Barbara Kickett also known as Whadjuk Ballardong Yok which means Perth and wheat belt woman. She was born in 1950 in Kellerberrin. Babara Kickett is one of the children who experienced the forced removal. In 1959, she was at the age of 9, in primary school. The headmaster called her sisters, brothers and herself out of the class. She went outside and she saw a kombi van, welfare people and police officers. She and her brothers and sisters got taken to the courthouse in Kellerberrin. When she arrived there, she saw her parents crying . They were taken to court because they didn’t want their children taken away but unfortunately, all six them were forcibly removed from their parents. She saw the pain of her mother in her eyes and her father begging
She lived in inner west as well as Erskinville and St Peters, where she worked mostly in Redfern, which was the centre for Aboriginal politics during 1970’s. She lived with her in laws during her pregnancy in Kempsy on the Northern New South Wales coast. When she went back to Sydney, she recognised that the local hospital was isolated, therefore her husband and daughter returned to Kempsy. Mum Shirl stayed in Sydney where she worked for a short period of time at the local District Hospital. Due to her epilepsy, Mum Shirl was completely precluded from school, which was held by The Erambie Mission Managers wife, who was not professionally qualified for the children at the Mission. Mum Shirl was taking a shelter ‘under The Railway Bridge’ after leaving the Mission. She occasionally attended the St Bridge School, where she attained some education and only learnt alphabets, but unfortunately she could not be taught how to read and write. When Mum Shirl’s daughter Beatrice considered living with her in laws in Kempsy, she thought of seeking employment. It was very hard for her to find permanent employment due to her epilepsy. She was a voluntary worker, where the child welfare department and the police in Newtown relied on her to assist them with Aboriginal community court cases. Because of her support, she was given a small kindness pay. On the other hand, her only source of income was her pension which was
Marjorie Lee Browne was born on September 9, 1914 in Memphis, Tennessee. She was the daughter of Mary Taylor Lee and Lawrence Johnson Lee. Marjorie childhood was very rough, her mother passed when she was two . Right after Marjorie mother passed her father was soonly remarried to his new wife Lottie Lee so Lottie helped raise Marjorie. Her father was a railway postal clerk, and stepmother Lottie lee, a school teacher. Growing up Marjorie up into segregation so she went to a private high school called LeMoyne high school. Even through these times Marjorie parents pushed her to better and to not worry about going to a all black school.
Scrutinizing over my timed write I did on an excerpt from Becoming Educated by Barbara Jordan, I have found few strengths and many weaknesses in my writing. Rereading my paper I am horrified at my lack of warrants and word choice. Furthermore, I don't fully understand Rhetorical Strategies or rather how to identify them in a given text. Not everything was worthless in my paper, thankfully. I did use quotes from the excerpt to support my supposedly weak arguments. My weaknesses beyond any doubt over shadow my strengths in my paper.
Leta Hollingworth Leta Stetter Hollingworth was a psychologist in the early 1900s. She had began school at the University of Nebraska and had went on to eventually get her degree to be a certified teacher. She was excited about this new phase of her life and had moved to New York to start her career as she had planned. However, the phrase that she would later dub as “dogma” would soon begin to settle into her own life.
The book "Barbara Jordan" is about a politician/humanitarian Barbara Jordan. Barbara Charline Jordan was born on Febuary 21,1936. In 1953, Barbara Jordan graduated from Phillis Wheatly High school; from there; she went on to Texas Southern University where she graduated magna cum laude. She then continued her education at Boston University Law School. Afterward she returned to Texas to work for a judge in Harris County. In 1960, she worked for the campaign to nominate John F. Kennedy as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate.
Primary Source that was taken in 1928, Children are removed by the Aborigines Protection Board from the Gully at Katoomba. They’re either transferred to Bakersville Home or to Bomaderry UAM Home.
impossible. Although Linda Brent was not able to get her children away from Dr. Flint and his mistreatment, she did not abandon her family to save herself. Instead, she decided to hide in her grandmother, Aunt Martha’s, attic. Several times during Linda’s life she was faced with the choice of fulfilling her desires of being a free woman or putting her family first. She believed that once Dr. Flint noticed that she had escaped to the North, he would be fearful of her children escaping and would sell them. When Mr. Flint sold Benny and Ellen to someone working for Mr. Sands she was told by Mr. Sands, also the father of her children, that he would free their children soon to live with Aunt Martha.
Susan Clark faced conflict in 1868 when she was refused admission to Washington School, an all white school in Muscatine, Iowa. Victory was achieved when the case was appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court who decided school segregation was unconstitutional. This landmark school desegregation case set the stage for the future of school integration in the United States.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow graduated Hunter College as the first women to graduate in physics (Bauman et. al. 2011). She also led a way for acceptance and understanding of women’s role in science in America (Bauman et. al. 2011). She even inspired Mildred Dresselhous, who was a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and president and officer of many Associations including American Association for the Advancement of Science, to pursue the career she wanted (Bauman et. al. 2011). Rosalyn born to Clara and Simon Sussman in New York City, on July 19, 1921 (Brody 1996). She married Aaron Yalow on June 6, 1943 and had two children named Elanna and Benjamin (Brody 1996). In 1977, Dr. Yalow won the Nobel Prize in medicine and was
Aileen Wuornos was born on February 29, 1956, in Rochester, Michigan. Aileen was abused as a child and this led up to her life of sex and murder. Having been involved in previous instances with the law, she made a living as a prostitute on Florida's highways, and in 1989 she killed a man who had picked her up. She then went on to kill at least five other men, that was confirmed in court, and was eventually caught, convicted and placed on death row in Florida. Though her sanity was questioned, Wuornos was executed by lethal injection in 2002.
In my advance math decision-making (AMDM) class we were encouraged to look up a famous black mathematics for black history month, so we could see that there were black mathematician in the field of work. Therefore, I choose Marjorie lee Browne known for her gifted skills in math and for her electronic digital computer center at North Carolina College.
Brenda Morehead-Campbell attended Toledo Public Schools and is a 1975 graduate of Jesup Scott High School. She started her athletic career as a track runner in the sixth grade at Fulton Elementary School. During high school, Ms. Morehead competed in many national championship track meets. She gained exposure to the international track level as a sprinter during her sophomore year of high school at the USA vs. Russia championship meet. In her senior year of high school, the State of Ohio had the first ever girl’s track meet where she won the 100 and 200 yard dash, long jump, and successfully anchored the winning 800-yard dash relay team.
The article has been written by Barbara Wallraff who is English Language graduate. She is enthusiastic about the recent happenings to the English Language, that’s why she discusses with people about the universality of the English language. Ms. Wallraff has started the argument of the article by developing thesis statement on the universality of the English Language which has later been supported by related arguments of the article.
Aileen Wuornos was born on February 29th, 1956 to Diane Wuornos and Leo Dale Pittman. She had an older brother to Keith (Shipley & Arrigo, 2004). Her father was arrested and charged with children sexual abuse and was imprisoned, but committed suicide while serving his jail term. Her mother abandoned her and her brother under the care of her grandparents, Lauri and Britta. At the age of eleven, she had started engaging in sexual activities and abuse of drugs such as alcohol and smoking cigarettes. She was raped and became pregnant at the age of fourteen. She delivered a baby boy and placed him for adoption and dropped out of school. She was thrown out of her grandparents' house and began making a living through prostitution (Shipley & Arrigo, 2004).