Alice Ross King: A Brief Biography

     Coretta Scott King was born on April 27, 1927 in Heiberger, Alabama. Heiberger was a small segregated town. Coretta’s parents were Obadiah and Bernice Scott. She has an older sister named Edythe and a younger brother, Obie. Coretta was named after her grandmother Cora Scott. Her family was hard working and devoted Christians. Coretta had a strong temper, feared no one and stood up for herself.

Coretta Scott KIng was born April 27, 1927 in Heiberger, AL. Her parents Obadiah and Bernice Scott, were farmers and had owned land since the American Civil War. Coretta and her three siblings Edythe, Obadiah, and Eunice loved helping in the garden and doing

In Alice Walker’s, Nineteen Fifty-Five, a young white singer, Traynor, acquires song rights from an African American rhythm and blues singer, Gracie Mae. The song makes Traynor rich and famous. Obsessed with finding out the song’s meaning, Traynor remains in contact with Gracie Mae through letters, gifts, and visits. The conflict of the story is in Traynor’s inability to ascertain the meaning of the song. Traynor eventually passes away, without ever resolving the conflict.

Walkers essay is great of getting her audience to reminisce on the past by describing some childhood memories of life on the farm with the use of her beautiful language to share an image in Walkers memory.

Alice Walker was born on February ninth, 1944 in Eaton, Georgia. As a child, Walker was shot in the eye with a pellet gun leaving her partially blind. Being African

Government. The next year, she began working as a nurse in a hospital from mainly

Imogene King was born in 1921in Iowa. Growing up, she dreamed of being a teacher but began nursing school to escape her small town life. She graduated with a diploma in nursing in 1945, then three years later earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Education and worked as medical-surgical instructor and an assistant director at St. John’s School of Nursing until 1958, fulfilling her lifelong dream of being a teacher wither nursing career. She went on to earn a Master of Science in Nursing in 1957 and a doctorate in education in 1961 (Imogene King, 2011). King then became an associate professor at Loyola University in Chicago and formed a master’s degree program that was based on her nursing concepts, which later became the framework for her theory.

Adam was born on the 8th of January 1980 in South Australia in the town of Wallaroo. His mother, an Indigenous Australian (Adnyamathanha

Abigail Adams was born on November 11th, 1744 in Weymouth, Massachusetts, to Reverend William Smith and Elizabeth Quincy Smith.

“If a creator stands in front of a man’s house, constantly demanding the amount of the bill, the debtor has either to remove the creditor or pay the bill,” according to Alice Paul’s biographer, Amelia Fry (qtd. in Butruille). Alice Paul was an activist that wanted to get women’s right to vote. Due to that, Paul never gave up even when it seemed impossible, and when nothing was in her favor. She had fought constantly for women’s suffrage by protesting day and night, rain or shine, and in cold or heat. Nonetheless, even “being jailed six times, fighting politicians, and even other suffragists” like herself, Paul continued to be forceful against the President and Congress to allow women to vote (“Suffragist and Feminist”

Abigail Adams was born on November 22, 1774. She was born a the North Parish Congregational Church in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Her father was named Smith and her mother was named Elizabeth. Because of her mothers side she was escended from the Quincy family. A Quincy family is a well-known political family in the Massachusetts colony. Dorothy Quincy, wife of John Hancock was her causin from her mothers side of the family.

I really enjoyed today's class because we talked about women in policing. As a woman, it was interesting to hear about the different stereotypes that plague the law enforcement when it comes to gender roles. I learned that Alice Stebbins Wells was the first American-born female police officer in the United States, hired in 1910 in Los Angeles. I was really surprised to find out that only 11% of police are women because my guess was it was 40%. It is significantly lower than I had first thought and I think it is because police work is mostly a male dominated sector.

Amber Steel was a registered nurse for twelve years. She started out as a Certified Nurse Assistant working in a Nursing home, she later returned to school to become a Registered Nurse. Amber has had experience in the Emergency room, with Home Health and supervising, as well as engaging on the Medical Surgical floor. She enjoys Nursing because she is fond of assisting individuals and their families. Amber particularly liked the emergency room, although she believed that it takes a considerable amount of energy and was stressful. She also lover working on the Medical Surgical floor, where she assisted the elderly. It was also a blessing for her to meet people from different cultures.

On June 27, 1880, a girl named  Helen Adams Keller, a very well-knowned writer, was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama,   in a white, frame cottage called “Ivy Green.” Her parents were captain Arthur Henley Keller and Kate Adams Keller.

Imogene King was not only involved in nursing for 60 years, but she was a leader in nursing right from her start in the diploma program at St. John’s Hospital School of Nursing, St. Louis, Missouri. King saw nursing as a challenge. She credits her Jesuit education, her perception of personal