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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“And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessing of liberty…”(Anthony). This is a quote from a speech Susan B. Anthony delivered in 1873. While having the constitution protecting citizens’ rights‚ women are considered to get paid 77 cents to the dollar‚ in the eyes of many there expected to be treated as second-class citizens. But does the constitution promise inalienable rights for all people? This idea is shown throughout her speech‚ connecting to other visions
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Susan B Anthony was born February 15‚ 1820 in Massachusetts. She was raised in a Quaker family with long activist traditions. During her early life she became to have a sense of justice and moral zeal. She was a teacher for 15 years. She was never married‚ was aggressive and compassionate by nature. She remained active until her death march 13‚ 1906. Susan B Anthony advocated dress reform for women. In 1853 she started to campaign for women`s property rights in New York state‚ speaking at the meeting
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Susan B. Anthony‚ was a women who influenced America and dedicated her entire life on helping many women to get voting rights and opened many doors for women to voice out their opinions and fight for their rights. Women back then were only seen as wives‚ mothers‚ and caretakers‚ but never pictured as being able to make an opinion on a political topic‚ or even vote. Anthony risked being jailed for testing society’s limits and pushing boundaries to prove women can be more than just a mother. National
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Susan B. Anthony “Are Women Persons?” About Susan B. Anthony 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
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education‚ the right to decide what happens to her own body and even the simple right to work outside of the home to earn money. While some say women should be home to tend to the house and children‚ women are independent‚ intelligent‚ and are citizens of the country just as men are and deserve the same rights as men when
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Susan Brownell Anthony was born in February 15‚ 1820 in Adams‚ Massachusetts and died at the age of 86 in March 13‚ 1906 in Rochester‚ New York. Susan was a social reformer and feminist who played an important role in the women’s suffrage movement. She started collecting anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856‚ she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. In 1851 she met a woman named Elizabeth Cady Stanton who became her lifelong friend and co-worker primarily
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Susan B. Anthony has served a great part in women’s history. For many‚ many years‚ women fought to achieve equality. They fought until they successfully gained rights. As a young woman‚ I appreciate every battle that women before‚ such as Susan B. Anthony‚ fought for rights. Her‚ like many others played a big role in achieving this. Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15‚ 1820 in Adams‚ Massachusetts. At an early age‚ she developed strong values and morals. She was a teacher before becoming
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the midterm in humanities‚ 105 is Desperately Seeking Susan. In this film’s money can give you the full spectrum of power while seeking out happiness‚ adventure and love.Roberta is desperately seeking out her inner self and without money she would not have the power to explore the situation with Jim and Susan . She would not have the means to go to the city‚ take a day off‚ and purchases Susan’s jacket.After Roberta’s transformation into Susan she has no means to care for herself. This is when Dez
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RAIDS The following is a RAIDS analysis of Susan B. Anthony’s Constitutional Argument. Together Susan B. Anthony and Cady Stanton led a suffrage movement to bring equal rights to women. Working with one another they created a radical magazine called The Revolution to make their campaign more publicly aware. In an attempt to show that women deserved the right to vote‚ Susan B. Anthony wrongly casted a vote in the Rochester election. She was arrested‚ convicted‚ and fined. While she awaited
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