Biography of Ann McAllister Olivarius The British-American lawyer Ann McAllister Olivarius, was born in 1955 in Brooklyn, New York. During 1972, she studied at Piura, Peru as an AFS exchange student and became conversant in Spanish. Ann Olivarius continued to attend Yale College, graduating summa cum laude in 1977 and during her years at Yale, established an Undergraduate Women’s Caucus involving activism for human rights, in particular equalising the position of women at Yale. During her junior year, Olivarius gained work experience by acting as an intern for the Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice of the United States. In 1978 Olivarius was awarded one of only 32 American Rhodes Scholarships available.
She later worked as a maid to the lead singer in a traveling Gilbert & Sullivan theatrical company (Wikipedia). In 1917, Hurston began attending Morgan Academy, the high school division of Morgan College in Baltimore, Maryland. It was at this time, and apparently to qualify for a free high-school education, that a 26-year-old Hurston began claiming 1901 as her date of birth (Wikipedia). She graduated from Morgan Academy in 1918. As an adult, Hurston traveled extensively in the Caribbean and the American south and immersed herself in local cultural practices to conduct her anthropological research (Wikipedia).
Rosie the Riveter Revisited Women, The War, and Social Change Gluck, Sherna Berger. Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987 Author Sherna Berger Gluck is Director Emeriti of the Oral History Program at California State University, Long Beach. She has concentrated most of her academic career developing and endorsing what is now officially recognized as an individual discipline (Women’s Oral History). Gluck completed her undergraduate work at Shimer College (the Great Books College of Chicago) in Illinois and completed advanced degree work at UCLA and University of California, Berkeley.
Women of Psychology Reshaunda Davis PSY/310 March 3, 2013 Luvenia Jackson . Mamie Phipps was born April 18, 1917; Hot Springs is her birthplace. Her father was a Physician; his name was Harold H. Phipps, MD. Katie Florence was her mother’s name, she helped Mamie’s father with his practice. She went to segregated public schools.
Cisneros found an outlet in writing. In high school she wrote poetry and was the literary magazine editor. She earned a BA in English from Loyola University of Chicago in 1976. However, it wasn't until working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop in the late 1970's that she says she found her way, as a working-class, Mexican-American woman. The experience of recognizing her difference from other students at Iowa eventually led to the writing of The House on Mango Street, which was published by Arte Publico Press of Houston in 1984 and won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award in 1985.
Sylvia Plath’s semi autobiographical novel The Bell Jar deals with its primary theme of identity through the trifold lenses of psychological illness, the sociological oppression of 1950s America prior to pre-modernist feminism and teenage coming-of-age. Throughout the novel, Plath uses a linear narrative fragmented by time to mimic the deteriorating state of mind of the protagonist, Esther Greenwood. The selected extract within chapter 8 is a pivotal moment in the context of the novel as hinted at by Plath herself when she refers to a “white sun” which “hung over the suspended waves of the hills, an insentient pivot without which the world would not exist”. This is a technique similarly utilised by Plath in her seminal poem Ariel in the line “God’s Lioness” which “can be seen as a direct reference to the Hebrew or Jewish Ariel meaning Lion of God” (Davis, 1972). The “insentient pivot” and “suspended waves” also create a sense of a metaphorical pendulum devout of the potential to feel (emulating Esther’s disconnecting bell jar effect) captured at its moment of maximum Potential Energy before sweeping the circular arc of its inevitable trajectory (in a manner imitating Esther’s slide into madness).
Zora Neale Hurston in The 1920s Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the pre-eminent writers of twentieth-century African-American literature. Hurston was born on January 7, 1891. She was raised in Eatonville, Florida, which was the first incorporated all-Black town in America and became the setting for most of Hurston's fiction. Hurston is considered among the foremost writers of the Harlem Renaissance, a literary and artistic movement centered in Harlem, New York, that redefined African American expression during the 1920s and 1930s. She worked briefly as a maid, and at sixteen was hired as a wardrobe girl for a touring theatrical troupe and traveled the South for eighteen months.
Although she initially wanted to be a doctor, she soon decided to concentrate on the classics. During college, Cather discovered her talent for writing and quickly entered the world of journalism. By the time she was twenty, she had a column in the Nebraska State Journal, and during her junior year, she became the paper’s drama critic. After graduation, she took a job in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as managing editor for Home Monthly, a women’s magazine. About a year later, she became a drama critic for a Pittsburgh newspaper called the Leader.
By looking at the wedding celebration at the beginning of the novel, one may see how the immigrant identity invites exploitation through its reliance on an unspoken code of conduct. The American identity is shown to be similarly problematic, because it encourages self-interest that ultimately only serves to further disempower the poor. The novel presents the socialist identity as the only sustainable identity out of these three, because it is the only one with the ability to directly and explicitly confront the ways in which capitalism is inherently stacked against the interests of the
The term Alien is use to describe immigrates or people who come from another country to live in America. Immigrants help to build this country up to where it is now. “Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask