Votes for Women Speech by Mark Twain ; January 20th 1901

Votes for Women Speech by Mark Twain
January 20th 1901

Ladies and Gentlemen - It is a small help that I can afford, but it is just such help that one can give as coming from the heart through the mouth. The report of Mr. Meyer was admirable, and I was as interested in it as you have been. Why, I'm twice as old as he, and I've had so much experience that I would say to him, when he makes his appeal for help: "Don't make it for today or tomorrow, but collect the money on the spot."

We are all creatures of sudden impulse. We must be worked up by steam, as it were. Get them to write their wills now, or it may be too late by-and-by. Fifteen or twenty years ago I had an experience I shall never forget. I got into a church which was crowded by a sweltering and panting multitude. The city missionary of our town - Hartford - made a telling appeal for help. He told of personal experiences among the poor in cellars and top lofts requiring instances of devotion and help. The poor are always good to the poor. When a person with his millions gives a hundred thousand dollars it makes a great noise in the world, but he does not miss it; it's the widow's mite that makes no noise but does the best work.

I remember on that occasion in the Hartford church the collection was being taken up. The appeal had so stirred me that I could hardly wait for the hat or plate to come my way. I had four hundred dollars in my pocket, and I was anxious to drop it in the plate and wanted to borrow more. But the plate was so long in coming my way that the fever-heat of beneficence was going down lower and lower - going down at the rate of a hundred dollars a minute. The plate was passed too late. When it finally came to me, my enthusiasm had gone down so much that I kept my four hundred dollars - and stole a dime from the plate. So, you see, time sometimes leads to crime. Oh, many a time have I thought of that and regretted it, and I adjure you all to give while the fever is on you.

Referring to woman's sphere in life, I'll say that woman is always right. For twenty-five years I've been a woman's rights man. I have always believed, long before my mother died, that, with her gray hairs and admirable intellect, perhaps she knew as much as I did. Perhaps she knew as much about voting as I.

I should like to see the time come when women shall help to make the laws. I should like to see that whiplash, the ballot, in the hands of women. As for this city's government, I don't want to say much, except that it is a shame - a shame; but if I should live twenty-five years longer - and there is no reason why I shouldn't - I think I'll see women handle the ballot. If women had the ballot to-day, the state of things in this town would not exist.

If all the women in this town had a vote today they would elect a mayor at the next election, and they would rise in their might and change the awful state of things now existing here.

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Votes for Women Speech by Mark Twain
January 20th 1901

     Ladies and Gentlemen - it is just such a help that one can give as coming from the heart through the mouth. I was inspired by Mr. Meyer’s report as he makes appeal for help : "Don't make it for today or tomorrow, but collect the money on the spot."

We are creatures of sudden impulse and acquired to be worked up by steam.remember “Get them to write their wills now, or it may be too late by-and-by”.  I have an experience which I shall never forget where several years ago, I got into a church in Hartford which was crowded by a sweltering and panting multitude – made an appeal for help. I witnessed and realise that the rich were always envy and never satisfied over their needs and desire where as the poor one’s are happy in their own way by sharing and caring over each other. Therefore it is understood ” When a person with his millions gives a hundred thousand dollars it makes a great noise in the world, but he does not miss it; it's the widow's mite that makes no noise but does the best work”.

     “I remember on that occasion in the Hartford church the collection was being taken up. Since the plate was late to reach me I was overwhelmed by greed which eventually made me to stole a dime from the plate latter eventhough I had four hundred dollars in my pocket . this proves time sometimes leads to crime. many a time have I thought of that and regretted it, and I adjure you all to give while the fever is on you.”

     “More than a decade I’ve been a man of women’s rights and I'll say that woman is always right. I have always believed, long before my mother died, that, with her gray hairs and admirable intellect, perhaps she knew as much as I did regarding voting.”

I should like to see that whiplash, the ballot, in the hands of women where they actually help to make laws.. As for this city's government, I don't want to say much, except that it is a shame - a shame; but if I should live twenty-five years longer - and there is no reason why I shouldn't - I think I'll see women handle the ballot. If women had the ballot to-day, the state of things in this town would not exist.

     If all the women in this town had a vote today they would rise in their might and change the awful state of things now existing here.

THE IMPORTANT OF MUSIC IN LIFE

     The man enters into this universe and exits with music. The music is the only common to every one in the world. Though there are many different kinds of music, it is only one and the same. The music is one and only though we call them by different names. It is just a part of whole music.
We can identify all the seas and oceans only in the world map and globe. It is very easy to say this is Atlandic ocean and that is Indian Ocean. But is not at all possible to say which ocean is which and we can say only thing that it is water. It is the same with the music also.
     When we talk about music, we can call them with different names and we can feel the difference between the different music. But we we involve ourselves and play or listen the music, the feeling is entirely different. The state of our mind would be in a different world.
      There are many different qualities of music and they reach you to different parts of the body.
Some music reach your hands and you start to clap. Some music reach your legs and you start to make rythms with your legs. Some music reach your whole body and that is reason that you have the feeling for dancing.
     Music is the only art which makes you to forget yourself. For other arts, the awareness would always be there. When you are involved in playing or listening music, you enter into a different world.The Music is based on the imaginations. It is full of imaginations with new creativities. Once you start to develop a music , it needs new ideas, for which you need creativity.

