Martha Ballard

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1. How would you characterize Martha Stewart’s initial public relations response to the charges against her? I believe that Stewart made no attempts putting her story out in news. Also, she didn't made any effort you show people that she's innocent and she hasn't done anything wrong. I believe she made the right decision by letting her lawyers do the most talking. 2. What key public relations principle did Martha Stewart violate? Martha Stewart thinks that didn't do anything wrong and haven't…

Heather Troain ACC960 The Martha Stewart Scandal History Martha Stewart is a household name. The famous homemaker is known for many things including her cooking shows to magazines to her line house wares, we all know who she is. She founded Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., a company involved in publishing, merchandising, and television. At an early age, Martha learned the basics of cooking, baking, and sewing from her mother and her father taught her gardening. After college, she…

Martha Ballard was a woman who was really just a normal woman in eighteenth century New England. She was ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. In A Midwife’s Tale, a book by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Martha served Hallowell, Maine as a midwife. She kept a diary of her life and exploits. This diary was used as a window into the world of Martha Ballard and her experiences in life. Ulrich used the diary as an interpretive tool and uses many part of the diary in her own book. Ulrich used…

Thatcher Ulrich presents a novel, “A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Base on Her Diary, 1785-1812,” about a midwife and her life in the 18th century balancing between being a mother and being a professional. Ulrich defines Martha Ballard as a 54 year old midwife and a healer for the New England community. Martha traveled around her community to help pregnant women delivered their babies and healed sick people. Martha Ballard is also a mother of six children who she cares for. In…

I think it is an amazing thing that Martha Ballard’s family kept her diaries for all those years and took care of them so well that we are able to read and learn from them now. The Behind the Scenes section gave a great history of where the diaries came from and what Martha Ballard was like. I was very impressed to find out how much responsibility and education she had for a woman of her time. Many people relied on Martha Ballard and her skills as a midwife among other things. I was surprised to…

insight on colonial life in the 18th century. In this book, Martha Ballard’s historical collection of diary entries document her hectic life as a very important figure in her community. Exemplifying the epitome of a jack-of-all-trades, Martha Ballard serves her community as a midwife, nurse, physician, pharmacist, mortician, and wife all at the same time. In the book, the reader gets a glimpse of how rough it was to live at time Martha Ballard served her community. We have to understand that…

A Midwife’s Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich examines the 1785-1812 diary of Martha Ballard, a midwife in Hallowell, Maine. Ballard composed concise daily entries that chronicle her domestic work, deliveries and nursing, as well as community events. These entries, coupled with Ulrich’s extensive archival research, show the complexity of the female economy and its interactions with the mercantile economy of the late 18th century. Ulrich presents the masculine and feminine economic interactions…

Upon analysis of Martha Ballard’s diary during the period 1785 to 1790, it is revealed that the nature of women’s work in later eighteenth-century New England was strongly divided by gender. According to Ulrich, although women could both work at home or outside, their contribution was never officially recognized. In addition, it can be deduced from the diary that women were expected to abide by the constrains of a patriarchal society while also conforming to gender norms. However, the women in…