Have you had to face prejudice? What is prejudice you ask, prejudice is being harmed by judgment of a group, a race or characteristics. Two women named Maria Tallchief and Rosa Bonheur had to face prejudice in their lives. In my opinion I think Maria Tallcheif faced the most prejudice. Maria Tallchief was a Native American Ballerina.…
Emma E. Akin came to the oil Boomtown of Drumright, OK in 1920 to teach at the many elementary schools strewn about the oil patch. It wasn’t until 1930 that she would be required to add the segregated school of Dunbar, named for the African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, to her roster. Prior to this assignment, Mrs. Akin had no interaction with the African-American race and was not overjoyed to find herself in this position. However, after a year of working with the faculty and students at Dunbar School, she fell in love with this community.…
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.…
Angela is a single parent of two, she had my brother at the age of 19. Therefore after graduating high school, she did not enroll in college. When she finally decided to go to college, she had her first bundle of joy “Me”. My mother also was a commuter, whom just bought her first reliable car a few months before having me. Now having to juggle two kids, a full time job, and school was way too overwhelming, which lead her to drop.…
Brian Diaz Ms. Schaller English H Per. 3 2 May 2017 AMDG The Things They Carried: Mary Anne Mary Anne is brought to Vietnam by her boyfriend, Mark Fossie. She experiences Vietnam in a conflicting way. She arrives to Vietnam mentally unprepared and naïve.…
McKenna Copher Mrs. Hall Pre-AP English II 30 September 2016 A Person I Admire: Katie Piper Katie Piper, a successful British model was raised in a small English village by her devoted and affectionate family. When she was 22, she moved out on her own to London to further her passion as a television presenter.…
Jeannette once said reading is a form of comfort for her. I couldn’t agree more, we both adore stories similar to our own experiences in life, mostly to see how the protagonists in those novels survive their stories. But unlike her I’ve had and have electricity to read, I’ve never had to stitch up my drunken father’s arm, an I’ve never had to fend for myself while my parents didn’t. I think that she should do what her older sister Lori does: read books like the Wizards of Oz to escape into a fantasy to put her at ease for a little bit. She needs a break from her terrifying life and from her ignorant “guardians”.…
Throughout Jeannette’s childhood, she recalls traveling very often to an extent that caused her to lose track, “How many places have we lived?” I asked Lori. “That depends on what you mean by lived,” she said” (29). The children suffered an unstable childhood, with unstable parents. Their father, Rex, was a loving and brilliant man, when sober.…
Priscilla and her husband Aquilla are a married couple who are forced out of Rome because of their belief in Jesus Christ, when reading about their lives one cannot be mentioned without the other one. They set an example on how married couples can be happily married and work together side by side to serve the Lord. In the Bible, Priscilla and Aquila are dedicated followers of Christ and make it their lives mission to serve God in sharing his Gospel among the Gentiles. Aquila and Priscilla are named together, but when Paul addresses them in his letters, her name appears first implying that she is more well-known then Aquilla among the Gentiles. We can see in the Bible that Priscilla and Aquila are as one because they are always mentioned together, and their purpose is one which is to establish churches and teach the Gospel.…
Breakfast with Audrey Audrey Hepburn, most notably known for her roles in Breakfast at Tiffany’s and My Fair Lady. She was the daughter of a Nazi sympathizer, and spent her youth doing ballet in secret to raise money for resistance groups fighting against the Nazi’s. After she finished her career as an iconic film star, she became a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF and spent the remainder of her life travelling Africa and Asia. However. to history, she is only remembered as pretty.…
“Girl, Interrupted” by Susanna Kaysen is based on a true story about the author, who spent time at a mental institution called McLean Hospital in the late 1960’s. Throughout the book the author writes about her experiences at the hospital and the people she encountered while she was there. While Susanna Kaysen encountered many people at McLean, none played a major role in the conflict that arises in the book, which is Susanna being sent to the institution and having to face her mental illness. Although it can be argued that the doctor who sent Susanna to McLean is the antagonist, it is clear that Susanna is both the antagonist and protagonist, since her biggest problem is dealing with being sent to a mental institution, her mental illness,…
What would be your first reaction if you found a singing girl in the middle of a campsite with a human tongue necklace? The singing girl’s name is Mary Anne, and she was a straight- out-of-high-school student who went to go visit her boyfriend during war. She became very intrigued with the war which lead her to participate like a soldier. The things that Mary Anne saw taking place in the war transformed her into a killer, and during the war gender was irrelevant so Mary anne blended in like the next soldier; O'brien let Rat tell the story because he was there, and Rat’s story fits O'brien’s criteria for a true war story. Mary Anna had transformed into a killer.…
Rafaella Espin Mrs. Baker IB English HL- Period 2 11 January 2015 Anna Karenina Scavenger Hunt The French Language Tolstoy incorporates the use of French language in Anna Karenina in many ways for various reasons. Throughout the entire novel, many of the protagonists state random words or phrases in French. Tolstoy particularly starts this trend at the beginning of the novel to establish the character’s social status and educated background.…
Fairy tales and the telling of fairy tales cannot be traced to an exact date, but tracings do show that they have been continued to spread from generation to generation for over a hundred years. They were made to set an example, mark an occasion, warn about dangers, and even communicate knowledge. Though many involve magic and fantasy worlds that people tended to actually believe, these people are no different from the people today who believe in miracles or even religion. They have been alive long enough to go through many time periods. The fact that fairy tales do have such a history, supports they would be a great teaching tool in classrooms.…
Asserting the Woman’s Experience in Anne Bradstreet’s “To My Dear Children”, “To My Dear Loving Husband”, and “A Letter to her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment” For centuries, artists find a woman to be a most worthy muse. Poets proclaim her beauty, her poise and charm. Her physical presence is evident but her intellectual contributions are absent.…