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.
Ida Tarbell Ida Tarbell was born in 1857, only two years before the birth of the oil industry; key event that would later have a major impact in Ida’s label of Muckraker. At the age of three; her father, Franklin Tarbell, moved his family to a small oil town in Rouseville. There, Ida spent her childhood attending Mrs. Rice’s home school and playing amongst the oil derricks. In the article "Pioneer Women of the Oil Industry," written in 1934, Ida speaks of the problems her mother and many other women had civilizing the oil towns. Around the year 1870 the Tarbells moved to Titusville; where a church and school were already established.
They had two children together. The family lived in San Francisco for a short period of time where Victoria worked as a cigar girl, actress and was a prostitute. During 1860 the Woodhull family moved to New York City, where Victoria and Tennessee set up a practice, but then during 1864 they moved to Cincinnati and then later to Chicago in search of new clients. After being married for eleven years, Victoria and Canning divorced. After two years after her divorce, Woodhull married Colonel James Harvey Blood who was an educated, polite and respectful man who believed in spiritualism and free love.
After passing the Harvard entrance examinations, she stayed with her father until his death in 1889 and her mother passed on in 1891. She came to Gallaudet in 1900 to teach at Kendall School and the college. Dr. Peet received her Bachelor's from George Washington University in 1918. She received three honorary degrees: Masters' from Gallaudet in 1923, Doctor of Pedagogy from the George Washington University in 1937, and a Doctor of Humane Letters from Gallaudet in 1950. She also received a special certificate from the Sorbonne in Paris, France.
In 1832 her family moved to America where she became an avid abolitionist throughout her late childhood and early adulthood. In 1836 her father’s sugar refinery burned down and in 1838 her family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in an attempt to re-establish the business, unfortunately three weeks after their move Samuel died from Bilary Fever. Pressed financially after her father’s death Elizabeth and her three sisters started a school for Young Girls. In 1894 her sister Anna, helped Elizabeth acquire a teaching job paying $400 a year in Henderson, Kentucky. In 1856 Blackwell adopted Katherine “Kitty” Barry a Scottish Orphan.
Hilary Clinton was born Hilary Rhodam on October 26, 1947. She was the oldest of three siblings, and the daughter of Republican father, who owned a small business, and a closeted democratic mother, who worked as a nanny. Hillary was raised in Chicago and was taught at a young
Feeling that she needed to socialise, Cady’s parents enrolled her to North Shore High school. On her first day of North Shore High school, Cady was often left out and she was unfamiliarised with the school’s surroundings and people. On the second day, Cady had become friends with two social outcasts, Janis Ian and Damian. Janis and Damian had misled Cady into thinking that they were taking to G14 for her Health Education class but instead, they brought her to the back of the school where they skipped class. This is where Janis had stated that they were friends and Cady stayed with them.
That role is filled by anthropologist Margaret Mead. Margaret Mead was born on December 16,1901 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. She was the first of five kids, one of which died at a young age. Mead later said that the death of her younger sister greatly troubled her and that it was the constant focus of her day dreams. Her father was a professor of finance at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and her mother was a sociologist who studied Italian immigration.
Jane Addams Through her sheer grit, fierce tenacity, creativity, and integrity to affect social change and improve the living conditions of those improvised, oppressed and exploited, Laura Jane Addams, who can be described as the quintessential social worker, stands as a true leader in the area of social reform in the United States during the Progressive Era and a source of inspiration to all modern day social workers who follow in her legacy of work. Jane’s contributions include the development of Hull House, the first settlement house in the United States. She was also advocate for women’s suffrage and a key player behind the establishment of safe and fair working conditions for women. Jane’s devotion to the well-being of children was also integral to the development of child labor laws, in addition to development of the first juvenile courts in the United States. She was also cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Adams, Jane, 2008).
Poor Forever can be found in the Bloomberg BusinessWeek on page 50 – 55. It was published in the July 9 2012 issue. I also referenced the speech of Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers Alan B. Krueger The Rise and Consequences of Inequality in the United States that was presented on January 12, 2012. Lazarus 29 year old mother single mother of two is determined to escape a life of poverty. She has decided to go to college, and to move in a better neighbor.