TOPIC: How has the reading that you were assigned to present influenced society? How do those changes impact daily life in the 21st Century? (At the top of you post, write the title and author of the reading)
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The reading that I was assigned was Frederick Douglass’, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”: An Address Delivered in Rochester, New York, on 5 July 1852. When Douglass delivered his speech it showed the society that African Americans are people that should be counted for by the community. Douglass mentions that in the Declaration of Independence it says, “all men are created equal”. Though the Americans that were writing it were only thinking that white males applied to this declaration. Douglass points out that the Americans wrote “all men” in this declaration, which should include men of different races and cultures.
ReplyDeleteFor some people Douglass’ speech expanded their way of thinking. If the United States was fighting for equality why not include other races along with equal social classes. Others saw this view point as unthinkable that blacks in slavery were never going to be more than slaves. Showing that white American males what they were truly promising showed the rest of the slaves that it was their right to stand up against their oppressors. The rebellious thinking of Frederick Douglass and others influenced today society a great deal; with people like Douglass that new way of thinking awakened people in the society to fight for true equality that people unconsciously promised them. Now in today’s society slavery is nonexistent in the United States because of ideas like Douglass’ that were fixed in people.
The "Declaration of Sentiments" of the Seneca Falls Convention: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
ReplyDeleteIn this reading these two men talk about how women are not treated equal and how in the Declaration of Independence it claims that everyone is created equal and that they have inalienable rights which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. For woman this was not the case. Women were stripped of all rights that they were given. They were oppressed by the men in their country. This reading was modeled after the Declaration of Independence. In this way they were able to possibly capture more attention by the male population because of the way that it was modeled. This reading was one of the first pieces written by a man supporting women's suffrage. This reading expressed what rights women did not obtain. The face that a man was wrote about women's suffrage allowed for more and more men to come to terms that women are not as incapable as they thought. This slowly but surely allowed women the right to vote and gain their rights that were described in the Declaration of Independence.
Since Marx and Engels wrote this declaration and the women's suffrage movement, everything has changed for women. Now in the 21st century there are women in high position political standings. Women gained the right to vote, work, and own property. This written work and other works like this gained the women the right to vote and gain their equality and freedom.
Karl Marx
ReplyDeleteThe first few paragraphs of the reading talk about life without communism. How the upper class and lower class were distinctly separate, the upper class being favored in political positions and society in general. How not everyone was able to do what they wanted because they weren't high enough in the class structure. If communism worked out the way it was planned too, all classes would be equal, with none of them being particularly favored. In India, the caste system was supposedly removed, and people were not supposed to be judged based on caste anymore. However, this didn't exactly work out as planned. In modern society, people are still being judged based on caste, while with communism, people are being judged based on class.
Karl Marx-The Communist Manifesto
ReplyDeleteThe Communist Manifesto has been one of the most influential papers in the last 2 centuries. It has been responsible for many countries political systems since it was written, and its ideas are still in use in multiple countries today. Throughout the years, communism has had a tremendous impact on U.S. foreign affairs such as the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and many problems with Cuba. It still plays a large role in worldly affairs due to the superpower of China being a communist country. Still in today's society, the American people are still not comfortable with communism, and probably won't be for some time. If this had not been written, history would have played out much differently.
The “Declaration of Sentiments” of the Seneca Falls Convention
ReplyDeleteWritten by: Elizabeth Candy Stanton (although the book says Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels it’s not so)
The Declaration of Sentiments was based upon the Declaration of Independence but it was too much for the people of the time, essentially it was also seen as a hamper to the women’s rights movement. Many people were used to the old ways and the thought process that woman’s rights. The thought process that was evident during the time was that a woman’s place was at home, in the kitchen, cooking the food and men had supremacy over them. Even the women who were a part of the movement thought it was a little too much for the current time.
Today women have the rights that they vied for; the right to vote earn the same wages, earn a position in the political office and many other things that cause. Yet women are still oppressed in certain areas of their life, like in the job, where men will take precedence over their female counterparts. It still will be a while until the future brings complete balance to all the people of the world but it’s on its way, a little bit everyday.