Alice Wangui is a single mother that lives in East Africa. She is running her own hair salon business and lives in a city that is very modern. Even thought living in a modern city she is very traditional and still practices her family traditions of Kikuyo tribe. She is eight months pregnant with her second child and wants to give birth in her spiritual homeland. She wants to leave to raise her children in the traditional Kikuyu. Her doctor doesn’t like her plan of leaving to her homeland because she is less than a week before giving birth but Alice doesn’t care and plans to continue with her plans. Going back to Karatina may have some risk like not having the right medical equipment. She just wants her kids to follow their culture. Alice’s aunt thinks she is breaking tradition because for one she is wearing shoes and because she isn’t raising her children there. …show more content…
Just like Alice she has also ran her own business. Now her life consists of depending on earths natural because she met a man from the dorobo people and fell in love. So she pretty much was raised in a non traditional family living in a big city which is very modern but once she married she decided to leave with him to his homeland in Kijungu. She has been there for 11 years and has had no contact with her family since. There she has no access to electricity and to get walk she has to travel 40 minutes to get water. She has children with her husband and that’s why she is still there but she has become aware of all she has given up. Even though Flora isn’t that happy she does like that her children are being raised in a traditional place where they learn how to hunt and collect honey. One way that Flora breaks the tradition is by being too traditional as her sisters tell her. All the work that Flora has to do back in the village is funny to them because those are things that they would never do in the
Carol Hutchins is the top ranked coach with the most wins in the history of college softball. She has collected a total of 1461 wins in 32 years of coaching. She has a mere 474 loses on her record. Hutchins first coached at Ferris State from 1981-1982 and then Michigan from 1985 to present time. Carol grew up in Lansing, Michigan where she then went and played softball at the place she coaches. She was the starting shortstop there as a freshman and also played basketball, too. Hutchins attended Everett High School where she also played on the Lansing Laurels.
Alice Brown Davis- lived all of her life serving the Seminole Nation, in the early nineteenth century. She mostly taught, but she ran a trading post called Arbeka. She also built a ranch, was in charge of other local Native American currency, and was the superintendent of the Seminole girls' school. Not to mention she was a law interpreter, and even traveled to Palm beach, Florida to act as an interpreter a murder trial involving a Seminole man. In 1922 she became chief by President Warren G. Harding. Here, she became the first women to lead the Seminole Nation. Though, she was elected by the president, not by her tribe. Her tribe found her to be “well thought of and well respected and the people were happy with having her as Chief. “
Grace Bidwell Terry, 96, passed away March 14 at Pocono Medical Center after a short illness. She was born on October 27, 1919 in Ridgewood, NY, the daughter of Catherine (Knissel) and Charles Bidwell. Grace graduated from Grover Cleveland High School and St. Aloysius Secretarial School in Queens, NY. In 1942 she married Robert Terry and followed him to army bases Camp McCoy, WI and Ft. Mead, MD, following which they lived for 40 years in Williston Park, NY. A homemaker, Grace was a member of the Nassau County Extension Service, the Pieceful Patchers of the Park, and a Girl Scout leader. From 1990 through 2005, Grace lived in Buck Hill Falls, Cottage TKTK, and for many years taught quilting and gathered friends in her home to enjoy
My assigned partner, Michelle Nguyen, was born in California and is part Vietnamese. She is a major foodie but prefers not to eat meat, and does not have a favorite food. Michelle described herself as clumsy, bipolar, lazy, awkward, and an introvert. She has a love-hate relationship with makeup, which I can relate to. Michelle played piano since she was four but quit when she turned twelve. Michelle played volleyball for her high school all four years and has been playing since fifth grade. She loves animals and her favorites are puppies and bunnies. When she was young she had a small dog that had passed away but she does not have any pets at the moment.
Queen Esther Julia Kapiolani Napelakapuokakae, other known Queen Kapiolani, was born on December 31,1834 in Hilo, Hawaii, and died on June 24, 1899 in Waikiki. She was married to David Kalakaua and both of them changed Hawaii. Queen Kapiolani is one of Hawaii’s greatest monarchs because of her good morals, she created the Iolani Palace, and she created Queen Kapiolani Medical Center
where she was already curious. Her life was going to be everything but ordinary. She was born
Louise Day Hicks took a very unconventional path, unlike most women she choose to follow in her father 's footsteps of becoming a lawyer and politician, challenging the changing gender roles of that time, something I find admirable. Hicks had the power to be remembered as a political icon, being the first female Democrat to represent Massachusetts in the House or for her run for mayor of Boston, instead, she is remembered as a symbol of racism, something I can’t overlook. If I could sit down with Hicks I would ask her why she took a progressive stance while she was a representative, but then choose to implement and enforce discriminatory policies while she was on the Boston School Committee and running for mayor. I would ask her if she choose
Becoming a licensed practical nurse is a rewarding job that allows a nurse to care for other people and it has a rewarding salary, while the disadvantages is the lack of sleep and the multiple hours that a nurse has to spend on his/her feet. Cathy Parker is a licensed practical nurse and also a clinical director at Bay Springs After Hours Clinic in Bay Springs,M.S. She has been a licensed practical nurse for twenty-eight years and a clinical director for thirteen years. Cathy has several reasons why she chose her career to be a licensed practical nurse. She says the main reason she chose to be a nurse is because one night at church a little boy had cut his arm and as she bandaged him up God called her to be a nurse. Her second reason she became a nurse is her love for people and wanting to see others properly cared for. As she cared for her elderly grandmother when she was a teenager it made her feel helpful to see someone smile while being cared for. Her favorite part of her job is to see someone who has been in pain, smile after being cared for.
