Eleanor Roosevelt Thesis

Argumentative Essay

Eleanor Roosevelt

All heros have something in common; they help lives. Not all heros come a comic book. But one person stands out the most. Eleanor Roosevelt. She set the standards for all american women.

First off, Eleanor helped women set the standards for women. According to www.history.com Eleanor encouraged her husband to go back to polictics when he was parazlyzed from the waist down after he was diagonosed with polio. She also was paid more than her husband, Franklin Roosevelt. At that time women standards were very low and they were underestimated. They believed that they shouldn't get paid as much because they were women. But she proved that wrong. Lastly, when she was in the White House, that was also the time of the Great Depression. “She was her husbands eyes and ears.”(www.history.com) writen by www.history.com Staff) Women did not do that many things that she did.

She lighted up a room her energetic personality. When Elesnor was appointed “First Lady” she annocued that she was not “a symbol of eleagance”-www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu but she showed that she was amazing.

During her time at the White House, she did many things. At first, she did not want the first lady. She wanted the normal life. She loved her job as a teacher and did not want to give it up. Later she said “From a personal standpoint, I did not want my husband to become president.” -Eleanor Roosevelt. She also was a supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. She, like many other people believed that segregation was not right. During this time she invited hundreds of African Americans into White House.

After her husband died, she did continued to surprise us. She moved back to New York in 1953 and wrote 27 books and more than 8,000 columns. She also awarded the Human Rights Prize in 1968 in recognition of her