History

Narrative Outline
Alice Pauls background which led her to join the suffrage movement, founding of the NWP and leading the non-violent protests.

Alice Paul was born in a Quaker family which taught equality of sexes. Her mother was involved in the suffrage movement and it resulted in Paul getting early exposure to the cause.

During her stay in England, she was influenced by British suffragettes Christabel Pankhurst and joined their movement. Upon her return to America in 1910, she joined the National American Womens Suffrage Association (NAWSA).

Paul felt that NAWSAs moderate stance could never achieve success and so broke up with them in 1916 formed National Womans Party (NWP). The NWP took to civil disobedience and non-violence tactics such as picketing in front of White House as the preferred form of protest.

Passing of the Nineteenth Amendment and Pauls role in it.

Paul stepped up her non-violent agitation when the US entered World War I. Got arrested and was put in jail.

When she and other protesters went on hunger strike in jail, they were force fed. As news of prison abuse got out, it led to widespread public support for the suffrage cause.

President Wilson announced support for womens suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendment was passed in 1919 and ratified in 1920.

Paul continued her struggle for womens right with her campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment which she authored

In 1923, Paul authored the Equal Rights Amendment and campaigned for it.

She dedicated her life to fighting for womens rights.

Analytical Outline
Introduction Had it not been for Alice Paul and her lifelong campaign for womens right to equality, American women would still be considered second class citizen and would not have any rights including the right to vote. We know that women rights in the twenty first century would not have been much different from what they were a hundred years ago because of the following points
It took seventy two years of fighting before women got suffrage and it would not have happened even in 1920 had it not been for Paul. National American Woman Suffrage Association was content fighting at the states level. Paul was responsible for the constitutional amendment
Even after women got suffrage, Paul did not give up fighting for women rights and if it were not for her, women would have never achieved the equal status they now enjoy in the United States.
Paul founded the National Womans Party (NWP), which managed to garner enormous public support through its non-violent protests and civil disobedience.

Talk about the circumstances which led to the formation of NWP.
Discuss the various non-violent protests of NWP and how they led to public support for suffrage.
With Paul and NWP fighting for constitutional amendment to ensure womens suffrage, President Wilson ultimately had to give in to the pressure and in 1920 it led to the Nineteenth Amendment.
Discuss the public outcry to the conditions of women in the prison.

Discuss the impact of World War I on the cause of the NWP and how it hastened the nineteenth amendment.

Give a brief narrative of the passing of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment and its state ratification.

Conclusion After the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, most women stopped their agitations but Paul and NWP continued to fight for equal rights to women and authored the Equal Rights Amendment to guarantee equal rights to all American citizens regardless of sex.

Briefly discuss the role of NWP and Paul in womens right throughout twentieth century.
It was due the untiring efforts of Alice Paul throughout her life that women were able to achieve such remarkable independence and equality of rights, the kind of which were unimaginable just a century ago.

The most suitable model
The narrative model gives a detailed description of the Alice Pauls life and gives the background which led her to fight for the suffrage cause. This model is good if writing for someone who has very little knowledge about Alice Paul. The analytical model assumes that the reader already knows about Pauls background and discusses her role in the suffrage movement, arguing that her role was the most important and if it had not been for her, the struggle for womens suffrage would have taken even longer. The analytical model portrays Paul as the most important person not only for the suffrage movement but also for womens right.

Both these models have their merits and the best model depends on the audience and purpose of the write-up. However, the analytical model goes in to a much more in-depth analysis of Pauls fight for womens rights. Since the aim of the paper is to discuss Pauls contribution in advancement of women in American society, the analytical model is better for this paper.