https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0 Made with a curious mind en-us 2017-03-29 00:18:11 UTC 2024-11-27 20:59:01 UTC hello@padlet.com acraik1 https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/163287090 Alice Paul, born on the 11^th of January, 1885, in Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey, USA, was a women’s rights activist and a Suffragette. She attended Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania in 1905 and went on to do graduate work in New York City, then moving to England to continue graduate work.

She was the main leader and strategist for the 1910’s campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States of America Constitution, which gives gender discrimination in the right to vote.¹

Paul was sentenced to jail for seven months after acting as an important role in the suffragette committee. Whilst in jail, she helped organise for the women to go on a hunger strike to protest their incarceration, after this, doctors threatened to send her to an insane asylum, but Paul still continued to refuse food, and eventually had to be force fed.¹

She believed in equality, and that women should have equal rights to men, she dedicated most of her life to try and improve the rights for women, and died bravely in the progress. ]]> 2017-03-29 00:22:59 UTC https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/163287090 acraik1 https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/163287548 Paul went on a hunger strike whilst spending seven years in prison to protest]]> 2017-03-29 00:28:36 UTC https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/163287548 acraik1 https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/163287745 "There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it." - Alice Paul]]> 2017-03-29 00:30:47 UTC https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/163287745 acraik1 https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/163339751 " It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is hardly a field, economic or political, in which the natural and unaccustomed policy is not to ignore women... Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically." - Alice Paul]]> 2017-03-29 08:02:48 UTC https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/163339751 acraik1 https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/163340624 2017-03-29 08:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/163340624 acraik1 https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/164213355 Alice Paul, and so many other Suffragette's work and dedication to making sure women have rights has had such a big impact on society, that a lot, but not all countries have allowed women to have almost equal rights to men.

Paul has encouraged a more open-minded view on women having rights and being equal by dedicating so much of her life to fight for women. No matter the risks of being put in jail, or even sentenced to death, she was not afraid to fight for what she believed in.

She was jailed for seven years, and whilst in jail encouraged other Suffragettes to go on a hunger strike to protest. She refused to eat for months. Eventually staff had to force feed food down her throat.¹

Her heroic behaviour was starting to rub off on other women, which encouraged them to want to start standing up for women, and fight for freedom and equality. Paul's dedication to making women's lives today so much better is very well known and she is respected very highly by our women and men today.]]> 2017-04-03 01:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/164213355 acraik1 https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/164213777 (1) Author: John Burns, Site Name: Alice Paul Institute, Date Accessed: 3rd April 2017, Website Link: http://www.alicepaul.org/who-was-alice-paul/
(2) Author: Virginia Rostick, Site Name: Google Sites, Date Accessed: 5th April 2017, Website Link:https://sites.google.com/a/polkschools.org/alice-paul/
(3) Author: Unknown, Site Name: Quaker Information Centre, Date Accessed: 9th April 2017, Website Link: http://www.quakerinfo.org/quakerism/beliefs

]]> 2017-04-03 01:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/164213777 acraik1 https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/164260571 2017-04-03 08:30:28 UTC https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/164260571 acraik1 https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/164760903 Alice Paul had traits that most other women in the Nineteenth Century that other women did not have at the time. She was determined to make women's future equal, and she would even sacrifice her whole life, dedicating it to making sure women can have rights and be treated equally.

This brave and fearless women is one of many who have changed the way society thinks about women. Today, most women in most countries have close to the exact same rights as men. It's people like Paul who have changed the way society treats women.

Paul's vision was of a nation where both men and women were treated as equals, women could have rights, and were able to work al types of jobs that men also worked. Paul once said:  “I never doubted that equal rights were the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.”²

Paul's only motto in life was to never give up. She certainly fulfilled that goal in life. On August 18 1920, the United Sates of America finally granted women the same rights to vote as men. It was the end of what Paul thought would be an endless battle, she had finally fulfilled her duty.

Paul dies of a stroke on the 9th July 1977. She had died a heroes death, she had done everything in her power to make sure she had an impact on society to give womeb rifhts, and to be able to vote. 

]]> 2017-04-05 00:25:48 UTC https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/164760903 acraik1 https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/164765078 Paul basically took risks for most of her life. She knew that she could possibly be put in jail, or sentenced to death for at the time for constructing or being part of an illegal rebellion group. This was a big risk Paul was willing to take for the wellbeing of the future generation of women.

She risked her health, by going on a hunger strike whilst imprisoned for her helpful duties as a Suffragette. This is a big risk, as she literally stopped eating for months, as did so many other brave young women, to prove a point which did not take place until 1920. This was very heroic of her, to sacrifice your wellbeing for the wellbeing of others. ]]> 2017-04-05 01:05:56 UTC https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/164765078 acraik1 https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/164765806 Paul did in fact work to transform the situation, she did not want any violence or fights. She worked her whole life to try and give women rights, the only work she set her goal for was to transform society, not tear it a part.]]> 2017-04-05 01:14:44 UTC https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/164765806 acraik1 https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/165532014 Paul's worldview was quite different to the average woman's. She would imagine the world to be equal, with men and women having the same kind of jobs, and women not being treated like second-class citizens.

The biggest thing Paul did was organise a hunger strike whilst she was imprisoned for seven years.¹ Her goal was to try and capture the attention of the press and outsiders to help fight for women's rights. Her faith was to bring all women together to fight for equal rights, and to make sure that women would not be living in the horrible conditions they lived in when Paul was a Suffragette.

Paul's religion was Quakerism.³ She and her family attended the Friends Church Service and she has a strong belief in Quakerism. Quakers are members of a Historically Christian group, also known as the Religious Society Of Friends.³

Lots of others who lived around Paul were normal Christians, so her family's religion was questioned quite a bit and quite often. ]]> 2017-04-09 02:55:03 UTC https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/165532014 acraik1 https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/165532167 2017-04-09 03:03:54 UTC https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/165532167 acraik1 https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/165588799 2017-04-10 01:12:53 UTC https://padlet.com/acraik1/de83hgijxhk0/wish/165588799