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.
On February 15, 1912, during the same week in which Edith Elmira Sigler was born in Shelby County, Center Texas, a sister town published the Lubbock avalanche. The U.S postal workers are compared to other mail service workers on how much they make. Lubbock acalanche reminded their followers of the upcoming State Primary that was held on July 27th 1912. Edith Sigler was probably use to seeing the Republicans and the Deomocrats who worked together to fight socaialism. The town of Lubbock was dignosed with “improvemetngitis”.
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.
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.
Mary was truly a stunningly smart, intelligent, and brave person. Her name was Mary Jane when she was born. It’s not known when she was born, but it was a bit of time before May 17, 1846. It is documented of her being baptized on that date at St. John’s Episcopal in Richmond, Virginia. Mary has been believed to have been born in the late 1830s or early 1840s.
J. Walker had many accomplishments such as becoming a civil rights activist, philanthropist, and an entrepreneur. Walker Manufacturing Company had become widely successful. Her profits were equivalant to modern day millions of dollars (biography.com). In,Indianapolis, the company not only manufactured cosmetics, but trained beauticians. These ‘’Walker Agents’’ became well known throughout the United States (scholastic.com).
Mary Dyer was born in England in 1611. She married William Dyer and went to Massachusetts in 1635. She was a good friend with Anne Hutchinson and shared the same views; they were Quakers. She was the mother of 8 children, two died shortly after birth. Mary had a stillborn daughter that was deformed and they buried in secret, because it was believer that either if a women preached or listen to a woman preacher their child would be deformed or that the deformed child was consequences of the parents sins.
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.
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.
“Please don’t let me fall” were Mary Surratt's last words before she was sentenced to hang and breathe her final breaths. Mary Surratt was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy that led to the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Mary Surratt was later hanged and was said to be the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government. Among the executed co-conspirators, Mary Surratt received a punishment far outweighing her crime. What have they done that had to do with Booth’s plot?
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.
When you think of September you think of back to school. Right? We all remember the smell of a new box of crayons. Well in the 1900s that was not the case for many children in America. Labor laws were not fair, but there was one American woman in that era that said enough is enough.
Madalyn Dutchuk Mrs. Heller English II 31 January 2023 Different ways to Mature The story “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier is about a young girl who is trying to figure out who she really is while growing up, struggling in poor society during the Great Depression. The story “Raymond’s Run” by Toni Cade Bambara is about a young girl named Squeaky who is a talented long distance runner and her relationship with her disabled brother Raymond. The two stories involve two young black girls that are both struggling in different ways, they are both very different from each other, but also have a lot in common. Both Squeaky and Lizabeth mature into two very sweet and kind young women.
"Don't judge a book by its cover. " Shakespeare's own words may be the best to describe him. He was a man of many talents. William Shakespeare was one of the most famous poets, playwrights, and actors. His life and career are still read about and studied to this day.
