Darlene Cheryl Herr

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

Monee was born in the city of Chicago. She lived in a small apartment in the ghetto. “We didn't have much but we made the most of it,” Monee told me during our interview. During Monee's freshman year of highschool, she met a boy named James Bryant. They soon fell in love and were inseparable. The fairytale came to an end when Monee got pregnant at 14 years old with her first born, Jaliya. Although she was scared and surprised, she knew she had to give her daughter a great life. Monee continued in school and found ways to make money so she could support her daughter. After Jaliya was born, everything seemed to fall into place. “Jaliya was a good baby. It was hard but we got through it.” Monee said. But not soon after Jaliya was two months old, Monee became pregnant again. By the time Monee was 19 years old, she had 4 beautiful daughters named Jaliya, Jakyra, Jazzlyn and Janya.

Reverend Dr. Lynda Marie Jordan is a native Bostonian, born in Roxbury Massachusetts. She is the third of less than fifteen women of African descent—to date— that has earned the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Chemistry, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After receiving the Ph.D. degree, Dr. Jordan became a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut Pasteur in Paris France, where she made substantial contributions towards the purification and characterization of key proteins associated with human inflammatory processes. Her pioneering work of identifying both the calcium-dependent and calcium-independent high molecular weight Human Placental Phospholipase A2 (PLA2) isoforms contributed to the groundwork for the advancements

Yvonne Daniels, also known as the first lady of radio, is an influential women who paved the way for more women to become disc jockeys. In her 30 plus year career in radio she worked at WYNR, WCFL, WSDM, WLS-AM, WVON, WGCI-AM/FM , and WNUA. Daniels was an African American “broadcast pioneer”.

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

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.

• Agape: mean to love (Greek agapi), in Christian theology love of God or Christ

On a boiling hot summer day, 98 degrees, Edith Bement was walking up an enormous hill to get to the hospital because Edith and Gerard Bement did not have a car. They did not make it in time, so instead Jean Bement was born right there on the sidewalk of Carrier street. A cop happened to be around during the time of labor, and he had on a brand spanking new uniform. It did not end well for him. But, Jean Bement came into the world on the day of August 9, 1934. They brought Jean home to her older brother and sister, Jerry and Tess.

We know that she grew up with a mother, father, and small brother and lived in Colorado Springs at the age of 8 (29) and now that she is older, her family resides in the Central Valley of California (164). She lived in other people’s apartments throughout New

On July 6,1907 in Coyocoan, Mexico City, Mexico she was born in a house commonly called Casa Azul. She grew up with both parents and three sisters. Growing up she experienced a series of unfortunate events that led her to be the person she once was.

Marie and Terry Cook, brought their first child into the world on December 5, 1968 in Algona Iowa. As ecstatic new parents, Terry and Marie decided to name their first child Monica, because Terry heard it in Germany and it stuck with him ever since. As Monica grew, so did the family. ___years after Monica was born, Monica’s sister Sheila came, and the two sisters quickly got along. Monica remembers the times when her and

Birth sibling is a Caucasian male born on March 31, 2014, and her father is known. He is the second child born the birth mother. He has the same mother but a different father than Michael. He is diagnosed with asthma and no psychological problems.

Sherry Ortner’s article talks about the inferiority of women in a patriarchal society. She discussed the reasons as to why women, being in a nature position, are considered less superior than men who are in culture position. The biological reproductive structure of women, their social roles like in the domestic circle, and their psychic structure make them lean more on nature. According to her, the very role of culture is to include and surpass nature, and for that reason, since men are associated with culture then women will naturally be subordinated. However, Ortner also mentioned that women are not totally leaning on the nature side. They can also be part of the culture side. One example Ortner used is the ability of women to bring up their

Nora Pricilla Lindsay made a will with a Public trustee in December 1989 which was revoked prior to her death on the 16th of October 2012. Nora was divorced and was continued by her two children Geoffrey Lindsay and who was the applicant, and Heather McGrath who was the respondent. It was assumed that Nora didn’t have a will, therefore the appellant, Lindsay applied to the Supreme court to gather letters of administration to get an inheritance. The letters of administration where granted to the applicant on the 17th of June 2013. However, after the letters where granted, the applicant found a document stored in the deceased estates storage box, which