Lexie Kosakowski 2-16-17 Lydia Darragh the American Spy Lydia Darragh was an American Spy. She was born in the 1700’s. She lived in Dublin. Later she still lived in Dublin but went where the Britians went to get information.…
She joined the Notre-Dame de Nevers. Her health then began to drop. She now had tuberculosis of the bones along with her severe asthma. She died on April 16, 1879 at the age of thirty-five. She was canonized in 1933.…
Thérèse Casgrain is not exactly a household name or one that is heard on a daily basis, but it belongs to a woman who was very important and who made many advances that continue to affect Canada today. Thérèse was a Montreal born woman who was heavily involved in politics and was a renowned social activist, world peace advocate who protested against the use of nuclear weaponry. She founded the Quebec branch of the Voice of Women organization, who wanted to achieve rights for women and to achieve “Construction, not destruction”. Thérèse was a powerful woman with a large agenda that she continued to fight for until her death in 1981 but unfortunately has become one of many forgotten faces in Canada's history, which has led those who have heard the name to disregard her actions as unimportant to remember. That couldn’t be further from the truth.…
She focused her education on theatre arts/English and modern American…
As a member of the only poor white family in black ghettos, Antoinette suffers a lot under the poverty and prejudice. Not only black people beyond her family construct the threat, what’s more, her household also help building it. The main threat is produced by black people outside their household. From a slave owner’s daughter to a poor widow, Antoinette’s mother’s dramatic shift in identity creates chance for black people to tease Antoinette and step on her dignity: Spread rumors, poison her mother’s horse, even little girl can call her “white cockroach” (8) and take her belongings without limitations.…
In Marie De France’s “Lanval”, It is interesting how, in spite of a woman’s common status as a tool toward greatness or moral poverty, the fairy queen is still technically a positive character because she raised Lanval to greatness, even though her interference in Lanval’s life appears to consume his personality and identity. In the beginning, Lanval does have some semblance of personality, indicated with the lines “For his valor, for his generosity, / his beauty and bravery” (21-22) which imply a generous nature but not intelligence or strong character, and his weak personality is evidenced by his actions as Lanval ultimately falls to the shallow trait of the fairy queen’s beauty despite the fact that her simple presence indicates far more…
Emma Goldman, Mother Jones, and Frances Perkins were three of the many women who helped evolve equal work rights for all. Without them women might not have the opportunities in the works force that they do today. Before the women if the 1800’s tried to change the ways of society gender discrimination had a negative effect that impacted many lives throughout the nation. Emma Goldman was born in June of 1869 to an Orthodox Jewish family, her family lived in the Russian Empire. Because of where Goldman’s family lvdd she had a hard and sad childhood and her father wanted better for her.…
Some of the goals that Frances had were to improve the worldly society by providing alternative models of society. Frances believed that by providing a role model of what better society could be that the rest of society would follow along morally. Frances Wright founded the short-lived Nashoba community in Tennessee during 1825. Main goals for Frances included attempting to implement Owenite ideals, including cooperative labor and sexual liberty in her plan towards the gradual emancipation of slaves at the time. Frances fought so that the government would offer free education, and was a strong believer in public education for children that were two years and older.…
1. Born June 1 1926 in LA. Grew up as Norma Jean Mortenson. Difficult childhood. Mother was a paranoid schizophrenic.…
Marie Therese Geoffrin was a leading female figure in the French Enlightenment. The French Enlightenment happened in the 18th-century. During this time, the ideals were liberty, equality, and fraternity. These topics were discussed in the Salons hosted by Geoffrin. Salons were places that women provided for men, the philosophers, to have an intellectual discussion.…
Through years the role of a man was and still is to be the provider, fighter, and the “main man” politically, socially, and culturally. They are expected to hold their woman on the highest pedestal they can put her on, and is the strong and well endowed one in the relationship. While as the woman is and still is perceived as the one who practically moves up the social hierarchy by marriage, and is seen as peculiar if they “wear the pants” in the relationship. In Marie de France’s Lanval, she battles this stereotype through female empowerment by reversing traditional gender roles.…
Frances has many strengths but also many weaknesses. Frances ranked cooking as one of her most important activities and her performance is average. She is still able to stand and walk around her kitchen for the period it takes to cook a meal, and she is satisfied with that. However, she has trouble bending down to get pots and pans that she needs to use when she cooks. Another strength of Frances’s is reading.…
in psychology and an MBA in business administration in 1972. After college, she worked for many important companies, but she was not satisfied and felt like she was meant for something more. After doing some soul searching for a year she began researching her family tree and became interested in genealogy. It was during this time where she traveled to Louisiana, where her family originated from searching court records, interviewing people, reading letters, newspapers, diaries, etc. Her painstakingly family research led her to the discovery of her maternal and paternal ancestors.…
To my beloved daughter, Jean Louise, I must explain. You witnessed something not long ago and it shocked you, for that I am deeply sorry. I however am not sorry for the part I had in it. Most of your life we have shared the same beliefs. Your conscience became fastened to mine like a barnacle does a whale.…
Baited and Lured Aristophanes said, “Hunger knows no friend but its feeder” (BrainyQuote). In “Saint Marie (1934): Marie Lazarre,” from the novel Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, begins with Marie Lazarre following the Nuns up the hill to the Sacred Heart Convent where she will become a protégé, not for the intentions of salvation, but to prevent Sister Leopolda from getting into heaven. In this story brimmed with layers of irony, Erdrich uses fishing and baiting imagery to demonstrate the ambition and hunger within Marie in her goal to rise above Sister Leopolda. Erdrich provides instances in which fishing and/or baiting is used to relate to the theme of religion, Marie’s ambitions, and the relationship between Marie and the Nuns, especially concerning Sister Leopolda. Religion is crucial to keep in mind when approaching this story.…