Women are often overlooked in history, partly because they were chained in social expectations and had limited rights. Throughout the history of the United States, many groups of people have faced discrimination far greater than the circumstances faced by most women. However, the struggles of these fair-skinned and African American women should not be portrayed as less than what they were. In 1892 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the first president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, delivered her retirement speech, “The Solitude of Self” to the NAWSA convention. The speech eloquently articulated the need for equality for women and her philosophy of feminism.
The excerpt of the speech provided in the Fink’s text was from The Christian Herald’s article, “Masterpieces of American Eloquence.” While it is an abridged version of Stanton’s speech, it does not lose its message. Stanton believed in the individuality of people and their right to be in charge of their life. Her focus was women’s right to have a say in government, to have access to higher education, and to not be limited to the traditional female jobs of the past. Stanton pressed that women must be allowed to be self-dependent and emphasized that women were “robbed of their natural rights” and “handicapped by law.”
Stanton spoke of the injustice of women’s lack of suffrage, which prevented women from having a voice in their society and in their judicial system. During this same period, many Anglo-Saxon
When Elizabeth Cady Stanton was in the full swing of fighting for rights I think she was like most of reformers. She was tough and took on a whole lot of issues at a time. During this time period there were a lot of issues going on that women were fighting. The 1800’s saw a lot of change through these women also. Women began to view their own rights as significant and advocated for the realization of these rights. The issues were widespread from education to abolition to woman’s suffrage. Many women’s rights advocates worked closely with the abolitionist cause to secure suffrage for African Americans. African American men were granted the right to vote in 1870 with the passage of the 15th Amendment. However, it was not until 1920 that women
Stanton advocated many things, and opposed others. Her views were seen as inspirational to other women suffragists, and helped to bring the controversy over women equitability. The women’s rights movement expanded in the 1850s, but after the Civil War started, many feminists focused on abolishing slavery. They organized a “massive petition drive in the North for a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery and collected more than 400,000 signatures, building momentum for its passage in 1865” (Infobase Learning). Years later, another amendment to
Women’s suffrage was at the root of the reform. Women sought to equalize voting rights and expand their roles in the workforce. Equal rights was at the basis and heart of democratic ideals and this was what women were working towards in their reform. Document I supports the idea of women vouching for equal rights in order to give them an equal say in the government. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the speaker in document I, is attempting to mend the government and better society by speaking out for her rights as a woman. This is an example of a reformation that was seeking to expand democratic ideals by expanding equality. The Women’s rights movement didn’t end here, in fact it continued to be a rising issue, women didn’t receive the right to vote until
Suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in her speech, "The destructive Male," argues for a new amendment concerning women's rights. Stanton's purpose is to not only rally the women who have suffered unfair treatment because of the existing patriarchy, but to ultimately construct these ideas into the minds of congressmen. She adopts a cloying tone to furthermore emphasize her ideas to ultimately change the course of rights for women.
From Stanton having this convention it shows that women are not going to be pushed around doing what the men want them to do, rather they will stand up for themselves. This brought on change for women everywhere in America, they finally felt as if they could stand up for themselves and each other. "Whatever the theories may be of women's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life, he cannot bear her burdens. In the tragedies and triumphs of human experience, each mortal stands alone.” (mentalfloss.com/empowering-quotes-elizabeth)
If Elizabeth Cady Stanton was alive today, she would be definitely pleased to see the advancements of women’s rights, however, she would not be completely satisfied and probably disappointed to see that many of the issues she brought up during her time are still being dealt with today. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was highly critical of the sexual double standard and the lack of equal education for women. She believed that men should be placed at the same moral standard as women and that women should be given the same opportunity in education as men. Remarkably, women today have advanced far more in education than with the sexual double standard, however, the sexual double standard has come to collide with women’s education.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was not just a mother, daughter, feminist, and writer; but she is the woman who changed the lives of women everywhere by fighting for equality. Stanton lived a normal childhood, but one that motivated her to never give up hope in reaching her goal. A quick background of her life will help better understand why she became such a powerful woman’s rights activist. Also, what she accomplished that changed history and how it still affects us today in 2011. I will also express my individual satisfaction with what this incredible woman has done for women everywhere. On November 12, 1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born to the Cady family in Johnstown, New York (Gordon, 2009). She was born into a high-class, conservative,
In the late Nineteenth century, women were beginning to become more progressive in their actions. They began to stand up for themselves and fight for their rights. In the late 1850’s, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the more prominent women to do so. She worked with Susan B. Anthony to deliver a majority of the population the rights that they rightfully deserved. Her actions are important in the United States’ History because they helped to encourage women to form the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Many Scholars have written about her, but simply with a different lens of focus. For example, they have written about her use of the bicycle in her campaign and her unique stance on religion. It is important to continue studying her actions because the issues she was fighting for back then, such as: the abolition of capital punishment, and an end to police brutality, are still issues today. Perhaps if the people of the United States today collectively took after her intrepid and forward thinking attitude in life, there could be more positive change in this country.
