Upon analysis of Martha Ballard’s diary during the period 1785 to 1790, it is revealed that the nature of women’s work in later eighteenth-century New England was strongly divided by gender. According to Ulrich, although women could both work at home or outside, their contribution was never officially recognized. In addition, it can be deduced from the diary that women were expected to abide by the constrains of a patriarchal society while also conforming to gender norms. However, the women in these times were strangely empowered through the informal economy they had created for themselves. These deductions are primarily supported by the evidence found through the entries in Martha’s diary.…
Johanna Mansfield Sullivan or better known as Anne Sullivan is a teacher and instructor famous for teaching Helen how to sign and communicate. Sullivan was born April 14, 1866 in Agawam Massachusetts. Her parents were poor immigrants that did not know how to read or write. When she was five, she contracted a disease called trachoma. This disease caused painful infections in her eyes and made her blind.…
During her high school years, Moody starts to realize that it is not only white people who are standing in the way of desegregation. She was a quite attractive young lady, and she began to receive a lot of affectionate attention from her male basketball coach at school. The other girls became envious of Moody and would stop her from participating during games by refusing to pass to her or throwing the ball over her head (p. 200). This level of disloyalty among her own people - black females - shows Moody that not everyone will be on her side and that it will take convincing both black and white people that working as a team is the most important way to end segregation.…
Anne’s diary begins on her thirteenth birthday, June 12, 1942, and ends shortly after her fifteenth. At the start of her diary, Anne describes fairly typical girlhood experiences, writing about her friendships with other girls, her crushes on boys, and her academic performance at school. Because anti-Semitic laws forced Jews into separate schools, Anne and her older sister, Margot, attended the Jewish Lyceum in Amsterdam. The Franks had moved to the Netherlands in the years leading up to World War II to escape persecution in Germany.…
Sue Thomas was born on May 24, 1950. She was a beautiful baby girl, born with no complications. However, Sue became profoundly deaf at 18 months and the doctors had no explanation for why this happened. Sue’s parents were devastated, but were determined that Sue would be able to speak and function normally. With years of speech therapy, she developed her voice and became an excellent lip reader.…
Anne Frank was a Jewish girl born June 12, 1929. She grew up during the Holocaust and had to go into hiding in 1943. As through her time in hiding, she kept a diary, noting down everything she did and day by day events. In 1944, Anne Frank and her family were found in hiding and sent to the concentration camps. Anne died in the concentration camps, but if she would have survived a few more days she could have survived the Holocaust.…
Susan J. Douglas and Anne Moody had two amazing life stories to portray to the world. Susan was a white female child growing up during the baby boom in the 1950s, and Anne Moody was a black female child born in the 1940s living in the brutal south with very harsh conditions towards those who were colored. These two women had different life stories because of the color of their skin and the location of their home towns. The different challenging lives of these two girls shaped how they viewed the American society and everything that went into it. Susan Douglas’s life was much different than the life of Anne Moody.…
BEAUTIFUL HANDS Moragan lay on the floor of the upstairs parlor next to the window, her bare feet propped on a settee, studying the passage in her primer that Anne would listen to her read aloud. Mindful of keeping herself looking neat and tidy she made sure her crisp white apron and bright yellow skirts were not bunched up underneath her so that they would not become wrinkled. Her toes kept time with the rhythm of her reading. She read with the McGuffey Third Eclectic Reader resting on her chest, her head on a pillow borrowed from the armchair to which the settee belonged.…
Kids and adults today don’t care as much for an education like Keller and Douglass did in these stories. Keller and Douglass wanted to learn so badly that they went through the struggles that they had to. Hellen Keller was a blind and deaf woman and Fredrick Douglass was an African American slave that was not allowed to learn. Both "The Story of My Life" and "Narrative or the Life of Fredrick Douglas, an American Slave" share the central idea that education is worth the struggle they had to go through, but they do so in different ways To begin with, Keller’s struggle with education was different from Douglass’s because she was blind.…
Too often do we take for granted the basic ability to speak in fear of critical judgment from our peers. The pressures of fitting into society as normal citizens brutally crushes the confidence and dreams of a happy life for Helen Keller in “A Word for Everything,” and “Living with Dyslexia,” written by Gareth Cook. In her early childhood, Helen Keller recalls standing on her porch feeling dumb and uncertain of what the future held for her due to being deaf and blind (Keller 145). Gareth Cook expresses his fear and shame when coming out with his disability of being dyslexic for it would impact his reputation and the integrity of his work (Cook 158). Helen and Gareth were born into the world with disabilities in learning which forced them to…
“Every new beginning comes from another beginning’s end.” -Anonymous. During my nine years at St. Anne’s, I have grown as a person, created memories, and learned profound lessons. The people at St. Anne’s have assisted me to grow into an open-minded, loving individual. Through the years, kindergarten to eighth grade, the teachers have taught me valuable lessons and my peers and I have created many memories.…
Helen Keller really tried her hardest and never gave up to get how far she got. No matter what happened to her and no matter how many times she could've given up she never did and that is astonishing. She is a beautiful example of a great…
Since the beginning of English settlement in North America, there are many documents that make America as it is today. From the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to the United States Constitution in 1787, then come the Bill of Rights in 1791. These documents became the “official” documents of the United States. They shaped America to become the nation of freedom with freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, and the right to vote. However, what happen to documents that are not official?…
Anne Mansfield Sullivan began working with Helen, fingerspelling out lessons of arithmetic, science, biology, zoology, botany, and much more, turning Helen Keller into an inquisitive, hardworking young learner. Despite her disabilities, Helen doggedly persevered through her education, attended speech classes, and graduated college at the age of 24, becoming an influential figure because of her remarkable story. Following her college graduation, Helen joined the WAmerican Federation for the Blind. There, Helen’s enthusiastic and ambitious spirit led to her participation in campaigns to raise money and support for the education of those living with disabilities. Years later, Helen was appointed the counselor of the foundation and inspired thousands of people through her speeches…
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt Germany on June 12th, 1929. Being a Jew in Europe during this time was difficult and made her life troublesome. Hitler was searching for people of the Jewish religion everywhere. Due to this, at just thirteen years old, Anne had to go into hiding with her father, mother, and older sister. However, in 1945 when Anne was just fifteen, she and the seven other people living in the annex, were found by the Germans and were taken to various concentration camps.…