Mahalia Jackson

Being happy is the definition of the good life for me. Personally, if you are happy then you are doing what you want to be doing. There are many factors that can lead to being happy. Some of my factors are being free, healthy, and successful. I honestly believe that being free can be interpreted in many ways. But for me, being free is a key to having a good life. If you are trapped in jail or even in someones property, is that a good life? It is not. Having freedom is one factor that everyone should have and get in order to live their lives. Health, of course health has to be important. If you are not healthy, how can you live? We have to have a health balance in order to live comfortable. Last but not least, success. If you do not have anything to do with your life, are you really happy? You need to satisfy what ever need you need in order to have a successful life. Even if it 's things on your bucket list or even future goals. The phrase, “the good life”, can bring so my assumptions. Everyone has a different approach to it. Some believe that the “good life” is being specific things. This phrase can bring out tension because everyone thinks different. Everyone has different ideas to specific things. Two people that I will be talking about in this essay are Martin Luther King and Lao Tzu. I will be talking about their different definitions about having the good life. I will be approaching on how they are similar or different throughout. Martin Luther King Jr. was an…

Peggy Feury, a female actress on Broadway, on television, and in films, was born on June 20, 1924, in Jersey city of New Jersey. Peggy’s real name is Margaret Traylor. Feury’s father’s name is Richard feury and her mother’s names is Margaret Feury. Peggy had only one sibling and that was her younger sister Elinor Feury. As peggy graduated from high school, she went to the Barnard college located in New York city. Soon after she graduated Barnard, Peggy then attended the Yale school of drama.…

moves in with her father Diddly and his wife Emma. Living with her father she grows close to him and his family. Anne receives a basketball scholarship to a Baptist college in Mississippi to further her education. To finish off her college career in Tougaloo. When Anne goes to Tougaloo she finally decides to join the NAACP, despite her mothers thoughts on that group. Local Sheriff’s notify Anne Mae’s mother saying that if she 's in the group it will cause her family and Anne a great amount of…

The Outside of the Inside “Deliver us all from the naked in heart;” Eudora Welty uses this phrase in her short story “No Place for You, My Love” to emphasize the unnamed woman’s desire to hide her inner emotions (Welty 394). The Lord’s Prayer utilizes the phrase; deliver us from evil, as a way to ask to be saved from sins. Having a naked heart can be compared to wearing one’s heart on one’s sleeve, an act of revealing all emotions to the world. Therefore, to deliver someone from the naked in…

During the 1960s, each member of society had a mould, a niche in which she was expected to fit. For white women it was that of a wife and child-bearer, for African American women it was that of a maid paid 95 cents an hour while being expected to put food on the table for two families, and for those born in lower social class is was that of proverbial white trash, society’s backwater. While some at this time relented to the pressure exerted upon them by social standards and expectation, social…

End of Year Reading Assignment The Help by Kathryn Stockett is historical fiction. It is a mesmerizing book, with several twists and turns. Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and creative writing. She moved to New York, where she wrote The Help. The Help took Stockett 5 years to write and it was declined by 45 literary agents. Now The Help has over 10 million copies sold, a major motion picture, and…

The Civil Rights Movement was a tense and emotional time period for society, especially in the southern United States. It was a callous fight that disrupted the civilization that our ancestors had strived to build. People were shamed, humiliated, and disgraced for individual beliefs and rights. Public areas were segregated between black and white people causing major controversy among the races. There was a lurking apartheid that still has a subtle presence even in our enlightened society today.…

an expression in them that she could not read, and it terrified her.” (O’Henry, 1906) However, “it was not anger, nor surprise,nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the sentiments that she had been prepared for.” (O’Henry, 1906) “He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar expression on his face.” (O’Henry, 1906) The symbol that the young couple’s love for each other is priceless and have no boundaries that they both are willing to sell the only valuable possession that they have. The…

In the story A Worn Path by Eudora Welty is a story that represents high spirits, trust, brave, and life and death. Phoenix Jackson, from A Worn Path, has a mission/journey to go into town for her grandsons medication. She goes through many obstacles she is a very elderly women around her 80’s. The connection Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” the character Phoenix Jackson is symbolic to a Phoenix bird from mythology because they both rebirth, go on missions/journeys, and have high spirits to where…

phoenix is a mythological bird and there are many different stories and beliefs about this creature. According to a legend, a phoenix can be reborn and has the ability to heal. The author intentionally makes Phoenix Jackson an allusion to the mythological phoenix bird by a correspondence in physical characteristics, character traits, and a rebirth. The similarity that Phoenix Jackson and the bird from mythology share is that they are both on a journey. Phoenix’s journey is to go and get her…