In government, the second lady is the wife of the vice president and holds the duties of hosting receptions, presenting over institutions, tending to official travel, and other various ceremonial duties. Second ladies have been known to capture the attention of the media and take stands on public policies. In many political issues, the vice president’s wives have not yielded much day-to-day political power, but are still considered important for campaigning purposes. So did Margaretta Large Fitler Murphy Rockefeller play an important role as Second Lady of the United States; and who exactly is she? Once described as “tall, tawny, and glowing with good health. Her sun streaked hair looking forever windblown, and her legs evenly tanned year-round” by People Margaretta Large Fitler Murphy Rockefeller did ‘appear’ Happy (N. pag.). From her early years to her two marriages and six children anyone could assume Happy has lived a long, full life; however, it seems no matter how much Happy apposed the spotlight it always seem to she finds her way there, even when she was young. Margaretta Large Fitler came from one of the richest families in the nation, attaining their eight million inheritance from rope-making. It was a “blue-nosed society that advised a girl to get her name in the papers only four times: when you are born, when you make your debut, when you are married, and when you die” (N. pag.). Even when Happy was taken in as blissful and was never seen without a smile on her face there always seemed to be an unspoken sadness that weighted her quiet disposition heavily. Perhaps this came from her mother and father separating when she was only ten, or it could be because her mother being the extremely self-centered woman that she ha... ... middle of paper ... ...rming and courteous woman who is well spoken, and she was the trusted wife of Neson Rockefeller by whom she was sought for her advice. “Nelson relied on her intuition and judgment. People tend to unburden themselves to her” because she was easy to get close to and become comfortable with (People N. pag.). Maybe she was not found of the spot light, but she still left an impression as one of our second lady’s, and she was Happy. Works Cited “American Experience: TV’s Most-watched History Series.” PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 16 Mar. 2014 . Lerner, Barron H. The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-century America. New York: Oxford UP, 2001. “Rockefeller, Margaretta ‘Happy’ (b. 1926).” Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. 2002 ed. “The Guarded, Tranquil World Happy Rockefeller is Giving Up.” People. 9 Sept. 1974.
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John Eaton died in 1856, leaving Margaret a small fortune. She lived in Washington DC with her two daughters, both of whom married into high society. It seemed as though Margaret finally had the societal life and respect she had always wanted. She changed all of that when, at the age of 59, she married her granddaughter’s 19 year old dance tutor, Antonio Buchignani. A mere five years later, he ran off to Italy with her money and her granddaughter.
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Eudora Welty was born on April 13, 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. Painting and photography were her first early interests. She lived in Jackson with her two brothers, Edward and Walter, and her two parents. Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father an insurance executive. Welty’s father was from Ohio and her mother from West Virginia. Welty lived in her childhood home for most of her life. Leaving for two years to attend the Mississippi State College for Women. After she spent several years at the University of Wisconsin and a year in New York City. While in New York City, Welty studied advertising at the Columbia University business school. The death of her father brought Welty back home for a while.
Peggy was named, by the Baptist sewing women, as a good influence for Nelly because she was quiet and although quiet, Peggy actually was a good influence because she was discerning, she gave subtle warnings to Nelly on how she felt about the young men whom Nelly chose, like, Scott Spinney whom Peggy describes as “so set in dark” and “Taciturn and domineering.” Peggy later writes about her discerning intuition when she shakes Scott’s hand as he was walking out of the Post Office, “ He gave me a hard grip with one black hand” (Cather, p. 231).
