More about Alice Paul

       Our class being truly awesome, has gotten yet another visitor!  Okay it's no one like Sandra Day O'Connor, but it was still a really cool experience.  On October 20th, 2010 the four of us as well as the rest of the Alice Paul class was visited by Ms. Crum, an expert on all things suffragist, especially Alice Paul.  She came to our class to tell us about just how cool of a person Alice Paul was and then she took us on a little field trip.  While yes, we had already known some about Alice Paul (thank you Ms. T and google), but she told us so much more! After the presentation in which she gave us about a million facts we took a little trip to the Sewall - Belmont house, which is a suffragist house and Alice Paul's headquarters that is only about five blocks away!
      With this visit we learned so much about Alice Paul!  One thing that we learned about Alice Paul is that she had near a million degrees!  Well maybe that's a bit of a hyperbole, but she definitely had more than the average person, some of the degrees that she received were: a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, a Ba in biology, a law degree, a masters degree while living in London, and many more. She also was great friends with the famous suffragist Lucy Burns, who she met while in London.  We also found it interesting that Alice Paul had begun going to suffragist meetings at a very early age, since her mother had attended them.
      Thank god we were born when we were, because if we had been born in the time period in which women hadn't been able to vote, our lives wouldn't of been so great.  Rich or well off women had to take care of their children and homes, while poor women often had to work in factories under awful conditions. The women in the social work field helped poor people, by providing food and clothing for them.  Alice Paul furthered women's lives in many ways.  She proved that women could speak there minds as openly as men and that they were not weak and quiet.  One way that she proved this was by partaking in the first picketing at the white house!  Obviously one of her largest accomplishments was that she had helped create the nineteenth amendment which was ratified on August 26th, 1920.
       Alice Paul is a great fit for our class name, because she never gave up.  Her legacy encourages us, as well as all people to strive and work for what you believe in, no matter what the cost.  We found that the Sewall - Belmont house was a gorgeous piece of architecture with a fascinating history.  We found that having the steps from the prison in which the night of terror took place was an amazing idea that made the house even more fascinating.  It was also interesting how close it was to all of the Washington, D.C landmarks in which laws are created, we are reasonably sure that they chose this location for a reason.