Ellen Gilchrist is an award-winning American poet, writer, and radio-personality. She is best known for her works like Victory over Japan, where she won a 1984 National Book Award, and The Age of Miracles. Ellen Louise Gilchrist was born Wednesday, February 20th, 1935 in Vicksburg, MS to Aurora Alford and William Garth Gilchrist. She was their second child. Much of her childhood life was spent moving around because of her father’s work in the army. Ms. Gilchrist was writing at an early age. When she was fourteen, she wrote a column called “Chit and Chat about This and That,” for the local paper in Franklin, Kentucky. Ellen then went on to study at Vanderbilt University, in Memphis, TN, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in
Ellen Ochoa is the world’s first Hispanic female astronaut. She was born in Los Angeles, California on May 10, 1958. She attended the High School Grossmont and she graduated in 1975, with a passion towards science. She lived with her mother and four sibling and around this time her parents got divorced. She commissioned at San Diego state University where she redeemed her Bachelor’s in physics in 1980, Was also named the valedictorian of the graduating class. After that she commissioned at Stanford University in 1981 where she received a Master’s degree in electrical engineering. Following a Ph.D she earned in 1985. While in Stanford, Ochoa had developed an optical system to detect imperfection in repeating patterns, Which she utilized in
Elizabeth Griscom was born on New Year's day 1752. Known as Betsy to family and friends, she was the eighth of seventeen youths bound for Rebecca and Samuel Griscom. They lived in Philadelphia. Being strong and relentless Quakers, they were particularly traditionalist. Betsy was completely taught at a friend's Quaker school. It was in this Quaker school that she made sense of how to upholster. With her parent's assent, Betsy transformed into a natural pro in the upholstery shop of John Ross.Betsy soon started to look all starry peered toward at John Ross and they (secretly got hitched) on November fourth, 1773 in Gloucester, New Jersey. Betsy and John ran the upholstery shop together for quite a while. In 1775 John joined the get-together of
dith Wilson is a woman who played an immensely important part in the history of America’s Presidents. Mrs. Wilson is however hardly talked about and usually is put to the side. Looking back on the first lady’s life we can see the upbringing and past which led her to step up and serve her country incognito.
Despite pushback from her community, in 1932 Elizabeth became the medical director of Hamilton Ontario's first birth control clinic. She worked with passionate volunteers to provide affordable and reliable contraceptives to the women of her community, as well as offer advice and education to Hamilton women. She remained the director until 1966, and continued to be a practicing doctor until her retirement in 1975 at age 95. It wasn't until 1969 that the practice was seen as legal and began to receive government grants. Elizabeth Bagshaw went on to live to 100, dying on January 5th,
Annie Easley was born on April 23,1933, In Birmingham Alabama. Easley and her brother were raised by thaier single mother Mary Melvin Hoover. Her mother was one of her greatest inspirations and her role model, she always encouraged her to get a good education. In an oral history interview with NASA, she said that her mother always used to tell her "You can be anything you want to. It doesn't matter what you look like, what your size is, what your color is. You can be anything you want to, but you do have to work at it." Annie Easley attended school in Birmingham and graduated as the valedictorian of her grade. At that time Easly Wanted to become a nurse because she thought it was one of the only careers open to black women. However, later on
Anna Sewell was perhaps the only person whom book was called "the first significant children's story in English language." She was born in Norfolk, England on March 30, 1820. Her father was Isaac Sewell (1793-1879), and her mother, Mary Wright Sewell (1798 - 1884) was a successful writer of children's books in her own right. She faced many challenges and accomplishments in her lifetime. Growing up she loved riding horses and telling stories. As a young girl, Anna was more concerned about the humane treatment of horses and she often spent hours with her father traveling to and from the station. She helped her mother edit her manuscripts from an early age and published her own in 1877. Sewell received most of her education at home and had a younger brother named Philip.
Putting smiles on everyone’s faces as she enters the Flaxmere Op Shop, ready to start her voluntary work, Elaine Glover is always happy to be seen by the poorer community of Flaxmere in the Hawkes Bay. Even though time is on her side as she is retired, money is very scarce. But in Elaine's eyes “money isn’t a factor for happiness, helping the community is”. For the past 20 years elaine has given up her time to volunteer at the Flaxmere Op Shop and the Flaxmere baptist church.
