Write about the woman’s suffrage
Template:
• Double-spaced, 1” margins, 12 pt. font
• BE CONCISE. DO NOT GIVE A SUMMARY
• DO NOT just list your answers.
• Include FOUR Short Quotes from or References to the readings. (Cite the readings by
Author last name, page #)
4 sources= 4 quotes
PART I: DIVERSITY – CONFLICT (AT LEAST 350 WORDS)
4 Easy Steps:
1) Choose one of the Conflicts: American (Women Suffrage)
2) Summarize the Conflict (in your words).
3) Explain who the MAJORITY was and what they wanted. Make sure to Compare and Contrast TWO WAYS the MAJORITY was similar other group in the films we screened.
FILM- “ONE WOMAN ONE VOTE”
4) Explain who the MINORITY was and what they wanted. Make sure to Compare and Contrast TWO WAYS the MINORITY was similar other group in the films we screened
PART 2: JUSTICE – RESOLUTION (AT LEAST 150 WORDS)
Which method, Retributive or Restorative Justice, do you prefer? Does it matter what the crime is? Using the conflicts presented in class, discuss your thoughts. There is no right or wrong. I want to hear your thoughts about these methods of Justice. I will be looking to see that you understand the difference between the two methods.
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO:
● Define the terms within your discussion (“Because Restorative Justice relies on the victim
involvement, I believe…) DO NOT just write the definition.
● Use ONE example from any film we screened to support your position.
Example: Yours will be Double-spaced, 1” margins, 12 pt font
DIVERSITY- CONFLICT
The Bosnian War was fought after the breakup the Yugoslavia. The area of was known as Bosnia-Herzegovina. The population was 44% Muslim Bosniaks, 32% Orthodox Serbsand 17% Catholic Croats. (Cummings, 1). The Serbs were the minority but had the advantage that most of the military was located on land they occupied. Still, the groups tried to hold a referendum to declare their Independence. But the Serbs boycotted. And lead by Slobodan Milosevic and the army, the Serbs fought a war to drive the Muslim Bosniaks out. This war featured atrocities on both sides. But the moment that turned the war was the Srebrenica massacre. Some have called it a genocide as over “8000 Muslim Bosniaks, mostly men and boys, were murdered and left in mass graves.” (Wesolowsky, 1)
Majority (I expect a more detailed analysis)
The Muslim Bosniaks were the majority, but like the 19 million Black South Africans who had only 13% of the land, the Muslim Bosniaks wanted to see a government that reflected their representation in relation to their population. (Apartheid handout, 3). The Muslim Bosniaks were also subjected to murder, sexual assault, torture, and other inhumane treatment during the Bosnian war. And similar to the leaders of Nazi Germany, the Serbian leaders would be tried and convicted of crimes against humanity. (Nuremberg handout, 2).
Minority
The Serbs were the minority……
JUSTICE – RESOLUTION
I hate (or love) Restorative Justice because…… Like those folks who ask for amnesty to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, I…….
Citations Above: https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-bosnian-genocide-summary-facts-statistics.html by Erica Cummings
https://www.rferl.org/a/un-tribunal-form-yugoslavia-hand-down-historic-verdict-bosnian-serb– commander- mladic-final-verdict/28869026.html by Tony Wesolowsky
WRITING TIPS
• DO: 1) Make your point, 2) Relate this point to the film, 3) Conclude, Contrast or Compare your point to the film
• USE Short Sentences. The moment you think comma, think period.
• USE Transitional terms: Whereas, Here, However, Likewise, In contrast, Similarly, Alternatively.
• Beware of Passive sentences:
Readings/Sources to use:
The ending of the bottom documents:
Other means of physical intimidation also were used. Dora Lewis was knocked unconscious and Lucy Burns handcuffed with her arms above her head. The next day, 16 of the women began a hunger strike, including Lewis and Burns. They followed the example set the previous month by Alice Paul and Rose Winslow. During her
protest, Paul was subjected to psychiatric evaluation, threatened with transfer to an institution for the insane, and force-fed. News of her treatment was leaked outside the facility. When Burns and Lewis grew weak from refusing food, they, too, were force-fed. Burns had a tube forced up her nose rather than through her mouth, resulting in bleeding and injury. The assaultive nature of the force-feeding process was by all accounts a torturous
experience for the women, one that they withstood repeatedly. Verbal techniques of psychological duress also were used to weaken the women’s resolve. Isolated from one another, some prisoners were told falsely during their force-feedings that they were the only person still maintaining the hunger strike–claims that they knew not to believe. The campaign of civil disobedience and the public outcry over the prisoners’ treatment led to the release of Paul, Burns, and other suffrage prisoners at the end of November 1917. The NWP subsequently staged a mass meeting in Washington, D.C., to honor the women who had served time in jail or prison. A “Jailed for Freedom” pin, fashioned after one used in Britain, was affixed as a badge of honor on the formerly imprisoned women attending the meeting. The arrests, however, continued.
Picketing proceeded at the White House, in front of the U.S. Capitol, and at the Congressional office buildings. More NWP protesters were imprisoned and participated in hunger strikes in 1918. The watch fire demonstrations of 1919 put even more women behind bars for brief sentences. By the time that suffrage was won in 1920, 168 NWP activists had served time in prison or jail.
The NWP used the experience of imprisoned pickets to
help spread the call for a federal suffrage amendment. Ex- prisoners began traveling during a determined lobbying campaign to push the suffrage amendment through Congress. In February 1919 the “Prison Special” tour began from Union Station in Washington, D.C.–with former prisoners traveling on a train called the “Democracy Limited.” Mass meetings were held around the country–from Charleston, South Carolina, to New Orleans and Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, and many other cities, ending in New York in March.. Among the 26 speakers on this tour–often outfitted in prison dress, were veteran NWP organizers Vida Milholland, Abby Scott Baker, Lucy Branham, Lucy Burns, and Mabel Vernon as well as the elderly and courageous Mary Nolan–often touted as the NWP’s “oldest picket.” Their message was well received and they drew large audiences. The “Prison Special” tour helped create a groundswell of local support for the ratification effort that began in the states a few months later, following the approval of the 19th Amendment by Congress in June 1919.
Difference between Restorative versus Retributive Justice
Restorative justice is not retributive justice. Retributive justice is a theory of justice that considers punishment, if proportionate, is a morally acceptable response to crime, by providing satisfaction and psychological benefits to the victim, the offender and society. “Justice has been done when the wrong-doer has been sufficiently punished.”
Restorative justice is an approach to justice that focuses on the needs of victims and offenders, instead of the need to satisfy the rules of law or the need of the community to give out punishments. Victims are given an active role in a dispute and offenders are encouraged to take responsibility for their actions, “to repair the harm they’ve done—by apologizing, returning stolen money, or (for example) doing community service”. Restorative justice is based on a theory of justice that focuses on crime and wrong doing as acted against the individual or community rather than authorities.
