The Women of Brewster Place

that women do not play much of a role at all, besides as props in ads. This could not be further from the truth, currently there are women all over the world working within every facet of the beer industry. Whether it be sommeliers, sales reps, hop farmers, or even head brewster at some of the oldest and most historic breweries or some of the newest ground breaking ones. Brewster is actually the feminine form of brewer, an established term to connote the long established role women…

from behind enemy lines. Under the nose of the British, one of the most superlative members of the Culper Spy Ring was Anna Smith Strong, who was the vital communication link for Abraham Woodhull to provide information on British activities to Caleb Brewster, who then reported to General George Washington. Her actions solidified the Culper Spy Ring and the information discovered, while also ensuring the safety and integrity of the Culper Spy…

thoughtful due.” Naylor believes herself to be a wordsmith and a storyteller. There is a reflection of her personal life and familial past in the form of names, places and even in the stories in her novels.Her novels are “linked” together. She refers to characters and places in one text that becomes significant in the next text. Naylor also draws extensively on the bible, which…

absolutely sure that the information to be sent was of extreme importance. Woodhull, then, would drop the intelligence off at another dead drop and let Anna Strong, the person in charge of signaling to the transporter, know. Anna Strong was one of the few women leading the double life of a spy during this time. Strong was an upper class woman and lived and took care of her farm along…

to 1990 women were the main providers for children preschool age and younger while they were at home. The term “stay at home mom” was common in many cultures, rarely was a father the stay at home figure. According to the article “Family Flexibility in Response to Economic Conditions: Fathers’ Involvement in Child-Care Tasks” by Brian Knop and Karin L. Brewster in Journal of Marriage and Family, in 2006-2010 of the Great Recession family dynamics changed. Men were losing their jobs and women were…

For as long as women have been depicted in the arts, holy texts, and so on and so forth, an image has prevailed over most others, the depiction of the fallen woman, the mistress, the slut, etc. Despite the many forms this portrayal has assumed over time, it cannot be debated that to this day there remains the idea that a woman can behave in a “disagreeable” manner that society may look down upon her sexuality, faith, activities, etc, with scolding eyes and flaming tongues. In the case of Etta…

The biggest argument in favor of the idea was that it had never been done before. He required a collection of agents, a ring of common men and women with undeniable fidelity and inconspicuous identities. His first task was to enlist two key individuals, the first an officer who was familiar with the territory and well acquainted with local families, who could organize the whole ring but stay close…

Spy Ring” states, “The messages were then hidden in goods that Roe took back to Setauket and hid on a farm belonging to Abraham Woodhull who would later retrieve the messages.” “The secret spots that were used were known as dead drops, or specific places that granted those who knew about them the opportunity to pass intelligence to each other in secrecy…

Handheld devices are a part of society, while some enjoy this convenience there are others who are concerned with this ever-increasing reliance on a device other than our minds. Many are ignoring the signs of the diminishing value of individual knowledge and embracing the idea of using machines to do what people have become too lazy to do themselves. As stated by Jamais Cascio “…while society’s collective memory is expanding at an astonishing rate, our internal, individual ones are shrinking.”…

On January 29th, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi, Oprah Winfrey was born. She lived a troubled life growing up, which consisted of her being sexually abused by male relatives and friends of her mother. She has also disclosed giving birth at age fourteen, but her child died in infancy. Eventually, she moved in with her father in Nashville. Little did she know, her life would turn around quickly; she was going to be an American television host, actress, producer, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.…