Mount Holyoke

Madeleine Albright, secretary of state, gives a speech to the graduating class of Mount Holyoke College, which is a women's college in Massachusetts. Albright uses passion, hope, encouragement, and beliefs to convey to these women how they should stay together and make America even greater than it is. Albright uses passion by stating “As a Nation, America must choose whether to turn inward and betray the lessons of history, or to seize the opportunity before us to shape history.” This shows how…

Emily Dickinson is a poet who expressed her own thoughts and tragedies through poetry. Dickinson was born in 1830 and grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended Amherst Academy for seven years and then went to Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley for one year; eventually she returned to Amherst College (“Home”). She lived an uneventful life and centered herself around art as inspiration. The poetry of Emily Dickinson, which was influenced by her personal background and by the…

It all began on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. I was said to be a fair, polite, and behaving child, besides the fact that my mother was quite cold. I mostly lived with my intelligent persistent father that single handedly founded Amherst Academy, was your father that innovative? I lived in a non wealthy household that attended a Calvinist church regularly. The lifestyle I lived shaped me into the soft spoken woman I lived to be. When I was younger I was just like every other girl I…

one of New York time bestseller, American sphinx; a biography of Thomas Jefferson got a national book award, His Excellency: George Washington which was also a New York time bestseller. Ellis was the professor that found the ford foundation at Mount Holyoke College where he was a dean…

Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross-Dickinson. She had two siblings, her brother William Austin Dickinson was born in 1829 and her sister Lavinia Norcross-Dickinson was born in 1833. She went to Amherst Academy for seven years and later went to Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for a year. She died on May 5, 1886 at the age of 55 in Amherst Massachusetts where she lived for most of her life. “During her life she mostly stayed remote and away from people” (poetsorg). The poetry of Emily Dickinson,…

An example of an anti Romantic themed painting would be "View from Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, After a Thunderstorm”(also known as “The Oxbow)” painted in the year eighteen thirty six, by artist Thomas Cole. If looking at the painting straight on; to the left one will notice a mix of gray, blue and black thunderclouds over…

Marianne Moore was a small town girl, born around St. Louis Missouri. She moved around alot in her life. When Marianne Moore was reaching adolescence, her father left her and her mother, leaving them with no money to keep their house. So they had to move to her grandfather's house and stay there until his death. Which was on 1894. They just moved from one relative to another until the big move to carlisle, PA. Moore graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a BA degree in biology in 1909. Following…

to improve the living conditions of inner-city residents. With regard to foreign policy, she opposed the military draft, the Vietnam War, and the expansion of nuclear weapons. After leaving congress, Mrs. Chisolm resumed her teaching career at Mount Holyoke College. In the 1980s, she campaigned for Jesse Jackson in his bids for the presidency. Shirley Chisolm was a pioneer for the rights of black people and women – blazing a path to…

schooling was extraordinary for girls in the early nineteenth century, though not unusual for girls in Amherst. After a short period of time at an Amherst district school, she attended Amherst for seven years before entering Mount Holyoke Seminary in 1847 which is now called Mount Holyoke College. She attended the Seminary for one…

The Oxbow, painted by artist Thomas Cole, is a beautiful landscape painting with numerous details and color, used to depict a scene from Mount Holyoke, in Massachusetts, after a thunderstorm. Cole was an American painter, born in England, where he spent the first part of his life. When his family moved to Ohio, he began by painting portraits, but later moved to New York where he began painting landscapes, which he is primarily known for. He experienced great success in New York, and was promoted…