Quote of the Week

For this week's Quote of the Week comes from Disney's Mulan. Since I have an orthodontist appointment on Friday of this week, I can't post it then so it's coming four days early:)

"There are two great days in a person's life:

the day were are born and

the day we prove why we are born.

Best wishes for the second one!"

~Mulan

Did You Know...

...that Fred Astaire once lured away possible suiters that his first wife, Phyllis Potter had before they were marries; in fact, Fred wrote in his autobiography on how he courted the divorcee before getting married during the 1930s.

Roles of Women in 1900s

Women working as seamstresses,
c. 1900s.

A few things happened in the 1900s including a brand new century. Women started to join the workforce and they started to socialize a lot more than they did before, which will be hard to believe if you don't do your own research and just rely on my D-average explanation of how women lived during a certain era or decade but anyways, let's begin!

As the saying goes, women are the weaker sex but the virtuous some seems quite logically accurate for the women during the 1900s. For starters, they still wore long skirts and corsets but heading towards had half-an-hour figure as they head towards 1910, fashion-wise.

A woman teaching a classroom full
of girls, c. 1900s.

They were mostly teachers and got paid two to three times less than men; however, they fought for their right and their place at the table. This is primarily because of what they've been through during the 1800s. They even gained the right to vote, which gave them (a voice within political debates and) a voice in politics and a voice within their communities; also, they were highly active in religion. In fact, the women makes up more than 80% of the Catholic teaching personnel in Quebec, which makes them the ruling population in religion and possibly, an important roles in Canada during 1900s.

I found this decade a little boring but it was a change in the roles of women in society. I thought that it was the decade that was a little boring to follow and had the most dramatic changes for women. First of all, I didn't know that they started to fight for themselves because they has enough and wanted a voice, and show people what they got and what they could be a part of if they put their minds to the test. Secondly, they were a religious group of women but they kind of kept fighting (which is sort of against the Bible's expectations for women) for their rights until the 1920s when Women Suffrage ended. Lastly, they got paid two or three times less than the men and continues to be paid the same way today in third world countries. I think that we had a lot to be thankful for because we don't have to go through; what they went through to show people what they've got. To conclude this entry, we should all show the world what we are made for, so let's not waste what women fought for in the past.

Sources

1. http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/en/getBriefed/1900/women-rights.asp

Roles of Women in 1800s

The roles of women changed dramatically between the late 1800s and the early 1900s and continues to change even today, due to the first African-American President, Barack Obama; however, men are still the dominant gender in politics today but women continues to strive and progress as a community.

Newsies selling
newspapers in 1908.

The decade that I will be focusing on for this post will be the 1800s and a lot of domestication happened during the era as well as the successful Newsboys Strike of 1899. When the Newsies took another stand against newspaper moguls, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst who rose the prices of their newspapers for the Newsies to sell, they fought for the right to be treated as valuable members of the company. Also, In 1899 was the birth of Fred Astaire who became one of Hollywood's Greatest Stars in his later life.

Bly posing for a picture.

During the 1800s, women were domesticated and couldn't have a say in how they receive their inheritance, but it's people like Nellie Bly who paved the way for the future of women in the United States. She questioned the topic to get to the bottom of the story by using the basic (who, what, when, where, why, and how) tools. Nellie went undercover at a women's mental institution to find out what happens to the women inside and what the condition of the place was; however, Nellie Bly is only one success story of the 1800s because most women did not have the privilege to an education like we have today. It was only women of the upper class who could receive a basic education. They learned how to read and write. They also learned arithmetic, which is basically just basic mathematics.

Women during the 1800s had no rights and everything that they inherited from their parents were owned by their husbands but it was the children that got abused, even to death.

By doing research on the roles of women throughout the decades really opened me up as a writer. I found out that they had it rough during the 1800s. They were mainly seen as property and often saw physical abuse between father and child. I really found it heard to believe that they saw things that no one should be seeing. As a writer, the roles of women is something that should be talked about in books and magazines more often.

Sources

1. https://prezi.com/s067jkdrimpv/gender-roles-in-the-1800s/
2. http://www.cut-the-knot.org/WhatIs/WhatIsArithmetic.shtml
3. http://www.biography.com/people/nellie-bly-9216680

Hey guys! I am deeply sorry for not posting anything for the past month. I have tons of things to do in life that writing articles on a daily basis does not work with my schedule anymore. So what I've decided to do is write an article and saved it as a draft until its completely done and revised; so as of now, you guys will get quotes and my Roles of Women Throughout the Decades articles.
~Liana Sheridan

Quote of the Week

"I'm not a film star, I am an actress.

Being a film star is such a false life,

lived for fake values

and for publicity."

~Vivien Leigh

Did You Know...

...that Debbie Reynolds has a microphone hidden in her blouse when she did Singing In the Rain; in fact, the directors of the movie had her mic-ed because they wanted to be able to hear her lines more clearly. Unfortunately, the microphone during one of the movies dance numbers, her heartbeat could be heard, which mirrors the incident with Lina Lamont in the movie itself. For the heartbeat incident scene, click here to watch.