Have you ever met a passionate, outspoken person who loves the color blue, can’t stand when people say libary, and enjoys listening to classical music? Well, Maya Jenkins has all those traits. Maya was born on August 12, 2001 in Richmond, VA. She has a father, who is a mortician, a mother, who is a financial worker, and a sister in college. Her whole family, including her, moved to Chesterfield County when Maya was four, because Maya’s parents didn’t want her to grow up in the school system there. Maya is a freshman at Cosby High School. Her favorite subject is English, because she enjoys poetry and writing. Her least favorite subject is Science, because she has always had a bad teacher. If Maya could change anything about Cosby, she would change the way teachers teach the subject’s material. She thinks that teachers should teach the material based on the students’ preferred teaching process, and teachers should give out less homework. She usually spends about two to three hours …show more content…
If Maya has free time during the day, she likes to spend it writing or watch her favorite TV show Vampire Diaries. Maya also used to do track, but she stopped during the middle of the season because of allergies. Although, she doesn’t do any sports, she has a couple hobbies that she enjoys. Maya likes to write or sew, she will usually only sews if her clothes has holes or if it’s too long. Maya’s dream college is Syracuse University. Maya has been hoping to get into Syracuse University for a long time. She sees herself in college majoring in Mass Communications and minoring in Political Science, focusing on law in five years. She wants to either be a journalist, politician, or a sociologist as a career choice once she graduates out of college. When Maya gets her whole life planned out and settled; she would love to go to Paris, France for a dream
Often the change and transition to middle is a difficult one for students, so it is no surprise that a student of Juanita’s caliber would be having trouble as well. Her regular middle school teachers were not going above and beyond to make sure Juanita succeed, if anything it seemed as if Juanita was a burden to them. If it was not for the Ms. Issabelle’s effort, Juanita would have failed the 6th grade, and possibly fell through the cracks of the education system.
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship”-Louisa May Alcott. Captured by Comanche Indians around age eight, Cynthia Ann Parker was a white girl with an Indian spirit and lots of perseverance. She not only was a survivor and a witness of the Comanche raid on Fort Parker in May of 1836 but also became the chief’s wife. Cynthia Ann Parker is a well-known, accomplished woman in Texas History.
Mary Bryant was in the group of the first convicts (and the only female convict) to ever escape from the Australian shores. Mary escaped from a penal colony which often is a remote place to escape from and is a place for prisoners to be separated. The fact that Bryant escaped from Australia suggests that she was a very courageous person, this was a trait most convicts seemed to loose once they were sentenced to transportation. This made her unique using the convicts.
At any point in time, someone’s world can be turned upside down by an unthinkable horror in a matter of seconds. On June 20th, 2001 in a small, suburban household in Houston, TX, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub after her husband left for work. The crime is unimaginable, yes, but the history leading up to the crime is just as important to the story. Andrea Yates childhood, adulthood, and medical history are all potent pieces of knowledge necessary to understanding the crime she committed.
Katherine Johnson is a memorable African American mathematician and an icon for young black girls around the world. Katherine Johnson loved math. Early in her career, she was called a “computer.” She helped NASA put an astronaut into orbit around Earth, and then she helped put a man on the moon.
Detective Maya Vasquez is the protagonist of the show. She comes from a lower end of a middle class economic background and is a native of Lake Arthur. Three ways to describe her are: intrepid, a straight-shooter, and persistent. Maya is also Latina which plays an important role in the way she is treated by side characters. She did not attend college, but did attend and complete her training at a police academy. Maya’s character is similar to the theme in Shondaland of having a multi-dimensional career-driven female lead. However, unlike Scandal’s Olivia Pope and How to Get Away With Murder’s Annalise Keating, Maya Vasquez is not world-renowned or even well revered within her own town. Instead she struggles to be taken seriously in her field
The culmination of the novel is when Maya describes her eighth grade graduation. Angelou, her classmates, and parents listen to the condescending and racist manner in which the guest speaker talks. After listening to his insults, Maya realizes "she is the master of her fate" which was expressed in the valedictory address given by her classmate. Maya becomes a single parent at the age of eighteen, bu...
