Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was a educator and activist. Mary McLeod was Born on July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina. She was the last of seventeen children, and fortunately was born in freedom. When a school for black children opened the McLeod family had to make a decision. They only had enough money to send one child and McLeod was chosen.
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.
Mary Edwards Walker accomplished a variety of amusing and intelligent things during her lifetime. She first enrolled in the Syracuse College of Medicine. Although her father was the one encouraging these medical desires, Mary thrived in this specific school system. In the year of 1855 Mary graduated with a Doctorate degree in medicine. Her enthusiasm continued, along with the development of the rest of her life.
Mary Jane Patterson Mary Jane Patterson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her parents brought and their family to Oberlin, Ohio to find an education for their children. In 1835, Oberlin College admitted its first black student and eventually became the country’s first coed institution of higher education. It was also the first college in the country to grant women undergraduate degrees. Mary Jane Patterson studied for a year in the college’s Prepatory Department and she was the first African-American women to earn a Bachelor’s degree.
Kimberly Hartford, an above average appearing woman who came from a seemingly normal family. Kimberly Hartford, a woman who has a chronic illness that nobody believes. It is a silent, internal illness, that has been killing her slowly for the past thirty years. She suffers not only physically, but mentally as well. Excruciating pain day by day, so horrid that morphine cannot fix.
Famed Singer Releases New Single Shirley Caesar is not just a music superstar, she is a Gospel music legend. Over six decades, Caesar, the "Reigning Queen of Gospel Music" compiled a list of awards that is almost unbelievable: 11 Grammy Awards, 13 Stellar Awards, 18 Doves, 1 RIAA gold certification, an Essence Award, McDonald 's Golden Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, NAACP Achievement Award, SESAC Lifetime Achievement Award, induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, and she performed at the White House. Caesar has also been named as one of those who will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2016. In addition to nearly 60 years of music and 40 albums, Caesar also pastors the 1,500-member Mount Calvary Word of Faith Church in Raleigh, North Carolina.
“And give up? Not on your life.” Nellie Bly retorted when told to give up her dream job of becoming a reporter. (The Adventures of Nellie Bly). Elizabeth Cochran (the name Nellie Bly was given at birth) was born on May 5, 1864, in Cochran Mills, Pennsylvania.
Susan B. Anthony (Susan Brownell Anthony) Susan B. Anthony was a prominent feminist author who started the movement of women’s suffrage and she was also the president of the National American Women Suffrage Association. Anthony was in favor of abolitionism as she was a fierce activist in the anti-slavery movement before the civil war. Susan Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, and before becoming a famous feminist figure, she worked as a teacher. Anthony grew up in a Quaker family that made her spend her time working on social causes. And her father was an owner of a local cotton mill.
Mary Jane Carey of Holly Hill Designs Mary Jane Carey will totally admit to being a gypsy. Or a being an old hippy. Or both. Either way, she has had a fascinating life story that has led her to the delightful road of being one of the designers for Henry Glass. Mary Jane started her quilting adventures in Western Massachusetts in 1970.
The marriage of Don and Joan Peterson was one that might be considered a fairytale at its earliest stages. They were the all-American couple living in the picket-fenced neighborhood that everyone adored. But under the surface though, there was something wrong; something terribly, horribly wrong. Joan came from a single mother with a modest background. Through her early school years, it became quite apparent that she was brilliant.
On an icy morning in February 1993 Mary Johnson was jolted awake by the shrill cry of a telephone. As she sleepily plodded towards the phone a shiver ran down her back and she was suddenly aware of the utter, empty silence that now occupied the confines of her home. When she picked up the receiver and heard the ensuing words, waves of fear, anger, and anguish swept over her very being. She had just begun a waking nightmare that could have sent her life on a trajectory towards a cataclysmic wreck of anger, bitterness, and despair.
There are other qualities that she possesses, which I believe will make her a very successful student of the law. She is very well organized,
Veronica Maci, 20 year-old woman that was born with the word “perfect” to describe her; bright blue eyes, full rose lip, her hair was shiny smooth, cascading to her lower back in dark waves. Her skin was a shade of ovary; slick and soft. Her hourglass body shape went well with her perfect, tall, model height. She was perfect. Her beauty never betrayed her desires; she always got what she wanted, even the forgiveness that she didn’t deserve.
Maria Cristina Ogier was born in Florence, Italy, March 9th, 1995. She was born into constant communion with god and prodigious. Maria was the only child of Dr. Henery Ogier and Gina Matteoni. She was a healthy child except for the little sicknesses every once in a while until she was 4. When she was four she was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
The concept of perseverance, which can be best defined as the continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, is sacred to the poetry of Mary Karr (Merriam-Webster). The American poet is known for her dark themed poems which can be linked to her childhood as it reflects the person and the writer she is today. In America, many people suffer from mental illness; Karr uses poetry to help her cope but is also a help many others. Instead of letting the illness consume herself, she utilizes her American voice as an advantage. She expresses her voice through her poems, “The Burning Girl”, “Requiem for the New Year”, and “The Blessed Mother Complains to the Lord Her God on the Abundance of Brokenness She Receives”.
