Nellie Bly
A reminder to all on your willingness to recruit students for the 9 a.m.
Saturday, Sept. 17 speaker in Davis 418. The speaker will be Brooke Kroeger,
author of the new Nellie Bly biography: "Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter,
Feminist."
Background on Brooke Kroeger: She worked for many years for United Press
International with postings in Chicago, Brussels, London and Tel Aviv. In Tel
Aviv she served as bureau chief from 1981 to 1983 before moving to London to
become chief editor for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She joined the
Newsday staff in 1984 as U.N. correspondent -- where her assignments included
the trial of Ariel Sharon vs. Time, Inc., and the UN conference on the decade
of women in Nairobi, Kenya. She later became a deputy metropolitan editor at
New York Newsday.
As a free-lance writer, her articles have appeared in The New York Times,
Mirabella and McCalls. Born in Kansas City, she currently lives in NYC.
ABOUT NELLIE BLY (someone suggested our students might not know about Nellie
Bly, so here's a brief bio): She was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in Cochran's
Mills, Pa., on May 5, 1864 and died in Brooklyn on Jan. 27, 1922. Her obit in
the New York Evening Journal said: "She was considered to be the best reporter
in America." She took her pen name from Stephen Foster's folk song, "Nelly
Bly."
Nellie's first six years were spent in Cochran's Mills; her next 10 in
Apollo. Her father's mansion still stands at 505 Terrace Ave. From Sept. to
Dec. 1879, she attended Indiana Normal School.
In the 1880's, she pioneered the development of investigative
reporting.
By donkey, horseback, rickshaw, elephant, steamship and train, she
circled the globe in 72 days in 1889-90, faster than any living or fictional
soul. Racehorses, steamships and locomotives were named after her.
She was the first woman to report from the Eastern front in WWI.
She interviewed the great national personalities of her day, including
Civil War veteran Col. William Sirwell of Kittanning, Emma Goldman, Susan B.
Anthony, Eugene Debs, prizefighters John L. Sullivan and Jack Dempsey.
She was the author of
four books. She has been honored by the New York Press club, the Pennsylvania
Newspaper Hall of Fame, the Ford City Area Hall of Fame and with a monument in
helped support the struggling couple. They divorced in 1942. She lived in Carmel Valley, CA after and died February 8, 1983.
She died at Gettysburg. Here's a brief summary of what happened at the battle of Gettysburg. Lee was the general of the confederate side on the battlefield, and he was going against George Meade, who was the general on the union side at the battle. (Google)
Born in Cederville, Illinois, on September 6, 1860, Jane Addams founded the world famous social settlement of Hull House. From Hull House, where she lived and worked from it’s start in 1889 to her death in 1935, Jane Addams built her reputation as the country’s most prominent women through her writings, settlement work and international efforts for world peace. In 1931, she became the first women to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
This marked the beginning of the Palestine armed conflict, one of its kinds to be witnessed in centuries since the fall of the Ottoman Empire and World War 1. Characterized by a chronology of endless confrontations, this conflict has since affected not only the Middle East relations, but also the gl...
Margaret Sanger was born in Corning, New York, on September 14, 1879. She was sixth child of her mother’s eleven children. Anne, her mother, suffered several miscarriages which lead Margaret to believe that is what caused her mother to have such poor health. Her father was a stonemason and did not support his family like he should have financially. She married William Sanger and had three children. They settled in New York City. She later separated from her husband and remarried James Noah H. Slee. He died in 1943. Margaret lived to be 86 and died in Tucson, Arizona, on September 6, 1966. Her life achievement of creating oral contraceptives is still appreciated by women everywhere today.