In the beginning of the story Dona Tina it talks about Luis “ Louie the foot “ who was the founder of the Royal Chicano Air Force which was originally Rebel Chicano Art Front. It's based in Sacramento where it started in the 1960s to advocate the Civil Rights and Labor Rights Movement. Montoya had started the Rebel Chicano Art in 1969 they wanted to express the goals of the Chicano Civil Rights and Labor Movement of the United farm workers with his friend Esteban Villa.
Being a young black girl in the 1940’s was not the easiest thing to be. At that time, the two kinds of people who were believed to be of little or no importance were blacks and women. Throughout the book Maya never really accepted the fact that she was not going to get anywhere because of her status. She always tried to be the best in whatever she did, and always felt that she was just as good as or even better than many of the white people. It was not until she went to live with her mother that she really put action behind her feelings.
Maya Angelou Born Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri Maya Angelou later changed her name to promote her writing. Maya- represents the childhood name her brother Bailey gave her and Angelou is a variation of her married last name. At the age of three her parents divorced and sent her and her younger brother Bailey to live with their paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. When she was seven years old she moved to Chicago to live with her mother and encountered one of the most traumatic experiences of her life. When Maya was eight years old she was sexually assaulted and the man that assaulted her is murdered.
According to Holland, Maya Angelou graduated at the top of her eighth grade class in Stamps. Her and her brother then continued their education in California. At the age of sixteen she brought her son Guy Johnson into the world. She had to then work a number of jobs like a waitress, cook, and nightclub singer to provide for her son. In her early career, she appeared in plays and musicals around the world as a singer and actres...
Doris Humphrey was born October 17, 1895, in Oak Park, United States and died on December 29, 1958 in New York, New York. Humphrey is an american modern dancer and an creator of technique, choreography, and theory of dance movement. In 1917, after graduating from high school and teaching dance in Chicago for four years, she joined the Denishawn dance school and company in Los Angeles. As she became a soloist in the company in 1920 she starting practicing choreographing. Her first major work, to Edward MacDowell “Sonata Tragica,” was presented in 1925.
In her autobiography, Maya Angelou tells the story of her coming into womanhood in the American South during the 1930s. She begins with the story of an incident she had on Easter Sunday in which she’s in church reciting a poem in front of everyone; however, she messes up leaving her unable to finish the poem, so she runs out of the church crying and wets herself. Growing up her parents had a rough marriage, and eventually they got a divorce when Maya was only 3 years old. Their parents send her and her older brother Bailey to live with their grandmother Mrs. Annie Henderson in Staples, Arkansas. Staples is a very rural area and their grandmother owns the only store in the black section of the town, so she is very respected amongst the people
For a long time, women’s potential in Science was little to none. However, over the years, it has now changed because of the outstanding breakthroughs and encouraging accomplishments women have done through the years. It is because of them, women’s potential in Science and other realms of studies has now evolved with more understandings and discoveries. It is for the reason of Maria Mitchell, one of the first female astronomers to be recognized in Science, that women’s potential were essentially respected. Her discoveries during her time as a student, a teacher, and an astronomer paved the way for many others, not just in Science, but also for woman’s rights and potential to be seen.
Marguerite Anne Johnson, better known as Maya Angelou, was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was born and raised in an era that involved the Great Depression and World War I. When her parents divorced at a young age, she and her brother were sent to live with her grandmother in a heavily racially segregated Stamps , Arkansas. She found solace in her brother, Bailey, in the hard times produced by the South. This segregation was severe in this era, especially for shy young Marguerite. Throughout her childhood, she was sent from her grandmother to her father and mother. All these different environments exposed Angelou to a series of experiences including: racism, segregation, music, and politics. These experiences were most likely what prompted her to chronicle her life through autobiographical works as well as poems. In these works, Angelou utilizes elements such as literary devices, poetic devices, allusions, recurring themes and symbols to portray