If married, they stayed at home to look after the children while their husband worked and brought in a weekly wage. If single, they did work which usually involved some form of service such as working as a waitress, cooking etc. Many young women were simply expected to get married and have children. In this book there is a girl who doesn’t want to grow up, get married, and have children, because once you grow up in that time period there is not much you can do. The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly is about a girl names Callie, who is interested in science and knowledge. Callie's grandfather teaches her everything he knows, while her parents want her to be a lady who is married. Callie wants to have an education and be things like a scientist or a veterinarian. Which in that time in not normal. One character that stands out in the story is Callie. This character can be described as resourceful , Intelligent, and Curious. Callie can be described as …show more content…
"But you're smart as a tree full of owls..." Travis wants Callie to teach him to not be bothered by blood and guts. Callie wants to have an education. "Gosh, Callie, you're so smart. And sneaky." Travis and Callie were finding ways to feed a dog. These examples explain why Callie is an intelligent person. Finally Callie is also portrayed as curious. Callie was curious enough to look into Lamar's coin box. She cuts open animals because she is curios and wants to learn about science. The last example is that Callie carries a notebook around with her. When Callie gets curious, she writes the questions or answers in her notebook. All of the examples show that Callie is curious. In the novel, The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate, Callie can be described as Intelligent, Curious, and resourceful. In conclusion, this shows that Callie is a resourceful, intelligent, and curious thirteen year old. I chose Callie because I really like her personality and
Baillargeon also mentions the work that women did in order to earn money to help care for their families. The women she interviewed did many of the same things mentioned by Hollingsworth and Tyyska at home, only a few were employed outside the home. In several cases the husbands of the women did additional work on top of their regular jobs.
Describe the importance of Calpurnia in the lives of the Finch family. and the novel as a whole. Calpurnia is more than just a family cook to the Finch’s. She also acts as the mother to Jem and Scout by helping to bring them up. teaching them right from wrong, disciplining them and comforting them.
...ultiple children which, as any parent will tell you, would’ve been more than a full-time job. One key point from “A Fourierist Newspaper Criticizes the Nuclear Family” that supports the assertion is the fact that not all women back then were fulfilled being a full-time homemaker, and desired more opportunities and rights than society allowed them to possess. Their desire to be more than a homemaker would often be completely ignored, though, so just like slaves of the period, they had no other option than to fulfill their societal role. One key point from “Woman in the Nineteenth Century” that supports the assertion is the fact that a women’s education would be primarily in the domestic and social spheres with only a minimal amount of proper education, showing that society considered them only to have enough intellectual capacity to be a domestic household servant.
Lastly, another way that Summer shows that she is smart is that she helps Teddy solve the panda case. This is the main point of the book and Summer plays a big role in it. Summer helped Teddy come up with good plans to try to figure out who kidnapped the panda and how to get the panda back. She also helps encourage Teddy that he can solve the case, even when the FBI is telling him otherwise.
“The Pastoralization of Housework” by Jeanne Boydston is a publication that demonstrates women’s roles during the antebellum period. Women during this period began to embrace housework and believed their responsibilities were to maintain the home, and produce contented and healthy families. As things progressed, housework no longer held monetary value, and as a result, womanhood slowly shifted from worker to nurturer. The roles that women once held in the household were slowly diminishing as the economy became more industrialized. Despite the discomfort of men, when women realized they could find decent employment, still maintain their household and have extra income, women began exploring their option.
Weiner, Lynn Y. From Working Girl to Working Mother: The Female Labor Force in the United States, 1820-1980. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1985.
In chapter 8, this quote is used to foreshadow what might happen in the chapter named, “Microscopy”. The book “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, has every chapter begin with a quote from Charles Darwin’s book, “On the Origin of Species”. These quotes are used to foreshadow or explain what might happen in the upcoming chapter. “The crust of the earth is a vast museum…” is a quote that goes along extremely well with the chapter, “Microscopy” because of the correlation with microscopic creatures living on the top layer of earth’s crust. Millions of miniscule organisms are currently living on earth’s crust, that's worms, bugs, and anything else that so small no one can see. In chapter 8, Calpurnia and her grandfather collect microscopic specimens
To be intelligent means to be able to apply what we learned in school and use what we learned in our everyday life to achieve a goals that is sit or one that we are accomplishing without knowing. Many people think that a person is intelligent because they went to a university, got a degree, and have a good paying job, so they must be smart and know everything however thats not always true. If we would ask a teacher or professor the chances of them knowing how to fix a car are slim. So why do we think teachers are so intelligent? We think teachers are intelligent because they know everything about their subjects, know how to teach it and know how to apply their knowledge to their everyday lives.
One of Miss Moore's defining qualities is her intelligence. Her academic skills and self-presentation is noticeable through her college degree and use of “proper speech” (Bambara, 385). Miss Moore also makes her intelligence evident from the methods she uses to teach Sylvia and the other children. Unlike planting them in classrooms, she takes them out on trips to show them the real world. Despite all the insults she receives from th...
Before I watched 'A Midwife's Tale', a movie created from the diary found by Laurel Ulrich chronicling the life of a woman named Martha Ballard, I thought the women in these times were just housewives and nothing else. I pictured them doing the cleaning and the cooking for their husbands and not being very smart because of the lack of education or them being unable to work. My view on the subject changed however when I watched this specific woman's life and her work.
Fenstad’s mother, Clara, is a character quite opposite from her son. She is older and does not get out of her house much. She used to be very active in politics and loves to be around people. She has a kindness and generosity that instantly attracts other people. When she begins to visit Fenstad’s logic class, the students seem to be more interested in what she has to say than in what Fenstad is trying to teach. Mrs. Fenstad is aware and understands her own magnetism and tries not to take too much attention away from her son.
Middle class families were better off economically than their working class counterparts. In these families men worked in jobs considered to be middle class white-collar occupations. Women were therefore staying home and surviving on the man’s salary. With these middle class women staying home along with the smaller amounts of household production, a new type of labor arises. Women in this early 19th century time period become more and more involved in child rearing. The household work for these middle class women is task-oriented and unwaged. This makes them more and more dependent on their husband’s salary and more responsible for the children who were also out of the labor force.
When Louisa May Alcott turned seventeen, she was such a beautiful woman, who was tall and charming. She had great blue eyes and brown hair. However, she would never get married because she thought that a woman could take care of herself without a man’s supports (Delamar 34). Because of her difficult life, she began to work at an early age. She worked as a governess, a seamstress, and a teacher. When she was fifteen, she taught some of her younger playmates. During her teaching and...
Young girls did not go to school. Middle and upper class girls leaned to read and write from a female tutor at home (Connolly, 35). Girls generally stayed at home until they were married, which was around the age of 15 (Ancient Civilizations, online). They helped their mother in the house and worked in the fields when they were needed (Exploring Ancient, online).
In the early colonial times, women’s roles were very defined. Men and society expected women to have children, raise those children proper, and be the best homemaker of all time. In the beginning, women were educated for the sake of family and society: the new republic needed educated mothers to produce reasonable, responsible male citizens. (Kaminer 1998) They were taught knowledge so they could pass that on to their daughters. Most of this knowledge included the skills on how to be the best homemaker to her husband and children.