Women’s History Month is a celebration of women’s contributions to history, culture and society and has been observed annually in the month of March in the United States since 1987. Women’s History Month 2023 will take place from Wednesday, March 1 – Friday, March 31, 2023.
Women’s History Month is a dedicated month to reflect on the often-overlooked contributions of women to United States history. From Abigail Adams to Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth to Rosa Parks, the timeline of women’s history milestones stretches back to the founding of the United States.
The actual celebration of Women’s History Month grew out of a weeklong celebration of women’s contributions to culture, history and society organized by the school district of Sonoma, California, in 1978. Presentations were given at dozens of schools, hundreds of students participated in a “Real Woman” essay contest and a parade was held in downtown Santa Rosa.
A few years later, the idea caught on within communities, school districts and organizations across the country. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first presidential proclamation declaring the week of March 8 as National Women’s History Week. The U.S. Congress followed suit the next year, passing a resolution establishing a national celebration. Six years later, the National Women’s History Project successfully petitioned Congress to expand the event to the entire month of March.
Why do you think we celebrate it? By students from Ms. Canepa’s Journalism class
Julissa Carrion
Black history month is important because we celebrate African American leaders. It is also very important to celebrate black culture and history. I think this month shows all the importance of the leaders who stood their ground against racism. In my opinion, this month is important because it shows many people how important black culture is, and it shows how African Americans helped to build a better country and place to live. Lastly, These are many reasons that black history month is important to not just us but to everyone in the world.
Tre’anthony Gibbs
What Black History Month means to me is that I can celebrate and be free and be thankful for what black ancestors did for me. I think we celebrate Black History Month to say were thankful to the things Black people did in the past and changed the world. For instance Rosa Parkers if she didn’t fight for her rights as a black person nothing would happen to the right black people have. The main things on why we celebrate this beautiful month is because it teaches and educates people on hardships black people went through and how they changed the world in their own way. It also educates us on the inventors, explorers, and slaves that went through stuff to change the way for black people.
Caleb Monterola
To me Black history month symbolizes, well, what’s in the name, the history of African Americans who came to America. Their struggles, with their pursuit for rights and their struggles to accomplish such feats. It also symbolizes that man shouldn’t enslave man, and the affects of such. Many Europeans used slaves for labor, mainly at first, they were Irish settlers who needed servitude for their crimes. In the 1600’s African slaves were brought to America. Then hundreds of years later comes the civil war and African Americans are freed from slavery by the 13th amendment. Then they gradually during the 19th and 20th centuries got all the rights they have today, but there are still some struggles on discrimination based on skin color. Website used: time.com
Hannah Pugh
Black history month highlights and celebrates black excellence. It compares the then and the now, Black history month not only highlights black resilience it highlights the individuals that helped improve black life. These people include but are not limited to the great Martin Luther King Jr, the excellent Rosa Parks, the resilient Fredrick Douglas, the brilliant Harriet Tubman, and the intelligent George Washington Carver. These incredibly talented luminescents impacted black history in a variety of ways. Martin Luther King Jr was a civil rights leader how fought for the rights, freedom, and liberties of the black community. Rosa Parks fought for the rights to public transportation for blacks. Fredrick Douglas fought for the freedom of black slaves and for the freedom of blacks in education. Harriet Tubman not only fought for the freedom for blacks she freed some on her own!
Sarah Quinby
To me, Black History Month means a month to look back on others’ sacrifices to fight for equality in our country. This month allows for us to recognize people of color in history that risked their lives to change the country for the better. I think this month is celebrated because of that. For example, Harriet Tubman was an American Abolitionist who risked her life to free over 300 slaves from captivity in the span of 10 years. She was the most famous Underground Railroad “conductor” and made 19 trips to the South to free over 300 slaves so they could live better lives in the North, where they would be protected from slavery. According to Jax PBS’s website, Harriet Tubman proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass that in all of her journeys she “never lost a single passenger.” Harriet Tubman is just one of the many activists in U.S. history that stood up for what they believed in, whilst risking their lives in the process.
Black History Month means a lot to me because it shows how hard it was for black people and how unfairly they were treated. It helps educate young kids and others, showing them how hard by people have come to be where they are today. It also is celebrated for us not to forget the past and to think of the others who worked hard for the rights we have today. Without Black History Month, people wouldn’t know about their culture or about their history. Though it’s not always the best to think about how they were treated, it highlights their excellence.
Valentine’s Day occurs every February 14. Across the United States and in other places around the world, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine.
Valentine’s Day is celebrated on 14th February every year across the world. Once mostly a Western tradition, the day is now celebrated in a major way in the eastern part of the world as well in countries like India and China. The day is named after a Christian martyr Saint Valentine and is celebrate the love between companions.
However, there are several other ideas as to where Valentine’s Day started. Some believe that the day was celebrated to respect a Saint Valentine when he refused to obey the orders of Emperor Claudius II. Emperor Claudius II had ordered that young men should be kept from marrying, as he believed that after marriage, men were no longer good soldiers. However, the Valentine in question did not obey this order and helped many young men marry secretly. The Valentine was thus killed by the Emperor and hence, the tradition of Valentine’s Day was started.
So, the Cincinnati Bengal’s are obviously from Cincinnati, Ohio which is beautiful! The Bengal’s are a football team and they have made it to the AFC championship and beat the Buffalo Bills. They will soon be going against Kansas City Chiefs. Cincinnati began with the settlement of Columbia, Losantiville, and North Bend in the Northwest Territory of the United States beginning in late December 1788. The following year Fort Washington, named for George Washington, was established to protect the settlers. It was chartered as a town in 1802. Cincinnati is awesome; they have great food places like skyline chili, quaker steak and lube and there is many more. When their football team started, the year was a highly significant one for the Bengals, in both a football and a civic sense. On the football side, the Bengals moved into the NFL as part of the league’s merger with the AFL. Paul Brown’s quest in returning to pro football, following his ouster from Cleveland by Art Modell in 1962, had always been about re-joining the NFL. So when the Bengals began to play in the AFL in 1968, it was key for Brown to know that the ’70 NFL-AFL merger was already approved. There was much debate and controversy over exactly how the leagues would combine. The Bengals pushed strongly for a full merger, with the 26 clubs divided into two 13-team conferences. Other interests sought to keep the 16 NFL teams and 10 AFL teams in separate conferences of unequal size. But the full merger view prevailed, with the NFL’s Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers agreeing to join the 10 AFL teams in the new American Football Conference (AFC). The remaining 13 NFL teams formed the National Conference. The Bengals were part of a four-team AFC Central Division, joined by Cleveland, Pittsburgh and the AFL Houston Oilers. Thus was born the twice annual “Battle of Ohio” between the Bengals and Browns.
I found my information on Bing and the Cincinnati Bengal’s website just look up history.
What is Groundhog Day? Groundhog Day is a national holiday that takes place in the United States and Canada, is where a groundhog emerges from its burrow which is said to predict the weather in the next-six weeks. This holiday first took place on February 2nd, 1887, in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. They might have chosen February to be Groundhog Day because it falls between the winter solstice and the spring equinox.
During the Middle Ages, there was a belief that animals such as the badger and the bear “interrupted their hibernation to appear on this day.” If the animal saw its shadow, then there would be six more weeks of winter. However, if the animal did not see its shadow, then there would be an early summer.
This practice originated in Germany. German Immigrants went to the United States and carried over the legend with them, and in Pennsylvania the groundhog was used as a replacement for the badger. This holiday is really cool but was sadly proven to be false. It was found that the groundhog was correct only 39% of the time.
This year, the groundhog saw its own shadow 😦 This means six more weeks of winter.
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