Dorothy Day Response Paper

Dorothy Height had given leadership to the skirmish for fairness and human rights for all people. Dorothy was born March 24, 1912, in Richmond, Virginia. She was educated in the public schools in Rankin, Pennsylvania, a small town where her and her family moved to when she was four years old. Her mother worked as a nurse for cancer patients, her father was a building contractor. Height was a straight-A student at Rankin High School, she also played center on a basketball team. She had graduated from Rankin High School at age 14, in 1926, she was younger than her classmates since the school had to advance her to grade levels. She went to college and she did further postgraduate work at Columbia University and the New York School of Social Work. While she is working as a case worker for the welfare department in New York in 1937. Height participated in virtually all over the major civil and human rights events throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s. Heights childhood was really upright and once

To teach young children that being yourself is the best way to live, taking chances, being respectful and opening up always goes a long way. I feel she wants to show us that reading and writing are great separate but together it shows within. Words are taught to people from books, so if no one reads new words how will the next person learn the meaning.

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

One of her most popular stories, “Big Blonde,” won the O’Henry Award in 1929(Editors). In addition to her writing, Dorothy was made a member of the New York literary scene in 1920s(Editors). During the 1930s and 1940s, Dorothy Parker spent much of her time in Hollywood, California. She wrote screenplays with her second husband Alan Campbell, including the 1937 adaptation of A Star Is Born and the 1942 Alfred Hitchcock film Saboteur (Editors). Later in life, Dorothy died on June 7, 1967 and was known a (Editors) “well-regarded writer and poet.”

     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.

Dr. Dorothy Lavinia Brown was a woman of firsts: first single woman in Tennessee to be granted the right to become an adoptive parent; first African American woman to serve in the Tennessee state legislature; and the first African American woman to become a surgeon in the South.

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

She was known as a phenomenal listener and helped people find their own purpose. Day wanted to help others and had a long list of experience from her childhood, marriage, pregnancy, education and conversion making her qualified for the position. She would use her passion for writing as a tool and would publish her own pieces. The first copy of Day’s own newspaper The Catholic Worker was an immediate success. The paper incorporated reader’s responses to create conversations instead of complaining about the problem.

I had a chance to observe the overnight emergency shelter staff and supervisor, Angelic Williams, for 3 nights, while volunteering at the Dorothy Day Center (DDC) in down town St. Paul, MN. During the day the facility is used for mental health, housing, and veteran services. They also offer meals, laundry and showers during the day. At night it becomes an emergency shelter giving 250 homeless men and women a warm meal and a warm, safe place to sleep from 8 pm to 6:30 am.

Dorothy Day was a converted catholic social activist who did much to further woman’s suffrage. Dorothy uses her autobiography called The Long Loneliness to detail the many events she faced throughout her life. These include hunger strikes, a catholic conversion, jail and many movements to help women. Along her journey she encounters an Englishman named Forster. Their happy life included walks on the beach, and a baby named Tamar. Although Forster was an anarchist, who did not believe in marriage, that did not stop Dorothy Day from loving him.

Anne Moody was born in the 1940s which was the time after World War II. This was the period of the development of the U.S. However, the racism between Whites and Blacks still existed. As an African-American girl lived in that time, she had a life of poverty and misery. During her childhood, she had to face with many

Dorothy E. Smith was born in North England in 1926. Dorothy E. Smith has lived a long life and commonly refers to it as “a long time ago and another world”. According to Smith, she has grown from the young woman to now due to several experiences. Smith has been employed in many different capacities such as a secretary and a clerk. In her Mid-twenties, she worked at a book publishing company. Smith attempted to make a career in the publishing field, but soon realized women were not welcomed or respected.

In this scene an aspect in which made me acknowledge the purpose of discrimination in the film was dialogue. The scene starts off with Dorothy quietly looking for a book while her two sons sit down in the isle reading to each other. We are then interrupted by a white woman (librarian) as she says “we don’t want any trouble in here”. Dorothy is quick to politely respond and explain that she’s “not here for any trouble”, the librarian looks confused as to what Dorothy was looking for and when she asked and had a response of “a book” started to get slightly irritated with Dorothy. “We have books in the coloured section” the librarian said but it wasn’t what Dorothy was looking for, which lead to the librarians last statement to Dorothy before

Dorothy ends up sleeping on the floor and taking care of the kids that Mr and Mrs. Grote don't want to take care of. She learns that Mr. Grote wants to live off the land, and even though he didn't believe in school, he sent her to it anyways. When Dorothy gets to the school, she mistakenly calls herself Niamh, and has to explain to the teacher it was a slip up. A girl named Lucy Green shows her to her desk. She likes being in school, and find that when she leaves her footsteps are slow. Mr. Grote teaches her a lot about farming. One day when she comes in school everyone sings "Happy Birthday" to her, and she's glad that they knew about it.

Dorothy Parker 's poem "Resume" manages the topic of suicide. In spite of the fact that it is a fairly succinct poem it talks about a dull thought in an unexpected tone. She makes the different methods for conferring suicide preferably everyday than what the real demonstration would cause along these lines making a modest representation of the truth. This poem considers the unfortunate existence of Dorothy Parker whose three relational unions fizzled and had imprudently endeavored suicide a few times.