What heroic woman can I write about? (read details)?

Question

What heroic American woman can I write an essay about? I have to write a 400-600 word essay telling an inspiring story of one heroic American woman showing how her life and heroic achievement connects to at least one constitutional right secured in the Bill of Rights and connects to me personally. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Must be recent!!!

Answer 1

Early on in the AIDS crisis, when no one knew what the disease was, Dianne Feinstein was the mayor of San Francisco. She held the city together and managed to forge a coherent AIDS response that became the model for cities nationwide. One of the ways she did this was by closing the bathhouses in the city, which was a stickly first amendment issue. I don't know anything about you, so I can't relate it to you, but I hope this helps.

Answer 2

First Female President in Finland was elected. (oh, american..,.sorry)

Female astronauts (there are several)

First female jet pilots (very recent)

It won't be too recent since it is supposed to connect to a right secured ?

In which case research the work of Elizabeth Kady... she did all the speech writing for Susan B Anthony... This was mid 19th century but while Susan was being stoned in the streets of the towns she marched through, Elizabeth was filling the role of wife and mother of 7. She also housed runaway slaves, drafted the documents and petitioned right along side Susan. If you are looking for an "unsung" hero...she's your girl.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an influential champion of women’s rights for more than half a century. She was introduced to the reform movement by her husband, abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton. (At their 1840 wedding, they omitted the word “obey” from the vows; for their honeymoon, they went to the World’s Antislavery Convention.) With abolitionist Lucretia Mott, Stanton organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention—the first U.S. convention on women’s rights. She drafted the convention’s famed Declaration of Sentiments and, despite controversy, insisted that it assert women’s right to vote.

In the 1860s, after her seven children were grown, Stanton became a renowned lecturer on woman suffrage. With Susan B. Anthony she founded the National Woman Suffrage Association and served as its president for more than twenty years (1869–90). Stanton was also a capable writer; she collaborated on three volumes of History of Woman Suffrage (1881–85) with Anthony and Matilda Gage, and wrote the biblical commentary The Woman’s Bible (1895) and an autobiography, Eighty Years and More (1898).

Answer 3

Rosa Parks? Susan B. Anthony? Sojourner Truth? Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

Answer 4

Gloria Steinam and Betty Freidan were very active in the American Woman's Movement, but they didn't do much for the Bill of Rigths per se. Aun Sung su Kyi would be good for 1st Amendment, but she is in Myanmar. Find out the name of the woman who stridently argued against the Death Penalty (Cruel and Unusual Punishment - 8th Amendment) and was the subject of the movie Dead Man Walking with Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon.

Answer 5

Too bad she has to be recent, since there are so many interesting women throughout American history, especially those connected with Suffrage.

An idea would be to pick a current female politician, judge, or lawyer who has upheld the rights secured in the Bill of Rights. A good group to look at would be women connected with the ACLU (http://www.aclu.org/).

Another, more controversial, direction to go in would be to look at women involved in defending abortion, since that is considered to be covered under the "right to privacy" in the fourth amendment.

Answer 6

Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Answer 7

Mother Theresa

Answer 8

Rosa Parks
Eleanor Roosevelt (maybe?)
Susan B Anthony?

I'd go with Rosa Parks

Answer 9

Hillary Clinton.

Answer 10

It really depends upon your definition of heroic. Coretta Scott King was heroic, in the face of her husband's death she continued his legacy. Sally Ride, the first woman in space.Golda Meier, Margaret Thatcher.