Crystal Eastman was a lawyer, journalist, feminist and socialist. She was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts in 1881. Her parents were both Congregational Church clergy and were the pastors at a church near Elmira, New York. Her brother was Max Eastman, editor of THE MASSES.
She graduated from Vassar College in 1903, received an MA in Sociology from Columbia University in 1904 and graduated second in her class from New York University Law School in 1907.
Miss Eastman’s first job was to investigate labor conditions for the Pittsburgh Survey sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation. Her report “Work Accidents and the Law” became a classic and resulted in the adoption of the first workmen’s compensation statue in the United States. She worked as an investigating attorney for the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations during the Wilson administration.
She married Wallace Benedict and settled in Milwaukee. While there she managed an unsuccessful 1912 Wisconsin suffrage battle. Her marriage ended in divorce and she returned to New York where she helped to found the militant Congressional Union which eventually became the National Women’s Party. After the passage of the landmark 19th Amendment in 1920 which gave the right to vote to women, she and three others wrote the Equal Rights Amendment first introduced in 1923.
Eastman was a strong anti-militarist and was one of the founders of the Women’s Peace Party which is now the oldest women’s peace organization—The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She argued against America’s going to war against Mexico in 1916, campaigned against the draft, and lobbied against American participation in World War 1. When the U.S. entered the First World War she and Roger Baldwin and Norman Thomas organized the National Civil Liberties Bureau to protect conscientious objectors. This organization would become the A.C.L.U.
In 1916 she married Walter Fuller, an English editor and anti-war activist. They lived at 71 Mt. Airy Road and had two children, Jeffrey and Annis.
She was a contributor to THE MASSES and after it stopped publication in 1917 she and her brother Max co-owned and published The Liberator, a radical journal of politics, art and literature.
At the close of World War 1 her husband, Walter Fuller, returned to England to seek work. For the next several years Crystal and her family would live part of the time in England and the rest in New York where she was blacklisted and rendered unemployable during the red scare of 1919-1920. During the following years her only paid work was for the feminist journals Time and Tide and Equal Rights.
Suffering from painful nephritis for many years, Crystal Eastman died in 1928.
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Scadutree Avatar has to be my least favourite boss in Eden Ring’s DLC.
My shadow of the erdtree hot take is that that’s the hardest boss in the dlc. Took me over 4 hours to beat it. I think it’s one of the less bullshit fights though, I just could never get the timing down to dodge the spike aoe attacks. The lion was far and away my most hated.
Putrescent Knight was my favourite. That move where it jumps off the horse and they take it in turns charging at you is great.
I somehow managed to die to fall damage jumping into that fight on my second attempt and lost like 140k souls lmao
my least favourite was the final boss,
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33% because I didn’t wanna fight Radahn again and wanted something new like Godwyn, 66% because of the difficulty
I will say that Scadutree Avatar’s theme is my favourite out of a list of already awesome OSTs they added in this DLC. there’s just something about changing themes - not in a really dramatic sense like when bosses usually hit phase 2 in games like this, but in a way that implies a progressing and more desperate/sad battle - that tickles some gland in my brain
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Seeing Radahn again sucked, but I think they nailed the spectacle. Especially in phase 2 and onward when Miquella starts cast miracles and trying to mind control you.
Also for all the bullshit the fight throws at you, you can cheese it easily just by holding Verdigris Shield in front of your face and poking with a frost Antspur Rapier.