Dorothy Day Research Paper

Born Mary Jane Mcleod on July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina, Mary Mcleod Bethune was a leading educator and civil rights activist. She grew up in poverty, as one of 17 children born to former slaves. Traveling miles each way, she walked to school each day and did her best to share her newfound knowledge with her family. Bethune later received a scholarship to the Scotia Seminary, a school for girls in Concord, North Carolina. After graduating from the seminary in 1893, she went to the Dwight Moody's Institute for Home and Foreign Missions in Chicago. Bethune complete her studies there two years later. Returning to the South, she began her career as a teacher. She married fellow teacher Albertus Bethune in 1898. The couple had one

I chose Florence Joyner because, she is an Olympic gold medalist, american sprinter, and she change the way of Track/Field. She has set and held records in the 100 meter and 200 meter events. Florence Joyner nickname “Flo Jo” as the fastest women on earth. She started trends and helped others.

Debbie Allen was born to Vivian Ayers and Arthur Allen on January 16, 1950. At age three she started dancing and at age four she knew she wanted to be a professional dancer. Her parents divorced in 1957, and her mother was Debbie and her siblings were encouraged to be creative and independent. In 1960, Vivian Ayers took her children to Mexico. When they came back to Texas, Debbie auditioned for the Houston Ballet School but was denied because the color of her skin. A Russian teacher at the school saw Debbie perform and secretly enrolled her. When she was sixteen, she auditioned for the North Carolina School of the Arts but was rejected because her body was “unsuited” for ballet. While she was in high school she put her studies first and went

Mary Jane Mcleod Bethune was born july 10 1875. Her popularity comes from her starting a private school for african american students in Daytona Beach,FL her occupations were educator,author and african american civil rights leader She was born in mayesville south carolina which her and both parents were slaves she was interested in learning so she went to an trinity missionary school which was led by an presbyterian board of freedom she then had a mentor in her life her teacher Emma Jane Wilson She then helped Mary attend the same school she did on a scholarship. She later on went to africa to study missionary in college then seen that it was teaching to be done she went on to be a teacher at her former elementary school in Augusta georgia

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

On Victoria Day, I made my family a small meal consisting of salad, tomato soup, chicken pot pie, and cookies. Albeit simple on paper, it was much more difficult in practice. For one, I am a terrible chef, so making a four course meal was not the easiest of tasks. I even prepared the soup and cookies a day in advance, but even so, it was very tiring and many problems arose. For example, only until the day before had I realized that they did not like cheesecake. So I had to make do with what I had leftover in my kitchen and made some very cakey cookies. Another incident occurred when I was making my chicken pot pie, I realized that I had bought the wrong dough. Rather than buying puff pastry, I took bought biscuit dough. Having missed a key

However, it is not fair to say that Day’s religious faith has led her into social movement. Before she had her eyes opened to the stern reality of political and social absurdity, she encountered with an individual’s sufferings. I would rather like to focus on her love for a human being than her accomplishments in social movement. I will not agree if anyone insists that Dorothy Day threw her life into the social movement to change the world. She would have been willing to sacrifice herself to support others to practice one of many ways of loving

Dorothy Gibson was born in 1889 in Hoboken, New Jersey. She was the daughter of John A. Brown and Pauline Boesen. Unfortunately however, right after Dorothy’s birth her father passed away. It wasn’t long after when her mother remarried to a man by the name of John Leonard Gibson. This was the man that essentially was the father figure for Dorothy encouraging her to pursue her career. Dorothy was very versatile when it came to the arts. Between the years of 1907 and 1911 she became a singer and dancer in many musicals on Broadway. She worked with the top producers of the time including Charles Frohman and the Shubert Brothers. In 1909 she began her career as a model, most famously known as the inspiration for illustrator Harrison Fisher. This gave her extraordinary fame in many newspaper articles and magazines. People started referring to her as the Original Harrison Fisher Girl. In 1910, Dorothy fell in love with a man by the name of George Battier and married him. However,

Dorothy Day was an activist, suffragist, and icon to the Catholic Church during the beginning of the twentieth century. Her work in the organization, Catholic Worker Movement, was prominent to her work for the poor and vulnerable. Before the birth of her first child, Day struggled with her religion and finding her spirituality. After the gift of her child, she regained hope and love for religion and God by exploring and joining the Catholic Church. From here, her spirituality grew and love for social justice shaped her into the women she is known for today. Her love for the poor and spirituality is an example of how we should practice and apply our faith. Dorothy Day impacted the Catholic Church because of her devotion to education and equality

Dorothy Day, a name that is known widely by many of the Catholic faith. In her book, she broke her live into three stages. The first being searching for meaning, the second being natural happiness, and the last being Love is Measure. Each part of her life has such a strong impact on everyone around her, and in everything she did. Dorothy Day was an extremely selfless person, and lived her life giving to others.

     Almost immediately after her death in 1980 controversy arose about whether Dorothy Day should be canonized a Saint by the Church. Now that the Vatican has approved the late Cardinal John O'Connor's request to consider Dorothy Day's "cause," the controversy is being rekindled. After converting, she dedicated her life to New York's poor and immigrants, building hospitality homes that operated much like homeless shelters. Her endeavor grew into the national Catholic Worker movement, a social justice crusade conducted in revolutionary tones new to the church.

Day is a courageous woman because she was faced with poverty and dispute and that did not stop her from helping others around her. During the film it showed Dorothy being poor herself. She was working doing any job she could get and living with families in exchange for doing domestic work in their home. She was so focused on making changes that she never let her poverty status affect her. When she opened her home to all the poor people that needed help she put all of her money she made towards helping them. She was a strong woman for giving all she had to the Catholic Workers because at this time many Catholics were poor. Dorothy Day was shamed by the cardinal and other Catholics. The cardinal went to Day and told her she needed to

Almost immediately after her death in 1980 controversy arose about whether Dorothy Day should be canonized a Saint by the Church. Now that the Vatican has approved the late Cardinal John O'Connor's request to consider Dorothy Day's "cause," the controversy is being rekindled. After converting, she dedicated her life to New York's poor and immigrants, building hospitality homes that operated much like homeless shelters. Her endeavor grew into the national Catholic Worker movement, a social justice crusade conducted in revolutionary tones new to the church.

Dorothy Day's vision proceeds in the Catholic Worker Movement that she helped to establish with Peter Maurin. Around 120 Catholic Worker groups serve in the United States, with new places of neighborliness

Throughout her life, Dorothy Day was not a well liked person. Many people thought she was very stubborn and ignorant. Bill Barrett, writer for the New York Worker said her systems were “filthy and rotten”. Many people believed what she was doing was a waste of time and that she would never make a difference. “People say, what is the sense of our small effort? (Dorothy Day). In September of 1919 Day had an abortion, which also lead people to believe she was ignorant and a hypocrite, considering she was a Catholic worker. Over time people's views of Day have changed for the better, but recently more than ever. I believe that people back then didn't understand what she was doing when it was happening, and today people can see what she was doing and see everything as a whole.