Harold Stuart: A Brief Biography Of Aimee Watson

“Wake up, wake up!” says my owner, Eliza Emerson. She has been my owner ever since her husband, my old owner, died. I have been a slave my whole life and when our old owner died I thought that maybe our new owner Eliza, would set us free if I paid her. She actually liked me here and liked the earnings she got for paying me out. What I thought I could do after she said no was go to court. When our old owner died we had already lived in a free state so I thought that since I lived in a free state I was free.

The time came for her to be delivered. She gave birth to her first born son, wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in the manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. These were the words that I had spoken during a church Christmas play while I was just about to see the light at the end of my elementary school career. As I looked out into the faces of my family, I realized that I was making someone proud. I too was proud to have such a caring family whom I thought would be my strength throughout my life. Life has been so good to me thus far with wonderful parents, an older sister to whom I worshiped, and an older brother to keep me in tune with the magnificent

Violet Weston is a character from a play by Tracy Letts called August: Osage County. Violet Weston is a sixty five year old woman living outside Pawhuska Oklahoma. She is a middle class woman married to Beverly Weston who is a sixty nine year old man. He is award winning poet and an alcoholic. They have been married for many years. Violet and her husband have three daughters. Her eldest daughter is Barbara Fordham. Barbara is married to Bill Fordham and together have a daughter named Jean, Violets only granddaughter. Barbara and Bill are going through some rough patches in their marriage and are currently separated. