hits and misses

Here are three hits, as copied in, and three misses of this. The misses will not be showed.

HITS:

We march.

We march with blisters on our feet and

Chant with harsh voices.

We march

For this, to make sure it is the last time.

To make sure this is it.

Because

We should not have to fear to go to school

But as each of us say,

This is

Just the world we live in. Well not to us.

This is why we march: for

Our lives.

I think this was a hit because I enjoyed writing it and writing according to the syllabic verse.

In the early 1900s countries slowly progresses with woman’s suffrage and eases into the idea of giving women the right to vote. People realize women can do many of the same things that men could do. People start to say that there are less intelligent women, but they are not inferior; which was a step forward (Selbourne). In countries like Ireland, women already have these rights but women’s suffrage in Britain is still in the works. The world still has the idea that women are weak and should not be working men's jobs. Through the help of organizations like Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association (CUWFA) and some radical suffragettes, women in Britain earned the right to vote which resulted in more daily equality such as work equality. It’s specifically important to look at how women responded to the suffrage fight because it shows that determined suffragettes will not back down.

Organizations like WSPU and CUWFA were major keys to winning suffrage in Britain. The women who worked in the Women’s Social and Political Group had been working for about four decades before, but the organization was officially formed in 1903 (Selbourne). As suffragette Maud Selbourne tells us, through the WSPU women got the right to run for council and got the ability to vote in local elections. The Women’s Social and political union was known for their radical ways of responding. Suffragettes from WSPU would chain themselves to railings and throw themselves in front of horses to get attention for the WSPU. While their claim to fame was not ideal, they were well known (“The purple, white, and green”). Paula Bartley was an author on suffragettes, class, and pit-brow women; Pit-brow women were the women whose jobs were threatened with the coal mine bill. Bartley wrote about how the social classes came together with the WSPU to fight for women's rights. It was unusual for working class and high-class women to be together in that period. Early on, higher class women fought for the working women's rights and their right to equal pay. Working women could not fight on their own because they were not financially stable enough to leave work. Eventually, all classes of women fought for their rights (Bartley). Selbourne was a part of CUWFA, or Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association, and explains that it was opposite of the WSPU violent ways.  “The addition of women to the electorate will always strengthen the forces that make for peace,” (Selbourne). Selbourne said statements most often about how women would change the government. The CUWFA was known to work on women's rights during WWI. Which was seen as very unpatriotic. Their work lead to the parliament softening up and granting women 30 years and older the right to vote (Selbourne). These women and how diligently they fought impacted the results of women’s suffrage by decreasing the length of the fight.

Some very important suffragettes that helped Britain gain suffrage were Emily Davison, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Lady Lytton. These women’s iconic acts influenced the fight for women’s suffrage. Their acts influenced the suffrage fight by gaining the WSPU attention for their radical acts. Emily Davison is one of the most influential suffragettes in Britain history, even today. She was most well-known because after being released from prison the ninth time she jumped in front of the king’s horse while wearing a sash that said the WSPU slogan on it, “deeds not words” (“Emily Davison”). Davison died because of her actions; she was a very committed and an influential suffragette. The daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, the founder of WSPU, was Sylvia Pankhurst. Sylvia Pankhurst tried to increase the social class diversity in the women's rights. She also fought for unmarried women to be able to have kids without shame, which she set herself as an example of a happily unmarried woman with kids. Pankhurst also made East London Federation of Suffragettes (“Pankhurst”). Lady Constance Lytton was the daughter of a queen to be, but she kept her identity hidden while fighting for women’s suffrage. Lytton wrote journals about what it was like to be held in prison. One encounter she wrote about was one of her hunger strikes. After being "sick on herself" and fighting back with everything she could, Lytton laid still in her bed, listening to the guard walk to the stall next to hers and force-feeding the next suffragette. After her neighbor’s fight and defeat, they both shouted, “No surrender” (Lytton). An underrated suffragette would be Mary Richardson. Mary Richardson was known as the slasher, after she went to a British museum and she took an ax to many important pieces of art (“Suffragette film”). She slashed art such as Rokeby Venus by Diego Velázquez. She ruined this art for WSPU and to get women’s suffrage attention, which she did. Mary and many other radical women joined together to set mailboxes on fire, burned golf courses with acid, and broke windows. Women who worked on their right to vote during WWI were also a necessity in this fight for suffrage. Many other activists left their role as to take up for their absent men. Women in the CUWFA stayed fighting. After the war, parliament gave women the right to vote. This was progress, but the women had to be at least the age of thirty, while men had to be twenty-one (Selbourne). The women who stayed working on their rights to vote were essential to this step in Britain suffrage history. These hard-working suffragettes worked while the men of their country were fighting to gain their right because it was their job. They did not feel the need to be “patriotic” and drop all their lives for the war. These women did crazy things to get attention to women’s suffrage in britian so that people would learn why they did these radical acts. This worked and women and other people got behind the idea of women’s suffrage in Britain.

