Her full name is Margaret Jeanne Anderson Murphy. She was named Margaret after her grandmother and her mother. It was a family name that has carried on for four generations. She has always gone by her middle name, Jeanne. Her only nickname was a college one and it was “Cookie”. This nickname was given to her by her first boyfriend in college she was a freshman and he was a sophomore and when they broke up he said to his friends she a nice “cookie”.
A. Introductory statement: A research article by Sherry Turkle titled, The Documented Life, discusses how modern technology has caused us to put our lives on hold.
Shannon Lee Miller was born on Thursday, March 10, 1997. Coming into the world was not all that spectacular. She almost came in without a name. Ron and Claudia, Shannon’s parents, along with other daughter Tessa lived in Rolla, Missouri at the time. Her parents had been tossing around names but could not settle on one. Even in the delivery room they had trouble making their choice. Shannon’s mother, Claudia, preferred more unique names and on the other hand her father liked more common ones. Claudia got the name Shannon from someone she who had suggested the name to her while she was in a bookstore. Claudia presented the name to Ron, and on the delivery table they agreed to name the baby Shannon.
Margaret Garner, an enslaved African American woman in pre-Civil War America, was born on June 4, 1834, at Maplewood plantation in Boone County, Ky. Her parents were slaves belonging to the
Ernest J. Gaines stated, “That 's man 's way. To prove something. Day in, day out he must prove he is a man...” Gaines states this quote from his novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, which he publishes in 1971 just a few years after the ending of The Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement, also known as “The African American Civil Rights Movement”, was a battle started between the society and the African-American race for racial equality, acceptance, and respect as it was given to the Whites. However, the ongoing battle for blacks to obtain these expectations from society lasted for years, and would often force some blacks to separate themselves from the entire race and propose their worthiness of respect and manhood to society by proving and earning it as an individual instead of waiting for it to be handed to the entire race.
“The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”, arguably the most famous captivity tale of the American Indian-English genre, is considered a common illustration of the thematic style and purpose of the English captivity narrative. As “the captivity genre leant itself to nationalist agendas” (Snader 66), Rowlandson’s narrative seems to echo other captivity narratives in its bias in favor of English colonial power. Rowlandson’s tale is easy propaganda; her depiction of Native American brutality and violence in the mid-1600s is eloquent and moving, and her writing is infused with rich imagery and apt testimony that defines her religious interpretation of the thirteen-week captivity. Yet can a more comprehensive understanding of Rowlandson’s relationship to Indians exist in a closer reading of her narrative? As “captivity materials . . . are notorious for blending the real and the highly fictive” (Namias 23), can we infer the real colonial relationships of this captivity in applying a modern understanding of economic, political and cultural transformations of American Indians?
Queston # 5: In her 5th paragraph, Farrell discusses our fear of change. How does this fear of change connect to the practice of scapegoating? Identify some social scapegoats of the last century. For what were they blamed and why? Who represents the “forces of the new” today?
What would you do if you were a witness to child abuse today? Would you turn your head as if it were not your business, would you intervene immediately, or would you report the abuser to the authorities? It was approximately 1869 - 1870 when a woman named Charlotte Fiehling "cringed at the sound of the child's beating. She had heard it before, but had never laid eyes the child. The little girl was no more than five or six if she was a day, judging by her size, and her poor legs were striped with the welts of a whip, her body bruised from blows. Her hair matted and infested with vermin, no doubt, and she did not appear to have had a bath of any kind for many days, if not weeks" (qtd. In Shelman 187). This little girls name was Mary Ellen Wilson. Prior to 1874, the United States did not have any laws to protect children from abuse. Though society is still learning, we have come along way. There are still many cases of child abuse, but as a society we now have ways to intervene, and prevent this abuse and neglect. It was in 1874 when the first court case of child abuse was argued. It was the case of, Mary Ellen Wilson. Mary Ellen as a young girl was severely beaten with whips, burned with the iron, cut with scissors, not to mention the sexual, and emotional abuse. It was in 1874 that a major change in our legal system took place in society. The change was a realization to our legal system that we have to do something about children like Mary Ellen. We have learned many lessons from this alarming event. Now we have choices, now we can help, and now we have child protection services. This case has delivered us, as a society, many messages. I am going to point out two major lessons I found are crucial to how we do thi...
Scout, I'm [Jem] tellin' you for the last time, shut your trap or go home - I declare to the Lord you're gettin' more like a girl every day'" (52). It seems interesting that Lee assigns Jean Louise such a manly name. Although the nickname accurately describes her personality, it does not seem appropriate for female society.... ... middle of paper ...
Automobiles were beginning to appear on the dirt roads, telephone service was starting to make
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
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In “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson,” Mary Rowlandson, a Puritan mother from Lancaster, Massachusetts, recounts the invasion of her town by Indians in 1676 during “King Philip’s War,” when the Indians attempted to regain their tribal lands. She describes the period of time where she is held under captivity by the Indians, and the dire circumstances under which she lives. During these terrible weeks, Mary Rowlandson deals with the death of her youngest child, the absence of her Christian family and friends, the terrible conditions that she must survive, and her struggle to maintain her faith in God. She also learns how to cope with the Indians amongst whom she lives, which causes her attitude towards them to undergo several changes. At first, she is utterly appalled by their lifestyle and actions, but as time passes she grows dependent upon them, and by the end of her captivity, she almost admires their ability to survive the harshest times with a very minimal amount of possessions and resources. Despite her growing awe of the Indian lifestyle, her attitude towards them always maintains a view that they are the “enemy.”
Nancy Hazel, later to become known as Nannie Doss, was born on November 4th, 1905 in Blue Mountain, Alabama. Nannie was one of five children of Jim Hazle and Louisa Holder Hazle. She endured an abusive, despondent youth with an oppressive, unfeeling father. Nannie never learned to read well, and her education was erratic due to her father pulling her out of school during the sixth grade to help work on the farm. Nancy was a prisoner in her own home. Her mother, however, was viewed as adoring and gracious to Nannie and her three sisters. Both Nannie and her mother hated James, who was a strict, often controlling father and husband with a nasty streak (http://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/doss-nannie.htm). Her most loved diversion was understanding her mother 's romantic books and longing for a romantic eventual fate of her own. Eventually, Nannie would become obsessed in her mission for the ideal spouse and romance.
The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson is a personal account, written by Mary Rowlandson in 1682, of what life in captivity was like. Her narrative of her captivity by Indians became popular in both American and English literature. Mary Rowlandson basically lost everything by an Indian attack on her town Lancaster, Massachusetts in 1675; where she is then held prisoner and spends eleven weeks with the Wampanoag Indians as they travel to safety. What made this piece so popular in both England and America was not only because of the great narrative skill used be Mary Rowlandson, but also the intriguing personality shown by the complicated character who has a struggle in recognizing her identity. The reoccurring idea of food and the word remove, used as metaphors throughout the narrative, could be observed to lead to Mary Rowlandson’s repression of anger, depression, and realization of change throughout her journey and more so at the end of it.
Throughout career as an astronaut, Eileen Collins achieved several firsts in the history of space travel. Collins was the first woman to command a space shuttle in 1999. Eileen Marie Collins was born on November,19,1956, in Elmira New York. Collins's earliest life visiting Harris Hills and watching planes fly off the ridge of the city. Another favorite memory is going to the local airport with her parents and watching planes take off. When Collins was nine years old, her mother and father separated. It was an emotionally difficult time in Collins's life, made only worse by economic hardship. Her father lost his job and mother was looking for one. Later on her parents found jobs. But there was still a little room for luxury life. Callins Wanted