Oscar died of swamp fever there in 1882 and Kate took over the running of his general store and plantation for over a year. In 1884 she had to sell it up and moved back to St. Louis to live with her mother. Sadly, Eliza O'Flaherty died the next year, leaving Kate alone with her children again. To support herself and her young family, she began to write. By the end of 1880s, Kate Chopin was writing short stories, articles, and translations which appeared in periodicals.
Midterm Assignment - Victoria Jones Richard Kirkwood University of Southern California SOWK -Fall 2013 Professor Dodson October 27, 2013 Midterm Assignment - Victoria Jones Case Description Identifying Information: Victoria Jones is a 20-year-old white female emancipated from the state of California’s foster care system. Her biological parents abandoned her at birth, her exact date, and location of birth is unknown. Court records approximated her age at the time of her court proceedings as 3 weeks of age and her date of birth as August 1, 1993. She was under supervised care of her court appointed social worker Meredith Combs until she aged out of the system at 18. At 10-years-old, she was labeled a “Level 14” status for children considered unadoptable.
Prosser is the second oldest of eleven children but the first to go to college. When she was in high school, her and her brother went to live with a family member because the family had moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, where there was no black high school. She graduated from high school valedictorian in 1910 and from there she was determined to continue her pursuit of a higher education. (2005) Inez Prosser at a young age was very determined; the bulk of her life was spent pushing past the limitations that the world would try to enforce. Inez Prosser was raised during a time that racism and segregation were very openly accepted forms of behavior.
The masters of the slaves never wanted to let the slaves know their real age because they always wanted them to be ignorant. His mother’s name was Harriet bailey. She was the daughter of Isaac and Betsey Bailey, both of them were colored. His father was known to be a white man and many thought his master was his father (Douglass 1). He was separated from his mother when he was an infant, he only seen her four times in his life, for a short time, and at night.
‘The NAACP’s campaigns in the years 1945 to 1953 were a failure because they did not bring about racial equality. ‘How far do you agree with this view? The NAACP’s campaigns were failures, this being because, while yes they won court cases such as Morgan v Virginia, or Smith v Allwright, and yes they successfully boycotted specific areas for reasons relating to segregation, nothing had changed. Segregation was still happening despite all the new laws that were created making segregation illegal. In 1944, a black lady by the name of Irene Morgan was fined $100 on an interstate bus for refusing to give up her seat for a white man, and thus took her case, with the help of the NAACP (National Association in the Advancement of Coloured People) to the Supreme Court.
Her brothers and her husband refused to go with her so she went on her own. Hiding by day and walking by night, she made her way to Pennsylvania, where she found work as a laundress, scrubwoman, and cook there and in the Cape May, New Jersey area. She was able to save money to go back where she led her sister and two children to freedom. She later returned to retrieve her husband, but he had remarried, and wanted nothing to do with her. Over the next decade, Tubman led up to 300 fugitive slaves along the Underground Railway
She was still a child at this point, but that didn't matter in her master's eyes. The curse back then was being a beautiful slave girl. This was wrong and shameful to hear for the others, but no one could ask the master to stop because punishment would be unleashed upon the being of truth. Linda had to coup with it for a long time, even if she was a girl, the master had no respect in those aspects. She was told to submit to him, and if not done so the treatment would get worse and worse.
Back then, whites hated the black people and never let the blacks do what the whites did. Like education especially, the blacks wanted to learn something new when they can’t because of their color. White got to do everything they wanted to do but the blacks couldn’t do anything. I enjoy the equality there is today, but as for others I’d say many do to and many do not. There are
Rochester, falls in love with her employer, only to discover that he is already married, and that his wife, who is insane, is confined in the attic of his estate. Jane leaves, but is ultimately reunited with Mr. Rochester after the death of his wife. In one of the most famous quotes from the novel, Jane, an orphan who has survived several miserable years at a charity school, proclaims triumphantly, "Reader, I married him." For Linda, as for other black women, marriage as a means of escape from life's brutalities was not an option. Notably — even though she remains hidden in her grandmother's garret for seven years — she does not become "the madwoman in the attic."
Without family they have no motive to stay out, they have nowhere to go. Many states such as California are giving the prisoners freedom, to those who are least likely to be habitual offenders. California and other states are trying to save money but it won't work in this economy. Most prisoners will not find a job because of their criminal record and it is especially hard during the recession. Also, someone who is young and goes to prison is likely to come back feeling that their life is gone.