our ideals -- things like courage‚ honor‚ and justice -- largely define us. Our heroes are symbols for us of all the qualities we would like to possess and all the ambitions we would like to satisfy. A person who chooses Martin Luther King or Susan B. Anthony as a hero is going to have a very different sense of what human
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In the article “Susan B. Anthony dares to vote” and the play “The Watsons go to birmingham” the theme of both texts is perseverance. They show it in many different ways though like in the article she goes against the law to get her rights for being a woman and in the play Watson’s try to fight for blacks rights when they go to back to Alabama. A difference they have is the characters actions in “Susan B. Anthony Dares to Vote” white people want to send her to jail‚ but in “The Watson’s go to Birmingham”
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women’s voting rights during this time felt similar to finding a needle in a haystack. In the passages “Is it a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?” by Susan B. Anthony and “Freedom or Death” by Emmeline Pankhurst‚ one author uses the appeal of credibility and the other author uses the appeal of logic to fight for women’s right to vote. Using the appeal of credibility by citing the Constitution and Declaration of Independence‚ Anthony fights for women’s voting rights. Anthony describes
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In this excerpt from a speech delivered in 1873 by Susan B. Anthony‚ the author directly refutes the inequal oligarchy of sex by stating the contradictions of these concepts against the constitutions of United States. By heavily emphasizing the attributes of the democracy‚ the author reinforces the concept of revolution‚ which functioned to provoke woman suffarage movement. In order to effectively state her position‚ the author incorporated various persuasive techniques including‚ reiteration of
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Susan B. Anthony was born on February‚ 15 ‚1820. Susan was raised a quaker family and her father was Daniel Anthony her mother was Lucy Read. susan was the second child Glem anthony was the oldest ‚ the third child was Hannah Anthony Daniel read was the fourth child and they were born in Adams Massachusetts. Susan and her family moved to Battenville‚ New york in 1862 were mary and merritt were born (two youngest children). Susan went to a public school until her teacher refused to teach her long
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Antigone v. Susan B Anthony In the play Antigone by Sophocles‚ the main character defies the king and the civil law of Thebes to follow her heart and put her brother‚ Polyneices‚ to rest. Most people know the name Susan B Anthony; she exhibited civil disobedience in the form of illegally voting in the 1872 Presidential elections. Many people will be surprised to find out that Antigone and Susan are a lot alike. They both fought for what they believed in‚ despite the fact that they were women and
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Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15th 1820‚ in Adams‚ Massachusetts. She taught for 15 years before becoming involved in civil movements. Yet because she was a woman‚ she wasn’t allowed to speak in rallies. Because of this‚ she and Elizabeth Cady Stanton created the woman’s rights movement in 1852. In 1853‚ Anthony began to campaign for women’s property rights in New York State legislatures. This lead to a new law in the New York State in 1853 to create the Married Women’s property Bill‚ which
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agitate‚ educate‚ must be our war cry.” -Susan B. Anthony (Brainyquote.com) American women deserved the vote earlier than August 18th‚ 1920 for three reasons: they had worked and fought for it for a long time; other countries had already given women the right to vote; and women should have equal rights per the Bible and American Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Powerful suffragettes like Alice Paul‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ and Susan B. Anthony had been working hard for the vote for a
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24th Oct 2013 Women’s Rights Are Human Rights Speech Analysis 1. Hillary Rodham Clinton was born on October 26 1947. She was the 67th United States Secretary of State‚ U.S. Senator from New York‚ candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination‚ and the first lady of the United States. On 5th September 1995‚ she attended the Fourth U.N World Conference on Women in Beijing‚ China and gave the speech‚ “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights” about the issues facing women and girls all around the
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ENS 106 Effective Speech Susan B. Anthony Speech 1873 Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15‚ 1820 and she was one of the many women in the nineteenth century to fight for women’s rights. She would travel all over the nation and create petitions for the right for women to vote and also slavery. She was an abolitionist‚ an educational reformer‚ a labor activist‚ and of course a women’s right campaigner. As brave as she was‚ she voted illegally in the presidential election of 1872 in Rochester
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