While trying to gain entry to medical school many Physicians told her to either go to Paris or disguise herself as a man. The main reason for this was she was a woman and therefore intellectually inferior and she may have been competition and prove herself equal to the men attending medical school a thought that most men at the time did not receive very well. In October of 1847she was accepted into Geneva Medical College in upstate New York after being rejected by 29 different medical schools. On January 11, 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell became the first female physician in the United States she also graduated top of her class. April of 1849 she decided to move to Europe and in November while treating a patient with Ophtalmia Neonatorium she
Ana Catillo “Women Don’t Riot” Ana Castillo is a Latina poet, essayist, and novelist. She was born and raised in Chicago , Illinois on June 15, 1953 to two chicano parents named Raymond and Rawuel Rocha Castillo. Ana Catillo attended and graduated from Northeastern Illinois University and the University of Chicago and earned her bachelors in art. During this time Castillo had a son named Marcel Ramon Herrera. After this, Castillo felt to better her life for her and her son so she went back to school.
In 1960, Vivian took Debbie and her siblings to live with her in Mexico. After almost two years in Mexico, the Allen family returned to Texas, where the twelve year old Debbie auditioned for the Houston Ballet School. Debbie’s performance was good enough for admission, however the school denied her entry based on the color of her skin. Fortunately, a year later, a Russian instructor at the school who saw Debbie perform and secretly enrolled the aspiring dancer. When the admissions department discovered what had happened, they were going kick her out but they were so impressed with her skills that they let Allen stay in the program.
In 1907 she attended the Art Students League in New York. In 1908 she won the League's William Merritt Chase still-life prize for her oil painting Mona Shehab. In the fall of 1908, she abandoned the idea of pursuing a career as an artist. She said that she could never distinguish herself as an artist within the mimetic tradition, which was what she was training. She then took a job in Chicago as a commercial artist.
Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in the town of Tuskegee on February 4, 1913 (Badertscher) She received a good education despite the discrimination against African Americans in that era. Her mother was a schoolteacher and home-schooled Rosa until she was 11 years old. Rosa then lived with her aunt in Montgomery, attending the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls. She was forced to drop out of Booker T. Washington High School because of her family illness, but received her high school diploma in 1934 (Badertscher) Rosa Parks was later married to Raymond Parks. He was a barber and supported Rosa through thick and thin and they were both members of the NAACP.
This excluded them from receiving free training at the state-sponsored École des Beaux-Arts until 1897. Drawing classes were an essential part of academic study, they were denied to women in both public and private institutions. Women were deemed inappropriate and even dangerous to their morals as young ladies. Bonheur was most known for her animal paintings especially “The Horse Fair” in 1853. Later after her death in 1899, she received numerous awards celebrating her art and life Receiving Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic in Spain, The Order of Lepold of Belgium and the Legion of Honor in France Bonheur being the first woman to ever receive these awards in history.
Cherilyn Sarkisian was born on May 20, 1946 in El Centro, California to a John Sarkisian a refugee who worked as a truck driver and Georgia Holt an aspiring actress and sometimes a model. Cher faced tribes and tribulation when her parents divorced. Due to financial problem Cher ended up in a temporary foster home till her mother came back to get her. Cher’s mother remarried again to a banker named Gilbert Capierre who later adopted her. When Cher was young she was diagnosed with dyslexia but didn’t let that stop her from her dream in 1941 she saw the movie Dumbo q“and I pead my pants” she realized that she wanted to become a singer and a dancing animal.
Her father was an alcoholic who was disowned by his family (Women). Her mother Anna Roosevelt, sometimes called “Granny” because of her old-fashion style, was somewhat distant to her family (Women). When her mother died in 1892 because of diphtheria, she moved in with her maternal grandmother, Mary Ludlow Hall (Roosevelt History). In 1894 when she was ten, her father, whom she rarely ever saw passed because of alcoholism (Roosevelt Bio). When she was sent off to school in England to enroll at Allenwood Academy, she went in a shy and awkward child, but when she was taken under the wing of the headmistress of the academy, Mlle.
Part 1 At one point in high school my grades were below par which didn’t really make my parents happy. They decided to enroll me into a tuition center where may other kids take tuitions during the school holiday. One week in, I didn’t have a single friend, probably because I’ve always been a really shy person. I sat outside reading before my morning class. I looked up and noticed this girl was moving towards me, she engaged into conversation with me and then told me she thought I was real good looking and that definitely was an ego booster, she then suddenly left and I never saw her again because that was my last summer school class.
During the 20th century, many women were often overlooked fir their intellect and capabilities but Coco Chanel changed the way how people perceive women. She was born on August 19, 1883 in the Auvergne region of France. When she was a young child, her mother died and her father abandoned her. Leaving her to be raised in an orphanage. Although, she grew up poor, she still had dreams of escaping from the poverty to pursue her career.