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    a long time ago, but the effects greatly impact our lives today. There were many protests and women involved, but only a few are well known. Susan B. Anthony was probably the most well-known leader, and this is no surprise, since she was very outspoken and passionate. She was born in Adams, Massachusetts, into a Quaker family on February 15, 1820. Susan was a very progressive activist. She was involved in other movements, like the Temperance Movement, which was the attempt to get rid of alcohol

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    Susan B. Anthony was one of many who changed our country into what we live in today. She was an American hero who fought for women to have the opportunity and right to vote. Throughout many years she wouldn’t give up on this stand until the women got the same respect as men. Growing up she was born into a political family because they were apart of anti-slavery and apart of the women’s rights movement. Even when it was illegal for women to vote, Susan B. Anthony still voted. She was arrested and

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    Susan B Anthony Susan B Anthony was born on February 1820, to a Quaker family in Massachusetts. She was the second oldest of eight children, and her parents were owners of a cotton mill. Sadly, two of the Anthony siblings died in infancy and only six of them grew up to be adults. Moving on with their life, the Anthony family moved to New York around 1826, and Susan was sent to a Quaker School near Philadelphia. Susan B Anthony returned home in the 1830s to help her family after the breakdown of

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    The story Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote and the life of Bethany Hamilton share the common theme, overcoming obstacles. Susan B Anthony in Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote has to overcome the obstacle of not being able to vote. Bethany Hamilton gets her arm bitten off by a shark, coming back to be a professional surfer. While the story and person share a common theme, the social implication of each person is different. Susan B Anthony started the movement of getting women to vote, which came true 100

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    The article Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote, and the story Don’t Give Up The Fight both share the same theme of courage. Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote shows courage by standing up for equal rights, while Don’t Give Up The Fight shows courage by standing up for yourself. Even though the passages are very similar, they are different because Susan B. Anthony took more risks while showing courage, while Ava took fewer risks while standing up for herself. The theme of courage shows up many times in

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    Compare & Contrast Essay The Poem-Making Sarah Cry and the article Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote both shares a common theme of Bravery. In Making Sarah Cry, The boy was being bullied by his friends.Once Sarah saw the situation, she showed an act of bravery by standing up to the boys.In Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote, Susan stood up to the judge during her trial that all women should have the right to Vote even though she knew that she could go to jail. While the poem and the article show a common

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    Susan B. Anthony and The Struggle For Women’s Rights’ Susan B. Anthony was born to Read and Lucy Anthony in Adams, Massachusetts in the year of 1820. They were very big advocates of the abolitionist and temperance movement. The abolitionist movement was a movement that tried to abolish slavery in the United States and the temperance movement tired to reduce Americans’ usage of alcohol due to the violence associated with it. Read and Lucy Anthony held meeting in their home for members who supported

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    ambitions to make changes and lead the right way. It needs someone who is willing to sacrifice everything to achieve greatness and leave a history behind them. A person with these qualities is considered a hero, an idol, someone we can look up to. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are

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    The document I chose to analyze is the Susan B. Anthony's speech on women's rights given on 1873. At the time the speech was given, women had as a sole purpose to get married, give birth and take care of their household. They were mistreated from the opposing gender they were seen as non important contributors to the society, did not have the same rights and definitely were not allowed to vote. They are even thought to live under similar conditions of the slaves by many. All that, conducted a solid

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    Susan B. Anthony was the ultimate leader in the woman's suffrage movement. She was so famous because she was one of the first true women's rights activists. At her first woman's rights convention in 1852, she declared "that the right which woman needed above every other, the one indeed which would secure to her all the others, was the right of suffrage." She then led several rallies and marches to encourage women's right to vote. On November 5th 1872, Anthony cast a vote in the Presidential election

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