Her main efforts were concentrated in areas of “citizenship, education and interracial cooperation”(We Seek to Know, pg 95). Her efforts were acknowledged by leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. who noted “she understood that if we could break through the illiteracy, we could break into mainstream…
Robert De La Salle By Alynna Medina My French explorer is Robert de la salle. Robert’s whole name is Rene Robert Cavelier Ssieur de la Ssalle. L,la salle was born in Rouen, France on November 22, 1643.…
She worked on the family farm. She also waited on customers in her father’s general store. She was very smart for a girl in her time. Before attending Dickson Normal College at 14, she had already learned the alphabet. It was at Dickson where she met her future husband, Thaddeus Horatio Caraway.…
In the year 1800, 13-year-old Pierre La Page never imagined he would be leaving his home (Montreal) to paddle 2,400 miles across the lakes of Cape Cod, but when his father suffers an accident it will be up to him to quit school and take his father’s brutal job as a voyager for The Northwest Company. Worried for her son’s life Pierre’s mother might never see him again because of the brutal waters, crashing waves, and lack of food and water, Pierre’s courage will keep on pushing him to make his father proud and help his mother and father survive the upcoming winter. Pierre thought his life was going to be easy, but this is one challenge that he never could accomplish. On the first day of the long voyage a burst of courage…
Marie Salle was born somewhere in 1707 in Paris, France. It wasn’t said who her parents exactly were but she was born into a family of travelling entertainers. She had a brother named Francis that she performed with for her first performance. During Salle’s childhood she got started dancing at a young age and became a hit very soon.…
Marie Bernarde Soubirous was born on January 7, 1844 in Lourdes, France. Even though she was born as Marie Bernarde, everyone called her Bernadette. She was the eldest of six children. Her family was very poor and she suffered from asthma. Everyone thought of her as mentally challenged.…
Lizzie ,as she was also known, was along with her 6 other siblings raised with exceptional education for their time and went to school at the Johnson Institute (the school her father established).Then later accepted her degree at the Chappell Hill Female Collage. Teaching Lizzie taught first at the school she once…
While working as a teacher, she began to fight for a change in America because working conditions were poor. Her fighting led to her being one of the most influential women of the Civil Rights Era, because she fought for working conditions and equal rights on transportation, she created the anti-lynching campaign, spoke about rapes, and encouraged blacks to…
Saint Julia Billiart Saint Julia (Julie) Billiart was born in 1751 in Cuvilly France. After she sadly died in 1816 at the age of 64 she was made the patron saint against poverty, bodily ills, and disease. In her childhood, she was very religious, at age seven, she already knew the catechism by heart, and used to gather up her peers and tell it to them. Julie’s progress in spiritual things was so rapid that the parish priest, Father Dangicourt, allowed her to both make her first communion and her confirmation at age nine.…
The coin was small, and its value was only one dollar, but to Betty Friedan, and to women everywhere, it was worth so much more. Every person who looked at the silver coin would see not only a picture of women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony, but also a symbol of the changing world, and how hard people had fought to make that change. This was the first time a woman had been etched into the metal of a coin, and it meant that the efforts of Friedan and Anthony were finally paying off. Despite being lampooned and ignored, both Anthony and Friedan made it their lifes’ work to grant women basic rights. Though their lives were one hundred years apart, both feminists are responsible for many of the freedoms that women and girls experience today.…
She reorganized the provincial government, codified laws, and began state- sponsored education for boys and girls.” This source relates to my other sources about the government. This quote explains how she was really efficient and how she always made sure everything ran well and she cared about education because she sponsored it. I could use this source to support another source, such as my other source about Catherine the Great because they both relate to each other. This contrasts with my other sources because this source is from a book, while most of them are not and the topic is also very…
Elizabeth Blackwell was a major pioneer for women’s rights in the medical field. She was an extraordinary influence on the women of her time as well as the women of today. Elizabeth Blackwell had an extremely challenging lifetime, but throughout her trials and long education, she had immense help from many different people as her interest in medicine grew; this led her to become a leader in the field of medicine. Elizabeth Blackwell’s life was full of countless hardships but she continued to persevere. She was born and raised in England, but her family was forced to move when her father’s sugar refineries burned (President of Harvard University, 2015).…
“The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping on a society it forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and content the power of ramifications of indifference and inaction,” once said by Tim Holden. As Tim Holden said the Holocaust was a dark event caused by the consequences of others. So many people did wrong but a great amount of people also stepped up and did right on the world. For example Jeanne Daman, a Catholic heroic teacher who helped children hide, rescued adults, and reunited children with their parents. Jeanne Damon was a young teacher in Brussels.…
Marie de France wrote “Bisclavret” in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. The name Bisclavret means werewolf. When a person thinks of the word werewolf, the thought of fairy tales and horror stories may come to mind. “Bisclavret” is neither one of those types of literature. Marie de France utilizes a werewolf in her poem to symbolize a beastly or aggressive side of humans.…
She was educated entirely at her home where she learned to speak English and Italian. She learned how to read French, Latin, and German. She was not intimidated by how good her siblings were, she was always surrounded by many scholars, authors, and artists. At the age of six she began to find her own talent in writing literature when she recited an original poem about a young girl named Cecilia and the gladiator. Her mother homeschooled her teaching her about classical and religious…