Ann Lee was born on February 29, 1736. There is not much account on her childhood, therefore, it is hard to depict if her childhood had any influence on her later, more known life. She exhibited religion and living in Manchester, England accounted for the moral decay of it. She sought spiritual refuge and ended up finding the Shaking Quakers, a religious society. This group would express their sins, dance, sing, violently shake, and shout. The Shakers were disruptive to peace, and Ann herself was jailed. During imprisonment, she had a lot of visions and spiritual contributions and “by a special manifestation of divine light the present testimony of salvation and eternal life was fully revealed to her," she became the leader or “mother” of the
Alice Paul was a strong willed woman who would not stop for anything in order to secure equality for both women and men. She was a common person like most and therefore related to many of those around her. Although she was raised in a wealthy family, she faced the death of family member and even discouragement of the public for voicing her thoughts. Despite these setbacks, she never stopped fighting for her cause. Even at a young age she was raised and taught that women and men were equal. After college, she went to Europe and learned military publicity skills to help earn women’s right to vote. Her mission did not stop with that; she continued to fight for her beliefs. Alice Paul's ultimate goal was to earn
The family is already feeling displaced in general by attempting to function in modern society after being uprooted and relocated and protected by our country. While relocation may constitute Democratic protection, there is a level of cultural protection and a comfort zone, which is lost completely. The way the family experienced the relocation was with the sensation of fear that was foreign to our culture and western medicine. When the child had this rare form of epilepsy the family thought that fright from being in a foreign environment had caused the baby's soul to flee her body and become lost to a spirit that had replaced and taken over her body thereof. The family attempted ways of curing Lia, which were quite backward to western medicine: shamanism interventions, which included sacrifices of pig and chickens in the family's home. This clashed with the intervention of the western medical community, which insisted on removing the child to westernized health care. This also meant the forcible removal of the child from her parents, which of course was not good spiritually for the child, and caused disastrous results. While the medical community attempted to intervene for the better, the child was so traumatized by being forcibly separated from her parents that it made her recovery that much
The Death of Woman Wang, by Jonathan Spence is an educational historical novel of northeastern China during the seventeenth century. The author's focus was to enlighten a reader on the Chinese people, culture, and traditions. Spence's use of the provoking stories of the Chinese county T'an-ch'eng, in the province of Shantung, brings the reader directly into the course of Chinese history. The use of the sources available to Spence, such as the Local History of T'an-ch'eng, the scholar-official Huang Liu-hung's handbook and stories of the writer P'u Sung-Ling convey the reader directly into the lives of poor farmers, their workers and wives. The intriguing structure of The Death of Woman Wang consists on observing these people working on
As I researched the time period Sontag wrote A Woman’s Beauty: Put-down or Power Source I found out the essay was published in April 1975 for no less than Vogue Magazine, which now days is the most important magazine about fashion and beauty. How ironic!! Around the time period of 1970 and 1975, in the United States women started to be more noticeable in things only men were known to do. In 1970, the first female jockey in Kentucky Derby. In 1974, the first black model was featured in Vogue Magazine, girls were allowed to play in little league baseball, the first women priest in the Episcopal Church and also January 1st of 1975 international women years begins. I noticed
The Death of Woman Wang, by Jonathan D. Spence, paints a vivid picture of provincial China in the seventeenth century. Manly the life in the northeastern country of T’an-ch’eng. T’an-ch’eng has been through a lot including: an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Chinese society in Confucian terms was a patriarchal society with strict rules of conduct. The role at this time of women, however, has historically been one of repression. The traditional ideal woman was a dependent being whose behavior was governed by the "three obedience’s and four virtues". The three obedience’s were obedience to
Before knowing or experiencing contact with Flora, the governess declares this child's beauty unsurpassable and convinces herself that the child could do no wrong; all speculation through a simple glance. So taken by the appearance of Flora was the governess, that she couldn't find herself having a peaceful sleep for some nights after her arrival at Bly.