One point that Elizabeth Cady Stanton makes is that the man never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. This is very true seeing that women were not even allowed to work because their place was at the home where they were to raise the family. If women did work for a part time they would not get even close to the amount of money that males get. She also states that he has taken from her all right in property, even the wages that she earns. Women at this time were not allowed to own property. She also states that he has withheld her from her rights, which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men, which even includes foreigners. This meant even if you were the smartest, kindest, and most willing to work hard woman alive, you still would be treated worse than the least respected man.
Nonetheless, Stanton managed to target her audiences, by assuming herself as almost a philosopher communicating about life and individual human soul, rather than as a feminist (1). Consider that her audience were males and did not form a positive impression on her before she made the speech, Stanton was able to grab her audiences’ attention by turning away from her usual approach to promote women’s suffrage and raising a question about individual rights (Ginzberg 170). The speech was structured in a way that all individuals could relate to the speech, and benefit from reflecting about the question proposed by the speech.
The problem states that women of the 19th century believed they were not free because they did not have the right to vote. This right to vote was the gateway to women’s freedom if men allowed it to pass through. Stanton believed freedom to be the equality among all genders. The Suffrage Movement brought about the First Women’s Convention to discuss the issue of women’s rights. The First Women’s Convention led to the continuation of more conventions as a way to get a woman’s perspective to be heard.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton didn’t want to be remembered as a household but the women they will admire. The purpose of this paper is to explain the life of Elizabeth Stanton and how she had a huge effect on the outcome of seeking equal rights for woman.
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves,” (Abraham Lincoln). America’s health care system lacks behind various other countries. This country remains the single industrialized country, which neglects to negotiate drug prices, provide paid maternity leave, or have a national coordination to regulate the copious components of our system. Our health care system subsists as a capitalist driven market, and we need to mandate that renovations and constraints be put into place to subside the impractical health care expenditures, and inflating specialty drug prices.
Poughkeepsie Children's Home with 400 children and their families using the full board services, with 1,000 persons using the services transitionally. The home is currently expanding services to New Jersey and Rhode Island by 2015. This report plan identifies there is a need to improve the home's information and database management systems to cater for the increased demand. An assessment of the current is done by interviewing employees and managers to identify areas of need in information flow between the various levels of organizational structure. A use-case model of the departments, offices, managers, staff, and functions is created to map out the flow of information. These methods identify the home has a poor flow of information, poor recording, reporting, and management of information, no coordination of information management, and a lack of skills and knowledge in the use of technology among the staff. The key actors in the environment were identified through laying out the
Imagine that somebody falls off their boat, gets stuck on an island, and then is hunted down. The same thing happened to Rainsford in Richard Connell’s story, “The Most Dangerous Game.” In it, Rainsford gets stuck on an island and meets General Zaroff who hunts people and is going to kill him, unless Rainsford kills him first. Rainsford, therefore, runs throughout the forest area trying to avoid being killed and hoping to kill General Zaroff as well. At the end, Rainsford did survive the ordeal, which means the General died. The theme that results from these events, though, is treat people the same way you want to be treated. The story illustrates the theme through its inciting incident, Rainsford’s goal, events in the story, and its resolution. Therefore, in “The Most Dangerous Game”, Rainsfords journey demonstrates how people should treat others the same way they want to treated, otherwise there might be dire consequences, such as life or death.