by President John F. Kennedy but has persisted into the 23rd century with very gradual progress: the gender wage gap. The gender wage gap, or the disparity in income between men and women doing the same work, has not only remained acceptable but enforced throughout all American history and although maybe…
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Listener Relevance: Without people like Mary Church Terrell, we may not have had the rights we have at this moment. Segregation would not have been fought and women’s suffrage would not have been fought for. Speaker Credibility: I researched vigorously on Mary Church Terrell and am able to give a good speech about her. Attention Grabber: Susan B. Anthony, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, these are people that you are probably familiar with in history as activists, but have you ever heard…
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Civil Rights Events One specific civil rights event that took place in the United States that has strengthened the social responsibility of the nation’s government is the Civil Rights Movement that started in the 1950s and ceased in the 1960s. The movement was able to accomplish its main objective of having the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed, along with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In addition to that, this movement helped the Supreme Court to decide to end school segregation with Brown vs. the…
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In Virginia Woolf’s passage, she compares the meals served at the men’s college to women’s college. Virginia Woolf writes this passage because she wants women to fight for the same privileges men have. This passage was written during the women’s suffrage, in Great Britain during the late 1920’s, and it is addressed to privileged men. Virginia Woolf’s uses many rhetorical strategies in her writing, such as imagery and parallelism. Woolf’s influential passage is extremely effective because it shows…
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began to lead to a different view of women and their roles in society (State). Elizabeth Cady Stanton had a significant impact on women because she initiated the first women’s rights and suffrage movement. Before Elizabeth Stanton, there were a number of issues that weren’t being solved for women. These issues included “Women’s parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights, divorce laws, the economic health of the family and birth control” (PBS). One of the general…
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favored non-violence protests. Governor George Wallace and Barry Goldwater opposed and voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Without Wallace’s approval, two African American students were granted admission to the University of Alabama. In comparison to Barry Goldwater, Lyndon B. Johnson stood by the movement more than other elected presidents. Johnson believed that granting freedom to the mass public was not enough. He saw it as injustice to program society to forget about the past harsh complications…
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