Amelia

Apple Inc. is the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, with over 72 million Macs and 600 million iOS devices sold to date, and over one million people visiting an Apple retail store each day of which there are over four hundred spread throughout fourteen countries (Stangel). But more than these impressive numbers, Apple has evolved into a household brand with a religious following. Karl Marx describes religion in a utilitarian sense, as, “…The sigh of the oppressed creature, the…

Got me crackling so hard I had to wonder how the kids in school would react to the name. Let's take roll call for example. Teacher: "Amelia Aims, Ya (pause), Ya (pause, then squint, then look up brows furrowed), Ya'Highness? Smith". Royalty is proud and bold but if I can tell you anything about this one, he is certain to answer his name very sheepishly. The 'ground open up and swallow…

Helen Amelia Thomas (1920-2013), was a respected American reporter, political correspondent and author who broke professional and social gender barriers in the field of journalism. In particular she is known for her coverage of ten different Presidential administrations and her role as a premier member of the White House Press Corps for five decades. As a woman reporting at the White House Thomas earned the praise of her colleagues and soon became the first female member of the National Press…

Amelia M. Paget’s People of the Plains is an insightful exploration of Indigenous culture on the plains of Canada during the early twentieth century. Paget, having grown up immersed in the culture of the fur trade, was able to communicate with the Elders of the bands she interviewed in a respectful and comprehensive way. Her attention to detail unquestionably shows in People of the Plains. This is proven to be true, as Sarah Carter stresses in the Introduction that Paget went to great lengths to…

Nicki Minaj and Iggy Azalea are both very popular rappers who were born outside the United States. Although they both are living their dream career, Azalea had to work a little harder to get there. While Nicki and Iggy were both raised by both parents, Minaj had a tougher childhood. School isn’t for everybody, and Iggy shows us that, and that in some cases, you can still be successful without it. Nicki Minaj birth name is Onika Tanya Maraj. She was born December 8th, 1982, in Saint James,…

Pride an d Prejudice presents us with a charming and idealistic world filled with regency period bonnets, dresses, shoes, gentlemen, social gatherings, balls, and horse drawn carriages. Though it may seem that Austen’s heroines are confident and carefree, the reality is that women were extremely limited in regard to education and income at this time in history. Though they were usually treated with the respect due their position, nowhere in society could there ever be a place for a woman doctor,…

Introduction Birth Mr. Askins was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His mother is from Utah, Alabama, and when she was about give birth she went home to her mother. He was born in 1941 and returned to his hometown of Huntsville, Alabama as a newborn. Parents Meeting His father was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee. His mother was teaching during the depression in Huntsville. Huntsville is where is parents met and it is where his parents stayed. Mr. Askins’ father owned a small store and he later got…

Washburn, S., and Elliott, K. (2011) states that teachers should “approach coaching wanting to become a better teacher and wanting children to get the most from their classroom.” The article also discussed how a teacher of 3 and 4 year olds named Amelia wasn’t happy about having a coach come in and help with teaching children language and literacy because she thought this stranger, a coach named Tonya, was brought in to observe and judge her; but later was happy to have the experience because…

For centuries, being brought into the world as a woman has been a challenge. Women have been seen as weak, yielding, and human incubators for the next generation. Through the years, a rebellion began to occur, solidifying that the next generation of the fairer sex will prevail to bring upon a better social conduct for women around the world. The term for rebels such as these women is a feminist. The political term for the word feministic is “advocating social, political, legal, and economic…

Newspaper were the original form of literature within California and California first newspaper, “Californian” was a weekly newspaper that appeared in Monterey on August 15th, 1846. Walter Colten and Robert Semple formed a partnership to publish the newspaper and a found an old printing press and Agustin V. Zamorano imported the printing press to Monterey from Boston. “Californian” weekly newspaper was written in English and Spanish and continued to be published in The Monterey until May 1847.…