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This week on The Scorecard, we recap Jason Kelce’s emotional retirement speech, and dive into several milestones early in Women’s History Month. The Scorecard: This week, there is crying in ...
On July 10, 1971, at the founding of the National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) in Washington, D.C., NWPC co-founder Gloria Steinem delivered an Address to the Women of America. The speech furthered the ideas of the American Women's Movement, and is considered by some to be one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century. [1]
The term is often used as a euphemism for "retirement speech," though it is broader in that it may include geographical or even biological conclusion. In the Classics, a term for a dignified and poetic farewell speech is apobaterion (ἀποβατήριον), standing opposed to the epibaterion, the corresponding speech made upon arrival. [1]
431 BC: "Pericles's Funeral Oration" by the Greek statesman Pericles, significant because it departed from the typical formula of Athenian funeral speeches and was a glorification of Athens' achievements, designed to stir the spirits of a nation at war
During her acceptance speech, Moore addressed the magnitude of the moment for her and acknowledged how at one point in her career, she thought being recognized—let alone winning a Golden Globe ...
Doris Hilda Anderson, CC OOnt (November 10, 1921 [2] [3] – March 2, 2007 [4]) was a Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist.She is best known as the editor of the women's magazine Chatelaine, mixing traditional content (recipes, décor) with thorny social issues of the day (violence against women, pay equality, abortion, race, poverty), putting the magazine on the front lines ...
According to a T. Rowe Price study, women contributed less because they earned less money than men and were less likely to hire a financial advisor to help them grow their retirement savings.
A 1796 portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart. The thought of the United States without George Washington as its president caused concern among many Americans. Thomas Jefferson disagreed with many of Washington's policies and later led the Democratic-Republicans in opposition to many Federalist policies, but he joined his political rival Alexander Hamilton, leader of the Federalists ...