Ward Cleaver

Do you know who Harriet Tubman is? She gave slaves freedom. She rescued her family, and many people she didn’t know. Most people know her for her work on the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad is a secret system of safe-houses created to help abolitionists. It made it easier to get the slaves safely to the north, where they were against slavery. Harriet was born in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1820. She was first named Araminta Harriet Ross. When she was younger she was tagged…

Ideal Meeting of an American History Reformer Harriet Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1811. In her area, she had never directly witnessed the cruelty of slavery, but the word of such horror was enough to move her deeply from a young age. Her family had a legacy of shaping their world. All ten Beecher children made their mark with accomplishments such as becoming ministers, pushing for women’s education and founding the National Women’s Suffrage Association. Being the younger often…

The story is about a kid named August Pullman who has a type of mandibulofacial dysostosis and hemifacial microsomia because of a multifactorial inheritance. He has a sister named Olivia (but they call her Via), Daisy their dog, and August’s parents. He has been homeschooled because of the surgeries to fix his face until he was old enough to be in fifth grade. His parents enrolled in a school called Beecher Prep and brought Auggie to school for a tour around the school. He gets to meet the…

Toward the end of the last of the book Auggie goes to his fifth grade graduation where he receives the Henry Ward Beecher medal. This award goes to whoever made the most progress through the year and who had the most impact on the people around them, this award went to August Pullman. The author writes, on page 306, “And then the most amazing thing happened: everyone…

Araminta Ross, famously known as Harriet Tubman, was an integral part of the Under- ground Railroad. She was also an abolitionist, humanitarian, a Union nurse and spy during the American Civil War. Born into slavery, Harriet and two of her brothers ran away after their mas- ter’s death in fear that they would be sold off. They turned back and returned to the plantation after her brothers had second thoughts, however, not long after, Harriet fled on her own. She traveled at night, using the North…

point of view one would expect each family member to determine their role in the family. Some family members might prefer to hold a position of reverence and importance, such as Ward Cleaver or Mike Baxter; for others a position of service may be a greater satisfaction than receiving admiration, such as with June Cleaver. In addition, the behavior of family members can change over time, causing the family structure to evolve, such as children learning lessons, as portrayed in both of these…

The Cleaver family makes up the shows main characters. The family makeup is nuclear, with two married parents, Ward and June, and two sons, Wally and Theodore better known as “The Beaver”. The family follows the cultural ideal of the times, as June Cleaver is a homemaker while Ward is the breadwinner of the family. The children Wally and the Beaver are mischievous, but they are well mannered complacent kids. It is obvious that Ward is the head of the household as both…

you don't mind old, you don't mind getting' dressed up." The writers also reserved some wit for Ward and June Cleaver. In another episode Beaver receives a new bike and asks his father, Ward, if he can ride it to…

Ward the father and bread winner went to work every day while his wife June took care of the house hold chores. They had two boys Theodore “Beaver” a shy mischievous boy and Wally the typical all American teen, smart and athletic. This was the family that middle class America strived to be like in the fifties and sixties. Who wouldn’t want to be a member of the Cleaver family they had a nice car a beautiful house, everyone was healthy…

this time were controlled and were not allowed to relay real world issues and portrayed a superficial vision of a family unit. Leave it to Beaver in particular presented a flawless husband known to many as Ward Cleaver. Ward was a white collared businessman and the bread-winner of the family. Ward, was the ruler maker, as were most men in the 1950’s sitcoms. Not only…