Taylor Headley Mrs. King English 8th Hour 20 December 2016 Molly Pitcher An outstanding woman once said, “ Live day by day and enjoy your family.”
Maria Mitchell was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts on August 1, 1818, and was one of nine brothers and sisters. Her family were Quakers and believed in equal education for men and women. Maria attended local schools and was tutored by her father. He taught her how to use a telescope when she was twelve, and she helped him calculate exactly when the annual solar eclipse would be. By the time she was fourteen, she was writing directions for sailors’ whaling trips.
Mariel Margaret Hamm was born on March 17th, 1972 in the small town of Selma, Alabama. As the fourth of six children born into this military family, Mia moved around constantly and spent her early years as a toddler in Florence Italy, where she was initially introduced to her life passion of women’s soccer. However, Mia was born with clubfoot and wore corrective braces as a toddler, thus preventing her to participate in any sport at a young age. Her love for sports truly began at the age of five on a soccer team her dad coached, continued throughout middle school as a played on the boy’s football team and then in high school as a starting forward in soccer. Her soccer life began to excel when at age 15 she joined the United States Women’s national soccer team – thus becoming the youngest in history to be selected to join such an elite group of soccer stars.
Sarah Ellen is a 28-year-old female with Down Syndrome, she was the second born of three children. She resides in Cleveland, Ohio with her parents, where she works at her mother’s fabric and quilting shop and runs her own Etsy shop, Down Right Charming. Her first year of life came with many complications including, open heart surgery and a tracheotomy. As an adult, Sarah Ellen no longer has her tracheostomy tube, yet still deals with breathing issues that, at times cause her to collapse, she has a wheelchair available when she will be walking far lengths (Ely). Having Down Syndrome comes with, presenting hypotonia in the jaw and other muscles used for speech as well as a protruding tongue from a small mouth leading to inconsistent errors in
Molly Ivins was born in Monterey, California in 1944. Her family moved a year after to Houston, Texas where she was raised (Reader 7). While she attends high school, she interns for the Houston Chronicles and is assigned to the Complaint Department (Reader 9). It is in this department that Ivins ' recognizes what customers are interested in reading—what attracts readers, what they expect from journalists’ and their articles (Reader 10). Eventually, Ivins gets a job as a police reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune.
Imagine a 160 room house with only one person person living in it, and if the owner ever stopped building, she would die. This was the case for Sarah Winchester in San Jose California. The Winchester mystery house is a famous haunted mansion in California. Sarah Winchester was a lady who bought an unfinished farm house in 1884.
For years she worked in sports broadcasting, with the same commanding presence she displayed on the court. She would frequently interview male basketball stars like Michael Jordan and Shaquille O’Neal who knew her talent and success as a collegiate athlete. Doris Burke pointed out that “[to watch] those men were embracing a basketball person…who happened to be a woman, and treating her as equal, that is where society changes. ”17 Although she no longer plays basketball, she left a legacy on the court along with her fellow teammates at USC. In the 1983 NCAA championship against The Lady Techsters, The Women of Troy accomplished more than just a victory against the “politics of respectability”–they themselves embodied a rejection of this ideology.
To her dismay, her college playing career was cut short when Wade and the rest of the team were informed that the sport had disbanded because it was considered too rough for women. After that Wade soon transitioned out of playing women’s basketball to coaching it after she finished obtaining her post graduate degree and further studies at a third college. Forty years after having her dream of playing college basketball taken away, Margaret Wade would be selected to come back and coach the sport at Delta State University. There Wade would work to help give young women a path to be able to participate in sports that had been deemed to strenuous for women in the past. Ironically, a little over fifty years after having her dream of playing collegiate basketball snatched away from her, Margaret Wade would receive a letter from President Ronald Reagan, congratulating her for her contributions to women basketball.
Kara Walker is an African-American woman who creates art that symbolizes gender, race, sexuality, and black history. Kara Walker was born in 1969 in Stockton, California. At her school, Rhode Island School of Design she learned how to create silhouettes. In 1994, her work was presented in a talent show located in New York. By 1998, she was the youngest to receive a MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award known to be called “genius grant”.
In the 2007 National Finals of the Public Forum Debate, a competitive debate tournament in which teams are assigned sides of an issue to debate in front of a panel of judges in order to persuade them that the affirmative or negative side is correct. The topic of this debate was whether or not handguns should be banned for private use in the United States. This issue is easily debatable because of the amount of information and statistics on each side of the argument. I analyzed the affirmative team in the debate, where Thao Le and Alyssa Tharp argue their position. Le and Tharp stand resolved that private gun ownership of handguns should be banned in the United States.
Ever since its debut by gym teacher Dr. James Naismith in 1891 basketball has become a widely popularized team sport for both men and women across the nation. Though enjoyed by both men and women, women have struggled to attain the same respect in the sport as men, even though the women at the University of California had their first extramural game in 1892. The same trend continues in the NBA, National Basketball Association, and WNBA, Women’s National Basketball. The NBA started 70 years ago in 1946 while the WNBA began 20 years ago in 1996. The NBA continues to gain popularity, while the WNBA struggles to still be known.
The Life and Magic of Debbie Reynolds Debbie Reynolds, one of the movie industry’s leading actresses. Who we have tragically lost this past year in December. Being the inspiration she was, she had accomplished a lot in her lifetime. From small town beauty pageants in Utah to big time movies in Hollywood, this woman was one of the most respected and beloved actresses of her time, and still is today. This is only a minute accounting of her accomplishments and actions, but will most likely be the most remembered facts about her.
The Barely Famous star Sara Foster gave birth to her second child, a baby girl, with her husband, Tommy Haas, on Wednesday. Best of all, Foster’s BFFs – actress Kate Hudson and Jennifer Meyer, Tobey Maguire’s wife – were there to help her welcome the newborn to the family. The baby girl, who weighed in 6 lbs., 12oz. " Totally outnumbered and couldn 't be happier," Haas captioned the precious pic alongside the hashtag "#11-11-15."
“Your time to shine has arrived Jones.” “I appreciate it so much Chief, I promise you there is no way in which I can let you down.” “We already discuss it with the board, we trust you Jones. We analyzed your whole record history, starting four years ago when you were first recruited to this Secrete Teen Agent Institution. You are now one of our top agents, and definitely the perfect match for this important mission.
So much has changed since our first week of reading. As women gain an independence in America, more and more females are making choices for themselves. A major change that I found throughout the materials this week was the choice to pursue a husband and family or a career. More job opportunities are now available for women and pleasures once held only for men were now the indulgences of women as well. Since women no longer felt the need to get married as soon as possible, a new woman is created.
