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They Don’t Need No Man The role of women from the realism time period to the modernism time period changed dramatically. In the realism period, women still have not gotten any equal rights, including voting, being in politics, and even being in any workplace. This caused many women to go against their husband or any other man. The stories in the realism time period that portray this is “The Revolt of Mother” by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, and “A New England Nun” by Mary Eleanor Wilkins…

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, the First Lady of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is down in history as one of the most influential of all the First Ladies (Maney 1). Eleanor accomplished many things, from being a writer and an activist, to co-founding Val-Kill Industries. Eleanor often traveled across the country to inspect the social conditions that the citizens of that region were living in (Freedman 2). If the conditions did not meet her standards, she would attempt to reform through the…

John Ross Over history there was a lot of native Americans chefs.The chefs are getting into wars like the creek war. Where the chef was born and when he died.If they had parents,siblings and children. In conclusion this I'm sailing what is going to happen in the paragraphs. John Ross was born on October 3,1790 In Turkeytown,Alabama. His father was Daniel Ross, and his mother was half Scottish and half Cherokee. Daniel built a school and hired a teacher. In 1815 John…

C.S. Lewis and The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe C.S. Lewis was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He is best known for The Chronicles of Narnia, but has many other well-known novels and series. The best known book in the Narnia series is The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, the first book of seven. By looking at The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, one can see that…

There may not be magic rings, wardrobes, or paintings to take us to Narnia, but there is still a way to get there. Was C. S. Lewis creating an allegory in The Chronicles of Narnia? Perhaps not. At the very least, however, his profound belief in Christianity motivated his compelling story. Narnia is all the better off for it.  Works Cited Bruner, Kurt, and Ware, Jim. “Finding…

America: War With Itself The Civil War was a war between two rivals, the South and the North. The South thought the war would last only a couple weeks or months, but it turns out, the war lasted over 4 years. Also, the South thought very little of the North during the war. For example, the South thought the North had very little supplies, small army, and a weak navy but the North proved them wrong. Abraham Lincoln was president at the time and was trying to abolish slavery from the United…

A leader is not born. They are made from the blood, sweat, and tears of a proud parent.He was U.S. General who served in both world wars had a lot to live up to case of past military family victories. His name is George Smith Patton Jr. a commander of the the third regiment and others to come in the war. Born in San Gabriel ,California November 11, 1885 he decided in his childhood to become a hero. As he grew up he heard of great victories of his ancestors during the revolutionary war ,…

Introduction Samuel Moore Walton was an American entrepreneur and founder of Wal-Mart and Sam's Club retail stores and at a time was the richest man in United States. Sam Walton was born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma in 1918. He opened the first Wal-Mart in 1962. The discount chain expanded internationally over the next 30 years, growing into the world’s largest company by 2010. Walton stepped down as CEO in 1988 (Forbes 1997), at the age of 70 (Biography 2015), but remained active in the company…

C.S. Lewis: “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” (“C.S.Lewis.” BrainyQuote.com. Xplore Inc, 2016. 26 February 2016. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/c_s_lewis.html). This is said by C.S. Lewis who dared to write about subjects writers at the time few dared to write about. Being raised in a Christian…

Everyone has to grow up and mature at some point, some take longer than others. In the book "The Outsiders" by S. E. Hinton, Ponyboy is the main character. He is a 14 year-old boy trying to figure himself out. Over the course of the book he starts mellowing in many different ways. The book is about two groups of teens, the Greasers and Socs. There is many feuds between the two groups. Ponyboy is in a gang that is part of the Greasers. In their gang there's seven members; Ponyboy, Soda, and…