Wednesday, May 14, 2008
End of days
Pearl Harbor
United Nations
*To foster a wider appreciation of and commitment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through education and a media campaign;
*To further codify the protection of international human rights through the development and ratification of legal instruments, including the Convention on Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child; and
*To promote more effective international institutions for the protection of basic human rights and freedoms by advocating the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court and the strengthening of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The U.N’s success continues to go on till today will continue to go on till the end of time.
http://www.nndb.com/people/467/000022401/
http://www.feri.org/common/news/info_detail.cfm?QID=2021&ClientID=11005
Woman's Rights Movement
http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/teach-er-vk/lesson-plans/notes-er-and-womens-movement.htm
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Great Depression
The New Deal was a promise to the people of America that everything will be better and would go back to normal. Of course like every other plan or program it takes time. It had many goals as in: banking reform laws, emergency relief programs, work relief programs, and agricultural programs. Then the new deal had new plans and it included union protection programs, the Social Security Act, and programs to aid tenant farmers and migrant workers. The New Deal is why today we have unions, benefits, and all those other protection for the employers so we could never suffer a great depression again. That deal is all thank to Eleanor and her ambition to work for the peoples needs.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/great-depression.htm
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/depwwii/newdeal/newdeal.html
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Lesbian??
Eleanor Roosevelt’s sexuality was always very questionable. After Franklin’s well known affair, Eleanor didn’t feel the same towards him. It was said that after the affair she really didn’t love him anymore and she was just in the marriage for her kids and the public eye. Eleanor always had a special thing for women. She was known as the first lady of the world and she would make rallies for women all of that and she must’ve grown a different interest in women. The woman said to be Eleanor to be her lover was Lorena Hickok. There was said that over 3,500 letters and many were destroyed by Lorena. Eleanor would write how much she wantd to hold her and kiss her but couldn’t. This is some of the many letters Eleanor sent her: “Hick darling, All day I've thought of you & another birthday I will be with you, & yet tonite you sounded so far away & formal. Oh! I want to put my arms around you. I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort to me. I look at it and think she does love me, or I wouldn't be wearing it. “
and this one is from Lorena to Eleanor:
“I remember your eyes, with a kind of teasing smile in them, and the feeling of that soft spot just northeast of the corner of your mouth against my lips." Lorena concluded that letter with, "Good night, dear one. I want to put my arms around you and kiss you at the corner of your mouth. And in a little more than a week now--I shall!"
In her entire lifetime she never came out saying she was a lesbian or a bisexual. But after her death the truth came out of her love affair with Lorena. It wasn’t just a rumor because all of those letters are the proof.
http://lesbianlife.about.com/cs/herstory/a/Eleanor.htm
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_n770/ai_21236434
Monday, April 14, 2008
Wrold War 2
Eleanor Roosevelt like any other American didn't like the idea of going to war. She was hoping we stuck to our word and stood neutral. But unlike the rest she thought realistically and knew it was only a matter of time before America would join the war. She was really involved with the war even though Franklin wasn't president anymore. She was very unhappy with William Jennings Bryan which was the Secretary of State. She called his submarine attack an outrage, and was actually glad when he resigned. The president announced at the cabinet that America had to go to war because "the world must be made safe for democracy". When America joined the war, Eleanor like many other women went to support the troops. She worked in the American Red Cross helping the wounded, and sick. She joined because she was very disappointed with the treatment the soldiers were receiving. They should get the best cause I mean their putting their life on the line for us. During the war Eleanor accompanied Franklin to Europe. While there she visited all the sites of war, all their hospitals. She hated the feeling she said "as though ghosts were beside you." All those lives lost for nothing. Eleanor hated the fact of war but still thought we should fight to defend democracy.