After witnessing Abigail’s affair with Detective Len Fenerman, Susie recalls when as a young child, her mother used to tell her tales of mythology, such as Zeus and Persephone, rather than princess fairytales like most mothers would. The young mom liked to recount these stories because “she had gotten her master’s in English―having fought tooth and nail with Grandma Lynn to go so far in school―and still held on to vague ideas of teaching when the two of us were old enough to be left on our own” (Sebold 149). As mentioned, becoming a mother to Susie and Lindsey forced her to press pause on her ambitions to step further in her career and education. However, she held on to these dreams since there would be an opportunity to carry out what she had planned when her children grew up and no longer needed round-the-clock attention or care. These hopes were quickly crushed after the birth of Buckley, the third child in the Salmon family. Abigail realizes that she would be forever constrained to motherhood “since suburban life, for women, meant commitment to home and family, to house care and child care” (Hacht 143). Since she became a wife and mother in the late 1950s, Abigail Salmon represents how many women felt during the Seventies as ideologies of feminism and motherhood clashed. To these women, domesticity
Martha Washington was an amazing woman. She grew up in a slightly better than average lifestyle. Then she became a wife, mother, and then a widow. Martha also became one of the richest women in Virginia. Then she became George Washington’s wife and went on to become the first first lady. She lived to the age of seventy and managed to outlive her husband and many others. Martha Washington also was a part of the American Revolution and helped her husband throughout the war. She did all this and much more.
“Thus had died and been laid to rest in the most quiet, unostentatious way the most useful and distinguished woman America had yet produced,” (Wilson, Pg. 342).
Jean Margaret (Peggy) Wemyss was born in Neepewa, Manitoba on July 18, 1926 to Robert Harrison Wemyss, a lawyer, and Verna Jean, nee Simpson. Margaret’s mother died when she was only four and her father later married her sister, Margaret Cambell Simpson, a teacher and later a librarian. She was throughout the years one of Margaret’s "greatest encouragers." After her father’s death, when she was nine and her brother still a baby, the family went to live with Grandfather Simpson in his big brick house on first avenue.
In “Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South,” Jacquelyn Hall explains that future generations would need to grapple with the expenses of commercialization and to expound a dream that grasped financial equity and group unanimity and also women’s freedom. I determined the reasons for ladies ' insubordination neither reclassified sexual orientation parts nor overcame financial reliance. I recollected why their craving for the trappings of advancement could obscure into a self-constraining consumerism. I estimated how a belief system of sentiment could end in sexual peril or a wedded lady 's troublesome twofold day. None of that, in any case, should cloud a generation’s legacy. I understand requirements for a standard of female open work, another style of sexual expressiveness, the section of ladies into open space and political battles beforehand cornered by men all these pushed against conventional limitations even as they made new susceptibilities.
If one were to look back one hundred years in time, the world would look drastically different. In fact, the United States would be almost unrecognizable. Not only would clothing, transportation, and the price of milk look different, but men and women would not have equal rights, racial issues would be dangerously prominent in society, and an organization geared toward world peace would be nonexistent. One woman made a colossal effort during her lifetime to create change for the betterment of her country, and also, the world. Eleanor Roosevelt, often given the title of “First Lady of the World,” according to the article, “(Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt,” was the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Many people admire and remember Eleanor Roosevelt for her unfailing dedication to her husband’s presidency; however, few realize that she was unlike any first lady before her, in that, Eleanor was independently involved in her own political platforms and beliefs.
With the ongoing expansion of technology, being “at risk” has become a common diagnosis that requires its own cycle of prescriptions and treatments. It’s almost like biomedicalization has become a disease like state in itself. Fosket uses this perspective to analyze the emergence of pharmaceuticals as credible strategies for breast cancer prevention and the analogous emergence of a group of women designated “high risk” for breast cancer and targeted for pharmaceutical interventions. These interventions include Chemoprevention, which is “the practice of ingesting pharmaceuticals or nutraceuticals to prevent disease” (Fosket 331). This practice of Chemoprevention was also seen in many articles we read this semester, some of which is Dumit’s “Pharmaceutical Witnessing and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising”, where he mentions how people may experience things that may not be pathological, like heart burn, b...
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Breast cancer affects nearly fifty thousand women each year in the UK. Breast cancer in women is more common over the age of fifty however in recent years there has seen a spike in younger women falling victim to breast cancer (Macmillan.org, 2012). Cancer Research (2012) states that there are a large mixture of emotions for someone being diagnosed with Breast Cancer and this also may directly impact the families and friends of those diagnosed. Furthermore Macmillian (2012) said that the feelings and emotions that come with a diagnosis of ...