Age 15, Mia Hamm moved to northern Virginia, where she would attend the Lake Braddock Secondary school; living with her uncle. She kept on playing soccer and one day, an impressive phone call got the young girl cheering throughout the house. She was called for the senior United States women's soccer team, becoming the youngest player in history to play on it.…
The Mexican war affected the Civil War because it acquired new territory. Some believe that the Wilmot Proviso as the beginning of an increasing political conflict the led to the Civil War.…
Her fans considerd her the “Queen of tejano music”. She was the tex mex (texas and mexican) singer. She was one of the best country singers in her time in spanish and in english. Her name was selena quintanilla perez.…
60sc it's not enough to describe Alejandra, this is just a little essay about her. I will try to describe general things in this essay. Alejandra is my little sister. She is very beautiful, intelligent, mature, and so on. Alejandra likes to sleep (and a lot), she likes to help people, and she likes the amazing Spiderman. Things she dislikes is pride, hypocrisy, Pringles, enjoy, homework and so on. Alejandra was born in 27 of September of 2000, she has been very special for me, she makes me grow; she is always there when I need it. I'm like her conscious.…
Curley’s wife has no name and is initially seen as the possession of her husband. She is also a good-looking lady who wears quite a bit of makeup, form-fitting dresses, and ostrich feathered-high heels. As the only woman on the ranch, Curley’s wife is lonely and sad – something her marriage to Curley only makes worse. She reveals throughout the course of the story that she is unhappy in her marriage because her husband seems to care little for her, and is really more interested in talking about himself than anything else. Further, she laments her lost potential; she details twice that she could’ve been a Hollywood movie star, though the chance was taken from her by her mother, who worried she was too young.…
Even coming from a Catholic background, Terrence McNally, a gay playwright, never felt that being a homosexual was wrong. He quotes, “It seemed very natural to me. I think something as natural as sexual attraction is not to be fought.” He goes on to say that he defined God on his own terms and that the one message he got from being in Catholic school was that we are all created equally in God’s image, therefore, he was going to be okay (Shulman). In 1988, McNally became one of the first writers to confront homosexuality in his short play titled Andre's Mother. Later, in 1997, he wrote "Corpus Christi," which altered the story of Jesus Christ in a gay setting. This created controversy among the conservative,…
Barbara Mujica’s 2007 novel Sister Teresa, details the lives of Sister Teresa of Ávila as well as her companion Angelica del Sagrado Corazón growing up in Spain and being nuns during the Spanish Inquisition. Throughout her life Sister Teresa (also known as Teresa de Ahumada); is often looked down upon by society due to her Jewish ancestry. The only thing that keeps herself and the rest of her family from being under total persecution is the fact that her father, Don Alonso, bought a patent of nobility which allowed him to work as a tax collector and surmount a substantial amount of wealth. On the other hand, her companion and longtime friend Pancracia (later to be named Angelica) comes from a relatively poor family of seamstresses who survive…
Feminist literature has changed greatly throughout the movement, often improving on or contradicting previously written ideas. In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf discusses the disparity between the treatment of men and women as she argues for equal access and opportunity. Several years later, Gloria Anzaldúa reclaims the word mestiza in her discussion about borders in Borderlands: La Frontera (1987). Writing in the beginning of the 20th century, Woolf was very much a proponent of First Wave feminism and its goal of equal possibility for women. Though this was a revolutionary idea, Woolf fails to mention race and the non-binary, however, Anzaldúa is one of the first to be a major proponent for racial, intersectional, and queer…
My goal is to become a professional soccer player and once I retire become a sports commentator. A professional soccer player is an athlete who is paid to play for a soccer team at the professional level. Although being a professional soccer player for a job seems like little work, it actually involves a lot of high intensity work. Most teams have mandatory trainings up to 6 times a week, which include very hard workouts most people could not keep up with. Other duties include constantly watching your diet, attending mandatory games across the country, and during off season, hours of excruciating training. On the high end, women professional soccer players can be paid up to $15 per hour and range anywhere between $6,000 and $30,000 per year.…
Joan of Arc, who was nicknamed the “Maid of Orleans”, was a patroness of soldiers and of France. She is declared to be one of the most courageous women in French history. She was determined, dedicated, and smart. Joan of Arc is truly the definition of a leader.…
Joan of Arc, a young French woman, born in 1412 has left a legendary mark on history. She was known for dressing like a man in a suit of armor and leading the French troops against the in English in the Hundred Years War. Eventually being apprehended Joan was turned over to the English but tried by the French clerics who surprisingly supported the English. George Bernard, author of Saint Joan, wrote the play based on Arc’s life. A character in the play is the Inquisitor. The church court whose members decided Joan’s fate was to hear out the Inquisitor’s speech against her. (insert thesis statement here)…
Nadia Comaneci is a very famous gymnast winner of nearly 20 gold medals in her championships and the first woman to be awarded with a score of 10.…
Catholic nun, a missionary. Mother Teresa was born August 26, 1910 in Skopje, the current capital of the Republic of Macedonia, which was part of the Ottoman Empire at the time of her birth and was conquered by the Kingdom of Serbia in 1912, when she was two years old. On August 27, 1910, a date frequently mistaken for her birthday, she was baptized as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Mother Teresa's parents, Nikola and Drana Bojaxhiu, were of Albanian descent; her father was an entrepreneur who worked as a construction contractor and a trader of medicines and other goods. The Bojaxhius were a devoutly Catholic family, and Nikola Bojaxhiu was deeply involved in the local church as well as in city politics as a vocal proponent of Albanian independence.…
Mother Teresa, born Agnes Gnocchi Bojaxhin, in South Yugoslavia in 1910, came to Kolkata at the age of 18 to pursue her life's mission of caring for the poorest of the poor.…
In my English assignment, I was asked to do a report on someone or things that I am interested with. So, I decided to choose Mother Teresa as my role model to accomplish my task. To me, a role model is someone you want to emulate or hope to be like one day. Besides that, a role model is also someone who has inspiring actions or words. However, I feel that a role model needs to be honest, kind-hearted, humble, and caring. Therefore, I choose Mother Teresa as my role model because she had many great qualities that made her an inspiration in my life.…