Mary White Ovington

Mary White Ovington Bhavya Korkonda #13 1/25/17 For a person, such as myself, who is so immersed in women’s rights and equality, Mary White Ovington is indeed a remarkable person in history, as well as a formidable role model. Ovington was born on April 11, 1865, in Brooklyn, New York. She was raised by abolitionist (people who partake in the action of taking down a system, practice, institution, ect.) parents, so, naturally she grew up with an enthusiasm for social reformation. She was inspired by a speech by Booker T. Washington, in 1903. It touched her heart, in such a way that from then on she made it her sole act to devote herself to racial equality. Some years later (in 1909 to be exact), Ovington and her fellow civil rights reformers established NAACP (of which an organization were she held multiple positions in). She then died in 1951. Now, that was just an overview. Why don’t we take a look (upon deeper and closer inspection) at her life, both outside and inside of her job as a social activist? Let’s start off with her early years! She was born in (and grew up in) Brooklyn, New York. She was the daughter of wealthy parents who raised her in the tradition of men and women during the Abolitionist Era. Ovington was one of four children. She is also distantly related to William…

amendment for women’s suffrage and declared that the states had the power to deny them this right. Meanwhile, white men had the right to vote (while African American men at this point did not). Because of this unequal treatment towards women, the National American Women’s Suffrage League was founded in part by Susan B. Anthony in 1890 after a merge between the…

Mary is represented as icons, drawings, paintings, and apparitions, such as La Santa Muerte, La Negrita, Our Lady of the Rock, Madonna, The Virgin of Guadalupe, and Our Lady of the Wall. With there still being many more, all of this just undoubtedly proves how incredibly substantial her influence is. It is completely reasonable to believe in Mary’s influence because “to look at [her]…is to look at God’s original plan for humanity” (Nouwen, 1989), as mentioned in class: she is the ultimate…

females around him because of his many skills, kind and loyal ways, and his devotion to God and Jesus Christ. According to Luke, “Hail Mary full of grace” was spoken at the Annunciation and “Blessed are you and blessed is the fruit of your womb Jesus” are spoken by Mary’s cousin Elizabeth. Luke is responsible for the stories about Jesus disappearing in Jerusalem as…

Sagrada Familia,” or the Sacred Family. La Sagrada Familia is, therefore, an expiatory temple, which is a type of temple dedicated to a deity to show devotion, which is a reason as to why the work’s scale is so immense, and why Gaudi paid so much attention to small details. Gaudi’s decision to work at such a large scale is also because he wanted the church to be seen from anywhere in the city of Barcelona, inviting those who need salvation to come and be saved. Gaudi’s plan was limited however,…

Critical Analysis- Wilthia Spann The Virgin of Jeanne d'Evreux is a large gothic-style sculpture that was created in between 1324 to 1339. It was created in France and it was donated to the the abbey church of Saint-Denis by the Queen of France, Jeanne d'Evreux. It is a silver-gilt and enamel piece with the height of 2′ 3 1/2″ high. There isn’t any known record of the artist who actually built the sculpture, but it is known that they were a goldsmith. The piece can now be seen in Louvre Museum…

The things were arranged to suggest a pair of breast (the two melons), female genital (the water bucket) and male genitals (cucumber and oranges). It was arranged in a space with white wall and grey floor. The art supposed is in landscape frame. The scale is 84 x 168 x 145cm. It is not drawn like the Praying Hands instead it is a composition of several real objects. The techniques used for Praying Hands it was drawn on a blue-coloured paper with black ink and white ink. The hands were shaded…

people did not believe in the power of women to rule especially religious authorities. John Knox, believed “To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire… is against all nature” (Doc 1). Despite this common belief Elizabeth’s rule was given to her because of her religious values which may be one of the reasons she felt a need to stick so closely to it as when she entered the Spanish Armada she said “ to live or die amongst you all: to lay down for my God” (Doc 7). Knox also…

locations” (Kimbro). Joy refused to allow her children to cave in to the temptation and conditions that surrounded them. In contrast the other Wes’ mother Mary raised her in a completely different way. Of course like every mother she loved her children but her approaches to raising them was different than Joy’s. Like Joy she lived she started going to college but once her Pell grant was revoked she had to drop out since she could not afford raising a family and going to college. She had her…

“to commemorate such great nuptial ceremonies, [Claudius] built the city which he called Claudiocester”: Unity and Harmony The roll-maker used women to prove a political point that peace, harmony and greatness could be expected from a king if he had a loving and supportive wife. Women were carefully selected by the roll-maker to exhibit this idea in a variety of differing scenarios. If women inspired their husbands to do great things, created successful lineages, had a useful heritage, or were…