Journal Entry #3

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• In this era women are seeking for freedom.
  
• The women would do whatever it takes and travel any distance to pursue their dreams. They go away from their family with a dream and people who say they will help, but at the end don't.
  
• There was an act, Dawes Act passed down of 1887 which was when men were declared to do all farming and women began to lose their rights.
  
• Besides women not having many rights; Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American women also faced discrimination.
  
• "Even quotation books ignored them for centuries" (Maggio 65). This is saying that women were ignored so much and not cared about that they didn't have voice or got recognized for anything.
  

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• Did women take any action when the Dawes Act came into play?
  
• What would women be doing today if they had no rights?
  
• Did any men ever try defending the women?
  
• Who put the first quotation from a women in print?
  

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• Burlap (55 Tarpley): woven cloth
  
• Albeit (58 Tarpley): although
  
• Acclimated (62 Hammad): to become accustomed to a new environment or climate
• Semitic (63 Hammad): pertaining to Jews (speaking many languages)
  

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• "Others were forcibly removed from their homes and made to walk across country along the route that is now that is now remembered as the Trail of Tears" (Tarpley 55) Imagery.
  
• "Every evening, when it is time for night, a boy rides across the sky on his horse to draw down the sun" (Tarpley 55). Allusion.
  

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• Women have suffered because of the inability to do what they wanted.