Try writing your own analytical statement based on this passage. Then click the button below to compare your statement to the example. In the early 1800s, belief in the ideal of "Republican Motherhood" began to spread throughout the new nation. Proponents of this idea pointed out that American women bore great responsibility for the civic and moral lives of their families and, as a result, the nation's future. To raise good American citizens, they argued, women themselves had to be well educated. Although this idea still restricted women's role to domestic life, it led to new academic opportunities for girls and women. Higher education, however, was reserved for the daughters of the wealthy.

Eventually, greater equality for girls and women in general led to more American women receiving higher levels of education. By 1930, 44% of college students were women. By the year 2000, more American women than men were attending college and graduate school.

Which would be the most credible source for researching the effects of smoking? letter from your grandfather web page about someone’s lung cancer report prepared by a tobacco company research article in a scientific journal

Which piece of textual evidence from the short story "civil peace" by chinua achebe can be used to defend the claim thatviolence has not ended despite the end of war?

What type of writing is demonstrated in this excerpt by general philip henry sheridan? at once i set about preparing for the examination which precedes admission to the military academy, studying zealously under the direction of mr. william clark; my old teachers, mcnanly and thorn, having disappeared from somerset and sought new fields of usefulness. the intervening months passed rapidly away, and i fear that i did not make much progress, yet i thought i should be able to pass the preliminary examination. that which was to follow worried me more and gave me many sleepless nights; but these would have been less in number, i fully believe, had it not been for one specification of my, outfit which the circular that accompanied my appointment demanded. this requirement was a pair of "monroe shoes." now, out in ohio, what "monroe shoes" were was a mystery—not a shoemaker in my section having so much as an inkling of the construction of the perplexing things, until finally my eldest brother brought an idea of them from baltimore, when it was found that they were a familiar pattern under another name. a. research essay b. persuasive essay c. biography d. memoir