Elizabeth Blackwell was the first female physician to earn a medical degree in the United States. The book The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician explains all the hardships Elizabeth faced through her journey to become a doctor. Elizabeth was a very strong woman who never gave up. Elizabeth Blackwell is famous for introducing the idea of women working in medicine‚ she grew up in a liberal household‚ was a force to be reckoned with‚ and she impacted how society thought
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English 248 12 December 2009 Elizabeth Keckley: Is She a Pioneer of Womanism? Keckley was born a slave in Virginia. She was an excellent seamstress and dressmaker. Using her skill and contacts she bought her freedom in 1855. After she was freed‚ she made her way to Washington‚ D.C. Elizabeth Keckley (1818-1907)‚ seamstress and dressmaker to the wives of many political movers and shakers of that day. Her client list included Varina Davis‚ of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and
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nation Israel‚ from him. Thus it is said that Genesis contains a lot of “eponymous writings” because the biblical character explains “the origin of a tribe or nation from a specific person or hero. The text above reveal that it was Terah‚ Abraham’s father‚ who
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Bringing My Son to the Police Station to be Fingerprinted “ Bringing My Son to the Police Station to be Fingerprinted” ‚ by Shoshauna Shy is about how a mom had to drive her son to the police station to get his fingerprints taken. Her son must have done something bad to have to have her take him to the police station. Although the poems as I first read the title‚ I thought it was gonna have details explaining why they were going to a police station. Instead of explaining that situation
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Ruby Brown Commentary Ruby Brown‚ a poem written by Langston Hughes is describing a black woman that faced both racism and sexism in her life. Like in most of his work‚ Langston Hughes uses motifs of color and white. Hughes characterizes Ruby in a way that allows us to see the restrictions she had in her way and her ability to mentally over come them. The visual imagery in the beginning talks about bright and golden sunshine but in actuality it was not. The characterization of Ruby shows her to
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Short Composition Analysis of the poem Barbie Doll’ written by Marge Piercy (1973). This girlchild was born as usual And presented dolls that did pee-pee And miniature GE stoves and irons And wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy. Then in the magic of puberty‚ a classmate said: You have a great big nose and fat legs. She was healthy‚ tested intelligent‚ Possessed strong arms and back‚ Abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity. She went to and fro apologizing. Everyone saw a fat nose on thick
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Planting A Sequoia‚ written by Dana Gioia‚ included in her larger work‚ The Gods of Winter published in 1991. The work is written in first person point of view because the narrator. This poem’s central assertion is remembrance and honoring of the dead with the family and rebirth. The poem is about the a father that plants a sequoia tree in honor of his recently deceased infant son. Gioia uses imagery in the first few stanzas to emphasize the severity of the father and his families’ grief and despair
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Elizabeth Jane Cochran was born on May 5‚ 1864 in the small Pennsylvanian town of Cochran’s Mills. The town was founded after her father who was the town judge and also a prominent land owner. When Elizabeth was just six years old she lost her father so she pledged that she would go to school to be able to help out with finances because her mom was now a single mother. Her plans were cut short due to her mother moving the family to Pittsburgh and ran a boarding house with her mom. In the early
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obstacles which started with his father losing his job as a musician which led to his family living in a van. Instead‚ Jim Carrey was optimistic towards how when his father lost his job‚ and he never lost hope of what was laying up ahead. Therefore‚ in Langston Hughes‚ “ Mother to Son” the mother explains to her son that he should be optimistic‚ which leads to the major theme of‚ no matter how hard the obstacles‚ keep on going. When the mother is talking to her son she explains to him that life isn’t
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Elizabeth ’s Background Elizabeth I was born September 7‚ 1533 at Greenwich Palace. She was the second daughter of King Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn. Elizabeth ’s had an older half-sister Mary and a younger half-brother‚ Edward. Elizabeth had a remarkable intelligence from a very young age. She received an excellent education and learned many languages: Latin‚ Flemish
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