As I previously stated, knowledge of my mother's side of the family is very limited, while my father's side dates way back. The farthest I am able to go with the Martin side is to my great great grandma, Dorothy. Of which I knew for most of my life, until my freshman year when she passed. Her husband was named Maynard Myers. He died of old age before I was able to meet him. I do know that he was in the army and had both of his legs amputated before coming back home. I was lucky to be able to not only meet my great great grandma, but to have her be such a huge part of my life. I dedicate a lot of what I do today in honor of her. My mother always told me stories about her from when she was younger and had her own singing radio show with my
Sheila Johnson was born on May 11, 1999 she was born to her mother Mandy and father Mike. She had two older siblings, the oldest Sydney and the middle child and only boy Nathan. Sheila was 7 pounds 8 ounces when she was born at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Sheila was born with brown hair and hazel eyes with one dimple on her left cheek. As a child Sheila enjoyed watching Telly Tubbies while cuddling the blanket, she would never go anywhere without. She was a daddy’s girl as she grew up. Therefore, she had him wrapped around her finger.
My mother was a complex, multi-faceted person. Many of you here today knew my mother personally, and many of you knew my mother indirectly through one of her family members. You may have known her as a coworker, a friend, or a support person. Of course, all of my mother’s family here today each knew a part of her, a “facet” of her--as a mother, a sister, an aunt, a grandmother, a cousin.
Former Prime Minister of England, Margaret Thatcher, in her 2004 eulogy for Ronald Reagan, exemplifies both his impact and legacy on the world. Throughout her speech, Thatcher memorializes Reagan’s performance in office as well as the decisions he made as a person by illustrating their time together to the reader. By utilizing these examples, the reader can then understand Thatcher’s overall claim that Reagan was one of the most profound leaders in history; however, the impact of Thatcher’s use of diction and sentence arrangement both provoke thought in the reader and allows him or her to comprehend her message on a more sophisticated level.
Dorothy Rothschild, later to become the famous writer Dorothy Parker, was born on August 22, 1893 to J. Henry Rothschild and Eliza A (Marston) Rothschild in West End, New Jersey. Parker’s father, Mr. Rothschild, was a Jewish business man while Mrs. Rothschild, in contrast, was of Scottish descent. Parker was the youngest of four; her only sister Helen was 12 and her two brothers, Harold and Bertram, were aged 9 and 6, respectively. Just before her fifth birthday, Dorothy’s mother became very ill and died on July 20, 1897. Three years later in 1900, Mr. Rothschild remarried to a 48 year-old spinster widow, Eleanor Frances Lewis, who Dorothy referred to as “the housekeeper.” The new Mrs. Rothschild entered Dorothy in the Blessed Sacrament Convent School, where the Catholic ways of thinking were instilled in her. Fortunately or unfortunately, in 1903 Dorothy’s stepmother dropped dead of an acute cerebral hemorrhage and consequently Dorothy did not have to continue at the Blessed Sacrament Convent. A few years later, in the fall of 1907, Dorothy entered Miss Dana’s school, a junior college, where she studied several different disciplines and was exposed to current events and cultural activities. This environment nourished Dorothy’s intellectual appetite, but this too was short-lived; Miss Dana died in March 1908. Dorothy, now aged 14, was only at the school for one year, the fall of 1907 to the spring of 1908 (Miss Dana’s school had to file for bankruptcy). In 1913, Mr. Rothschild died leaving Dorothy, age 19, to find her own way and support herself.
The American Dream is a strong and powerful set of values that includes the chance to have an abundance of freedom, wealth, and success. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the American Dream is something everybody wants. Sometimes it takes a long journey to achieve these goals and the path taken may not be an easy one.
When sorting through the Poems of Dorothy Parker you will seldom find a poem tha¬t you could describe as uplifting or cheerful. She speaks with a voice that doesn’t romanticize reality and some may even call her as pessimistic. Though she doesn’t have a buoyant writing style, I can empathize with her views on the challenges of life and love. We have all had experiences where a first bad impression can change how we view an opportunity to do the same thing again. Parker mostly writes in a satirical or sarcastic tone, which can be very entertaining to read and analyze.
Lady Tahat , a chantress and singer to the gods in the temple of Amun at Karnak. On the lid of her coffin, Lady Tahat’s effigy is surrounded by multiple protective gods. They are all colored in the customary colors of red, yellow, and green. Isis is found on the coffin lid’s center. She is the moon and the throne, fertility and healing. As a winged goddess she may represent the wind. Isis represents the “Mother of Life”, because she gave birth to Horus, the god of the sun. Together Isis and Horus created and sustained life. As she is a goddess, she takes whatever form she likes, but usually is seen as a Falcon or with falcon wings. On the mummy board of the Lady Tahat’s coffin, Isis is shown with wings of the Black Kyte Falcon spread
Are you aware that out of the more or less 600 people involved in the selma march 17 were injured and 2 were killed when state trooper violently attacked the protesters with billy clubs, tear gas, dogs, and firehouses or that a lot of black people were denied the right to vote? well Dorothy Cotton was one of many people in the SCLC to try to help change that and are still trying to change that.
