The place I feel content at is Ruth lake this is because it is fun when it is warm and when you have a boat because you get to go tubing. Sometimes you might see your friends there and get to do things with them. There is also deer season in the fall and that means I get to go camping. You can also go onto the mountains and have a view of the shining water of the lake.…
She became an advocate for women’s rights after she was denied a promotion for being pregnant at her job at the local social security office. She was given a demotion for getting pregnant.…
This paper is about Margaret Cochran Corbin. She was the first wounded woman of the American Revolution. She was a strong woman and an interesting person. Margaret Cochran Corbin was a woman who fought in the American Revolution war that was her job. This paper is about her early life, adult life, and contribution to the Revolutionary War.…
Mae Carol Jemison or better known as Mae C. Jemison was an American engineer, physician, and a NASA astronaut. She became known as the first African-American woman to travel in space. Mae was born on October 17 1956 in Decatur, Alabama. When she was around three years old, her parents, Charlie and Dorothy Jemison, move to Chicago in order to provide her and her siblings a better education.…
One of my personal favorite historical figures would be Mae Carol Jemison. She overcame the normalcy of a white man in space by becoming the first African American woman to go into space. First, I would ask her “how did you do it?” I really would like to know how she overcame all the pressure and abuse of being different in her field of study. Not many women during that time tried to get into the study of science. I admire Jemison for pursuing what she loved to do and not quitting because it was harder on her than the rest. Secondly, I would ask “would you do it all over again?” I would love to knw if it’s worth it to go through so much to be where she is now. If she would go through all her struggles to become an astronaut once more if she…
By the 1950’s, she had won many legal victories, but she was far from context. After 40 years of fighting for women to control their fertility, Sanger was extremely frustrated with the limited birth control options available to women. There had been no new advances since the 1842 invention of the diaphragm in Europe and the introduction of the first full length rubber condom in the US in 1869. She had championed the diaphragm, but after promoting it for decades, it was the least popular method in the United States. It was highly effective, but expensive, awkward, and most women were embarrassed to use it. Even in her seventies, this didn’t stop Margaret from creating something better. She had been dreaming of a “magic pill” since 1912, but…
Sister Rosetta Tharpe is an inevitable figure in music, especially when it comes to gospel music. Considered as “the Godmother of Rock and Roll”, Sister Rosetta Tharpe played a significant role in the further development of these genres and was a great influence on music stars such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Little Richard and many more (Graham, para. 2).…
| Margaret Sanger is the speaker and her reputation is set as a social activist of men and women’s rights everywhere.…
My sociology pioneer is Laura Jane Addams. Laura Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in the windy city of Cedarville, Illinois. Her mother passed away when she was two years old. She was raised by her father, John Addams and her stepmother. Years went by and she was an adult. She graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881 and was the first student to take courses in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Jane use different kind of methods such as strategies from book details, helping families in unserved communities. At key moments in her adult life, there were immigrant families that lived all over society. In the year 1889 there were also Irish and German immigrants that lived in the United States. In the year 1890, there were many Northern…
Sara Teasdale is an American lyrical poet born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1884. Throughout her childhood and adulthood, she suffered from many illnesses. This caused her to be homeschooled until she was well enough to be put in school, which finally came at the age of nine. Teasdale finished school in 1903 after going to three different schools and battling many more illnesses along the way. She was an accomplished writer of poetry shortly after finishing school and she has had many poems published to multiple different sources. Her poems have also been used as lyrics for many choral pieces and she has won awards for her collection of poems entitled “Love Songs”. At Sara’s funeral, her mother spoke of how Sara always loved reading poetry and looking at anything beautiful, so she was amazing at taking those beautiful things she saw and turning them into poetry.…
Susan B. Antony was born in February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. She was raised in a Quaker family who was very strict but was very close to one another. At a very young age, she was very tough and was known to stand up against other children if she felt they were wrong. When she was young, she also knew what she wanted to be when she grows up and that was a teacher. While growing up, Susan could see the differences in the way boys and girls were treated. Even at school, it was the boys who were always chosen by the teachers to learn reading and writing and she did not like that. In 1846, at the age of 26, she took the position of the girls’ department at Canajoharie Academy, her first paid position. She taught at that school for two years, earning $110 a year. Susan spent 15 years being a teacher because she knew that she was able to work and earn money just like men were.…
Sanger rebelled against the unnecessary suffering endured by these women, and she fought to make birth control information and contraceptives available. In 1922 Sanger wrote an article called The Need of Birth Control, I think one of the things that prompted Sanger to write this article was the fact that her mother, Anne, had several miscarriages, and Margaret believed that all of these pregnancies took a toll on her mother 's health and contributed to her early death at the…
There, she encountered many desperate mothers living in destitution who implored her to provide them with knowledge which would help them prevent more unwanted pregnancies (“Margaret Higgins Sanger”)". She discovered that many women were dying in childbirth or from botched, secretive abortions (“Margaret Louise Sanger.”). Exposure to such brutal life turned Sanger into a full-fledged social radical (“Margaret Higgins Sanger”)". She joined the Socialist party, attended rallies, and thoroughly researched “everything she could about birth control practices” (“Margaret Higgins Sanger”)". She eventually “became convinced that oversized families were the basic cause of poverty” (“Margaret Higgins Sanger”)". Sanger not only wanted to help these specific mothers living in the slums of New York City, but she wanted to end the similar injustices which were imposed upon women like them across the state, and, eventually, end the suffering of women in the same position across the…
Eugenics was first defined by Sir Francis Galton in the 1880’s in Britain. “Galton thought that biological inheritance of leadership qualities had determined the social status of Britain's ruling classes.” By improving the genetic quality of American people, Eugenicists were hoping to eradicate feebleminded, crime driven, promiscuous, and other “improper” individuals. Eugenicists were attempting to create a society of perfect families. Anything less than perfect would be removed from the picture. Eugenics is a controversial topic. It shaped the world, as we know it today, however, it also caused a lot of suffering that was not needed. The Eugenicists way of thinking was unnecessarily cruel and did not have the proper scientific backing to justify the actions that came from their ideas. The lack of scientific evidence, forced sterilization and the German’s extreme actions are all examples of how the Eugenicists ideas were those of ill-founded nefariousness.…
Claudia Schiffer was born in Germany in 1970, and has become one of the world's most famous supermodels. She is also a creative director of a clothing label, and was compared to Brigitte Bardot early on in her modeling career. Here is part one of our list of facts you didn't know about Claudia.…