Ellen Hopkins 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

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

On June 20, 2001 a woman by the name of Andrea Yates, stunned the whole country with one of the most bizarre acts of violence that a parents could ever do to their own children. She called her husband at work and told him “I did it” confused by what was going on, he rush home only to find his house filled with officers of the law. The husband asked, “What is going on?”, and only to found out that his wife had drowned all five of their children.

Margaret Lea Houston (April 11, 1819 – December 3, 1867) was First Lady of the Republic of Texas, First Lady of the state of Texas, and a founding member of Concord Baptist Church in Grand Cane. She was a poet and an accomplished musician. Her influence on husband Sam Houston persuaded him to give up alcohol and profane language. Margaret gave birth inside the governor's mansion to the youngest of their eight children, as angry mobs gathered outside in response to her husband's opposition to Texas signing the Ordinance of Secession of the Civil War. He was removed from office for refusing to swear loyalty to the Confederacy. Their eldest son joined the Confederate army and was left for dead on the battlefield at Shiloh, saved by a Union Army

had to take a medical exam which stated her gender as a female. She went behind

creators of the Salem Witch Trials (L. Annika). The girls were believed to have been doing black

(INTRODUCTION)Being abused and neglected should not be occupying a ten year old’s mind. In the the book Ellen Foster written by kaye Gibbons, a young girl undergoes abuse from her alcoholic father after her mother commits suicide. Ellen is then left to fend for herself and along the way she becomes mature and responsible . Eventually she ends up finding herself a loving home and a family to take her in. Being abused and neglected by people who should have loved her , Ellen is traumatized; she ends up fending for herself causing her to become more responsible, and becomes mature.

Natalie Neysa Alund, Dave Boucher and Stacey Barchenger recently reported that teenage Elizabeth Thomas, was found safe after being kidnapped by her high school teacher, Tad Cummins. The two were from Tennessee and found all the way in Northern California after being searched for a month. The former teacher is in custody without bond. He is facing charges of sexual contact with a minor and aggravated kidnapping.

In 1914, Ida Ellison was screaming in pain in her Oklahoma City home. Lewis Ellison paced the hallways and held his wife’s hand, he was waiting for the birth of his second son. His first son had died before Lewis and Ida moved to Oklahoma. On March 1st, their child, a son, burst into the world, an innocent baby in his family's home. Lewis named his son Ralph Waldo Emerson, in honor of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and both parents hoped their newborn son would grow up to become a poet. Even though during the 1900’s births in the hospital were becoming more common, in frontier states like Oklahoma they were still a relatively unheard of idea. Ida and Lewis had moved to Oklahoma City years prior, with hopes of shielding their children from the racism that they and their ancestors had faced.

Hello I am Gabrielle Adams and I am 14 years old and I was born and raised in Alpena Michigan. When I was little I have always wanted to go into visual art, performing arts, or photography. I love playing instruments. I play the bass drum in marching band and I am learning to play the violin and the electric violin. I also love taking pictures of nature. I am interested in art and the history of art. I like hanging out with my friends and listening to music. My favorite class in school is marching band.

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.

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.

Patricia Hill Collins was born on May 1, 1948 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Tomorrow Collins will be 68 years old. She is known to be a distinguished University professor of Sociology at the university of Maryland, College Park. She formerly was the head of Department of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati and past president of the American Sociology Association Council. She was the 100th president of America Sociology Association and the first African American woman to hold that position. Collin was an only child and daughter to Albert Hill, a factory worker producing automobile jacks and World War 11 veteran, and Eunice Randolph Hill, a secretary. Because Collins was born and raised in Philadelphia, her early education

My name is Janet Carol Woods and I am 21 years old. I was born in Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. I have 1 older sibling and 1 younger sibling. I have little to no work experience because my courses wouldn’t allow me to work and get my homework done. I have an associate in science degree. I am now enrolled this year because I needed some last classes to transfer to a

Ellen Hopkins was born March 26th, 1955 in Long Beach, CA, and was adopted by Albert (72) and Valeria (42) Wagner. Her mother taught her to appreciate literature and reading, and her father taught her honesty and hard work. In 2000, Hopkins reconnected with her birth mother Toni Chandler and her half-sister Fran; her birth father, unfortunately, wanted nothing to do with her. Interestingly enough, Hopkins’ birth mother had a love for poetry as well. She occasionally visits her biological family whenever she gets the chance. Hopkins had excellent grades throughout school and graduated from Santa Ynez Valley Union High School in 1973. After graduating, she began studying journalism, which was short lived when she got married to start a family.