The win of women’s suffrage led to more equality and the coming together of women. An example of this was that women got to keep their jobs for men. The Coal Mine Bill was made to force over five thousand women out of employment. As Bartley explained, the bill said that if women had jobs on coal mines not having to do with cleaning they would lose their job. A quote from Christabel Pankhurst explained her thoughts: “Women get more of an internal strain working at home that with physical labor” Pankhurst also said, “Because they do not have the right to vote, women’s right to live is in danger” (Pankhurst qtd in Selbourne). Eventually, Pit-brow women were able to keep their jobs (Bartley).

The suffragettes were often seen as upper-class rowdy women when they were just fighting for all the women they could. The fight for women's rights was also important for the economy. The WSPU made money in sales all over Britain because WSPU supporters bought things in the group’s colors: purple, white, and green. It brought the country from 2000 pounds a year to 35000 pounds (“The purple, white and green"). While sales increased for support of the WSPU, they lowered when the suffragettes became radical (“The purple, white and green"). While women came together, many things became damaged in the process. Bartley tells us how golf courses were burned with acid, windows were broken, and mailboxes set on fire. After all the radical ways women have brought attention to women’s suffrage, Emmeline Pankhurst died for Women's Social and Political Union and nothing changed. Women died from hunger strikes and, Britain did not get the vote for thirty-year-old women in 1928.

The fight for women's suffrage slowly progressed starting with the right to run for council and running for local elections (Selbourne). It also brought women together through fighting for their word to count. Women’s suffrage, while bringing many wins and women together, it brought fury and destruction (Selbourne). The countless number of things burned and in ruins is nothing compared to the difference of the world with women’s vote. Britain got women the right to vote in 1928; compared to France in 1944 and the US in 1921. Ireland was one of the leading countries to gain women’s suffrage in 1880 (Bartley). Women in Britain did not have custody rights until 1925, meaning they had no rights over their children. This win for suffrage was tremendous and lead to women getting the right to vote. After getting the right to vote as Bartley explains, suffragettes still worked on bringing more equality to politics.

I think this was a hit because I usually do not like to write longer pieces of writing, but I think I was very successful in explaining my thesis in this research paper.

In an article posted by Usnews written by Kimberlee Kruesi, the topic of capital punishment came up in correlation with abortions. She writes and responds to a man running for governor's thoughts about giving the death penalty to women and doctors who acquire abortions. He uses the phrase "anyone who has an abortion should pay." He continues with his stance and agrees with another, that women should get the death penalty for . In another article posted by Refinery 29, he noted that a woman would not face the death penalty but just the threat alone would dramatically reduce the abortion rates. While he sounds pro-life, the figures who represent pro-life tried to distance themselves and explain that his view opposes everything the Pro-Life movement believes in.

While this would make no change, the treat would be economically illogical. This would raise the taxes we pay because it would raise welfare rates. If women who needed an abortion could not get one, it would lead to more women needing food stamps, shelters, and more help from the government. This is because women who are getting abortions are not getting them for fun, but because they are not in stable enough position to bring a baby into the world. This would also lead to crime rates going up and more counter productive members of society. Young parents might neglect their kids which leads to unstable young adults committing crimes. Mothers who cannot provide enough of an infostructure for their children can lead to more uneducated people and criminals.

I have read this article on many different websites and choose these two because they are widely known and trusted. I chose this article because I am absolutely baffled by the idea and want to be more involved.

This was a hit because I think I overall responded appropriately to a very interesting idea. People’s views on subjects like these, interest me so I love to respond to articles like these two.

MISSES:

Personal narrative: this is a miss because I was not good at including significance

Poem “will she be rotten”: this was a miss because the idea was not very original and not brought to life as well as I had hoped

Blog “vocab”: this was a miss because I could have used more interesting words to entice the writer to read my work.