Mary Rowlandson was unfortunately captured by Indians during King Phillip’s War for 3 months in 1675. During this time she endured many hardships that one couldn’t even imagine living in the twenty first century. She often struggled to find food and the Indians were extremely fickle some days they weren’t that cruel but she could never be sure. Rowlandson saw her family on occasion, but it was never guaranteed she could make a visit.…
Mary Ellen Wilson By: Gabe Kain Did you know that Mary Ellen wilson was the first child to be rescued from an abusive home. Because of this her case started all sorts of child cruelty prevention programs like the aspcc (american society of prevention of cruelty of children) and many more like it. The aspca originally from the aspca (american society of prevention of cruelty to animals). Did you know that Mary's Ellen's parents did actually abuse her.…
Clara Jane Bell Duvall had a similar situation as Geraldine Santoro where both of them had a unsafe illegal abortion. Clara was a married woman of five children, six months to twelve years old. She and her family of seven moved in with her parents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in nineteen-twenty nine because of financial problems. Clara Jane attempted a self induced abortion and under the care of their family doctor she was not hospitalized for a few days. In an attempt to cover up her unsafe abortion her illness was considered pneumonia.(Attention grabber)…
Brian Robeson was on a plane to go see his father because his parents are divorced. He was on board with a pilot and suddenly the pilot had an awful heart attack and died, Brian then had to fly the plane and it crashed. After he got out of the plane he then had to survive in the Canadian wilderness for several months. He had to get food, water, and shelter for him to survive. He also encountered a moose attack and he ended up hurting his ribs and because of that he couldn’t really do anything for a whole day.…
Mary Mallon, an Irish immigrant woman working in New York City as a cook became the most famous symbol of infectious disease in the United States. She harboured the extremely contagious bacteria that cause typhoid fever. The symptoms include fever, headaches and diarrhea and spread through the urine and mostly by unwashed hands. Between 1900 and 1907, officials estimated that Mallon had infected 22 people, one of whom had…
Born in 1920, 18-year-old, Velma Demerson was arrested for committing one of the most scandalous crimes, an eighteen-year-old in her time was capable of; having an intimate relationship with a foreign immigrant. On May 3rd, 1939, Demerson was arrested in a response of her parent's disapproval towards her close ties and intimacy with Chinese immigrant, Harry Yip. Demerson was convicted of being incorrigible. Under the provincial 1897 Female Refuges Act, which stated that "any parent or guardian may bring before a judge any female under the age of 21 years who proves unmanageable or incorrigible.…
Good Evening, Ladies and gentleman today I am going to introduction Alexandra Walkley an 18-year-old born On February 4 the youngest of her family. Born in Cocoa beach, Florida but, raised in Cocoa she one day hopes to travel the world. Ms. Walkley is a first-year college student who just graduated high school. While In high school Ms. Walkley played the saxophone and was into music & was in a marching band but, change major before joining college. She is now studying for a Associate of Science in Radiography.…
Susan Eloise Hinton is one of the most popular and best writers, for young people fiction books. S.E. Hinton wrote many books for different ages. She grew up as a tomboy and loved horses. Susan was a very shy person that wanted to become a cattle rancher as a young girl. Susan was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on July 22nd 1950.…
As I was reading over the story of how Cecily McMillan and how she assaulted the police officer. I believe in my opinion she is guilty. The reasons why I say this is because when you read the story and watch the video of the activists outside protesting you notice the officer in the video are holding her arm and walking her through the crowd and you notice her jump and throw her elbow into the officers face causing him to have a black eye. So right then and there the officers take her to the ground and she goes into a seizure. They arrest her and take her to jail.…
Many artist have had interesting lives but I think that Mary Cassatt's is very unique. She had to choose between her family and Art, and she chose art. Mary Cassatt is one of very many artists, just like everyone else she had to fight to get where she ended up being. I will tell you her life story and all the hard ships she went through to get there.…
In 1906 Mary Mallon was employed as a cook for a wealthy banker that resided in New York. Six out of 11 residents in the banker’s household developed typhoid fever. As a result of this, a sanitary engineer known as George Sober, quickly questioned the ill group of people, including Mary Mallon who had exhibited a less intense form of the disease. Mr. Sober first concluded that the infection was the result from freshwater clams; however, Mary Mallon was the host for the bacteria. She continued to infect everything she came in contact with.…
Works Cited Baker, Robert. " Public Health and Medical Ethics in Epidemics. " Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society, issues.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/1811724?terms=Typhoid%20Fever&webSiteCode=SLN_ISS&returnToPage=%2fSearch%2fDisplay%2f1811724%3fterms%3dTyphoid+Fever&sType=quick&token=0100FFF45ECC09E6889D6BAAE9E615C9&casError=False. Accessed 23 Oct. 2016. This article discusses the ethical implications of public health scenarios.…
Jhamiya Sumpter Period 6 2/15/18 Katherine Johnson Katherine Johnson is an African American woman who is from White Sulphur Springs, West Virgina and attended West Virgina college in 1937 studying Mathematics and French. Katherine Johnson was very brilliant she went to high school at the age of thirteen because she was very intelligent with her numbers. Katherine Johnson was also the third African American to earn her PhD in Mathematics. Katherine Johnson contributed to space exploration by working backwards to make project mercury a success, Johnson also worked on the calculation that allowed the Apollo astronauts to return home from the moon, and to look at the black box data from crashed airplanes. To begin with Katherine Johnson once worked backwards to make mercury a success which was one of her contributions.…
“Hardship adds to the strength of the people and artists we become. Michaela is nothing short of a miracle, born to be a ballerina. ”-Misty Copeland. The book “Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina,” written by Michaela DePrince is a life changing autobiography. Michaela started out with a rough early childhood and turned it into a life long dream that came true.…
Typhoid fever in itself is not a disease well known by history. Typhoid fever played only a small part in the history of the human race and compared to other diseases comes across as more of a nuisance with exception to its role in the Plague of Athens. On the surface, “enteric fever” causes a small but common array of symptoms: fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, chills, muscle aches and skin rash. The cause of the disease is salmonella typhi, a bacterium that rides contaminated food and water before establishing pathogenic residence in the human gastro-intestinal tract.…