Dorothy Parker who was born Dorothy Rothschild was born on August 22, 1893 in Long Branch, New Jersey were her parents Jacob and Eliza Rothschild owned a summer cottage. She grow up in Manhattan, New York, were her parents wanted her to be considered a New Yorker. Her mother Eliza died July of 1898 just before Dorothy turned five. Her father Jacob remarried in 1900 to a woman named Eleanor Francis Lewis. Dottie as she was also known as claimed her father was being physically abusive to her because she refused to call her stepmother by “mother” or “stepmother” and referred to her instead as “the housekeeper”. In 1903 Eleanor died when Dorothy was nine. Her father then sent her to attend Miss Dana’s School in Morristown, New Jersey which she graduated from in 1911 at the age of eighteen. Her father passed away two years later in 1913. Dottie went on to play piano at a dance school to make money. She sold her first poem to Vanity Fair and a few months later was hired as an editorial assistant for Vogue magazine. After two years at Vogue she left for a job as a staff writer for Vanity Fair. In 1917 she went on to marry Edwin Pond Parker II a Wall Street stock broker, but they were soon separated by his army services during World War I.
Yapp, Malcolm. The Near East since the First World War: A History to 1995. London: Longman, 1996. Print.
The Middle East has historically rebuked Western influence during their process of establishing independence. When Britain and France left the Middle East after World War II, the region saw an unprecedented opportunity to establish independent and self-sufficient states free from the Western influence they had felt for hundreds of years. In an attempt to promote nationalistic independence, the states of the region immediately formed the League of Arab States in 1945. The League recognized and promoted the autonomy of its members and collaborated in regional opposition against the West until 1948 when Israel declared independence. Israel represented then and now an intrusive Western presence in the Arab world. The ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict typifies this cultural antagonism. The Cold War refocused attention to the Middle East as a site of economic and strategic importance for both sides, yet the two hegemons of the Cold War now needed to recognize the sovereignty of the Middle Eastern states. With their statehood and power cemented, the Middle Easte...
25, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois. She was an African American woman, who from a young age had
The history of nursing important to understand because it can help our professionals today to know why things are the way it is now and can have solutions to unsolvable problems from history. Captain Mary Lee Mills was an African-American woman born in Wallace, North Carolina in August 1912. She was a role model, an international nursing leader, and a humanitarian in her time. She joined many nursing associations, she participated in public health conferences, gained recognition and won numerous awards for her notable contributions to public health nursing. Her contributions throughout her lifetime made a huge impact on the world today and has changed the lives of how people live because of her passion for public health nursing. She always
in 1797 in Dutch settlement of Ulster County, New York. She was the youngest of thirteen
Bessie was born April 15, 1894 in Chattanooga, Tennessee to a part time Baptist preacher, William Smith, and his wife Laura. The family was large and poor. Soon after she was born her father died. Laura lived until Bessie was only nine years old. The remaining children had to learn to take care of themselves. Her sister Viola then raised her. But it was her oldest brother, Clarence, who had the most impact on her. Clarence always encouraged Bessie to learn to sing and dance. After Clarence had joined the Moses Stokes Minstrel Show, Bessie got auditions. Bessie's career began when she was 'discovered' by none other than Ma Rainey when Ma's revue, the Rabbit Foot Minstrels, was passing through Chattanooga around 1912 and she had the occasion to hear young Bessie sing. Ma took Bessie on the road with the show and communicated, consciously or not, the subtleties and intricacies of an ancient and still emerging art form. (Snow).
Murphy, Maureen Clare. Rev. of Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land, dir. Bathsheba Ratzkoff & Sut Jhally. The Electronic Intifada 26 March 2004.
Kamrava, Mehran. "The Arab-Israeli Wars." The Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World War. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California, 2010. 109-39. Print.
On the 28th of September, of the year 2000, the second Palestinian Intifada took place. The main reason that sparked this Intifada was the provocative visit of Ariel Sharon, the current Israeli Prime Minister, to the Haram Al Sharif. Even though the visit was what set the ground on fire, these feeling of hatred and desire to rebel had been stirring inside the Palestinians ever since the declaration of the Israeli State, on the Palestinian land, back in 1948. This Palestinian frustration is due to their lack of trust and hope in a peace process that did not yield meaningful results. After seven years of peace talks and six agreements, Palestinians realized that Israel is not serious about peace. Since 1993, Israel has doubled settlements on confiscated Palestinian land, continued to imprison Palestinian prisoners and has implemented only 8 percent of what it agreed to implement in all the signed agreements.