Emma Hart Willard is a historical figure I admire most because she is the first women to open an all-girl seminary school called the Troy Female Seminary. She was a strong willed women who was the sixteenth child out of seventeen. Marrying a rich and successful doctor, John Willard, she had the support she desired. Willard wrote a book called A Plan for Improving Female Education which according to The Emma Willard School was “widely admired and influential purpose intended to win public support for girls’ schools” (Emma Willard School 1). My admire of Willard became strong when I had to do a speech while dressed up as her character. She was so adamant to make sure girls could have a proper education even though she was shut down multiple
Erin Howard is a college student working toward a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a focus in marketing. She was born and raised in a non-traditional family in Santa Cruz, California. Her mother is an elementary school teacher and her father is a project manager for a large corporation overseas. On the surface she is like most young and modern women: she takes school seriously, she has dreams and goals for the future that she is determined to make happen, and she don’t expect anyone to do the hard work for her. The following writing will describe how Erin became the individual she is today.
Joan Allen is a well known American actress who has a net worth of $8 million. She has acted in television, films and even theatres and won several accolades. Joan started her career with Steppenwolf Theatre Company and as Broadway debut performer in Burn This, which got her the Tony Award. She starred in various television movies Evergreen, All My Sons, The Room Upstairs, Nixon, Crucible, The Upside of Anger, Georgia O'Keeffe and so on.
Born in Rochester, New York, Gail Sheehy’s childhood was a happy one. Her mother gave up her own dreams to be a housewife once she married a wealthy man who worked in New York City. Sheehy’s happy childhood started to crumble after the birth of her sister when she was nine years old (Sheehy, 17). Her mom started to linger in the world of non-sobriety and would rarely leave her bedroom. Sheehy’s father started to golf every day with a female friend that he began having an affair with. After a couple months she was relocated into her parents’ bedroom to sleep on a twin bed, where as her father moved into her old room. In 1962, he met a younger woman to start a new life with and would end up leaving his current family behind. Sheehy described
Imagine having a park near your house! It is very wonderful to have a park near your house. Emma McCarthy is a park near my house. It is my favorite green place where I just lie down there. It also has peaceful surrounding. Emma McCarthy also has a lot of facilities such as huge grass field, toilets, shelter, and trash can. This park has a lot of benefits for us because it can reduce pollution, can be a place to hold events, and makes us healthier.
Mental anguish and how it effects various people differently and is usually held inside and not talked about, to the point of being bottled up in to a Silent Scream. Many different things can cause mental anguish. From not living up to some loved one’s standards causing feelings of being lesser than they should be. Doing a job for many years and never getting any credit or acknowledgement for it causing you to want to give up or in on life as they know it. All the way to watching someone die and even in some cases thinking or being the cause of their deaths. These are just a few of the types of things that can and have caused mental anguish in these stories and poems. These silent screams we hold so close and locked up inside, never to be known, finally
(citation) Gilman lived her life, for the most part vigorously repudiated societal norms and western practices. Due to this resistance to conventional values and what she later characterized as “masculinist” ideals, Gilman produced a great deal of critical writings and what we would call self-consciously feminist fiction that crowned Gilman as the leading theoretician, lecturer, and writer of women issues of her time. Gilman had begun to explore the issue of gender discrepancy within society in the mid-1880's when she first began her career as a writer. Throughout all her works on women and education, Gilman's ultimate goal was to develop autonomous individuals, for rational behavior was possible only if self-governing men and women could connect knowledge with action and could judge others' opinions in relation to their own. Autonomy depended on the development of two powers, "a clear, far-reaching judgment, and a strong, well used will." Gilman was born on July 3rd 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut. Shortly after her birth her father abandoned her and her family. Gilman made many efforts to establish a relationship with her father and unfortunately was unsuccessful. Mr. Perkins, was a minor literary figure. He would send Gilman occasional letters that included a list of books she should read. Gilman’s
Elizabeth Gaskell was one of the most important and established figures in Victorian British literature. She was often criticized for her role in helping out the poor in the industrial city of Manchester. Her novels often incorporated both the traditional aristocratic image of society in London and the rising middle and working class. In her novels, Gaskell implements her satiric writing style to tell stories about both the social stigma of class and wealth, and the ignorant idealism of aristocratic societies that refuse to believe in