Edith Addie Research Paper

Annie Easley was born on April 23,1933, In Birmingham Alabama. Easley and her brother were raised by thaier single mother Mary Melvin Hoover. Her mother was one of her greatest inspirations and her role model, she always encouraged her to get a good education. In an oral history interview with NASA, she said that her mother always used to tell her "You can be anything you want to. It doesn't matter what you look like, what your size is, what your color is. You can be anything you want to, but you do have to work at it." Annie Easley attended school in Birmingham and graduated as the valedictorian of her grade. At that time Easly Wanted to become a nurse because she thought it was one of the only careers open to black women. However, later on

Her first marriage was on June 11, 1800 to Don Ramon de Lopez y Angulo, a high ranking Spanish royal officer. The couple met because Don Ramon de Lopez y Angulo held a position of council general for Spain in the Territory of New Orleans. Her husband was called to duty in Spain, but while en route he passed away. Her second husband

Edith Bolling was born to a family of Virginian Aristocracy in Wytheville in 1872. She was the 7th child in a family of 11 kids. At the age of 15 she went to study music for a year at Martha Washington College and a second year at a different smaller school. Edith met a businessman by the name of Norman Galt in Washington when she was visiting a sister. They were soon married and for 12 years, their childless marriage was content. Mr. Galt died unexpectedly in 1908 and Edith left the jewelry firm the two had up to a manager that kept the finances up to par. Not long after the death of her husband, Edith met Woodrow Wilson who had also recently lost his spouse, Ellen. The widower President Wilson was very fond of Edith and found her intelligent.

On January 29, 2001 at around four o’clock in the afternoon, a beautiful little girl named Leslie Arreaga was born. It was the first time I was able to hold and see a baby so up close. When I saw her for the first time I didn’t know what to say. All I told my parents was “ I love her and she is perfect.” My parents laugh at me because I was only four years old when she was born. I just couldn’t believe that I was finally an older sister. I remember that every time a person would come in and try to hold her I would give them a look saying “ If you hurt her, I will hurt you.” Leslie was the most precious little baby I had ever seen in my little four year life. She was so chubby, with big brown eyes and a little heart shaped mouth. The day my

On November 15, 1887, in Sun Prairie Wisconsin, Ida O’Keeffe and Francis Calyxtus O’Keeffe became parents to a baby girl. They named her Georgia Totto after her grandfather George Victor Totto. Her mother, Ida O’Keeffe, was Dutch and Hungarian and her father, Francis Calyxtus O’Keeffe, was Irish. Francis and Ida grew up as neighbors and when they got older, both of their families wanted a marriage between them and to combine their two farms. Although Ida wanted to become a doctor, she still agreed to the marriage.

Throughout Hollywood’s history, there have been several great fashion designers, including Edith Head. She has had a very long and illustrious career that lasted from 1927 to 1981. During her career, she inspired numerous fashion trends and worked on several popular films. Edith Head was very secretive about her childhood and would often lie about it when asked a question. A close friend of hers David Chierichetti eventually learned all about it (Jorgensen, 13).

Marcie Allen came spoke at a convocation seminar on Friday, December 2nd. She is a ten-time nominee and five-time winner of Billboard’s “Concert Marketing and Promotion Award” and has been named to Billboard’s “Women in Music” list every year since 2010. Prior to starting MAC Presents, Allen owned and operated Nashville/Atlanta-based MAD Booking & Events, which produced more than 100 music festivals across the country including On the Bricks in Atlanta. Now she owns her own company in New York.

