According to library of Congress,Margaret Mead was born in Philadelphia on December 16, 1901, and grew up in a household that included three generations. She was the first of five children born to Edward Sherwood Mead and Emily Fogg Mead, social scientists who had met while attending the University of Chicago. Margaret's early home life, with emphases on education and social issues, exerted a pronounced influence on her later life and career. She was a child of the Progressive Era, when reformers felt that social problems could be solved by the application of the social sciences. Growing up with a mother who was a well-educated social reformer and a father who was an economist, Margaret had a lifelong Progressivist orientation. In later years, …show more content…
The people from Australia ,Indonesia, Philippines, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Walking around I felt a connection with some of the pictures and art work . It had reminded me of the time I lived in Africa for nine months. The handmade artifacts such as mask , war shields and sitting stool made from trees and local thing. What Caught my tension was the young boy with the marks all over his his back . The details under the picture states the following Moria people in New Zealand received tattoos or moko according to status. Cheifs and warriors bore tattoo on there face and many parts of there body, from shoulder to upper legs, but a tattoo on the back was a mark of slavery. Reading that piece about the back tattoos and slavery. Shows how slavery ,control and power happened throughout the world . Right here in America with the African American people. The museum post stayed the Moria of New Zealand cultural had changed with time . Tattooing (moko) was a form of ownership and now it the sense of belonging. The Moria of the 20th century are receiving often combining traditional ,contemporary and modern designs to mark there status and ancestry. It can also be considered as a symbol of the Moria people. Tattoos in 2015 is completely
Lastly Margret Mead, a respected cultural anthropologist, who was known for her research and reports made on sexual attitudes throughout the South Pacific and Southeast Asia in the 1960s. Mead was a frequent speaker and well-known author who was well educated and obtained her Masters and PH. D. In her writings she even proposed the idea that it was possible that an individual 's sexual orientation could evolve throughout their life. She studied many cultures and tribes that through observation showed that the gender specific roles were very much differentiated than the normal role of the man and woman in her society. Each of these women in each different ear of history made their mark by
In our world today, Tattoo is a form of art displayed on the skin. In many countries, tattoos symbolize different meanings, but in America, tattoo has lost its true meaning and is being performed on a daily basis. In our society today, tattoos are becoming more of a trend. For instance, people are getting flowers such as a rose being a popular one, tattooed on them. Currently nowadays, people are getting anything tattooed that interests them and it is losing its significance. Back in Samoa, a small little cultural country, traditional Samoan Tattoos are something that are considered sacred and have true meaning behind it. The artwork and designs go beyond being skin deep. In every Samoan tattoo, there are history and deep meanings behind each and every one. It takes a lot of hard work to earn in order in having the honors to receive the Samoan tattoo. Not only is the Samoan Tattoo a form of beautiful art, but it also resembles respect, loyalty, honor, community, and the growth of accomplishment in a person. It is not like in America where getting a tattoo done is easy and your own decision, the Samoan culture takes a lot of pride and courage into doing so.
Mary Fields was born in 1834 and she passed away in 1914. Mary Fields was the very first African-American women to carry the mail. Mary Fields was born into slavery while she lived in Tennessee, she stopped being a slave when the war ended and slavery had been outlawed. Mary Fields was also known as Stagecoach Mary or Black Mary, she was also an American pioneer. After slavery was outlawed she then began to work for Judge Edmund Dunne in her home. When Mary was a slave her original owner was Judge Edmund Dunne and after slavery was outlawed she still proceeded to work for and with her. Mary Fields was a female African-American pioneer. Mary Fields was said to be one of the most colorful characters in the history of the Great Plains it's also been said that she was six feet tall and she weighed over 200 pounds. She also
Margaret Louise Higgins, who later became Margaret Higgins Sange, was born on September 14, 1879 In Corning, New York. She was a birth control activist,nurse, and sex educator. Margaret’s parents were Michael Hennessey Higgins, an Irish stonemason and Anna Purcell a catholic Irish-American. Margaret’s mother Anne and her family immigrated to canada when she was young. Margaret’s father Michael moved to America and enlisted into the US army during the Civil War at the age of15. Margaret’s father was also a catholic turned atheist and also an activist for woman’s suffrage. Anne Higgins went through 18 pregnancies and only 11 of her children were born alive. Margaret was the sixth child of eleven. She spent a lot of her childhood years helping with household chores and also had the responsibility of caring for her younger siblings.
Mary “Mother” Harris Jones was an Irish American school teacher and dressmaker. Mary gave speeches and inspired many young men and women. Many around the country began to think of Mary Harris Jones as Mother Jones. She was a role model to many throughout the country. She was a mother figure and activist who believed and fought for human work wages and safe work conditions.
Margaret Sanger was born on September 14th, 1879 to Anne Purcell Higgins and Michael Hennessy Higgins. Anne Higgins had been pregnant 18 times but had only given birth to 11 children, She was a devout Roman Catholic. She died a tragic death of tuberculosis when she was just 50 years old. Although many people attribute Margaret Sanger’s support of birth control to her mother’s many unwanted pregnancies, Margaret Sanger was largely influenced by her father, Michael Higgins. He was an activist for women’s suffrage. he believed women deserved to have more than just child-rearing and housekeeping in their lives. He was a freethinking atheist who strongly supported free public education. He earned his living carving marble. Margaret heard these beliefs growing up and they inspired her to change a woman’s place in the world.
Margaret Sanger was born on September 14, 1879. Her mother had died at an early age of what Sanger considered to be from an excess in pregnancies. Later she became a nurse and realized that large families and poverty went hand in hand (Sanger 5). She came to the conclusion that if women would stop having so many children—of which many were unwanted, they would have more money to provide for their families. However, due to unfortunate circumstances, it would not be that simple.
Tattoos are a great way to self-express. Most people get them for decorative, symbolic, or pictorial purposes. However, the tattoos, or tattooing process, kakau, of olden Hawaiian and Polynesian times were always intricate and symbolic. Tattoos were also placed on certain areas of the body for good reasons. Olden Hawaiians worshipped many different gods and their physical environment was very important to them.
According to Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America, by Ellen Chesler, Margaret Sanger was born in Corning, New York as a middle child with eleven other siblings in a poor Victorian family. (Reed 4). Margaret’s parents were Irish, her father was known to be an alcoholic and her mother is described as “over burdened but resourceful”. Chesler points out that “one parent taught her to defy, the other to comport,” these two traits are essential in her future as a mother and social activist. (Reed 6). Sanger’s mother, according to Margaret Sanger: Her Life in Her Words, by Miriam Reed, was sick most of her life. She suffered from tuberculosis that left her sick and killed her after a long
Margaret Mead anthropologist born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania on16 Dec, 1901. Daughter of Edward Sherwood Mead, a University of Pennsylvania economist, and Emily Fogg, a sociologist, social reformer, and a social scientist. Mead’s education included collecting data for observation and documenting. Mead 's early experimental training aids to explain why she became one of the eminent women scientists of her time. Mead 's course can be practically divided into two stages--before World War II, when she earned her baccalaureate degrees and managed more than twenty expeditions in the South Pacific, and later in the war, when she became more and more the social scientist. Mead obtained her B.A. in psychology from Barnard College in 1923; Mead acquired both her M.A. in psychology in 1925 and her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University in 1929. Mead 's original bestseller, Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization (1928), an observation of adolescence, blasted to her fame. Another of Mead’s popular book, Growing Up in New Guinea (1930), concentrated on the initial period of child development. Lastly Mead’s Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935) is based on Mead 's related experimentation between 1931-1933 on New Guinea 's Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli people. In Mead’s work Sex and Temperament, Mead argued that each culture also appointed different types of personality characters to appoint to males and
Margaret was an interesting woman.She was a birth control advocate,she fled to Europe to escape arrest,she also had a lot of siblings.
According to the biography, “Margaret Louise Sanger” (2007), Margaret was born on September 14, 1879 in Corning, New York. She was born to her parents, Anne Purcell and Michael Hennessey Higgins, who were Irish Catholic Immigrants. Shortly after the birth of her eleventh child, Anne Purcell died from tuberculosis; Margaret was nineteen (“The Pill” n.d.). While Margaret was the sixth of eleven children, she and her first husband, William Sanger, had three children together (“Margaret Louise Sanger” 2007). After a long life of nursing and advocating, Margaret died in Tucson, Arizona on September 6, 1966. Margaret Sanger devoted her life to make contraceptives and abortions available and legal for all women.
Dr. Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father, Baily Johnson, was a doorman, and, later a dietician for the navy. Her mother, Vivian Johnson, was a registered nurse. When Angelou was three years old, her parents were divorced. They sent her and her four-year-old brother, Baily, Jr., to live with their paternal grandmother, Annie Henderson, in Stamps, Arkansas. Henderson ran a small general store and managed to scrape by. She continued to do so after her grandchildren joined her. Angelou's grandmother was one the many strong who trained her, helped her, and provided her with role models. The people of her church also nurtured her and gave her a sense of belonging to a community. But her
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Meg Whitman was born Margaret Cushing Whitman on August 4, 1956, in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. The youngest of the Hendricks and Margaret Cushing’s three children, Meg grew up in Cold Harbor Spring, New York. Her father worked for Wall Street while her mother was a stay-at-home mom. Confident and bright, she didn’t shy from intelligence, and in 1974 she graduated from high school after just three years. She entered Princeton and earned a bachelor degree in economics. In 1979 she earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. Thereafter, she