The College of William & Mary

Mary Whiton Calkins. To some it is just a name, but to others it’s the name of a genius who changed the course of time and created doorways for others to follow. Specifically, she was a woman who wanted an education, and wouldn’t stop until she got it. She believed that there should be no discrimination against a woman in an educational setting and proved this by pushing against the boundaries and leaving pretty big footprints behind in the fields of psychology and philosophy. Thus, what did…

Lincoln and helped extend the United State’s territory. William Henry Seward had a promising childhood and adulthood and to get as far has he did in his career with some ups and down like to be appointed Secretary of State by Abraham Lincoln and to be known for the purchase of Alaska or also known as Seward’s Folly. William Henry Seward was born on May 16, 1801 in Florida, New York (“William H. Seward”). His parents were Samuel Seward and Mary Jennings(“Our family tree”). He was the fourth…

“We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy (Zahniser, J.D).” This quote was posted on a banner by protesters for women rights, Lucy Burns and Katharine Morey (Zahniser, J.D.). These are just two of many women that protested for equal rights for women. Alice Paul was probably the biggest pioneer for women’s rights. She organized the white house picketing campaign (Zahniser, J.D.). Alice Paul staged a parade of 5,000 people in 1913 (Crocco, Margaret Smith). She did anything and…

Shelley’s Poem “Love’s Philosophy”, meaning is about how everything in nature is designed to have a partner (“Love’s Philosophy). This poem was influenced by his love life with Mary. The poem reflects the time when Shelley was trying to convince Mary’s father into approving Mary and Shelley’s relationship. In the poem Mary is the one Shelley wishes to be with. The title of the poem shows the reader that the poem is going to be based on the meaning of love. In the first stanza it describes how…

my most memorable writings was a story in addition to a thought provoking essay. The experience I had writing that was most memorable to me was my research paper for my 12th grade English class. My research paper was about Queen Mary Tudor, also known as Bloody Mary, and how she influenced her era. I got to choose the topic I wanted to write. I feel that teachers should almost always let students have some choice in picking their topic. In the book McKeachie 's teaching tips, it states that if…

● Percy Bysshe Shelley was born August 4, 1792, at Field Place. As the oldest of their seven children, Shelley left home at age of 10 to study at Syon House Academy. ● After two years, he enrolled at Eton College and began writing poetry. He was severely bullied, by his classmates. Within a year he had published two novels and two volumes of poetry. His first publication was a Gothic novel, Zastrozzi (1810) ● In 1811, While he was doing this he wrote a pamphlet with Thomas Jefferson Hogg…

Mary Dinsmore Salter Ainsworth Brief Personal History: I was born in Glendale, Ohio, USA on December 1,1913. Both of my parents are college graduates of Dickson College. They were very literature oriented and valued education. I am the eldest of three girls. I spent the first four years of my life in Ohio, and then moved to Toronto, Canada with my family at five. My parents trained us at a very young age to value our education. I like to party, dance, read, listen to music, and engaging in…

The Constitutional Convention was originally made to make the first system of government. What they would do is they pick certain people to represent their state and then they would gather together to make a decision. This gathering turned out to be fixing the government rather than creating a new one. They made decisions about the executive branch of government like if the bicameral congress should divide to become the senate or to have three people to have power or one also known as the…

lectures given at at Newnham College and Girton College. The main theme concerning A Room of One’s Own is that of analyzing women’s role in society such as their accessibility to education or labor and how women are portrayed in fiction. She makes the point that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" which is emphasized when she introduces herself as the narrator and states that the reader can "call [her] Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael or by any name…

A Room of One's Own is literary essay by Virginia Woolf. This essay, first published on 24 October 1929, was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women' colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. In the essay, Woolf advances that a woman must have a room of her room if she is to write something. To illustrate her point and reconstruct the existence of women, the author proposes the imaginary figure of Shakespeare’s sister, Judith…