A Significant Influence On Marylou's Life

Mary Cassatt was a sister to four. She had three older brothers whose names were Alexander, Gardner, and Robert, who went by Robbie and who she was the closest to. Her sister’s name was Lydia. Mary’s father was Robert Cassatt, a successful businessman, and was married to Mary’s mother Katherine. Unlike Robert’s father Denis, Robert was very lucky and since he was very successful as a banker and a stockbroker, he made an excellent living for his family. This allowed them to not only move a lot, but also travel the world. Eventually, Robert moved his family to Europe. They settled in Paris, France, and when they got there, Mary saw that there was plenty of things and activities to do. Paris was very different from

In the 1960’s the author was growing up with her mother and five other siblings, moving from place to place in search of a home where the

Rose Mary never liked the idea of working and only landed a job as a teacher in a school in Battle Mountain but she quit because of her own selfish reasons. She didn’t really care for her children, she only worried about herself and all she wanted to do was paint. Most of the time, they couldn't earn enough money to pay rent and they did the ‘skedaddle’ to run away from bill collectors. The Walls family lived in more than 10 houses because they couldn’t pay rent and sometimes they were homeless, sleeping in the Arizona deserts and

For one year beginning on June 20, 1675 “more than twelve hundred houses had been burned, about six hundred English colonials were dead and three thousand American Indians killed,” (Baym, 2013) in king Phillips’ war. During these troubling times, many were captured and used as bargaining chips. One such individual was Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, she later penned a narrative of her captivity. Throughout the captivity narrative, the undeniable hold of time, place and religion is evident to the reader and vividly illustrated.

Doris learned to enjoy what you have and not take things for granted. Doris’s advice to me is to help others when in need. Doris does not feel that living during this time was much different. She was unable to express that she had any good or bad experiences because of living in the Dust Bowl. By the time the interview was done, she was tired and having a hard time understanding what was being

Dorothy McCormick graduated high school in 1960, but couldn’t go to college because her brother already was going. Her family did not have enough money for the both of them to go so McCormick went to work right out of highschool. She remembers one day, driving to work,

Elene Bezarashvili War and change   the book the things they carried written by Tim O’Brien provides examples of young men who are going through the path of change during Vietnam war. Even author himself experiences and characterizes this change and shows influence of war on soldiers. war changes people and their sense of identity and place in society as well as their moral. One of the soldiers who is going through rough time after war is Norman Bowker. Bowker feels a sense of uncertainty, isolation and alienation from himself and society.

Later, in 1888 Mary received a scholarship to attend Scotia Seminary, a school for African American girls in Concord, North Carolina. She was strongly impacted by both black and white teachers there and met some of the people in which she would work closely later. Mary values her studies, however, it did not hinder her from developing into a lovely dancer and a lasting love of music. She was very energetic and alert. From here she began to grow very popular. Her classmates admired her leadership and took her as their role model. Mary graduated in 1893, she proceeded her studies at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago,

It was a quite a normal fall day out here in Louisiana. The year was 1930, my daughter and I had been out working in the barnyard. “Lauren, work faster the guest will be here soon for Thanksgiving dinner.” I exclaimed to Lauren as she was cleaning the pigsty. Soon we were to have our family and friends come to visit us for Thanksgiving. I don’t necessarily like having guest, since they’re always a lot of cleaning do. Actually, cleaning wasn’t the problem since we lived in a very small house out in the country. The problem was food was very scarce for us, so we worked extremely hard. You see, out here in Louisiana it wasn’t easy to be wealthy so half of the town was what you would call ‘poor’.We can’t provide them with a lot of food,

Mary was born in Savannah, Georgia on 1925 then she moved to Milledgeville, Georgia with her mother(Regina Cline). O'Connor earned a bachelor degree of arts from Women's college of Georgia in 1945and received a master of fine arts from the State University of Iowa. She was most renowned as a writer of short fiction. O'Connor won a Kenyon Reviewed fellowship in fiction in 1953. A National Institute of Arts and Letters grant in 1957 and a O. O' Connor was committed not only to telling the truth unretouched, but also telling (Rodriguez 1) ."

In 1870, he set up a cramped laboratory and factory in Newark and employed a few machinists. They started to sell their own product. He dedicated himself to be a full-time inventor. In 1871, he married a sixteen years old girl who called Mary Stilwell when he was twenty-four years old. During his thirteen years of marital life, they had three children. They called Marlon, Thomas and William and all of them became an inventor. Finally, his wife died because of suspected brain tumor in 1884. In 1879, he started to reform his own lightbulb. After one year, he developed his own electrical company which called “Edison Illuminating Company”. By 1882 the “Pearl Street” Generating station provided 110 volts of electrical power to 59 customers in lower

Mary Downing Hahn was born in College Park, Maryland on December 9,1937. When she was a little kid both of her parents were working. She was left to stay with her grandmother, who lived with them, at home while her parents worked. This wasn’t a great situation like it would be for other family’s because Mary’s grandmother had a mental illness. Mary never liked her grandma because the illness caused her to be mean to Mary. When Mary got a little older she went outside to play more to try to get away from her grandma. The neighborhood she grew up in was full of kids her age, so she had plenty of people to play with. While Mary was young she hated writing, but yet loved telling stories by drawing pictures.

PER REPORTER: MaryAnn and her three children all live in a three bedroom home with Dorothy, Paul, Erica, Vanica, and Jerome. MaryAnn and her three children all share a room. The room only has one big bed in it and one little bed. All three of her kids including herself all sleep in one bed, and she allows the thirteen years old daughter boyfriend also spend the night and he sleeps with them. The reporter stated that she does not believe that the sixteen year old son should be sleeping with his mom and sister’s. Ms. Anonymous stated that the thirteen year old curses and she has no regards for Dorothy or MaryAnn. The son is allowed to dip and smoke cigarettes and Marijuana. He also talks about sex in front of his sisters. MaryAnn and Dorothy

It was the second day of school in Mr. Maples fourth period class, he had scheduled us to partner up and do 10 questions to ask our partner. Mr. Maples gave us our partners and I got Marylou Beltran, I met her in summer school so we knew each other already and we were next to each other so we started laughing. I learned more facts about Marylou and she is an intelligent person and a family person. Marylou is a family person because she likes to hang out with her cousins. If Marylou had an opportunity to meet anyone, she said it would be her grandma. She has a brother that goes to MHS and is a junior. She wants to represent her family by going into the army. Marylou is a intelligent person because she likes her math period and that is a hard

It was a nice sunny bright airy day when Mary was getting stretched out on the rubbery track field in the soft green grass, she could just imagine the “Bang” of the gun with the smell of the smoke from it and the stomping booming of the footsteps to the finish line. After she was done getting her muscles warmed up Mary had gotten a call from her track Coach Stephaney that she will be competing in her first ever track meet. Mary was breath taken. She has been dying to get this news forever. She could imagine the rushing crowds chanting her name when she won, hollering to get her picture. Mary knew she should start practicing right away. That day Mary ran three times around the track field! Mary was exhausted and drained so she had her mom, Lisa