Born Sarah Breedlove on December 23‚ 1867 on a Louisiana plantation‚Walker transformed herself from an uneducated farm worker of the twentieth century’s most successful‚ self-made women entrepreneurs. Orphaned at age seven‚ she often said‚ "I got my start by giving myself a start." She and her older sister‚ Louvenia‚ survived by working in the cotton fields of Vicksburg‚ Mississippi. At 14‚ she married Moses McWilliams to escape abuse from her cruel brother-in-law‚ Jesse Powell. During the
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Who is Alice Walker? Walker is an African-American Author‚ civil and a women’s right activist‚ born on February 9‚ 1944‚ in Eatonton‚ Georgia. Walker attended Spelman College in Atlanta‚ Georgia‚ where she became involved in the civil rights movement. In 1964‚ with the assistance of Staughton Lynd‚ (a historian teacher/friend) transferred to Sarah Lawrence College. Walker is most famous for writing‚ “The Color Purple” which she won the Pulitzer award for fiction as well as the National Book award
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Margaret Bourke-White: Photography as Social Commentary Born in the Bronx‚ New York in 1904‚ Margaret Bourke-White was one of the best-known photographers of the twentieth century who was known for her fearless and dramatic photographs. She graduated from Cornell University and started her career as an industrial photographer at a steel company in Cleveland‚ Ohio. In 1929 she got hired by Fortune Magazine and traveled to the Soviet Union to photograph its industrial development. Bourke-White then
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Margaret was born March 23‚ 1984 to Nora and Augue DeFrancisco. She grew up in Chicago‚ Illinois with her mother and her older sister Regina. Margaret’s father was a convicted drug dealer and wasn’t around much while she was growing up. Margaret and her sister were both known as good students and no one could recall them ever getting into trouble. The girls were also known for their beauty and this caught the attention of many men. This proved to be deadly to a man named Oscar Velazquez. Oscar had
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People are people Autumn Heather Lundy Concorde Career College Friday‚ July 12‚ 2013 Prepared for MS Hill Multicultural competence is the ability to appreciate‚ value‚ interact with and benefit from difference cultures. Cultures are group with a common outlook. They may be racial or ethnic; male or female; of a certain sexual orientation belief or age (job readiness‚ 2013‚ page 104). You will always see in this world multicultural competence because every judges everybody. Before I was born
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character is reveal. In The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood‚ Penelope faces this exact scenario when she is left behind in Ithaca as Odysseus leaves to fight in the Trojan war‚ losing the only person she can trust. In the absence of Odysseus‚ Penelope’s complex character is revealed. Atwood effectively uses diction‚ point of view‚ syntax and tone to characterize Penelope as a skeptical‚ needy and loyal character. The first person perspective used by Margaret Atwood in The Penelopiad gives us valuable
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Margaret Fuller was born on May 23‚ 1810. Her full name was Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli‚ she was named after her paternal grandmother and mother and when she was nine she drooped the Sarah in her name and insisted on being called Margaret instead. She was the first child of Timothy Fuller and Margaret Crane Fuller. Her father taught her to read and write when she was three and a half‚ he forbade her to read the typical feminine fare at the time‚ such as etiquette books and sentimental novels. During
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Frost and Journey to the Interior by Margaret Atwood portray the concept of journeys to a great extent. These poems will show a whole other perspective of a literal inner and imaginative journey and a metaphorical physical journey. In the poem “The Road Not Taken”‚ Robert Frost provides a look at the choices one has in life‚ how one comes to decide which choices are better‚ and what the consequences of these choices are. In “Journey to the Interior”‚ Margaret Atwood uses the physical terrain of the
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Alice Walker: Writings on Race David Turley Lib. 316 Annemarie Hamlin 02/22/2010 Alice Walker: Writings on Race Alice Walker has spent her adult life writing about gender and race. Walker’s achievements include the Pulitzer Prize‚ the first African-American woman recipient of the National Book Award‚ and numerous other literary awards in her life (Walker‚ 2009). She has spent her life’s career engaging in activism and helping
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Feminism in Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners The Funk and Wagnall’s Standard Desk Dictionary defines feminism as‚ “A doctrine advocating the granting of the same social‚ political and economic rights to women as the ones granted to men.” Feminists consider woman as an oppressed group‚ those who must present themselves as individuals and human beings. In Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners‚ Morag Gunn’s struggle for female self-representation is seen as she writes about her life. This is shown through
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