Bessie Virginia Blount was born on November 24, 1914, in Hickory, Virginia. During World War II as a part of her work working with wounded soldiers,, Blount invented a device to help amputees feed themselves, the apparatus. She invented the electric feeding device in 1951, a feeding tube that delivered one mouth full of food at a time. Blount device was not accepted by the American Veteran’s Administration, so Blount sold it to the French Government. Bessie Blount was once a physical therapist for Theodore Edison son of famed inventor Thomas Edison. Blount and Edison became very close friends while in his home Blount invented the disposable cardboard emesis basin, this invention was also rejected by the American Veterans Administration and…
This paper is about Margaret Cochran Corbin. She was the first wounded woman of the American Revolution. She was a strong woman and an interesting person. Margaret Cochran Corbin was a woman who fought in the American Revolution war that was her job. This paper is about her early life, adult life, and contribution to the Revolutionary War.…
Dorothea Puente was an American serial killer who was assumed to have killed up to nine people. Puente was born on 1929 in Redlands California. She was no stranger to criminal justice system when she began killing. Her life of crime began when she was caught trying to forge checks and was sentenced to one year in jail. In 1960 she was arrested for operating a brothel and sentenced to ninety days in jail. Shortly after her release she was arrested and charged with vagrancy and sentenced to 90 more days in jail. After her release Puente would spend time in local bars searching for elderly men who receive social security benefits. She would then forge their signature in order to steal their benefits. She was eventually caught and charged with…
Mary Rita Lambert was born on June 8th, 1934 in St. Louis, Missouri. She grew up in the city area with her four other siblings in a strict, Catholic household. She had three sisters and one brother. She was the middle child of the family, despite being close in age with her other two, younger sisters born two years apart from each other. My grandmother, Phyllis was born in 1936 and her youngest sister, Connie was born in 1938. Her older sister, Frances was born in 1925 and her older brother, Jackson was born in 1926. The older siblings often took care of the family and were regularly responsible for household duties while their parents were off working their jobs. I asked her if she remembered anything about the Great Depression, but she really…
Mae Carol Jemison or better known as Mae C. Jemison was an American engineer, physician, and a NASA astronaut. She became known as the first African-American woman to travel in space. Mae was born on October 17 1956 in Decatur, Alabama. When she was around three years old, her parents, Charlie and Dorothy Jemison, move to Chicago in order to provide her and her siblings a better education.…
Mary Whiton calkins was born in Harford, Connecticut on March 30th, 1863. She spent most of her growing up time in buffalo, New York. Her father was a Minister and mother was a puritan, they had five children between themselves and Mary was the oldest. Several sources claim Mary’s father never believed in public education and will rather educate his children by boarding them with German and French families. Although it was later recorded that Mary graduated from an established four wall academic setting high school. Mary showed her first interest in psychology while writing her final graduating paper. Topic was” Apology Plato should have written: a vindication…
Maria Isabella “Belle” Boyd was born on May 9, 1844. Boyd grew up in Martinsburg, Virginia with her very Southern family. Boyd was destined to become a Confederate spy because many of her other family members were accused of being Confederate spies. Her father was a shoe keeper, but during the Civil War, he was a soldier in Stonewall Brigade.…
Dorothea Dix grew up in Massachusetts, but was born in Hampden Maine.Her early years were hard and very lonely because her father was an Methodist preacher. She had to take care of the house and her family because her mother was mentally ill and her father was usually away.Dorothea was the oldest of three children. When Dorothea was 12 years old she moved to Boston to live with her grandmother. In Boston and Worcester she established a lot of schools.Dorothea loved to read books and learn. She was a teacher, author and reformer. She left her 24 year career of teaching and started nursing at age 39. In march of 1841 Dix went to court about how mentally ill were treated like prisoners. They were chained in small dark spaces, filthy and abused.…
In 1879, Mary Eliza Mahoney became the first official African-American women professional nurse in America. She dominated a predominantly white women field, and flourished within the field. Mahoney had an extremely outstanding career during her time as a nurse, and alongside that, she also had done an insurmountable amount of charity work and has paved a new wave of organizations with her contributions. She excelled within all aspects of her career, and is a fine example of black excellence.…
Dorothea Lynde Dix was born in 1802 and died in 1887. She was an author, teacher, and reformer. She worked with prisoners and the mentally ill people. Because of this she helped make dozens of new institutions in the United States and in Europe and also helped change peoples’ view of these people.…
Provide specific details. I particularly picked Mae Jemison because she is a very influential women that has achieved many goals no matter the challenges she faced. Being a hispanic women I understand there will always be obstacles in my life, due to the fact that I am different and may be viewed as a minority. Jamison has inspired me that these obstacles can be terminated and I can accomplish anything I set my mind to. Jemison is an incredible woman, and I have a lot of respect towards her. Not many people have the opportunity to go into space, be a chemical engineer, and obtain their medical doctorate. Wanting to be a doctor, Jamison story made realize that anything is possible and I can attain a medical doctorate too. Over all, I picked Jamison because her story is very encouraging and she has empowered…
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Harris (1915–1959) was an African American jazz singer and songwriter. Her singing style, strongly inspired by jazz musicians, lead to a new way of using word choice and rhythm. A critic named John Bush once wrote that Holiday "changed the art of American pop vocals forever." She only co-wrote a few songs, but a number of them have become jazz standards that many musicians strive to live up to. Some of these standards were set by songs of hers such as "God Bless the Child", "Don't Explain", "Fine and Mellow", and "Lady Sings the Blues". She also became famous for singing "Easy Living", "Good Morning Heartache", and "Strange Fruit", a protest song which became one of her standards and was made famous with her…
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about a man named Jay Gatsby, who…
The lady that sings the blues was known as Billie Holiday or Lady Day to many. Billie Holiday was the greatest female jazz singer in American history. Billie started out as a young girl who, like her idols of Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong turned whatever material she was given into a piece of art of her own. Billie Holiday stated “I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.” Billie Holiday sang as if she knew her music had so much emotional power that she had to distance herself from it…
Spreading the gospel truth, reaching the souls of many around the world, Juanita Bynum, the prophetess has played a captivating role in this life and society with an intimate cause. Though growing up from a Christian background, Juanita Bynum had a burdensome path growing into a young adult. She proves that change can occur in every situation you find yourself, no matter the situation, through Jesus Christ.…