Jenna was a member of the 4-H club in Verona which gave her the opportunity to actually raise, show, and sell animals. Jenna has shown llamas, sheep and goats; she has a won some awards for her animals and has also made some money by selling them. Later in our interview I asked Jenna what she wanted to be doing in ten years and since I could already tell she liked the outdoors I wasn’t surprised to hear that she would like to be living in Colorado and would wants to be involved in nursing. Though I only had a short amount of time to talk with Jenna I found that we had more in common then I originally thought. She has a wide range of hobbies from backpacking to showing animals at the Dane county
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson was born on October 23, 1961 in Postsdam, New York. She was born Laurie Beth Halse. As a child, and even now, she loved to read, and write, but struggled with math, which is highly reflected in Melinda, the main character in her National Book Award Finalist book. She was a well behaved child, and at the age of 16, she had left her parents house and wound up living on a pig farm. The pig farm was located in Denmark, where she stayed for 13 months as a foreign exchange student.
The first time she began to adore astronomy was when she helped her father built a small observatory. She had many things going for her like becoming a librarian, working with her father at a bank but, science was the one thing she enjoyed and wanted to pursue the most. Marie Mitchell was born and raised in Nantucket, Massachusetts on August 1st, 1887 and died June 28th, 1889. She was raised by her Quaker parents William Mitchell and Lydia Coleman. Her parents highly valued education and wanted her to receive the same education that boys receive.
Her love of animals began at the age of two when she was given a stuffed chimpanzee animal by her mother. As her love for animals began to grow, she had made up in her mind that she wanted to reside in Africa with the animals. Jane took her first trip to Africa at the age of twenty-three, but didn't begin to study chimpanzees until the age of twenty-six when she went to Gombe National Park for the first time (Learning form Chimps…89). One of the ways Jane observed the chimps was to first observe them from a distance. She had to make many observations about the chimps before she could become up close and personal with them.
Parks wanted to act. She finally decided to go to a NAACP meeting on December 1943 to try and serve a purpose, which her husband was already a member of. There she would meet not only a lifelong friendship with a man named E. D. Nixon but “a partnership that would change the course of American history” (Theoharis 18). They soon become crucial members of NAACP, Nixon was the branch president and Mrs. Parks “was then elected the first secretary of the state conference” (Theoharis 27).
Ida was the eldest of eight children born to slaves. Her parents supported them because her mother was a famous cook and her father was a carpenter. At age fourteen an epidemic of yellow fever killed her parents, she was left to care for her siblings. Ida always had a passion for teaching. She began earning money for teaching to help care for her siblings.
In the fifteen years of America after World War Ⅱ, to be a “perfect wives” and “five children’s mother” was a women’s dream (Friedan). Women did the housework and looked after their husband. This was a daily routine. However, at that time, the women’s liberation movement began. According to the Journal Beyond the Feminine Mystique, it listed two popular magazines that show the emergence of women beginning to believe in themselves and participating in the society (Meyerowitz).
Elizabeth Peet was born on March 26, 1874 in New York City (Parson, 2007) she is the youngest of four children. She was a third generation educator for the deaf having come from a family of prominent educators of the deaf, her father Isaac Lewis Peet and grandfather Harvey Peet, they both served as principals of the New York School for the Deaf for almost seventy years combined. Harvey received his early training at the American School for the Deaf. Edward and Dudley Peet, Elizabeth’s Uncles. They also taught at the New York School for the Deaf.
It taught me how to be more responsibly with the money that I spend, and to save a percent of my paycheck. Later, in 2008 my parents let me buy a puppy, a Weimaraner. I named her Amber, she is now almost fourteen months old, and very health. She has taught me to be patient, more understanding, and that I am not ready to have a child. I could never keep any pet alive longer than a year, my parent are very proud of me for taking on a bigger responsibly.
The Fox Cub 1. ”The Fox Cub” is an award-winning short story, written by the 44-year-old writer Jackie Brewster. The story is about these two thirteen year old girls Rachel and Marie. They met at the local playing field several time that summer, and one day Marie invited Rachel to her house to see a tiny little fox cub that Maria had rescued, and were now keeping it as a pet fox. Both girls drove towards Marie’s house, and Rachel was introduced to Marie’s skinny, dirty teenage cousin.