Catholic Worker

Johanna Mansfield Sullivan or better known as Anne Sullivan is a teacher and instructor famous for teaching Helen how to sign and communicate. Sullivan was born April 14, 1866 in Agawam Massachusetts. Her parents were poor immigrants that did not know how to read or write. When she was five, she contracted a disease called trachoma. This disease caused painful infections in her eyes and made her blind. Three years later, her mother died and her father left the children because he thought he…

Introduction Cesar Chavez was a Mexican American labor activist (1927-1933). Chavez is also the head of the United Farm Workers. He helped improve working conditions for laborers in bad working condition. He was the voice for many farmworkers and engaged nonviolent means. He had led many boycotts and a few hunger strikes to improve work conditions. Childhood Cesar Estrada Chavez was born on March 31, 1927 in Yuma, Arizona. He grew up on a farm that his grandfather started, with his…

A migrant worker is a term used to describe the movement of populations from one place to another. Whether it be by choice, economic or political forces, these women leave the comfort of home to go to more developed countries to perform domestic work for other women. “More and more women from poor areas of the world are migrating to rich countries for domestic work.”(Briones, 2013) Millions are leaving their home countries in search of employment, and unfathomable numbers are hopeful to achieve…

Can you imagine what it would be like to live in the dark forever without light? Helen Keller was a girl who was deaf and blind. Despite the odds, she overcame her disabilities and became a well known author and speaker. Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy child on June 27, 1880. At 19 months old Helen became deaf and blind from rubella or scarlet fever, also known as brain fever. Helen grew into a wild and unruly child and had many tantrums. Her family thought she should be…

Though Christianity and feudalism both had negative impacts on society during the Middle Ages, they were extremely beneficial at the time, contributing to stability and protection throughout Europe. Feudalism allowed Europe to grow and flourish, giving jobs to the peasants, providing supplies for the upper class and nobility, and overall protecting the common people. As stated by this quote, feudalism “saved common men from invaders… saved them from the tyranny of the King.” (Internet) Likewise,…

from clinging to its own security." And this is exactly the state that our society is currently in, in terms of capitalism and these issues surrounding wealth and greed in our country. The response made regarding Capitalism by Pope Francis, in the Catholic religious tradition is one in which the argument will be dually noted for many years to…

creative ways to share Christ with sin sick people in countries where sharing the Gospel is met with scrutiny, persecution, or even death. Creative-access platforms provide the way. Creative-access platforms are the practical means for providing mission workers the opportunity and relational basis for effectively accomplishing their main goal. God provides each believer with a platform from which to serve him and to communicate the Gospel. Platforms are a product of Gods calling, equipping and…

Community Portrait Formerly, family members were the ones who taught children how to mingle and behave in appropriate settings. Home and school were together as one; in addition, children intelligent were shape by their guardians, relatives, and the community they lived in. However, throughout the years, schools and communities practices have increased significantly. In the education field, this is known as collaboration. One can see that the tradition of teacher and parent communication has…

the past were all learned with workers ' blood. The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for.” No action is taken place because of fear. American give folks from any race fear of being sent back to where they are naturally from. In fact,” first threatening to call immigration,” Americans think that’s the best solution to solve any situation. When all “brown” folks want to do it making a living to try to get by. Give their children a better future. Mexicans are hard workers they will do any job.…

book that truly showed the the migrant workers in the factories who were in poor working conditions and put anything in meat as long as they did not get in trouble. This brought many unsanitary conditions in and outside the factories. In the novel The Jungle, Upton Sinclair uses vivid imagery and uses the characterization such as migrant workers such as Jurgus to criticize the meatpacking industry, expose the conditions of the factories and lifestyles of workers, and to show the impossibility of…