Infuence of Women in America: Sacagawea, Rosa Parks, and Amelia Earhart

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Imagine you are on the edge of your seat waiting in desperation for the Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show to begin. The lights go dim; the crowd falls silent. You can hear only the rumble of galloping horses. The crowd grows rambunctious as a single spotlight flickers on. Standing in the center of the arena is the one and only Annie Oakley. She announces that she will shoot the ashes off any man’s cigar, or any women’s Havana cigar. She searches the crowd for a volunteer and her eyes land on her husband Frank. Usually, no one would dare to volunteer, but on that day Kaiser Wilhelm II, the German Emperor, was feeling rather daring. He stood up; “I volunteer,” Annie was shocked, for no one had taken her challenge before. She measured the distance by foot. Kaiser reached into his shirt pocket and pulled out a cigar. He gallantly placed it in his mouth. The German Police stood protecting him, but he demanded that they get out of the way. Annie raised her pistol, shaking nervously. She took a deep breath, slowly applying pressure to the trigger “Chingching Pow!” the bullet soared and blasted the ashes away. Had Annie missed, she possibly could have prevented WWI. She later wrote Kaiser Wilhelm II a letter and asked if she could try again, and maybe this time she would miss (“speculated”).
Many women in the course of history have stepped up in their leadership and inspired others. Sacagawea, Rosa Parks, and Amelia Earhart have all influenced tremendous change in women of America. However, with a little luck and extreme talent Annie Oakley broke the barriers, doing so she became one of the best female leaders in America. Being one of the first to make it in a man’s world, Annie Oakley did not let anything block her way.
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