Queen Mary I reigned from 1553-1558. Even though it was only 5 years, she made a huge impact on her people during this time. She was a well known queen who was determined to make serious changes. The holy communion was no longer allowed and all priests had to be Catholic. The pope was the new head of the church. A lot of people accepted the changes and agreed with what Mary wanted but some did not. This was the reason why Mary decided to burn people at stake. Almost 300 people died. Her actions affected society in ways that are extremely different from others. Queen Mary I affected society in both good and bad ways. Under the span of 5 years, she was able to restore Catholicism to the Roman Catholic Church. She was successful in doing so by
She was considered a threat to the political and religious establishment due to heresy accusations and her promotion of religious rebellion therefore she was banished. With the court being biased, she argued that she shouldn’t be punished for expressing her ideas and beliefs for the court has no authority to judge her. The way that religious freedom is perceived in the United States today was influenced by this significant occurrence. This trial revealed details about the religious and political climate of the time, the
She was able to make Mary Warren go into mass hysteria and convince her to take back the truth, and support Abigail's claims of seeing demons and spirits as truth. This shows one of the main themes of the play, the actions people take, ultimately betrayal, to keep their
Catherine The Great In Comparison to William and Mary. Catherine the great was an absolute monarch of Russia, she had the highest amount of power in Russia. She rose to the throne as Empress of Russia in 1762, after her husband Peter III was murdered.
Mary McLeod Bethune was born on July 10th, 1875 in Maysville, South Carolina. She was the only one of seventeen children to go to school. Bethune was an educator, author, civil rights activist leader, and an innovator, and she has had a great impact on the state of Florida. In 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune started a private school for African American students in Daytona Beach, Florida called Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls.
The Colonel Mary Hallaren, was known as the godmother of the women in the American military. She was a true advocate, before and after her retirement, for women’s rights to serve in the military, especially in the regular army. She believed that women were not the exception in serving. Therefore, she began to alter the society she lived in by proving that women were able to perform more than certain tasks and showed that women were able to serve the the same way as men did.
She was the last monarch of the Tudor family, and people questioned on whether she influenced the spirit of the Reformation. While some may argue that
A Lincolnshire man once wrote, “Her grace should have her right, or else would be the bloodiest day….” She was known for being the first female monarch to rule and she ruled for five years. Mary was remembered for her burning 300 English bodies at stake. This period is called the Renaissance and it was during the 14th to the 17th century.
Abigail Adams helped start off everything for women, and men thinking about women’s rights and roles in a country that had been founded on the ideals of equality and independence for women. She was a very important women because without her women probably wouldn't get the respect they get today. This is why I feel like she is so till this day because she built and fought for women from the ground up. She was born on November, 22nd 1744 in Weymouth Massachusetts a farm community 15 miles of Boston. Her family lived in the colonies for several generations and established more in the society.
In a time where women were thought to be slaves of men, it was very difficult for women to look for ways to become part of our great nation and to be able to have the right to vote. The journey for women to gain rights was long and hard, which Susan B. Anthony was well aware of when she started her campaign for women’s rights in the mid 1800’s. Susan B. Anthony affected society by making it possible for women to be thought of as real people. She stood up for what she believed in regardless of the consequences. She helped give women a chance to play a role in the development of our nation, and the lives of women all around the world to this very day.
Till the day she died she believed her god would deliver her and she died knowing her god was accepting of her. Because of the strong conviction of religion that these women and many others had the witch trials continued to
She had many followers; the church began to keep an eye on her which led to her trial. During the trial she was supported by the men she followed in the faith. Her religious views became her downfall within Boston, as she was imprisoned and
As Americans, we pledge to fulfill our duty as citizens to achieve “liberty and justice for all.” When Elizabeth Cady Stanton took this pledge, she proved to be a true patriot, bringing suffrage to American women. When Martin Luther King Jr. took this pledge, he put his own life at risk in order to protect the lives and rights of his fellow Americans. When Rachel Carson took this pledge, she wrote a book dedicated to exposing the dangers of pesticides to both the environment and the American people. When I took this pledge, I considered all the activists who came before me
So for these reasons alone she is an inspiring role model to Catholic (and non-Catholic) women all over the
During her practices in nursing, a trauma was called in. A mass cleanup of injured was needed, so Mary did what was needed and saved lives. “I heard the men cry in agony, half were missing limbs, it changed me forever. I will
In today’s society, leaving an influential legacy on the internet determines how famous a person is or was. When one searches Elizabeth Taylor on Google, about 221-228 million results emerge, exceeding Bill Gate’s and Marilyn Monroe’s results combined. During her younger years, other girls were playing with dolls while she was becoming increasingly aware of the effect her appearance had on people. Because of the lack of a father figure in her life, Taylor married “manly” men who could take care of her childlike antics. Elizabeth Taylor was less popular after her two rehab admittances, especially when she arbitrarily married a construction worker she had met there.