y were. It is a good thing for the Womens rights Movement. Otherwise, I believe that most women would not even be able to vote or have any of the rights that they have today.My favorite book that we had to read for Understanding America was Robert Bogdans Freakshow. This book was bout freaks and freakshows. There are many different distinctions that can be made about these two titles. Freakshows were a type of amusement or entertainment that people used to go and view all of the time. Freaks is someone who has oddities or who are just strange people. The freaks only form of making a living was not just putting on freakshows. They would also have their pictures taken by a photographer and sell them for money. Freakshows started being exhibited in the halls and room and were taken under the wings of the museums.I believe that in the past, people were very interested in going to freakshows because they were so entertaining. Some people actually believed that these people were real and that their rarities that the freaks had were real and not fake. Even if the people knew that they were fake they would still attend these activities just for the laughs. Today, when there is this type of show all of the audience knows that these people are done up just to entertain a crowd.I do not think that it is a bad thing to go up on stage and perform a certain act and get paid for it. I would disagree if the people who were going up on stage were making fun of others handicaps. I also do not think that this is much of a problem know, because there are so many disability acts and rights. Everyone should respect everyone else even if they happen to be a little different.In conclusion, I have learned a tremendous amount about the history of America and what people had gone through. It is a shame that so many different races had to almost be looked down, or looked at differently just because of the way that they looked on the outside. Every...
