Mother Courage and Her Children

Every person on Earth is given the gift of courage. However, there are very few that take advantage of this gift. To be courageous does not necessarily mean to be daring or reckless. An act of courage could be as simple as saying a nice thing about someone. It is important to have courage because of the fact that our society is lacking courageous people. Without people who will stand up against the wrong things in our society, those who do bad things will never change their ways. Unless someone…

are stepping out and having their career. I wonder if you are aware, most women they always sacrifices when it comes to work or parenting. Is it always got to be like this? Why women always should be authorized to stay at home and take care of the children and be the housewife? President Obama made a headline in the year 2014 with what he said: “Just Say No to Stay-at-home Moms”. With what Obama said, what do you think about if women having a career, managing a home and being financially…

had three children and we moved a lot and finally settled down in a place. Nevertheless, in Sandra Cisneros’ essay “ The Storyteller” she discusses about how she was raised in a big family and being the only woman out of the children. Her parents were based on a tradition to where everyone had to live with their parents until marriage. Based on Cisneros’ essay, I was the only woman out of the…

books at age of three and taught himself the usage of paragraphs. He began to read “Grapes of Wrath” in kindergarten while other children struggled with “Dick and Jane.” By our modern standards, he might have been called a genius but because he is from Indian reservation people expected him to be stupid, silent and submissive. In the classroom, Alexie noticed Indian children are very ingenious but some of them refused to try and learn and some of them have already given up their hopes on…

there is love, tolerance and humility.” Irena Sendler smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War Two. The Warsaw Ghetto, was a new “resettlement” for all Jews, from there, they were sent to concentration camps. Irena became a nurse and would smuggle the children out of the Ghetto using ambulances, potato sacks and more. However, she was caught by the Gestapo, German police, who then broke her limbs. She was sentenced to death but managed to escape. Irena Sendler and…

After a stream of bad luck, she finally convinces a lawyer to give her a job as a file clerk at his firm. Although no one took her all too seriously at work because of her lack of experience and “trashy” ensemble, she soon changes their perception of her when she begins to investigate a suspicious pro bono real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. After relentless prying she finds out that PG&E was secretly trying to buy land from local residents in order to cover up the…

raising good German children and encouraging the men of German society. German women faced the task of being mothers to the children, as well as protectors of the home. Elsbeth Zander explains the expectations of women saying that, “Our era so loudly demands German mothers, for those who will try- through true motherly love, through good understanding and sisterly comradeship- to heal the wounds which a gruesome fate has inflicted on us.” It was essential that mothers teach their children of…

eventually goes away as she goes from her small world of happiness to the painful reality of society. Despite that, as she goes on, she learns many great lessons to prepare for that transition. The book To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is a story set in the 1930’s in Maycomb County, Alabama, where kids learn racism just as well as they learn to tie their shoes. This story is told from perspective of a precocious young Scout Finch who tells of her story throughout her childhood. Scout is a…

Throughout the three years that scout tells her story and the lesson her father teaches her I connected, and learned along with Scout. I know now I have learned and are seeing things in a new different way,something I thought was simply actually has a bigger meaning to it. Atticus teaches Scout the importance of tolerance,to have respect to a person 's privacy , and as well as displaying courage. All these lessons I have connected to and have learned from them…

Anne Hutchison 1607-1754 Anne was born at Alford, England. She was a mother of 15 children. Hutchison began teaching her own way knowing of the Bible. With that she was the leader of New England’s religion. She participated in Antinomian Controversy, which was a religions and political conflict in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Where with the help of her charisma and her popularity, she gained supporters to make a division between people in order to create a threat to destroy the Puritan’s…