In "A Lady in a Machine-Shop," Susan Bivin Aller uses creativity, determination, and confidence to demonstrate how they led Margaret Knight to succession as an inventor. Knight and her family moved to Manchester, New Hampshire when she was at a young age. At the age of twelve, Knight witnessed a mill worker injured by a steel-tipped shuttle. This motivated her to create a safety mechanism, her first invention, to prevent any further injuries in cotton mills.
Knight's mind was built with creativeness and that helped her succeed. As Knight grew up with her brothers, she invented "sleds, kites, and other playthings that?were the envy of all the boys in town." Knight often had a smile on her face when making new items for her brothers. She enjoyed inventing and helping others in need. "Because she didn't play with dolls," like other girls did, Knight's mind developed independently and creatively. She was the type of person that had her own thoughts and feelings. When Knight worked at the Columbia Paper Bag Company, she wanted to improve how the machines made the bags. The bags were si...
All fields of science affects the lives of many people, but the inventors are left out. Inventors make many lives more comfortable and convenient. George Edward Alcorn, Jr. was a not so well-known inventor, but he...
To begin, the final choice that the old lady gives the Knight is a very interesting choice especially after her lecture. In the end of the story the Knight is faced with the choice of either having a ugly and old but beautiful woman on the inside or having a beautiful, young woman on the outside and ugly on the inside. The question is a very intriguing question especially considering first of all how the Knight had treated her and what kind of lecture she gave him before she asked him this qu...
I choose to do my biographical paper on Margaret Higgins Sanger, because I admire the work that she done and that is continuing to be done, because of her. She was one of eleven children born to Michael and Anne Higgins; a Roman Catholic working-class Irish American family; on September 14, 1879, in Corning, New York. Margaret’s father a man of the bottle and one who enjoyed talking politics, rather than earning the money needed to take care of such a large family, therefore she spent most of her life in poverty. While I think her father had an impact on the person Margaret grew up to be; it was her mother that really shaped her into the person she was. Along with the eleven children she birthed, Anne also had many miscarriages, Margaret believed that it was the many pregnancies that took a toll on her mother's health and contributed to her early death at the age of 40. (BIO, 2014)
Kate was looked down upon by the male blacksmith in which they believed she was inferior. During one of Williams joust his armor was damaged and he had no money to get it fixed. He tried to barter with the male blacksmith but they would not take on the task. William took the task to Kate saying that the male blacksmith where talking about how bad her work was which is why she took on the task. Kate was confident in her work and decided she could challenge the social outlook that was put on women during the medieval times.
Instead of a handsome knight to save the day, real people who are aware of the dangers, like Lizzie, are the rescuers. Because Lizzie waited until the last possible second to save her sister, Lizzie became the knight, and Laura's beliefs were changed. The similes throughout the poem show how this ordeal has altered Laura and her belief systems beyond repair: before she was free and sure of herself, like the ship about to sail. Now Laura is adrift like the uprooted tree, just as the reader will be if they do not heed this tale of the wonderful and the
Born into a fiercely political family, Florence’s life was influenced by her near-constant coquetry with abolition and other various civil rights efforts. Her father, William “Pig Iron” Kelley, was an ardent proponent of women’s rights, and was also known as the protector of Pennsylvania’s iron and steel industries, earning him his moniker. Kelley was educated at home for much of her childhood, as she was often ill, and her family’s home was rather isolated from nearby Philadelphia (Bienen, 1-“William”). Nonetheless, her education was satisfactory, and primarily influenced by her father. Through her atypical form of education, Kelley was allowed to develop an opinion on diverse topics that most children her age were oblivious to. Kelley traveled across the country with her father, exploring steel and iron manufacturing sites, prefacing her future career path. In addition to vocational learning, Florence Kelley absorbed knowledge through the massive library at h...
In the early years while the profits were high working conditions looked promising to the mill girls in their brief opening experiences of factory work. Jobs required little skill because the machinery was mostly self-acting. It looked very pleasant at first, the rooms were so light, spacious, and clean, the girls so pretty and neatly dressed, and the machinery so brightly polished or nicely painted (Harriet Farley, Letters from Susan, Letter Second).
Betty had a good start to her career. She preformed at country fairs and rodeos. Betty learned that her talent isn’t enough to make her successful, and there was always more work to be done. Betty’s natural talent made it easier for her to learn ballet from her instructor. She hadn’t learned the basics right and she became very frustrated because she had to go back to the beginning and learn those basics.
Sarah Grimké, a character in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel The Invention of Wings, faces many challenges throughout her life in the novel. Sarah has many differing views from her society, religion and even from her family. Within this novel Sarah goes through a journey where she encounters many challenges with her personal beliefs, which she eventually endeavors through and becomes one of earliest faces of the feminist movement. Sarah Also had strong abolitionist beliefs from a young age
In 1882, Henry finished his apprenticeship and was a machinist. Westinghouse hired Henry to demonstrate and operate their steam engines on nearby farms during the summers. During the winters, Henry would stay on his father’s farm, working on building a lighter steam engine. During this time, Henry met Clara Bryant. When t...
The final drop of Barbie revealed that eighteen rubber bands would get her to her destination. This essay looked at the description of the project and choices, a justification for the model, an outcome description, an outcome explanation, and a final analysis.
Mill’s and Nightingale’s work both have the main theme of men dominating over women. Mill introduces his work with, “the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes — the legal subordination of one sex to the other — is wrong in itself…and it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality” (Mill 1156), letting the reader know his stance on the issue right away. Nightingale’s article also starts off with a strong statement in the form of a question. She wonders why women are given such useful gifts if utilizing them is socially unacceptable: “Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity...and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?” (Nightingale 1734). Although these works both have the same thread running through them, they place the blame for the occurrence in different places.
The Victorian housewife of the 20th century was the key person in insuring the success of
The negative aspects of industrialism are displayed through Bessy Higgins who is a factory girl and her eventual disease. John Thornton describes his belief to Mr. Hale that all unsuccessful people are suffering because of their own “dishonestly-enjoyed pleasure” (Gaskell 84). His belief may have some legitimacy but it does not apply to the story line of Bessy Higgins. Bessy “began to work in a carding-room” after her mother died, the “fluff” or cotton dust caused her to develop Byssinosis (Gaskell
When the story of Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland began Alice seemed very childlike as she was distracted easily and acted very curiously as most children tend to. These characteristics led her