     With music, you would start to find new ideas, new approaches and different colours of musical phrases and in the process, you would get a good feels towards tunes. For this particular music, you are the author. This type of knowledge helps in our regular life in different ways. the creativity and composing of the tunes would bring the deep and vast thought in your mind whatever job you undertake.
     You will get the solution immediately if you happen to face any problems. You would be aware in which
way the matter would move and you would be having the solution to slove it at the starting stage itself. Secondly you would always be having the presence of mind when it is needed. Even at the most difficult situations, your mind would stay cool and this feeling would help you to have the presence of mind would surely help you to come out of the problems without any strain in your mind and body.
     With the beginning of the 21st century, technology is increasing at an amazing rate. Everyone is trying to keep up and have cutting edge equipment, and this include school systems. With technology now being such a dominant factor in classrooms, teachers are doing all they can to incorporate technology into their teaching. This includes playing music during tests. Instructors see this as a way to relax students and reduce anxiety, thus helping their test performance.
     There is research though, that states to get maximal scores on a test, studying should be done with the same cues present as during testing. According to the encoding specificity principle of memory, (Thompson & Tulving, 1970) the most effective retrieval cues at the time of recall are cues that contain information that was processed at the time the to-be-remembered material was studied. Therefore, for the music to help the student during testing, it should be played during studying also.
      This brings up the issue of whether or not studying with music effects test performance. Many students feel that studying with music helps. Raushcher, Shay, and Ky (1993) discovered that performance on abstract/spatial reasoning tests improved after the participants listened to Mozart as opposed to a relaxation tape or silence.
     Research seems to show that music during studying inhibits learning. Is this true even if there is music present during testing? This experiment will show if there is a relationship between music present during studying and test scores. It will also exhibit if there is a correlation between studying with environmental cues and having the same cues present during recall. It will show how the encoding specificity principle relates to music being present during studying.This shows that music make meanings in one's life.

self - respect

     Self-respect (or self-esteem) is an important element of psychology. It is a person’s individual attitude towards himself or herself. By definition, self-respect “includes a person's subjective appraisal of himself or herself as intrinsically positive or negative to some degree” (Wiki, 2005). Self-respect has been thought of since very early ages of human civilization. And certainly the concept of self-respect has been changing just like the entire humanity has changed. The more civilized societies became, the more tolerant members of this society became. Therefore, the more tolerant members of societies, the less self-respect they have. However, in psychology nothing is certain, and one can easily argue about my perception of self-respect, but I believe today self-respect is much a less important issue than it was say a thousand years ago.

      In the times when murders and slavery were casual things, when laws were not good enough to protect citizens, people had much greater self-respect than today. When a man understands that he can be killed for his home, and that there is nobody accept himself to protect his family and the home (no police, no guard) then he had to be much more rigid, tough, harsh, and demandable than men of today. He then would possess much stronger self-esteem and self-respect because without these, he simply would not be able to protect his family and home. If he did not possess self-respect, anybody could come and take his possessions, occupy his home, or anything else of the same kind. 

      Nowadays, the concept of self-respect is completely different. In developed countries like the United States people are much more socially protected than in the ancient world described above. Although there are criminals even now, and they can kill and steal, nevertheless people can ask help from the police and other government agencies. Thus, people now feel more protected, and they do not have to bother that much about they property and family as they had to many years ago. Therefore, in developed countries with good social protection people do not care much about their self-respect from the point of view of manhood and courage. 

     In addition, with the development of civilization and the growing population of minorities, people devote less time to their dignity, self-respect, and honor. Males homosexuals, punks, and some other lifestyle groups demonstrate that their members have traded self-respect for some fake values. Is a man with a colored hair dancing in women’s lingerie in public considered a man with self-respect? Do people forming same-sex parenting couples, which doom the baby to mental sufferings, have self-respect? Do fathers who leave their women and children and never come back or remember them have self-respect? Surely not, even if they claim they have. And in the diverse world we now live in, self-respect has become a very rare thing, although there I not a single person who would say he or she did not respect him/herself. 

      What is even more bad, mass media to a certain degree promotes the wide extinction of self-respect. Legalization of gay marriages, prostitution, divorces, domination of a woman in a family, - all of these are widely demonstrated via mass media. Currently the classic role of man as a hunter has been lost in data batches and financial reports, and classic role of woman has also been lost in management doctrines and advertisements. Ethics and morality has been exchanged for money, power, and pleasure. And all of that happened because people’s too weak self-respect. The mass media promotes these things, and makes us forget about our genuine honor, integrity, dignity, and self-respect. 

     Ultimately, people – especially men – of today should pay more attention to their self-respect. If they respect themselves, then they would make things around them better. But nowadays, people are greatly influenced by many external factors, and thus their self-respect disappears. But self-respect and self-esteem are much more important that those things many people value now.