Library, Monday

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The first thing William noticed as he opened the library was the dark, sticky substance splattered on the floor and circulation desk.

"That cannot be sanitary," he muttered to himself, poking tentatively at the substance on the desk. Ugh. Cough syrup.

Really, if the library were concerned about students with winter colds, there were better ways to express it than making a mess. But William wasn't about to argue with a library, so he was just going to sigh and grab a cloth to start cleaning up.

History of American Feminism, Monday, 2nd Period.

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When students came in today, the desks were still in a circle, and Ghanima had written on the blackboard:

In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.

"If you follow American news," Ghanima began once everyone had arrived, "--lately all you'll hear about is 'the intent of the Founding Fathers' on almost every topic; from guns to the right to marry."

"No one ever asks about the intent of the 'Founding Ladies' who played a role in the Revolution."

( Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. )

"Despite Abigail Adams’s famous plea to "remember the ladies," many of the contributions of Revolutionary War era women have been forgotten, and the opinions of women relegated to unimportance by special interests, corporations, and political parties." Ghanima said, turning her attention back to the class. "But you've all listened to me talk, so now I want to hear from you. Were these women the first American feminists, or simply patriots? Or both? Can you be a feminist if you don't explicitly state that you're fighting for women's rights - or equal rights - as well as national sovereignty when you're busy loading artillery shells? Can we assign feminist aspirations to women, merely because they broke from patriarchal tradition during a revolution?"

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