Susan B. Anthony House: "Why can't women vote? The law should be changed."

My first visiting to Susan B. Anthony was in 2009 with my friend. Before visiting there, I didn’t know about her and the fact that woman didn’t have a right to vote.  After visiting there, I have thanked to her efforts, that is, women in all of America and most other countries can vote.           

Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony fought for women's rights. More than any other person she was responsible for women winning the right to vote in America. She was born in Adams, Massachusetts in 1820 and died in Rochester, New York in 1906. At her time, only men could vote. She thought, "Why can't women vote? The law should be changed." She talked about this to people all around the country. In 1872, she voted, but her vote wasn’t counted and she was sent to jail because she broke the election law. When she died in 1906, women were allowed to vote in only four states. However, in 1920, 14 years after her death, women in the United States finally won the right to vote. In Rochester, we have a house that was the home of Susan B. Anthony. She had lived the house while she was a national figure in the women’s rights movement. Her house is located at 17 Madison Street in Rochester with the Susan B. Anthony Museum. Recently, in order to keep Susan B. Anthony's vision alive and relevant, the Susan B. Anthony House is a learning center and museum open to the public for tours and some programs. To get more information, you can visit this Web site: http://susanbanthonyhouse.org/index.php

Food Information

  Where does your food information come from? Give an example. How does this information affect what you eat?

  In my country, South Korea, a place-of-origin indication system was implemented on the agricultural products and meat kinds even those are included in any other products.  In addition, they have to sign the producer’s name either. The government made such a rule and it is very strict, so if someone violates the rule they could get a big fine. Therefore, I can trust their report on the products and I buy the products with seeing their label. It was very helpful for me to buy foods.

My favorite buying foods from Wegmans

  However, I struggled to buy foods and its products in the U.S at first because I don’t have any information about them. Only I could rely on my friends’ comments and advices. With their recommendation, I tried to eat at first, and then, if I was satisfied with some of them, I kept in mind some the loyalty for such food. For example, I am used to go to Wegmans to buy organic dairy products (milk, yogurt, and chesses), organic vegetable and fruit, and sometimes-organic meat even though their price is high. I have still bought same blend products  because I have not gotten any new information about food and my expenditure is limited on food.

Polish Heroes: Those Who Rescued Jews

Polish Heroes: Those Who Rescued Jews

Role: Reporter

Audience: College student

Format: News report

Human Rights During Wartime

The title of the exhibit

Polish Heritage Society of Rochester, and the Jewish Federation of Rochester bring us the exhibit; Polish Heroes: Those who Rescued Jews. The exhibit is going to display at the Shults Center Forum at Nazareth College until February 19, 2012.  The exhibit is a unique photographic exhibition created as a tribute to the more than 6,000 individuals in Poland who have been recognized for sheltering Jewish people during WWII. Their stories, written in English and in Polish accompany their photographic portraits. We can see the pictures and individual stories of 21 such recipients who all live in the Krakow region of Poland today.

Honarata Mucah

According to their story, their human rights did not exist during the wartime even their own country. They had to take shelter and they didn’t have enough food to live only they could move to find food at night 18 months until the end of war (Honarata Mucah’s saying). In hence, they used to see their family and friends’ death. There are not even basic human rights. We could imagine how they were scared and anxious at that time without any safety.

The view of Shults Center

Photo of Polish Hero by Chris Schwarz

The human dignity of all individuals must be respected at all times even during wartime. We could realize how inhumane the war was to people though this exhibition. In these days, we have a lot of conventions among nations to preserve human rights during the war such as giving medical services, foods, and civilian’s safety at least. Any country must abide by these promises and keep in mind. In addition we have to remember their faces and stories in one exhibition to respect human rights.