Hana Brady Hana Brady was one of the millions of people who was murdered during the Holocaust. Although, she is one of the few children who people know about her life and her experience at a concentration camp. Hana was born on May 16, 1931. She was a normal Jewish girl and she lived and grew up in Nove, Mesto.…
In the novel fever 1793, Matilda Cook remained in Philadelphia while all the upperclassmen fled and she changed drastically. She was very dependent on her mother and she always needed her help. Not only did she change she stayed the same. She was still really worrisome and stressed. Matilda has always been a very caring person.…
After pre-reading the memoir, I now know that the writer, Olga Lengyel, is telling a horrific true story. A story that she herself experienced in the concentration camp at Auschwitz and Birkenau. The memoir paints a picture of a nightmare that the writer had to live through without being able to wake up. The cover of the book seems to be a picture of the concentration camp.…
She had given birth to me in the morning and cooked supper for ten that night. She survived the British occupation while my father fought with Washington’s troops, mother would beat back illness with a broom.’ This shows she overcame hardship by knowing mother is strong and should easily get over yellow fever. Mattie stays strong throughout mothers sickness by believing mother will be fine and knowing her mother is strong and yellow fever shouldn’t be a problem for her, showing she overcame…
My Model of a Great Leader Annie Dodge Wauneka, a member of the Navajo Nation was known as public health activist and a leader on the Navajo Nation. She was born on April 11, 1910 and passed away on November 10, 1997. She began attending boarding school in 1917 when she was 8 years of age. While attending boarding school, she developed an interest in Public Health. Where there was an outbreak of tuberculosis and she assisted with the nurses in tending the sick.…
In 1828, people started having issues with her writing the books. As a woman, her role was to get married, have children, cook for them and take care of the house but since she was unmarried and was making money from writing her books, other woman writer started have problems with her that how could a unmarried woman sell a book under her own name and make money while the married author publish their work under a men’s names or anonymously, she stopped writing to avoid this issue. Due to her illness she was forced to quit teaching. Her physician could not diagnose her with a cure for her condition, but it is now known that she was suffering from Tuberculosis.…
Fever 1793 In the summer of 1793 a deadly sickness called Yellow fever spreads everywhere and affects almost everyone, including a young fourteen year old girl, named Matilda, but goes by Mattie. Mattie lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where her family owns a coffee shop in a small wooden building. When Mattie hears about the yellow fever that is caused by a female mosquito bite she becomes so worried. Almost the whole city gets infection with this fever, including Mattie's mother.…
It all started when me and my partner in crime found an old cane in my grandmother's basement, we found this old cane with a gold colored top. The cane brown and slightly scratched up. The mysterious cane also had a name and a date on the delicate gold top. The cane had writing on it, it said T.P. Grout Feb 27 1858 - 1908. Me and my partner decided to find out who this person was, and this is what we found….…
Who- Texas Ranger extraordinary and Mexican War officer also son of Harmon Hayes and Elizabeth Hayes. What- He led Texas Rangers on a campaign against the Comache. Imagrated to The Republic of Texas in 1836 at the age of 19. Jack rode with Flacco an Apache Chief who led the charge into every battle with him.…
The connection of isolation and madness of women in American literature. Women were never treated equally as men. As a result of suffrage organizations actions women got voting right in 1920. But the social expectations, gender norms, loneliness, and patriarchal type of family threatened the mental health of many women in those days. The isolation of women at that time as a dedication to the ideals of True Womanhood very often led women to madness.…
INTRODUCTION This paper is about Marie Antoinette being au courant. Marie Antoinette, a former princess of Austria who was transformed into an extravagant French queen. Her destiny was to marry Louis-Auguste at the age of fourteen after which she ruled France and learned to fashion herself; thus, spending too much. However, she never troubled to ask or wonder who was paying for the luxuries she took for granted.…
When she learned about concentration camps and then lived in those camp, part of her innocence was lost. The Holocaust was a terrible event that tore many Jewish families a part. Kluger was able to use her experiences to write a book that…
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.…
During the holocaust, Jeannine Burk was one of the few survivors. She hid in a woman’s house for three years. Before all this happen, Jeannine’s neighbors snitched on her family and unfortunately, they took her dad. But they did not take her mother, her sister and Jeannine because her sister had osteomyelitis. The Gestapo's said they would come later for them, and a little while after her mother was able to make a call for the hospital.…
Gender Matters Tillie Olsen 's “I Stand Here Ironing” reflects the characterize prejudice and ethnic perspective of women during the Great Depression the setting of this story reflects that era. The 1930’s was particularly hard on single, divorced , single mothers and minorities “ I was nineteen. It was the pre‐relief, pre‐WPA world of the depression. I would start running as soon as I got off the streetcar, running up the stairs, the place smelling sour, and awake or asleep to startle awake, when she saw me she would break into a clogged weeping that could not be comforted, a weeping I can yet hear” (pg. 271).…