Kay Granger was born on January 18th, 1943 in Greenville, Texas. She grew up in Fort Worth, Texas after moving out with her family from Greenville and attended Eastern Hills High School. Subsequent to graduating from high school with a diploma, she then went to Texas Wesleyan University where she earned a bachelor's degree in education for english and journalism in 1965. Next she worked as a high school teacher where she was able to detect problems within her environment. Another job she pursued after becoming a teacher was an insurance agent. There was not much significance in this part of her life, but her career took a turn due to her involvement in the community she had grown up in.
In 1981 she became a part of the Fort Worth Zoning Committee
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.
The Purpose of education to Cornel West is for you to think for yourself and to find yourself. Cornel West also thinks that college is more than just having A great job, fancy cars & nice clothes it's deeper than the materialistic things. college isn't just about Getting a great job and moving up in that job it's about learning education and learning why you are in college. Also, he speaks on unavailable health care and child care which is the deeper issue of what is going on in society. People are worried about superficial items rather than the important issues on not being able to afford health care and child care. The point Cornel west is trying to make is education should unsettle you which means that the things that you may believe or
Katherine Dunham, born on June 22, 1909 was an African American dancer. Her mother Fanny June Dunham died when she became sick and her father Albert Dunham Sr., left to work as a salesman. Dunham and her older brother Albert Jr., were raised by their loving aunt Lulu on the ghetto side of Chicago. At four years old, Dunham would go to the salon, her aunt’s workplace, and would always remember how much her mother loved music. It was not long before that when Katherine noticed how people would look at her aunt because of the color of her skin. It was why Lulu lost her job and had to move in with other relatives as her aunt could not afford their little apartment anymore. They moved several times with Dunham family members, where Katherine discovered
Analytic Essay Assignment #3 The Education of Shelby Knox is a 2005 documentary about a teenager named Shelby Knox who lives in a small town called Lubbock located in Texas. Although, the high schools in her county teach abstinence as the only form od safe sex, Lubbock has some of the rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases in the nation. Shelby Knox is a devout Christian girl who has pledged abstinence until marriage. She is a “graduate” from the popular virginity- preservation program called True Love Waits. She embarks on a journey in being an activist for sex education and the separation of her school and church.
Helen Frankenthaler was an American born painter, sculptor and printmaker. Frankenthaler, with two fellow artists, led the way into the development of Color Field painting, a component of Abstract Expressionism. Frankenthaler is recognized as one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century as a result of her contribution of great talent and the ability to deliver beautiful and innovative works on canvas and paper. "Frankenthaler's radiant canvases are known and admired all over the world, her intimate and equally powerful works on paper are as yet unfamiliar to the majority of museum audiences (Wilkin 6)." Frankenthaler created these paper pieces with the same vivaciousness as she did with her larger works on canvas building a large collection of water colors, gouache, and mixed media pieces.
Anne Sullivan was born April,14 1866 in Massachusetts. Her parents were Thomas and Alice Sullivan. Also, she had a little brother JImmie. Her parents who were originally from Ireland, made there way to the U.S during the Great Famine. Anne was only 8 years old when her mother contracted the virus Tuberculosis, and later died. Her father, being heart broke by Alice's death, sent both of his children to live in Tewsbury at an Almshouse.
In 1991, she landed a job as a part-time legal commentator for Court TV. In 1992, she had a contract with the Today Show as their legal correspondent. She managed to land “hard-to-get” interviews with some of the most famous people in the world including Mike Tyson. Those interviews are what led to her getting national fame. She also gained respect for her reporting on such trials as O.J. Simpson and Lorena Bobbit.
...ing lecturer and professor at Clearmont College. She is divorced from her husband Allen Shawn, whom she had two children with. Kincaid now resides in Vermont.
Evelyn was born on May 1, 1924 in Washington, DC. Her father, William Boyd, had many jobs to help support her family. Her mother, Julia Boyd, was a secretary and also support her family. When she was just five years old, she and her family lived through the Great Depression which caused her father to have many jobs. A little after, her parents separated. Her mother had an older sister and moved in with her and brought Evelyn as well. She began to attend Elementary, Junior high, and high school as she got older. She wanted to get an education and want to decide on what her career may be. The high school she attended was Dunbar high and was aspired by two Math teachers, Ulysses Basset and Mary Cromwell. This was the start of her discovering her career. When she graduated from high school, she attended Smith College with much her from herself and her family. Her mother sis...
The costumes the characters wore in this play showed the audience that the setting of this play took place in the beginning of the twenty-first century, our modern time today. Rita, a young woman attending a single college class, wore many modern trends seen in the world today. In the first act of the play, this character frequently paired breezy, flowery, bright colored skirts with cowboy boots and a denim jacket. This is a clothing trend we see frequently today, especially in colleges in the southern parts of the United States of America, such as Texas A&M University. Frank, Rita’s aging college professor, wore many cardigans and sweaters that were of the same style as the ones we see in today’s department stores and online catalogs. Many of the costume pieces of both Rita and Frank looked as if they were made out of cotton, which is a common material used by clothing companies today.
She was born in 1887 near the small town of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Throughout her early life she received art training at many different institutes, such as the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Students League of New York, the University of Virginia, and Columbia University’s Teachers College, New York. She also became an art teacher and taught at many
In Jane Tompkins, A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned, Jane uncovers flaws in the American education system and how poorly formal education prepares pupils for careers after schooling. She describes how her teachers at P.S. 98 used authority to form the person she is now, teaching at Duke. Her experience dabbling in alternative teaching methods established the path she took throughout her career. Although Tompkins experience is atypical of most students, I agree with her argument about how fear is a successful means of motivation for those that can succumb to it, but alternatives exist that have been demonstrated and are successful.
Although Margaret More Roper received recognition as a learned woman in her own time, she is most often viewed through the lens of her relationship with her father, Thomas More, as his well-read and dutiful daughter. Inextricably tied to the life of her father, Roper’s story and her accomplishments rely on the association of her father and his colleagues. Historians gleaned evidence of her character and intelligence through letters from her father, commentary from his humanist contemporaries, and her depiction in the biographies of her father, including one written by her husband, William Roper. Roper herself contributed very little direct information about her life. Although credited as a talented poet and writer, she left behind only a few letters and a translation piece.
The best kind of teachers are the ones who not only care about how you grow in their class, but how you grow as a person. A good teacher teaches us how to write essays and take notes. A great teacher teaches us skills that carry us throughout our life. They teach the kinds of skills that make us better people and better leaders. I have been blessed to have a teacher who wants to see me excel in all aspects of my junior high and high school career and not just in her class. Ruthi McGarry would not be classified as just a teacher, she is more than a teacher, she was a student, a mother , a rape victim, No matter who you were Mrs. Mcgarry would draw you into her own little family and treat you like a child of her own. Thousands of kids could tell
“Changing Educational Paradigms” is a video where Sir Ken Robinson explains why he believes the current educational system has to change in order to stop the rise of American students being treated for ADHD. Robinson reveals that schools haven’t changed since the 18th century where the enlightenment and the industrial revolution had a lot to do with how American schools were designed to work. American schools are still organized based on the production line mentality, and intelligence was based off deductive reasoning and knowledge of the classics, all of this is deep in the academic gene pool. Robinson states that while they are trying to change the educational system they are doing so by doing what they did in the past. Which is something