“The first artist name is Emma Amos’s, a painter and printmaker who was born in 1938 in Atlanta Georgia. She began painting and drawing when she was six. Emma was also in a five-year program at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio where she spent her fourth year abroad at the London Central School of Art studying printmaking and painting. Amos’s first solo exhibition was in an Atlanta gallery in 1960. Amos’s work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Wadsworth Athenaeum, the New Jersey and Minnesota state museums, and the Dade County and Newark museums. She has won prestigious awards and grants”. (Amos) “The next artist is Hale Woodruff, an African-American artist known for his morals, paintings, prints. Returning to the U.S. in 1931, Woodruff established an art school at Atlanta University teaching classes at the university's Laboratory High School as well Morehouse and Spelman. Woodruff's best-known work is the three-panel Amistad Mutiny murals (1938) that he did for the Savory Library at

Introduction Music is something that is supposed to inspire people and bring hope. Today the type of music teens listen and feed their mind is not only degrading of women but redefines self-worth and human beings in a negative way. One of many singers and songwriters, Alecia Beth Moore stands out on her own in the pop music industry. Alecia Moore, better known as Pink exemplifies a new age worldview because of the belief in self, belief in reincarnation, and the different shifting commitments. Background and History First of all, Alecia Beth Moore is not only a singer, songwriter, but also an actress that has changed the scope of pop music.

Lorna Gail (Autrey) Woods, born May 22, 1948 in Mobile, AL with brown hair and dark brown eyes. She was born to parents’ Raymond Lee Autrey (22) and Lillian (Gary) Autrey (20). She is a fifth generation direct descendent of Charlie Lewis (brother of Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis) who arrived in Mobile on the last slave ship, “The Clotilde” in August 1859.

Ann Richards born as Dorothy Ann Willis was born on September 1, 1933 in Lakeview, Texas. She passed away on September 13, 2006 at the age of 73 because of esophageal cancer and is buried in Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas.Born to Robert Cecil Willis and Mildred lona Warren, she was their only child.Growing up in waco she went to Waco high school and graduated in 1950. At nineteen she married her highschool sweetheart David Richards on may 30, 1953. They had four children whose names are Cecile, Daniel, Clark, and Ellen. She went on to go to Baylor University and graduated in 1954. Then in 1955 earned a teaching degree from university of Texas, from there she went to teach history and social studies at Fulmore Junior High in Austin from

Effie Lee Newsome, born on January 19th, 1885 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, would grow up to become a remarkable writer, despite her surroundings. Newsome's father, Benjamin Franklin Lee, was a Bishop of a church and guided the family from Texas to Ohio during Newsome’s childhood. During Effie’s birth year, Lee became the editor of the Philadelphia based The Christian Recorder, which was a newspaper that became popular nationally. As a child, Effie had a strong passion for writing and drawing. She and her sister, Consuelo, won many prizes for their amazing poems and drawings submitted to children’s pages in the magazines. Effie studied at Wilberforce University, Oberlin College, the Philadelphia Academy of the Arts, and the University of Pennsylvania

This is the writing of a true, Diarist and illustrator who wrote about her life on the gold fields of Ballarat. Her name is Ellen Clacy. If we didn’t have her books we wouldn’t have known about a lot of the importance of the gold rush as we do nowadays.

In the novel, As I Lay Dying, by Faulkner,  Addie serves as mother to the children in the book.  The issue with this, is that for the majority of the novel, she is deceased.  For the perspective that the reader does receive of Addie’s personality and her parenting, it becomes apparent that she did not like her children, except for Jewel.  Despite her questionable parenting, it also appears that she was a reasonably independent woman in her time, and made many of her own decisions or went behind her husband, Anse’s, back.  Anse is also made out to be a poor role model for the children.  He is selfish, wanting his teeth, marrying right after Addie dies, and not caring about the general well-being of his children.  This makes Addies appear to

Addelita Cancryn was born on July 13, 1903, and died March 19, 1999 at the Sea View nursing home. Addelita Cancryn died at the age of 95 years old. She was born and raised on the beautiful island of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies. Addelita Cancryn was married to E. Vernon Cancryn and had one son name Emmanuel Rudolpho Cancryn. She was the daughter of Johannes C. Parrot and Ann Elisa, Nee Joshua.