Friday, April 13, 2012



2.) OPVL

i.) "BIO Classroom." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television.
Web. 13 Apr. 2012.
            <http://www.biography.com/tv/classroom/womens-history-timeline>.

ii.) This website provides a timeline of events that made a positive impact during the feminist movement and helped push it to success. Many of the events that are listed have to do with women making progress in the world of politics, which at the time was unheard of. The timeline covers a long range starting with Abigail Adams all the way to the current times of Hilary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice. There was a significant amount of women recognized into the political world and given high positions of authority.

iii.) This is a secondary source which gives a good initial background of what the feminist movement consisted of, with especially significant mentions of important woman figures that were imperative in the progress of this movement. The value lies in the important and necessary information that this site provides through both its information and the media attached. Each slide contains a focus point with links that provide relevant information and names concerning the topic being discussed. The limitations are of course that is a secondary source and some information may not have been provided along with other names, which may be due to them being of less importance. Within this source along with most there is bias which can cause some arguments to the audience this is being addressed to. 

iv.) This source shows both achievements and failures of the feminist movement along with other nationalities that were involved in women's suffrage. The great deal of information created a well balanced over view of the feminist movement concerning all of the significant women mentioned. It can be inferred that the women's suffrage movement was not a certain time period, because it dated all the way back to the 1700s and went through many different phases and changes. Along with that, the political growth of having women holding high positions has made a vast change.  Florence Ellinwood Allen became the first woman on the Courts of Appeals, Eleanor Roosevelt was appointed to the chair the Commission on the Status of Women by John F. Kennedy, and Shirley Chisholm became the first African American women elected to the US. House of Reps. It is obvious that women slowly made a drastic immersion into political jobs, which was quite the accomplishment. As the years went on, the success of women suffragists and women in politics continued to rise along with the numbers of supporters, whereas the discrimination towards women began to decrease.  

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