Dorothy Wang Research Paper

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

Cathy freeman an Australian track and field athlete was the first ever aboriginal commonwealth games gold medalist. Cathy was born on February 16th 1973, in Slade Point MacKay Queensland. She is now 43 years if age.

Cynthia Ann Parker was a true pioneer of of the west. She was a young girl who lived in the white community, then her life changed in one night. Cynthia parker lived a rough life. She was captured, she was forced back into the white community, the white people kept her locked in her room, her children died of diseases, she refused to eat, then she died of the same disease her child Topsannah did.

Was Jane long really the mother of Texas?I think not . It all started on july 23 1798 , when Jane Herbert wilkinson was born. When Jane was born the doctors thought that she was dead and then proceeded to shoved her in a night stand drawer while they saved her mother's life.When the doctors opened the nightstand drawer they discovered Jane Herbert Wilkinson alive and well. Jane was the tenth child in her family.Sadly,Jane’s father died when jane was only one years old .Jane later became an orphan at the age of fourteen. After jane's mom died she moved in with her aunt .Jane’s family was very wealthy, so wealthy that Jane got her own slave named Kian , they were really good friends and when Jane was sixteen she was on her way to school and Kian told her about a very handsome man that was a doctor and persuaded her to skip school and meet him ,she then proceeded to introduced her to James long ,her future husband. Jane later got married to James long in may of 1815 and had her first child when she was only eighteen years old .In September of 1821 jane was expecting her second child and stayed behind at a post while james,her husband left ,she vowed to not leave till he returned but , he never did. She had her child in a very harsh winter,on the Bolivar peninsula in december of 1821. Jane and her slave,Kian fought starvation for over two weeks.She claimed to be the first english-speaking woman to give birth in Texas but, we know now that she wasn't.Soon after she found out that she was a widow in 1822 at the age of twenty four .

As as result of the relocation of people from England to Australia, it turned Australia into the land of opportunity and made for a better world. It benefited England and the world for many reasons such as securing trade routes with China. The movement of the convicts also spread fear among english society deterring crime. Furthermore, some of the convicts were fortunate enough to the opportunity to live and potentially earn their freedom. Crime rates rose and England's jails become overcrowded with prisoners they resorted to using prison hulks as temporary, makeshift confinements on the river Thames eventually leading to the penal transportation to Australia.

Carrie Amelia Moore thought that drinking caused most of the problems in the world. She was against alcohol and she started trying to get it to be banned. Carrie is known for carrying a hatchet with her that helped her smashed public places. She kept thinking that god wanted her to travel around and get people to see the way she saw the problems of alcohol. She did speeches, used violence, and she was a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union who was known most from all of the other people who were in there..

Born on May 4, 1844, in Martinsburg, Virginia, Boyd was the eldest of the eight children of Benjamin Reed and Mary Rebecca Boyd (Abbot). the age of 11, Boyd rode a horse into the family's home during a party to protest her exclusion from an adult dinner party and asked, “Well, my horse is old enough, isn’t he?”, which displayed her strong-willed, high-spirited and quick-witted personality (Moore). Boyd was able to receive a good education, and was able to attend the Mount Washington Female College in Baltimore, Maryland, even though her family were not the wealthiest. (Abbot).

Ruby Dee was alive up until June 11, 2014 but, the day she was born on was October 27, 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio but she grew up in Harlem. Ruby's parents, Gladys Hightower and Marshall Wallace only had one child and that was ruby. Ruby's real name was actually Ruby Ann Wallace but she change it when she married her first husband Frankie Dee Brown but soon after she divorced after five years and kept his last name. When she got older, she married Ossie Davis and soon after started having children, Nora day, Guy Davis, Hasna Davis.

After going through a lot of heartbreak on Bachelor in Paradise, Carly Waddell is moving on and has found love again. US Magazine shared the news that Carly is sharing that she has a boyfriend and that she got to know him while living in Nashville. She is actually dating country singer and songwriter Erik DiNardo. Carly is finally admitting that they are more than friends.

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

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.

In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for her second book titled, Annie Allen, which included 11 poems that entail Annie’s perceptions of discrimination against African Americans as she grows up. Gwendolyn Brooks was sitting in her dimly lit living room, which she had kept this way because she was struggling with money, when she found out she had won her Pulitzer. The next day multiple photographers and reports showed up at her house to question her about her recent achievement. She knew that when they went to plug in their equipment, nothing would work due to her lack of electricity. However, when they plugged everything in, all of it worked perfectly. Someone had been secretly paying her bills. This is a great example of life imitating Brooks’ art; she wrote mostly of people with everyday problems that were able to overcome them with the help of others.

Wilma Rudolph is the person I am creating a memorial for. Here is a little background about Wilma; she was born in Tennessee in 1940, but because she was born prematurely and was stricken with polio she had some disabilities with her legs. She overcame those disabilities with physical therapy and her extreme determination. She became the first American women to win 3 gold medals in a single Olympic. She is one of the pioneers to women’s Track and Field. She was just 16 when she first made it to the Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. In her second Olympics she set 3 records: the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash, and the 4-by-100-meter relay. Wilma was considered the world’s fastest women in the 60’s. She won the Associated Press Women Athlete

Jane was born as Honora Kelley and grew up without a mother and with an alcoholic father. She spent many years of her life in poverty and she was forced to uproot her life to go live in the Boston Female Asylum. After a few years, Jane was adopted by Mrs. Ann Toppan, and Jane spend every day being extremely jealous of her beautiful step-sisters. Especially when she was left at the alter at only 19 years old, she determined she was unlovable and turned dark and hateful. She eventually moved out to become a nurse where not long after got the name nightmare nurse (Lyle, 2011). While working in the hospital which had low supervision and security, this allowed her to do as she pleased. Jane experimented with drugs using morphine and atropine on the patients that she did not like (Lyle, 2011). No one

Dorothy Lee, a critical anthropologist, addresses the key social problems in American culture, in her literature piece Individual Autonomy and Social Structure. Lee identifies that in American culture, the definition of individual autonomy varies from other cultures; in American culture, autonomy is defined to be secluded from authority so one does not influence another being, whereas in other cultures their culture as a whole encourages individual autonomy with no influences. This is shown by an observation Marian Smith had of a Sikh family’s display of allowing their child to be expressive without any influences by playing with a toy truck.