After her sickness, her mother seemed to be embarrassed of her daughter, even though she loved her dearly. She was intelligent, but preferred to stay alone, so she regularly skipped school to go to museums. She loved to study paintings and photos, looking at the details in every work.…
Her poetry often explores parts of life through past and present as well as innocence and wisdom. They usually emphasize strong connections between imagination,…
Dorothea Dix was born in Hampden, Maine, in 1802. Her father’s name was Joseph who was an itinerant Methodist preacher. He was often away from home causing Dorothea dix’s mother to suffer from bursts of depression. Dorothea Dix was the oldest of three children. Although very young, Dix ran her household and cared for her family. Her father was strict and volatile and was addicted to alcohol and was very depressed. Although all of these factors were in play, her father still taught her how to read and write which fueled her love of books and learning. Her early life was very difficult, unpredictable, and lonely.…
In the article “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance” written by Mary Ray Worley, she points out that obesity is considered negative, because society has determined that it is. She supports this idea, by reflecting back to her personal experiences of attending the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) convention in San Diego, which is a convention to support and love yourself. Worley claimed it was like “another planet,” because of the “diversity” of sizes. According to Worley, everyone was accepted in this “planet” while in her “home planet”, that acceptance was lacking (Worley 163).…
She began her writing career in the eighth grade in northwestern junior high school. She use to hand writes her stories for fellow classmates to read and also proud to say some of her classmates are still Brenda Jackson readers…
Millions of the “Three Cups of Tea” books have been sold by Greg Mortenson. Thus, having many wonderful benefits, one of them, promoting “peace”. At the same time, with new evidence and people pushing for more research the book Three Cups of tea has a dark side. People want answers regarding the good the bad and the ugly of Greg Mortenson.…
She returned to New York when she was ten years old during the height of the Great Depression, a severe economic shortage, therefor life was not easy for her and her seven brothers, so she attended to the New York Public School, where she did it well. Then she assisted to the Girls’ High School. But because of the economic hardship the country was affronting she lost tuition scholarships that she had won to several distinguished colleges…
Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi on April 13, 1909. She was the oldest of three children and the only girl of a very close-knit family. Her father, Christian Webb Welty, was an Ohio native who worked for an insurance company. Her mother, Mary Chestina Welty, had been a schoolteacher in West Virginia. Welty’s mother, being a schoolteacher, loved to read and influenced Welty to read at a young age. In her biography, Welty tells about her earliest memories of her parents reading to her and to each other at night. She was always surrounded by books and was always reading. Her love of reading led her to graduate high school and further her education, which most girls during this time…
In her autobiography I Came a Stranger Hilda Polacheck reveals the conflicting role of women in the late 19th / early 20th century as workers, caregivers, and social activists in a conflicting age of progress, hardship and missed expectations. Coming from a very traditional Jewish family in Poland it seems that Hilda Polacheck was destined to be a full time mother and wife never having immersed herself in the American society where women were becoming more and more relevant. The death of her father changes all of this forcing herself her mother and her siblings to fight for survival. This fight is what not only transformed Hilda Polacheck into the woman we remember her as today, but into an American as well.…
American author Joyce Carol Oates has more than 100 books and works of drama to her name. She was born in 1938 in a small farm community in Lockport, New York (Berlind, “Joyce Carol Oates”). Oates started her fascination in reading at a very young age. In her early teens, she consumed herself with the writing of William Faulkner. She began writing at 14, when she received her first typewriter from her paternal grandmother, Blanche Woodside (Berlind, Joyce Carol Oates”). She worked for her high school newspaper until her graduation in 1956. She was the first in the family to finish high school. Oates earned a…
Mary Shelley, born in 1797, grew up mostly in Scotland, with a favorite past time of “making stories.” In Scotland, Shelley had lived next to a Lord who also had a love for writing, which is how the idea of Frankenstein came to life. Shelley had little formal education, but her father had tutored her on most broader subjects, which overall increased her understanding of literature significantly.…
Her teenage ambition were set on becoming a starlet or pin-up that she saw in magazines. She did not think she has pretty enough face to become a real movie star. She soon learned, however, that she had the figure to make a successful pin-up. She was about fourteen when she began noticing the reactions of the boys at Van Nuys High School to her figure hugging sweaters \…
Sarah Dessen was born in 1970 in Illinois, but she lived in Chapel Hill, NC most of her life. Her parents were both professors at the University of North Carolina. Her mom was a classicist and her dad taught Shakespeare. She was always a big reader because of her parents. One Christmas her parents got a little typewriter and she began to write her stories. She attended college at UNC, where she studied creative writing and graduated with a degree in English. She had a part time job waiting tables at a restaurant called the Flying Burrito while she tried to publish a novel at the time. Three years after graduating, she sold her first book called That Summer. A year after that she got offered a…
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst Massachusetts in 1830 she lived in an era of reform the American Enlightment. Dickinson was one of the greatest American poets of all time. As a child of this time period she was brought up by a strong Christian family her dad was an important successful man. He was a young lawyer then become a political somewhat powerful man of congress for a short time. He was very strict on Emily and he siblings they all went off to really good schools. In the 1800’s a lot of women did not get the opportunity to go to school and be educated. Emily spent a lot of time at home except when she attended school. Emily was the opposite from her dad she didn’t like being or in the public eye instead spent most of her time writing isolated from the world, but on the other hand she was able to reach the outside world through her writing, but did not publish all of her work In fact the majority of her poems were not published until after her death in 1856. She told her sister to burn all her notebooks and work when she died instead her sister decided to share her work because it was so good. Her poetry has made a big impact in American Literature and still to this day.…
' 'Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830. She lived there all of her life. Her grandfather was the founder of Amherst College, and her father Edward Dickinson was a lawyer who served as the treasurer of the college. He also held various political offices ' '. (LaBlanc, (2001). Emily 's mother Emily Norcross Dickinson was a very reserve person. She didn 't speak much but she taught Emily Dickinson all that she needed to know for her to be who she is today. Dickinson went to primary school for a couple of years then went to Amherst Academy for seven years. Her education was mainly influenced on the Puritan religious belief. Emily stayed in a family home with her parents and her younger sibling Lavinia. She also had a elder brother Austin and he lived right next door with his wife Susan. Emily began writing at a very young childhood age. She practiced her craft by rewriting poems she found in newspapers, magazines, and many books. While Emily was on a trip to Philadelphia in the 1850 's, she had a crush on a married minister, Reverend Charles Wadsworth. Many people thought her disappointment in love may have leaded about her withdrawal from society. Emily experienced a major emotional crisis of a nature in the 1860 's. That inspired her to write over three hundred poems. Emily met with the literary editor of the Atlantic Monthly magazine, Thomas Wentworth Higginson. She sent almost one hundred of her poems to him for his criticism and he became a trustful person. Emily 's withdrawal increased after her father died surprisingly and when her mother suffered a stroke and left her unable to take care of herself. After her father died Emily never left the grounds of her father 's home, dressing in only white. Her sister Lavinia constantly cared for her until she died in 1882. In 1886 Dickinson was diagnosed with a kidney dysfunction that resulted in her death in May called Bright 's disease. After…