She married Lip Gallagher in the year 2030. After moving…
He graduated from Hunter College high school, and also Yale. He graduated with an English degree in 1997. He met his wife Kristen in 1998 at a Lehman…
Senior Kirsten Mohr is a fourth year varsity player and is the starting center on defense. Mohr has been playing since she was four years old, and was influenced by her brother. “I started playing soccer because my older brother played and I wanted to compete with him,” Mohr said. Playing for such a long time, there are many things Mohr likes about the sport. “My favorite thing about soccer has to be the competitiveness involved,” Mohr said.…
The next contemporary artist is Kiki Smith. Smith is popular for creating nude prints and sculptures of men and women, but specifically representing women as figures for reproduction, menstruation, and motherhood. Her sculptures revolve around feminine work and explore the physical aspects of the women’s body. In her sculpture Train, made from wax, a woman stands in a small room with red beads flowing out of her vagina. The red beads stand out in the sculpture, because they create a trail behind the woman to symbolize blood and menstruation.…
Hattie McDaniel As known as a great African-American Actress, Singer- Songwriter, Hattie McDaniel was a great woman who paved a way for several other African American entertainers in her time. During the rapid growth of the film industry, Hattie McDaniel was a woman of visionary that took the industry under her wings and evolved into a idealists to the media industry. Hattie McDaniel was born in Wichita, Kansas on June 10, 1893; she was her parents' 13th child. Her father, Henry, was a Civil War veteran who suffered greatly from war injuries and had a difficult time with manual labor her mother, Susan Holbert, did domestic work.…
She went to both private and public schools in Oakland, California. She then attended liberal Wellesley College. Upon…
Nettie Maria Stevens was born on July 7, 1861, in Cavendish, Vermont, to Julia (née Adams) and Ephraim Stevens. After the death of her mother, Stevens's father remarried, and the family moved to Westford, Massachusetts. She graduated from Westford Academy in 1880. Stevens taught high school and was a librarian.…
All my life I have used my arms and hands. Never before have I thought what it would be like to lose them. In fact, never has it occurred to me how important it is to have a functioning body. A task that seems to be normal and every day can be excruciatingly difficult for those who have lost parts of their body. Our bodies are a symbol of health; our bodies must maintain optimal health.…
Hillsborough High School Awards Tracy Jameson Teacher of the Year The title of Hillsborough High School teacher of the year was awarded to Tracy Jameson, a special education and environmental science teacher, on February twelfth due to “her passion as an educator and contagious positive energy,” said Sharon Jacob, a member of Peers Assistant Leadership Students (PALS). “I would describe Ms. Jameson as loving. Someone who is there to support all of your ideas and help with your problems both with life and school. She lights up any room she walks into,” said Matthew Roarty, her former student.…
From watching the film, I understand that women who are incarcerated do not receive the proper prenatal care in order to give birth to children. I feel that shackling an incarcerated mother to a hospital bed, when in labor, is cruel and unnecessary. Doing so has the potential to increase the risk of a child and/or mother to experience problems during birth. After hearing Tina Torrez’s experience when giving birth to her daughter as an inmate, it was clear the care inmate mothers receive is unacceptable when compared to the care mothers who are not labeled as inmates receive. Hearing her experience bothered me because of the fact that even though she was pregnant and giving birth, she was still treated as if she were not a human with physical and emotional feelings.…
William Jennings Bryan once said, “Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will soon be the majority.” So often being Americans, we catch ourselves pulling for the underdog or cheering with the minority in hopes to see the majority fall in embarrassment. Historically speaking an independent woman was frowned upon and in some cases, they still are and a black African American was not even considered to be politically capable of running a country until 2008 when Barak Obama became president of the United States. Men and woman, both black and white throughout history have been underestimated and thrown to the side with the minority who accepted them. It takes a special leader from…
Viola Davis was born on August 11, 1965. She was the second oldest of six children all belonging to Mary Alice (mother) and Dan Davis (father). Davis was born on her grandparents’ farm which was known as the former Singleton Planation. Her father, with completing only a fifth grade education, was a race horse groomer; while her mother only completing an eighth grade education, was a maid, factory worker, homemaker and a civil rights activist. Once Davis was two months old, the family moved to Central Falls, Rhode Island.…
Kiera Cass was born on May 19, 1981, in South Carolina. Kiera graduated from Socastee High School in 1999. She started her career life in Coastal Carolina University before transferring to Radford University to end up getting a degree in history. Fame Kiera sometimes wondered if Esther happened to like the boy next door before she got shipped off to a palace to become the wife of a King.…
Colin Kaepernick On November 3rd, 1987, a superstar was born. He would go on to dazzle on a national spotlight in front of millions. Breaking NFL records, and bringing his team within 7 yards of football immortality. Colin Kaepernick was born to Heidi Russo in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.…
She is now looking to visit her family and take care of her…