It was a privilege to listen to Stephanie Garrison share her story and provide encouragement for our own lives. Personally, I found it very admirable how willing she was to share and be vulnerable. Anyways, Stephanie is currently in her 14th year at Southeastern and serves as the Assistant Athletic Director under Drew Watson. Beginning in the athletics department in January of 2014, as the Director of Operations. Before she joined the athletic department, she served as the Director of Event Services, Resident Director, Online learning coordinator and a variety of other departments at Southeastern. She is a two time graduate of Southeastern, earning a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Management and an MBA. Recently, she has taken on the responsibility of Director of Operations at the Balance Culture while still serving as
When someone close to me developed lung cancer,I began to think differently about smoking. A friend of mine,Charlotte Delbo,smoked cigarettes,she developed lung cancer from smoking them.Now,whenever I see smokers,I feel scared for them I saw Charlotte suffer so much. Charlotte was a brave women. During World War II In France,she fought against the Nazis. But she was eventually caught,she was sent to a concentration camp as a political prisoner.The conditions in the camps were horrific,she survived .After the liberation,Charlotte smoked cigarettes. In the early 1980s,her doctors told her that she had lung cancer,they said they could not cure her because she was already too sick. Charlotte survived the Nazis,she could not survive the long term
In High school, she continued to excel where others fell short by focusing and exceeding in her academics, setting an example for others to follow and instilling confidence into others rather than letting them fall into peer pressure. With the help of her
On July 21, Alissa Turner is set to become the first African-American woman to graduate from Rochester Fire Academy. While she was still studying at Joseph C. Wilson, Turner decided to join the New York Army National Guard.
Have you ever put much thought into how an uneducated woman with a disability in reading and writing, could still find a way to work and fight for not only her rights but others too? Isabella Baumfree was a phenomenal woman . She took a stand for women’s rights, blacks rights, and anti-slavery. She was a well-known abolitionist and orator.Isabella Baumfree, was born in 1797, to parents who were enslaved; she was one of twelve children. She had a rough childhood. She was sold at the age of eleven, along with a flock of sheep for the price of one hundred dollars. She experienced countless beatings and sexual abuse from her master (slave owner). Later, she married a man named Thomas and had children of her own. Her children were eventually sold to different plantations. She was only left with her infant daughter . Isabella Baumfree was a runaway slave. As the result of her children being sold, she was only able to escape to freedom with her infant daughter. After she obtained her freedom ,she went to court and challenged the validity of her son being sold into slavery. She was successful against so many odds in the court case. She won. Isabella Baumfree continued down her religious
By Amberley SparkesDel Kathryn Barton was born to two teachers in 1972, Sydney, New South Wales. She grew up on a hobby-style goat farm, obsessed with drawing from a young age. Barton suffered a cacophony of psychotic disorders, nothing of which doctors could officially diagnose. She escaped her reality of mental instability by emerging herself in drawing and arts. Barton went through several periods of “self loathing” and eating disorders, of which are reflected in many of Barton’s pieces. Barton explores ideas of femininity, exploring and understanding the female body and the stigmas associated with children and sexual representations
Would the advances of today be up to such standards without the writings of history? Diary’s and books show the way of life along with what did and did not work. Women such as Martha Ballard and Mary Jemison gave an insight into their life that would have not been accessible to the world we know.
Del Kathryn Barton (born 11 December 1972) is an Australian artist, who won the 2008 and 2013 Archibald Prizes. Barton studied at the College of Fine Arts of the University of New South Wales. She then graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993. Later on in her life she employed for a college and became a lecturer. But before she won the Archibald Prize she became famous for painting, Barton was well known for erotic charged ink and watercolour pieces.
In 1952 Judith Ortiz Cofer was born in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, a small municipality with the population around 16,000. At the age of four she and her family moved to Paterson, New Jersey. She went on to spend most of her childhood commuting back and forth between Puerto Rico and Paterson, receiving education in both places. These moves were made due to her father, J.M. Ortiz Cofer and his work in the Brooklyn Navy yard. Coming to America was hard on her family as it was a new place with many new things to get accustomed to. After living in Paterson for some time, the family moved to Augusta, Georgia where she would attend high school and pursue her writing work.
“I got attacked” A young girl named Bethany Hamilton was attacked by a shark while surfing in Hawaii. She was 13 at the time of the attack and lost her left arm. The tiger shark that attacked her was a huge tiger shark.
Judith Ortiz Cofer might have been destined over Hormigueros, An residential community in Puerto rico. When she might have been an adolescent youngster her father’s military vocation took the crew on Paterson, new Jersey, Anyway she often went through her adolescence going over and over again between Puerto rico and the what's to come for U. Encountered with urban decay because of deindustrialization, innovation developed, government lodgin. At 15, her crew moved again, this period should Augusta, Georgia, the place she in the end earned a ba for english from augusta school. She after the fact earned a mama to english from florida atlantic school What's more completed graduate fill in In oxford college.
“I just got attacked by a shark!” pg 6 Bethany Hamilton is a girl who loved to surf. One day she was laying there mesmerizing, and all of a sudden the flashing of her watch or something attracted the 15ft tiger shark. When the shark seen the flashing, it then came up from the depth of the sea and bit her arm off, and left her surf board with the imprint of the sharks bite. While the shark was attacking she called out for help and her dad showed up tied her up and pulled her to the beach to safety. There she and her dad waited to the ambulance got there. Despite the devastating attack, Bethany Hamilton showed great resilience in achieving her dream for surfing.
On October 31, 2003 Bethany Hamilton, a thirteen- year old girl from Hawaii, was in an accident that would change her life forever. That sunny Halloween morning, after three consecutive days of rain, Bethany, a competitive surfer, was itching to get back into the water. Along the way to Pauaeaka Beach in Kauai, Bethany convinced her mother to stop and check out the waves at Tunnel Beach. While the waves were not so impressive, Bethany decided to stay and surf when her best friend and surf buddy, Alana Blanchard, pulled up with her family. Bethany was excited to be in the water and hoped to catch a fast wave when she saw a shadow beneath her. Before she realized what was happening, a shark bit her arm and the front of her board. Rather than
Can you imagine being attacked by a shark at the age of only 13? Well Bethany Hamilton who is now 25 did just that and survived a vicious shark attack. Beth was able to recover and overcome her obstacles to become one of the greatest surfers of all time. With great support and determination, Bethany never gave up.
“Today nearly 40% of shark species are threatened with extinction.” (7) Bethany Hamilton was a 13 year old girl, who loved to surf. She lived in Kauai, Hawaii. Bethany was winning major amateur surf contests by her 10th birthday. One day she was on her surf board, a 15-foot tiger shark was stalking her. The shark then attacked her. Bethany was calm when it happened. The shark took off her whole arm in one bite. Despite the devastating shark attack, Bethany Hamilton showed great resilience in achieving her surfing dream.