Agnes Martin Analysis

At two years old, her family moved to the United States. A few years later, Gloria’s father became seriously ill. Gloria took care of him and her sister while her husband worked.

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

Jeannette Rankin was born in Missoula, Montana, on June 11, 1880. She was the the eldest of 7 children, and at an early age she developed a take charge attitude. She moved to San Francisco at the age of 28, and took on a job in social work. She thoroughly enjoyed the work, and in 1908, she enrolled in New York School of Philanthropy, and began to work with families on the poverty line. Rankin then moved to Washington, and after working briefly as a social worker in Spokane, she became deeply involved in

left her parent’s home one day with her child but she did not return. She had almost little to no

After she got married and moved back to the reservation she lived with extended family because that was the way they were used to doing it. The entire family was extremely close and that’s what they based their beliefs on. Sometimes, I don’t know how they did it, because I honestly can’t stand to be in the same time zone as some of my relatives much less bunking with them. After her mother died the move to Gordon, Nebraska was quite a shock because of the

At the age of only 12-13 her father was kidnapped from the island of Ambrym, in 1883, and brought to Australia to work as an unpaid labourer in the Queensland cane fields. Could any of you imagine that? Waking up one day not knowing where your family was?

On Thursday March 22nd, I visited the Laguna Art Museum with my boyfriend. I was very excited for this assignment because I am a member at the Laguna art museum, but didn’t yet see the new exhibit for this season. The Laguna Art Museum is small and therefore, usually runs exhibits on one artist at the time. I knew I would more than likely only be able to pick art pieces from one artist. At this time, they were displaying a local artist, Tony DeLap, and work from his collection titled, “Retrospective”. My expectation was that I probably wouldn’t enjoy his work too much. I knew DeLap was a minimalist, “op artist”, and that style of work isn’t my favorite, typically I enjoy realist paintings. However, I decided that I should try and analyze art

She lived in the Elmwood area and attended École George V until five years of age, when her parents decided it was an unsafe neighborhood for a child to live in. During her time living in Elmwood, she spent plenty of time in the hospital due to her mother’s health conditions. She travelled to Toronto

"In The Spirit of Martin” a poem by Nikki Giovanni. This poem is about the struggles of African Americans in the United States. The ideas being expressed in this poem are the allusions to the civil rights movements, the perfect father or families, and television shows. This poem has multiple allusions to things that are the same and different.

She then on went about her family. She grew up in a strict family home were her parents were not born in America, but from Poland like myself. She said that they were very strict with what she could and could not do. She had a strict curfew also, she was basically locked up and was not allowed to do things her friends could do. They were using an Authoritarian parenting style (Feldman, 2008). Their relationship with a child is where the parent’s word is law. Authoritarian parents do not engage in discussions with their teen and family rules and standards are not debated. But when she turned 18 they gave her more freedom, she was allowed to stay out later, go to parties, and do pretty much what her friends did. This type of parenting style is known as “Authoritative”, were the parents and somewhat strict, but let the adolescent have a sense of independence (Feldman, 2008).

She was born and raised in a poor home in Nicaragua. When she was young, a war broke out near the city she lived in and mentioned the difficulties her family has encountered throughout that time. Her father had taken part in this horrific war and her family, along with other families, faced great challenges. Because of the war, most of the homes and nearby stores had been destroyed or were being occupied by the soldiers as a place of refuge. By the time the war was finished the city was ruined the homes were falling apart as the bricks that made them up started to fall off one by one. So, In hopes for finding a safe and abundant home, her family moved to the United States. When she moved to Florida, she graduated High school and began attending a community college. Unfortunately, her family couldn’t afford for her to attend college for the full four years, so she was only able to attain her Associates degree in Accounting. This allowed her to have few job opportunities, nonetheless, with certain terms and conditions because of her

Sister Simone explains that Margarete was a patient who did not have health insurance to get treated with her colon disease. Since Margarete did not have health insurance and she was not covered later she died at age of 65 with a colon disease. She mentions about the voices of women a group who would produce and grow food then serve it to the community. There was also a group in Toledo Ohio who helped the neighborhood come together and make a difference. The group was known as “Suspend Kids Group,” which helped kids that were suspended from school attend this group so they can be off the street. For example, there were two twins’ names Mark and Mat who were suspended from school and they were just at home not getting any education. Mark was a navigate in the world while Mat was a very shy, quiet and naive twin. No one knew what exactly was going on inside the twins’ home, but when sister Simone went she was surprise as she talks about her experience. The twins mother was ill and the twins would actually do the house work. She never though that the twins

Her daughter faces discrimination because of her color from the Japs, big white boys who are enemies of Canada. They were chasing her and she ran off to the woods.

I am going to discuss an eighty two year old woman who I am going to call Mrs Smith (her name has been changed to protect her identity). Mrs Smith is the middle of five children, who has lived all her live in the South of England. She married at nineteen and had four children, all of whom are now grown up, happily married and with children of their own, giving her ten grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Mrs Smith’s husband died in 1998 and she has lived on her own ever since. In this essay I am will be drawing on five

In her teenage years in the 1950’s, her mother and father never emphasized the importance of her schoolwork. They were still very strict religiously, but believed that the woman should raise children in the house [[relate to watching tv and seeing a commercial for her period and saying that’s inappropriate on tv]]