Essays on Suffrage

The voting process in every democratic nation helps its citizens to choose their preferred leaders in a free and fair manner. It acts as a part of their Bill of Rights and helps them shape how they want their country, state, or society to grow. The voting process helps a nation to grow as one through exercising fairness and legibility in all its interactions. Americans enjoy the freedom of voting as long they are citizens of America and have an identity card. However, it was not a similar case in the early 19th century as the constitution, at the ...

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The distinction between how the West and the East control their local affairs, and how they organize their institutions is enormous. In a normal context, though, even two states in similar vicinity exhibit major differences in individual economic policies, religious inclination, and political systems. Notwithstanding that, it is important to appreciate the similarities and dissimilarities that manifest due to the location in certain regions. The case of Saudi Arabia and France is a good one to understand how regional influences affect, the systems of government, political institutions, faith and economic policies of a state. For instance, the Saudi Arabia ...

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Introduction Established by the Greek statesman, Solon, sometime in the 600 B.C., voting has always been a key feature of democracy. The international community regards it as the most basic human right, which should be protected and guaranteed to all citizens of a country as stipulated by internal human rights laws. A government by the people must have the participation of the people, which is realized through suffrage. Today, voting rights are already universally practiced, yet there are certain circumstances wherein such right is taken away by the state. In the United States, a person will lose ...

First and foremost according to my understanding if the readings women are human beings who deserve the chance to develop and enhance their human potential. The debate over the very status and special nature of women has raged many nations socially, politically and economically. I believe that time has come towards true equal opportunities for women as well as the full equal partnership between the sexes (Chichester, 32). Throughout the history of the United States of America some of their citizens where denied the suffrage based on their sexual orientation, race and even their age. The women’s suffrage ...

The nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century have brought some dramatic changes in all aspects of human life. Technological advances, industrial development, new political and social movements have changed the common perception of the social structure, the rights of the different social groups, and the wealth distribution paradigm. In the United States, the period is known as the Progressive Era, where positive changes, improvements in all aspects of life were embraced by the majority of the population and, most of all, by the emerging middle class. Labor movement, socialist ideas and women’s suffrage were all products ...

The United States has encountered controversial and turbulent eras in its history. Some of those periods that will be the focus of this essay are the Age of Imperialism and Reconstruction. For a vivid analysis of the specific events that took place in the eras, this paper will look at Alexander Stephens’s take on Reconstruction as well as President Wilson message of War during the Age of Imperialism. Alexander Stephens played the role of the Vice President during the life-changing event of Civil War the nation that led to up rise of the African Americans’ claim for equality. ...

Seneca Falls, New York, July 19-20, 1848: The Women’s Rights Convention

Introduction The Seneca Falls Convention, which was held on July 19-20, 1848 in the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, was referred to as the first women’s right convention. It was through this convention that an organized women’s right movement was initiated in the United States. Many historians associated the Seneca Convention as part of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s biography, owing to the fact that she was the event’s main organizer. In fact, it was only recently when the Seneca Convention was recognized by historians as a significant event in history (Lerner, 3). Consequently, it ...

It seems like nowadays the concept of feminism gained a negative connotation equating its followers as fanatics and usually mocking their intentions. This movement, which managed to bring freedom and rights to women, is considered today as obsolete and irrelevant, as society believed that females were fully liberated. However, it is far from being true. Female professionals are still paid less than their male counterparts, women are stilled viewed through the prism of patriarchal values, and the dissemination of power between men and women remains unequal to these days. In order to revive the memories of the achievements gained ...

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Virtually all aspects of people’s lives are governed by gender. The society has long-held perceptions about the appropriate responsibilities, particular weaknesses, and strengths of different genders. The beliefs dictate everyday life, responses, and patterns of activities such as crime and sports. Historians delegate particular focus to the functions of the women who were once considered lowly in the ancient days, but with time have grown to develop themselves and their households. Gender roles have encountered numerous changes within each passing century and decades as human beings continue to evolve into superior and civilized creatures. This essay will look ...

Feminism and women empowerment are growing across oceans at different levels. Today, in the 21st century, the issue of violence against women, inequities between men and women, among many other injustices are becoming a popular advocacy not only in the West but also in the developing countries. Women and feminist movements are even gaining its grounds in the grassroots. However, despite this development especially today in the 21st century, there are still countries that are lagging behind. Middle Eastern countries are now one of the hot spots regarding the regression of women empowerment. The dominion of patriarchy is still ...

