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Letter to the president Elizabeth Blackwell
Dear, Mr. President Many of the days we celebrate over each year are days where society was changed by someones actions. We usually name that day after that person and do a memorial of their achievements, and celebrate their accomplishments. There are several people we acknowledge annually, but there are few that we overlook; If there is anyone in our history that should deserve their own holiday, it would be Elizabeth Blackwell. She stood for equality and the betterment of women in the 1800's when women were seen as lesser beings than men. She took a huge leap towards medicine, and became the first woman ever to graduate from a medical college and obtain a medical degree. She then started a new age, where women were able to go to school for medicine and also obtain their degrees; making them equal to the modern men of that time. She not only took the first step as the female race towards a better education, but helped it ti prosper by building a school, and medical center for women and children. But first, her beginning; Elizabeth was born on February 3rd, 1821 in Fristol England. Her family moved from England to the United States in 1832, when she was 11 years old. Her father's death enforced her decision to open up a school alongside her mother, and sister in 1838. After a few years of teaching in her school, Blackwell decided to study medicine and become a doctor. She studied independently under a doctor for a little over a year before she was accepted into the Geneva Medical College in upstate New York in 1847. Her acceptance created an up rage with the educational community. Not only was she discriminated against because she was a women, but she was doubted by more then half of her peers to succeed. Though through it all she graduated with a medical degree in 1849. Elizabeth then returned to London, and then to Paris to practice medicine under her new degree. She gained experience, and learned some hands-on trade before she came back to the United

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