Maria

While reading “The Osage Firebird,” I saw how the structure of the text, led to one another. Meaning, when the author, Sudipta Bardhan, wrote this passage she made it connect really well to each other. While reading the passage, I observed how she did it. She did it by adding one detail in one section, then that one detail becomes the main idea for the next section, or for any section. I saw the connection of each section near the end, since in the beginning of the passage, I didn’t see any.…

April 25, 1962, Maria Karatzias was raised in Flushing, New York. As a high schooler, Maria was quite respectful, and she avoided doing anything that would disappoint her mother. Her mother had already been through a lot after Maria’s father had died when Maria was only 12. The last thing that Maria wanted to do was make life harder for her mother. Maria was quite an average student, with grades in the 80s. Before she knew it, Maria had graduated high school and started college. Maria met her…

During the early childhood years of life, children depend on the care and nourishment from their guardians. It is up to their guardians to make the overall life decisions for their children. They are the ones who supply the loving nurture and support through the period of development. One very important decision that a guardian must make for their child is their education. Education is a very crucial part to a child’s overall growth and development. A child’s brain, undergoes the most growth and…

sent the bouquet of pink roses is going to bring up topics from both Maria and Colin’s past. Both Maria and Colin have not had an easy past. Several actions have changed both Maria and Colin’s personality. Maria, a lawyer, had dealt with strange cases in the past, but nothing compared to the case that caused her to quit her job. Maria did not fight for the right punishment for a client and was stalked by the client’s brother. Maria had already dealt with one person stalking her, but now…

Maria Vasquez is first grader in Mrs. Casper’s classroom in Happyville Elementary. She has a specific learning disability and a speech and is language impaired. Her first language is Spanish and is struggling with learning English. Parent collaboration is needed in order to help Maria to learn English better and to be able succeed in school. Parents are important with collaborating with because parents are student’s main support system. Parents know their children have knowledge of their family,…

before Christmas and Maria is helping her mother prepare Tamales before her family arrives. Maria is enjoying this special time because her mother allowed her to feel like a grown-up. Maria’s mother let her wear her favorite cooking apron and even her lipstick. She saw her mother’s ring and wished that if only she could have the ring on too. When Maria’s mother took a brief break from the kitchen, she left her ring on the countertop. Maria looked at the ring in amazement. Maria really wanted to…

Maria Anna Mozart was the family’s first prodigy and at one point was considered the finest pianists in Europe, until her younger brother, Wolfgang Mozart, came along. Maria’s father, Leopold Mozart, boasted about how well she played the piano, but it wasn’t long before she was overshadowed by her brother. Maria Anna Mozart, also known as Marianne and nicknamed Nannerl, was born on July 30th 1751 in Salzburg, Austria. Maria is the oldest of 7 children, however only she and her brother Wolfgang…

oppressing gender roles that the town has implemented on them. María Alejandrina Cervantes runs the whore house of the town. She represents the few women that are independent and defy gender roles. Even though María has the freedom that very few women are able to obtain, her freedom cost her her respect in the town as the next quote shows. The narrator states, “According to what they told me years later, they had begun by looking for him at María Alejandrina Cervantes’s place, where they had…

Saint Maria Goretti is who I look up to when I have trouble forgiving people who have managed to hurt me emotionally, mentally or physically. As human beings we don’t like to forgive easily, we like to keep our pride and hold grudges. Saint Maria Goretti was only twelve years old when she was raped and killed, but she forgave the man who committed a mortal sin. I personally have a hard time forgiving my siblings for making fun of my insecurities and that is less worse than what Saint Maria…

Maria Mitchell was an educator, a feminist, and perhaps most notably, the first female to work as a professional astronomer in the United States. She gained fame in 1847 when she excused herself from a dinner party to survey the sky using her father’s telescope, and discovered a comet. This comet became known as “Miss Mitchell’s Comet” and won her a gold medal which was presented to her by the Danish government (Mitchell 1889, 331-343). Mitchell was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts to Quaker…