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Abstract The Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention of 1848 was a pivotal point for women in the United States. Women had been voicing their concerns over their lack of rights as early as the 1700’s yet it was the Seneca Falls convention that created a public platform for the injustices against women to be expressed on a large scale for all to hear. The pioneers of this convention included Elizabeth Caddy Stanton, Lucretia Motts, Martha Wright, Jane Hunt, and Mary Ann McClintock. These brave women fought long and hard for the opportunity to bring attention to the ...

The convention at Seneca Falls New York was the initial convention for women’s rights. It took place in 1848 between July 19-20. The convention’s purpose was to speak about the civil, religious and social rights of women. By 1850 there was the initiation of a series of National Women’s Rights Conventions that met in Worcester, Massachusetts. These events would continue until the Civil War began in 1861. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and local Quaker women organized the event. They had planned the event to take place during the time that the female orator Lucretia Mott was going ...

The United Sates has been considered as one of the countries in the world where advocacy for women rights is prevalent. However, the history of women rights during the pre-colonial period isn’t a good one as it was marred by discrimination and abuse of women’s rights. The society was more male chauvinistic than it is today and there were no equal opportunities between men and women. The height of discrimination was even felt on basic such as education as women seldom got chances to pursue education to the level of men. The debate on women’s rights ...

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The women’s rights movement in the United States came about due to the dissatisfaction of many women within the United States about their lack of influence in politics, equality in the home, and opportunity to study. The reason that this was even an issue was due to the fact that women lost a great deal of freedom in history when Christianity gained popularity. Due to the spread of Christian values, women took a different role that was more modest and family-oriented. As a result of this, women over the ages grew very stagnant in their role in the ...

The cause of women’s suffrage changed the course of American history, it is the reason that women are allowed to vote in the United States today. The right to vote was not easily won for women. In fact, many women who had campaigned for blacks to receive the vote in the United States were left along the wayside when Congress voted to allow black men to vote but still forbade women the right to suffrage. The suffrage movement was a decade’s long battle and a tenacious often unpopular political movement that permanently altered the social and political ...

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Introduction For decades, the life of a woman on earth was always tough. The woman was subjected to different restrictive laws and requirements by the society that hindered her freedom and other rights, (Winegarten, & McArthur, 2015). The requirements were the polite ways through which the community oppressed women and suppressed their rights and freedoms. During the Seneca Falls women’s right’s convention, it was clearly evident that women were never comfortable with the place the society had placed them. Before 1848, woman was generally treated as subordinate to the man and their roles and rights were always considered ...

The XIX century was a period when there were some profound societal, political and economic transformations in the USA. Some of the movements such as abolitionism or women’s suffrage would not have been successful, if there had not been strong advocates in the civil society. One of such figures was Angelina Grimke, who was White, but the racial issues did not stop her from participating in the public debate concerning slavery and women’s rights. Her activity was unconventional for the mid-XIX century and it is important to investigate why her name should be written in the U.S. ...

Susan B. Anthony was an American woman who fought for women rights, in particular for the right of suffrage. In 1872 Anthony voted illegally at the presidential election, however, four days later, she was arrested, indicted and brought to court. Before elections, Anthony managed to persuade an Inspector to register her sisters and her as voters according to Fourteenth Amendment. The Amendment stated that all U.S. citizens were authorised to the “privileges” and Anthony reckoned that one of such privileges was definitely the right to vote. Therefore, it was her hope to achieve the rights of suffrage. In the ...

The prevailing cultural system appreciates and places superheroes in high esteem. This is true despite of these beings, regardless if they are humans or aliens, are only works of fiction and can only be seen in various forms of popular entertainment, such as in comics and films. In this regard, perhaps it is a safe premise that the society’s acceptance of super heroes is reflective of its desire to instigate progressive changes to their social and physical environment, and that these highly developed beings personify all the qualities that the society aspires to find in a single person, ...

21.2 Theodore Roosevelt, from The New Nationalism (1910) 1. What does Theodore Roosevelt want the federal government to do in order to address problems created by business monopolies? Answer. Roosevelt professed the notion of progressivism to be implemented in the federal government’s action by increasing its participation in the socio-economic features, regardless of the constitutional regulations on the same (Theodore, 1910). He wanted the federal government to have an authoritative control of the capitalization of all the government and private corporations who were working within the state. Roosevelt implied that the government should take corrective and punitive actions ...

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The ‘Municipal Housekeeping: The Impact of Women’s Suffrage on Public Education’ by Celeste Carruthers and Marianne Wanamaker is an informative paper that provides details on the extent to which women’s suffrage influences public education. From the paper, it is well evident that the reduction in the black-white gap has contributed substantially to the improved quality of black schools. The paper proposes that all these changes are as a result of major contributions by women. Today, as opposed to the past, more women exercise their voting rights thereby increasing the pivotal voter’s preferences for public education. The ...