become successful and gone above and beyond in helping others reach their full potential. As a middle-¬aged woman who grew up poor in a small town, she can relate to the struggles that many people around her face. Without any financial support, she worked hard to get a degree to become a social worker and teacher administrator. She also became a minister at her church. Omie Ashford maybe a small woman but because of her huge heart, full of hope, she has managed to sponsor young children, engage in charity
“Sweat” by Zora Neal Hurston is one simple yet powerful story that aims to reveal the plight of women through Delia. Delia turns out to be an empowered woman who has built her own home, handles her family’s finances, works hard, and takes pleasure in the results of her hard work. The fascinating fact about Delia whom I believe represents women in general, is that she was able to establish and maintain a home despite being married to an inconsiderate husband who only brought a longing for the flesh
Maya Angelou was a remarkable woman who contributed a lot through her craft as a poet, author, activist, and philanthropist. A large amount of her work was influenced by her past life experiences that added social, cultural, and political topics to her writing. Angelou growing up endured a broken home, segregation, and rape; however, regardless of her woeful beginnings, she became one of the most notable black female writers of our century. Angelou was raised in a rural area in Arkansas,where she
Sojourner Truth was a strong woman. First, sojourner is an african American abolitionist for the woman rights. Second, Truth was born speaking Dutch at the age of nine years old. Third, she was born into slavery, and she had slave parents. All in all, Truth is a very strong confident woman. Sojourner had suffered from being a slave and owned by other people. First, she had escaped from slavery and embraced the religion and became involved in the moray reform and the abolitionist work. Second, she
Shakespeare presents Hermione as a remarkable woman starting from her first utterance, the personal pronoun “I”. This drives the audience to believe she is independent, which connotes to freedom, allowing her to say to Leontes “you, sir, charge him too coldly”. Also, this would have shocked traditional audiences as woman were inferior and were reliant on men as they were essentially possessions. Also, she only talks when Leontes says “speak you”, as a defence in court she said she loved Polixenes
The song “Pretty Woman” talks of a guy meeting a beautiful looking female. The song is similar but cannot be compared to the meaning of a poem by Maya Angelou. Her poem Phenomenal Woman, talks about how she is not a “pretty woman,” yet that does not stop the men from looking and wondering about her. Maya Angelou uses imagery, tone, and the title to describe her view of herself compared to the “pretty woman” Imagery in the poem Phenomenal Woman is important. Maya Angelou uses imagery in the poem
an adolescent audience, as it explores the theme of sensual awakening. Set in 17th century Delft, Chevalier’s novel explores the deep but forbidden love between a young maid and her master. The author’s clever combination of an intriguing story, remarkable characters and descriptive language allowed her to explore the themes of forbidden love, predators and sexual desires. For hundreds of years people have wondered who is the girl in the portrait Girl with a Pearl Earring, painted by a Dutch artist
the lute. She could also engage in intellectual debates with ambassadors. She married Francesco il Gonzaga, Marchese of Mantua, when she was only sixteen years old. She had seven children with him. She established the first known study created for a woman. Her personal study included a magnificent library, marble statues, paintings, coins, bronzes, and antique
May is a hardworking woman with a difficult past, yet allows herself to be the victim of circumstances completely under her control. Mrs. May hired Mr. Greenleaf despite the fact that she’d had him “fifteen years but no one else would have him for five minutes”(26) and acknowledges
Elizabeth Blackwell; the first American woman to graduate in Medical School. The reasons for this particular and very singular woman to take the position almost to a roll model is to the remarkable era she started, my growing want to become a doctor someday, and to the feminist side of myself. Today women can do almost anything the put their minds to; excluding the inequalities in pay and many other things in this century as opposed to men and women. If a woman has a passion for learning and transmitting