Dorothy Day was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 8, 1897. Her mother, Grace Satterlee Day was a New Yorker and her father, John Day, was from Tennessee. Dorothy had three brothers and a sister. At the age of six, John Day, her dad, had been relocated for his job and the family moved to Oakland. However, in 1906 he lost his job to the San Francisco earthquake. Unfortunately, the earthquake had destroyed the newspaper industry. At this young age, Dorothy was able to recognize how in this time of need people like her mother and her neighbors were helping out the poor and homeless during the tragedy. Those matters of kindness had really affected her and she could not forget them. On the other hand, due to the earthquake, the family moved to Chicago where they ended up living for the next twelve years of their lives.
Dorothy Parker was not your average twentieth century writer. She was full of wit, sarcasm, and scathe (Rathbone). Her bold personality does not fail to show through in her writing. Her reviews for Vanity Fair, as a staff writer and drama critic, have been described as “a combination of acumen and nonsense,” (Bloom). Dorothy often got fired for offending clients, however, she was a large part in changing the "humorless and prudish" reputation that women had (Beilke). She developed a reputation for witty and out of the ordinary writing. She won the O. Henry Memorial Award for her short story, “Big Blonde” ("Parker, Dorothy"). Dorothy Parker participated in the elite group, the Algonquin Round Table, where talented writers, editors, and actors -mostly men- would lunch and trade witticisms and make each other laugh (Grant). Things weren’t always great for Ms. Parker; she often had a hard time reaching deadlines due to her heavy drinking and writing anxiety which caused her work to be sporadic and unreliable (Bloom). Devastated by her miscarriage, Dorothy found writing tough and wrote less frequently (Grant). She kept her standards high, but her sarcasm was shadowed by her unhappiness and the unhappiness around her (Grant).
On June 11, 2004, Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister of Great Britain, delivered a eulogy to the American people in honor of former United States president, Ronald Reagan. In this eulogy, Thatcher uses parallel syntax and diction to create a sense of not only sadness, but pride in the hearts of the American people. Through the use of parallel syntax and diction, Thatcher is able to effectively convey her message to her audience in a very meaningful and powerful way. In the first paragraph Thatcher says, “I have lost a dear friend”, by saying this she is connecting herself to her audience. She is letting her audience know that she had a close relationship with Ronald Reagan, and that we can believe what she is telling us.
Phyllis Dorothy James was born August 3, 1920 Oxford, England. James ended up moving to Wales and the moved to Cambridge, England. She was attending Cambridge high school for girls. Her family was not very wealthy and her dad did not believe in education beyond high school for girls. So James went to work for an tax office for three years. Then went and married Ernest Connor Bantry White in 1941. James and Ernest had two children, Claire and Jane. James was in her forties when her first novel, cover her face was published in 1962. She used her personal live and her professional live to write her amazing stories. “These aided her in both her description of police detective work and her portrayal of characters” (Encyclopedia). James used her work for the bases of her novel. She gave her readers background on police and medical procedures. In A Mind to Murder (1962), Shroud for a Nightingale (1971), and Death of an Expert Witness (1977). She is focused on examine a relationship between people will still telling a mystery. In 1999 she received the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award for long term achievement. She is published all over the world as: Sweden, Finland, Portugal, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Argentina, USA, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, Holland and Norway. This is a quote that P.D. James wrote in children of men, "History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future, is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species." (P.D. James) This book has a great theme, setting and great motifs.
Good afternoon, let me just start by saying that the kindness, support, friendship, and love extended to me and my family during this difficult time has really touched my heart- we are sincerely appreciative!
The Long Loneliness is the autobiography of Dorothy Day and ultimately the story of a woman whose loneliness drove her to the conversion of Catholicism. Dorothy Day was born and raised in a family who were strangers to religion. Her first exposure to God came when she was still young, as she attended church with some of her neighbors. It was here she found that she liked the feeling of worship in the collective body of the congregation. However, she also became disillusioned by those people who only attended church on Sundays, assuming their profession of the faith to others did not extend to outside the church itself. These church visits merely set the foundation for Day’s journey with God.
Where do I start? How do I begin a farewell when I still can't believe you're gone? How do I say goodbye to a part of my soul?