Eric Shorts Professor Paquita Garatea History of Women in America December 3, 2012 “Money Makes Tha World Go Round” Anzia Yezierska (1881 - 1970) was the daughter of Russian-Polish Jews who immigrated to the United States in the early 1890s. Her father was a Talmudic scholar who engaged in full time study of the holy books while her mother struggled to support the family. Yerzierska worked in sweat shops to put herself through Columbia University. After achieving her goal of becoming an independent woman, her sister influenced her to begin writing. Yezierska became a popular novelist and short story writer during the 1920s before slipping into relative
Raised primarily by her paternal grandmother, Porter became strong and self-reliant at an early age. Both the loss of her mother and her father’s subsequent neglect had a lasting effect on Porter—making her incredibly attentive to the harsh realities of the human endeavor.
Lecturer, author, and philosopher, Elizabeth Stanton created a huge impact on the growing hindrance of women’s rights. Born in November of 1815, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the daughter of Margaret Livingston and Daniel Cady. According to research, “Stanton received her formal education at the Johnstown Academy and at Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary in New York” (National Women’s History Museum 1). She also received some education from her father. Her awareness of the increasing problem of slavery began to occur at an early age.
Anne Frank underwent a life changing twenty five months of hiding during her teenage years with her family and friends due to the overthrowing Nazi party in Germany . During these years feelings of fear, faith, and courage overwhelmed her but brought her through experiences that she documented, this has educated millions of people about the Holocaust. All aspects of life during hiding including what she struggled with, learned from, and thought about was captured in the pages of her diary. When Anne and her family are first sent into hiding, she has a very optimistic outlook on life. She is always thinking about how much worse it could be and how lucky she is to have what she is given and still have the comfort of her family.
Famous Feminists Adams, Abigail (1744-1818). Adams was a prolific writer, patriot, abolitionist, and early feminist. In her famous correspondence to her husband, she spoke eloquently against slavery, many years before the abolitionist movement, and on behalf of women. Anthony, Susan B. 1820-1906.
Looking for Alibrandi Essay The popular book “Looking for Alibrandi” written by Italian author Melina Marchetta explores the journey of protagonist “Josephine Alibrandi” on her final year of high school. Throughout her last year she came across many issues that changed her sense of identity towards herself. Some issues such as expectations from her family and her own, romantic interest, Italian-Australia background, lack of acceptance in her family, but through all this hardship she manages to resolve her problems, but at the end, she finally understands why everything happened, shown by the last line in the book “Because I finally understood” (Pg 261) At age seventeen is experiencing her final year of high school. She constantly feels self-conscious about herself, believing that everyone is talking behind her back because she was born without one of her parents. She is different from the most students at St Martha’s and only relates to a few.
I learned she faced many hard times growing up in a sharecropper family, I can only imagine what life must have been for her. But what I found most prestigious is her awards and accolades she has earned for the literature she has composed. Alice Walker earned the Pulitzer Prize award for some of her past literature so when I seen some of her work was in our text, I knew I wanted to
Before I finished the high school, I started to work for a big tools company as a salesman helper (where I learned many new things). After one year I had, the opportunity to become a salesman. That job gave me many opportunities to continue studying because I had a flexible schedule. I finished high-school, and I drop out of school for two years because I liked to make money and I forget the school. Fortunately I changed my mind and went back to school to finish the university.
As I entered high school I started thinking differently and behaving bad. I didn’t want to be in school so I ditched school most of the time. After several months of ditching I decided to drop out of school and work. That was the biggest mistake I had ever made. I worked for a fast food industry full time.
February 18, 2013 Miss. Smith English 1 Lt. Govener's Essay Patrica Massey Darragh, born on January 31,1944, expeirenced life hard in the 1950's. When I talked to Pat, she explained how social values, jobs, technology, and style was apart of the lifestyle as a teen in the 1950's. Social Values played a huge role in lifestyles back then. Families were very strict and Patrica's family was no different.