Mount Holyoke

According to JL Guest, a conservative writer from the Western Journalism news company, we are a nation of laws where everyone is treated fairly and equally. Guest states that with a nation of laws, there is a greater balance of human nature, avoidance of government atrocities, and no corrupt officials that could use the imbalance of laws as a weapon to take over people’s basic rights and liberties. On the other hand, Skwirk, an online interactive learning portal, strongly puts in confidence that…

After high school, she continued her education at Mount Holyoke College. There, she was fortunate enough to be apart of a small creative writing class that was taught by the famous American author and civil rights activist, James Baldwin (“Suzan-Lori Parks Biography”). It was during this time she began writing…

In many of Emily Dickinson’s poetry, disruptions of conventional literary standards frequently occur. While this includes different aspects of poetry, such as theme, perspective, diction, and other poetic devices, her experimental syntactic constructions are particularly notable. One of Dickinson’s poems, “A Day,” provides an example of her prolific usage of punctuations and syntax, and this contributes to successfully conveying the theme of the poem. The poetry portrays a vivid, detailed…

since Newark is later described as ‘home of the underprivileged’ (p. 1. l. 11). Into this environment comes the twenty-two years old lady named Carrie. Carrie is going to be a teaching assistant. Carrie herself comes from a women’s college called Mount Holyoke. Before that she had studied at a middle-class college where she had learned a lot about Afro-American, but not known any. This shows that Carrie can’t relate to the environment in which she is going to teach and it also creates distance…

Oberlin College first admitted women when chartered in 1933, but restricted access to certain courses and continued to emphasize their maternal role in society rather than the value of a career (National Women’s History Museum [NWHM], 2007). Mount Holyoke Female Seminary opened its doors in 1837 and made a deliberate attempt to reach middle-class women who were serious about education, setting a minimum age and entrance exam requirements (NWHM, 2007). The curriculum included a focus on math and…

the 10th Chief Justice of the United States. Taft was born on September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father Alphonso Taft was Republican, who also served as Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant. His mother was a graduate of Mount Holyoke, Louisa Torrey. He was brought up in the Unitarian church, and would remain a faithful Unitarian his entire life. When Taft was 18 he met his future wife Helen Herron at a sledding party in Cincinnati; she and Taft courted while he was away at…

Journal after her mother’s death. Lucy's enthusiasm for education began at a young age, and at the age of sixteen, she decided to pursue a career in teaching as a means of funding her college education. According to Michals (2017), she attended Mount Holyoke for a semester in 1839, but the illness of her sister required her to return home. Following that, she enrolled in Ohio's Oberlin College in 1843. But Stone was not allowed to pursue her passion in public speaking, not even at a progressive…

The human species has, is, and will always be separated into two distinct categories: those who succeed, and those who fail. Why is this? Why isn’t everybody a success? Those denoted as failures will argue only the lucky succeed, or only the privileged prevail. Those failures will claim that their deficiencies are circumstantial; that they never had a chance, because they adopted their identities, as failures, at birth. Those failures, however, are gravely mistaken. The fact of the matter is, as…

Dickinson. Her family consisted of her parents, Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross Dickinson, and her siblings William Austin Dickinson and Lavinia Dickinson. “For school, she attended Amherst Academy for seven years and then went to school at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1847.” (poets.org) After attending school for eight years she left school in the year 1848. Surprisingly, during her youth, Emily was very social, which was different then her adult…

Emily is an inspiration to many, she believes that "Hope is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul". She stood up for what she believed in, and defied the odds of learning to read and write when it was unusual for women at that time. Throughout her life, Dickinson was told her style of writing was unusual and no one would like it, but, ironically, when her poems were discovered, everyone loved them. Her unique style and perspective won over audiences, and changed the way people viewed…