In her lecture “War and Photography‚” Susan Sontag discusses the role of photographs in raising awareness about human rights issues while simultaneously looking at the effectiveness of graphic images. She asks her audience to engage with how they respond to images that are a result of “concerned photography‚” and how those images impact their understanding and memory of the human rights event. Sontag also grapples with how shocking images lose their effectiveness over repeated viewings‚ or over the
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“The power of introvert” is the article that I had read by Susan Cain‚ author of the Book “Quit”. Her book talks about the benefit of collaboration and introvert‚ who likes to work alone. Groupthink is a good idea‚ but what about introverts? Can they behave with them and share some time and work space with the group thinkers? Groupthink is everywhere. It’s in school‚ companies‚ fashion and religions places. The benefit from groupthinks in these places to share ideas and to know what everyone thinks
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place of worship for Quakers. Eventually‚ the couple opened their own upholstery business‚ drawing on Betsy ’s deft needlework skills. Betsy Ross is best known for making the first American flag. Betsy died on January 30‚ 1836‚ at the age of 84. Susan B. Anthony was born February 15‚ 1820 in Adams‚ Massachusetts. She was brought up in a Quaker family with long activist traditions. Early in her life she developed a sense of justice and moral zeal. After teaching for fifteen years‚ she became active
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you know what women had to go through to get the right to vote? It was a long and tough battle known as the women’s suffrage movement. It took a long time‚ but the women won the battle! Leaders like Susan B. Anthony‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Lucy Stone and many more are behind this victory. One of Susan B. Anthony’s quote is “No genuine equality‚ no real freedom‚ no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.” The 19th Amendment declared the right for
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roles changed. With the expansion of their roles in society‚ came more literary references to women. Either as authors themselves‚ such as Margaret Fuller‚ or women who became famous for their political struggles for women’s rights‚ including Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ their courageous battles have been recorded. Just as women’s rights have evolved through the history of America‚ they also have developed as a theme in literature. Importance of “Women’s Rights” Theme in
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Trifles was written in the early 1900’s by Susan Glaspell. This occurred far before the women’s movement. Women were generally looked upon as possessions to their husbands. Their children‚ all wages‚ and belongings were property of their husbands. In Glaspell’s story it is easily depicted as to what role the men and women portrayed in society at this time. Glaspell proves her point by a conversation between two women in this story. The women‚ Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale
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The general argument made by author Susan K. Cahn‚ is that in" today’s’ society there are women athletes who are media celebrities and a source of inspiration for many. But not long ago‚ being serious about sports was considered appropriate only for men and boys". Throughout the 20th century‚ women’s increasing participation in sports has challenged our conception of womanhood. Some celebrated the female athlete as the embodiment of modern womanhood‚ but others branded her "mannish" which was
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Falls Convention‚ First National Women’s Rights Convention‚ the formation of the National Women Suffrage Association‚ and prominent women’s rights figure Susan B. Anthony. On July of 1848‚ a group of men and women meet in Seneca Falls‚ New York to discuss legal limitations placed on women. Of the people gathered was a woman of the name Susan B. Anthony who would spark and encourage women rights throughout the 1850-1920’s until the ratification of the 19th amendment. Anthony served to the women
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The word trifles means a thing of little meaning or value according to the free online dictionary. In the play we see a lot of trifles; to me these trifles are the material things that pretty much helped solve the case in the play‚ for example; the mess in the kitchen‚ the dirty towels and the fruit. Mrs. Peter (to the other woman): oh‚ her fruit; it did freeze. (To the lawyer.) She worried about that when it turned so cold. She said the fire’d go out and her jars would break. Sheriff (rises): well
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realization came that they‚ too‚ were functioning in society without the complete freedom afforded to their male counterparts. Some of the women responsible for the revolution of the 1800’s included Lucretia Mott‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Frances Wright and Susan B. Anthony. Each had a certain plank in the platform of women’s rights that they wished to promote. The American Anti-Slavery Society began the fight to abolish slavery. It was headed by a woman named Lucretia Mott. Much like the Equal Rights Movement
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