First Last Name Ms. Roberts ELA __ 15 March, 2017 Suratt’s Hanging What is your opinion on Mary Surratt’s terrible, unneeded hanging? Mary Surratt was an innocent woman who was accused of helping John Wilkes Booth with the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. She got hanged for it, but the person who actually did do something to help John Wilkes, Dr Mudd, didn’t get hanged, he got life in prison.
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.”
Mary of Oignies highly devoted herself to Christ and this, occasionally, was not well received by others. Jacques de Vitry writes such details of Mary’s devotion and encounters to show that she devoted as much time and energy as a male could. She was not always taken so seriously due to the fact that she was a woman. Jacques was in the mindset that actions, such as the ones performed by Mary, were more amazing and that they should not be overlooked. Jacques de Vitry believed that Mary of Oignies actions and devotions were a more amazing feat than that of a man, because of the extreme asceticism she performed even as a woman, and her feminine qualities overall.
When the colonies were being established in the United States, there were struggles between white colonists and the Native Americans already living there. Mary Musgrove helped this improve this situation when Georgia was being founded in the seventeenth century. Her blended background gave her skills that helped her bridge both groups. Born in 1700 in South Carolina, Mary Musgrove 's original name was Cousaponakeesa. Her father was white and worked as a trader.
Many know about the sixteenth president Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln is known for the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, and being the president who guided the United states threw the Civil War. But one point of Lincoln's life is rarely touched on, Lincoln's family. Lincoln's wife was Mary Ann Todd.
Mary Ann's trial lasted three days and afterward, she was found guilty and was executed in Durham Jail on March 24th, 1873 by William Calcraft (Wilson). Rumors had been flying all over the area of the infamous Mary Ann Cotton; people wanted to see how this case turned out. Therefore, about 50 people were present, half of them journalists, with 200 waiting outside of the prison ("The Story of Mary Ann Cotton: A Frail Dressmaker's Poisonous Past"). At 8am on March 24, 1873, Mary Ann Cotton, then 41, was taken from her cell and led across the yard at Durham prison to her hanging station, flanked by two female guards to whom she declared "Heaven is my home."
Mary and her mother were fortunately sold to quite a kind family who did not treat their slaves as much like garbage but instead were treated more of as they were, humans. Although she was a slave, she was treated very well in the William’s and Pruden’s household. Mary had a very positive experience as a child and believes it to be the happiest time in her life. Thus, leading her childhood being the happiest
Mary Jemison was one of many white captives who lived a full and happy life with her indian captors. The day Mary Jemison was taken by the indians started out like any other day. A friend of her father’s needed to borrow a horse in order to carry a bag of grain to the Jemison’s house. The friend had also taken a gun with him in case he saw any game fit for killing. The Jemison’s heard gunshots coming from nearby outside and quickly became alarmed.
The defendant, Mary Maloney, a seemingly happily married pregnant woman has killed her devoted and loving husband, Patrick Maloney. Mary Maloney had just received news from Patrick, she had taken the news wrong and quickly turned violent. She did not hesitate to then murder her husband. The Prosecution is charging Mary Maloney with Voluntary Manslaughter and Tampering with Physical Evidence. Mary Maloney may look innocent at first glance but she was capable of committing these horrendous acts without remorse.
Is Mary Warren Really a Witch? Flashback to Salem, Massachusetts, the year of 1692, say Rebecca B. Brooks on her website. Witchcraft has begun to be a problem. Several younger girls are having some strange symptoms.
Ever since the murder of Mary Phagan, which occurred on April 26, 1913, there has been a lot of discussions of who may have called the sweet, little Mary Phagan. Could have it been the black man, Jim Conley, or was it the white, Jewish man, Leo Frank? Did the killer get away with murder, or was justice served through the act of lynching? During this time, no one could have convinced another person that Jim Conley indeed killed Mary Phagan, but that Leo Frank was the definite killer in the eyes of the people. The point that everyone can agree upon is that the murder of Mary Phagan could never be forgotten.
Out of all people, I knew she would betray me, I knew she would break first! She is nothing but a weak and miserable little child! She must beware now as I said that if either of them breathed a word I would shudder them in the black of some terrible night with a pointy reckoning and she did not listen. This whole plan was working so superbly but of course, bloody Mary has landed herself and every one of thee in a frantic mess. But I will not be dragged down like a falling body tied to the noose.
While it is fair to say that there was a certain amount of fear, suspicion and a genuine belief of witchcraft and magic among the people of the 16th and 17th century in Europe, the realistic outlook upon this atrocity is that there was a form of gendercide taking place in these countries, namely that of “femicide” – the crime associated with the violent and deliberate killing of a woman . Gendercide by its definition is the deliberate extermination of persons of a particular sex (or gender) . While in the case of the witch-craze there were a small number of males accused, it was primarily women, which would permit the use of the
Women of the Medieval Times Women have always had a significant role in history even though they were treated horrible in most cases. During the Medieval Times was really the first time women were allowed to become more than just a house wife. The fight for equality has always been a struggle and even in today’s society is still an ongoing battle. Although women of lower and middle class were treated poorly in the Medieval Times, some powerful women held great responsibility and were looked up too by both men and children; despite being admired, “men were thought to be not only physically stronger but more emotionally stable, more intelligent, and morally less feeble” (Hopkins 5). “The position of women in the Medieval Society was greatly influenced by the views of the Roman Catholic Church” (Heeve).
Since the audience previously saw Mary as innocent and harmless, the audience is even more surprised by this sudden murder. By now her entire character has changed. She is cold, calculated.
