Elizabeth Fleenor Research Paper

I am writing you today because I would love to go to the HOBY leadership conference. Hopefully in this paper I can inform you on why I want to go, what I hope to learn, and how I will use the skills that I am taught. My first point of interest is why I want to go. I would like to go because I believe that I have potential to be a great leader in the school and community. With the help of this conference I can start to fully develop my potential.

Elizabeth was a 12 year old girl that had a normal family life. Until it was turned upside down when Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765. She lived on a small lot of land just on the outskirts of town with her father, mother, and her older brother. Her father’s name was Emmett Buford. He was a hard working man and Elizabeth loved her father. Her mother was Abigail Buford and she was to stay at home and care for the children, which is what most women did in these days. Elizabeth’s brother was almost 4 and a half years older than her. His name was Abiel Buford.

Andrea Yates was a thirty-seven year old mother who committed a terrible crime. As she drowned her five children in the family bathtub, she believed that she was “saving” them. Many horrendous crimes are committed, yet the assailant gets away with the verdict of insanity.

Mary Riebey, (originally born under the name Molly Haydock), was born in Bury, Lancashire, England on the 12th of May 1777. Today Mary is one of the most recognisable convict faces of all those who were sent to Australia. Her portrait being seen by thousands of people everyday on the face of the $20 note. Two years after her birth in 1779 Mary was orphaned by her parents Jane and James Haydock, and raised by her grandmother. In 1790, at the age of 13 after Mary had learnt to read and write her grandmother sent her into service to become a house servant. One year later in 1791 Mary ran away from her employer dressed as a boy and going under the name of James Burrow. On the 21st of July she was arrested in the name of ‘James Burrow’ and convicted

Isabelle Baunfree who changed it to sojourner truth who was a slave. She was auctions off to a owner. She live thought woman suffrage. she was in the civil war. The times was hard made she fought for what beveled and she love god.

Lena Wilkes was born in the small secluded community known as Comnor Valley. She was raised in a polygamous family, with four mothers and forty-seven siblings, all members of the First Consecration Order (FCO). When she was sixteen years old, after years of abuse, including being impregnated by her own father and being forced to marry her first cousin, Alma Wayment, she fled her family and faith. After many years as a vagabond in Middle and Southwest America, Lena eventually finds acceptance and sanctuary in the small Navajo town of Powell, just 50 miles east of her former hometown. While she tries to keep contact and connection with other former FCO members and runaways in the surrounding region, she chooses to center her focus on building herself a new life away from her past. She's thrust into

When a team fails, they are often quick to blame a single player while when in reality the fault lies with them all. This everyday scenario can be related to Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, which takes place in 17th century Salem, Massachusetts. The antagonist of the story is Abigail Williams who begins the accusations of witchcraft, which soon causes hysteria and paranoia in Salem. However, the damage cannot be attributed to one character. In the Crucible, the town is to blame for the Salem Witch Trials because of its strict Puritan background, the widespread feelings of vengeance, and because it is easily gullible and consequently puts strength to meaningless accusations.

Hello, my name is Mary Reibey and I was born on the 12th of May 1777 in Bury, Lancashire England. I was convicted of horse stealing at Stafford on the 21st of July when I was just 13 years old. At the time I was convicted, I was disguised as a boy and going under the name of James Burrow. I was sentenced to 7 years transportation. At my trial, my fake identity was disclosed.

In this original study, Elizabeth A. Fenn challenges researchers of Native American history to reevaluate the ways that we see and compose such history. All the way, Fenn inundates perusers in an entirely Native world particularly, the Mandan people groups of present-day North Dakota where everything from the names of the seasons to the spaces the Mandan possessed or adored are remade from the Mandan point of view. Some of the most important things the Mandan did are influence the people around them, which customs would be beneficial to my life, and applying Mandan way to my life.

Elizabeth Freeman more commonly known as Mum Bett was born into slavery around the year of 1742. She spent most of her childhood and early adult years as a slave to a man named John Ashley and his wife, Hannah in Sheffield, Massachusetts alongside what historians believe to be her sister Lizzie. That was until Hannah, the wife, tried violently attacking and abusing Freeman’s sister in 1781. Mum Bett reported the incident to a local abolitionist who then brought her case to the courts. After a surprisingly short trial she became one of the first slaves to sue for her freedom and became a key factor in the abolishment of slavery in Massachusetts.

Sarah George Bagley was born on April 19, 1806. THE LOWELL OFFERING was written and published by working women of Lowell, Massachusetts. This monthly magazine was organized by the Reverend Abel Charles Thomas (1807-1880) pastor of the First Universalist Church. From October 1840 to March 1841, it consisted of articles that emerged from many of the improvement circles or literary societies. Later, it then became broader in its scope and received more spontaneous contributions. From October 1842 until December 1845, it was edited by Harriot F.

Donaldina Cameron, a Scotland immigrant herself dedicated her lifetime to rescuing Chinese prostitutes from cribs and placing them in missions for sanctuary. Cameron possessed an infamous reputation in California for a crusader of anti-Chinese prostitution recorded by a friend Carol Wilson and in the newspapers. Various versions of her reputation passed through word of mouth, as a result, the tongs warned the Chinese prostitutes to run in the opposite direction when they saw Cameron. The tongs whispered she was a cruel person, for instance, one prostitute recalled her owners told her Cameron would suck blood out of the captured women and she was in fact a

A girl born from nightmares pursues four friends bound by a horrifying event from the past in this dark classic of the supernatural. "Horror at its finest!"* from New York Times bestselling & award-winning author Douglas Clegg. A desert town. A ritual of darkness. An unending horror unleashed. An old friend is hunting them. He calls himself the Desolation Angel. At the center of it all, a mysterious girl, missing for years -- and the creature that possesses her soul.

Despite pushback from her community, in 1932 Elizabeth became the medical director of Hamilton Ontario's first birth control clinic. She worked with passionate volunteers to provide affordable and reliable contraceptives to the women of her community, as well as offer advice and education to Hamilton women. She remained the director until 1966, and continued to be a practicing doctor until her retirement in 1975 at age 95. It wasn't until 1969 that the practice was seen as legal and began to receive government grants. Elizabeth Bagshaw went on to live to 100, dying on January 5th,

“Tell me about the olden days,” Lydia Kennell was often asked by her grandchildren. Born as Lydia Kauffman on August 30, 1932, she was born and raised as a Mennonite in Belleville, Pennsylvania on a dairy farm. After marrying Marvin Kennell on October 22, 1961, Lydia moved with Marvin to his hometown of Roanoke, Illinois where they lived for fifty-six years until recently moving to the Eureka AC Home. Lydia and Marvin had two children, Betty and Bryant, while accumulating seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.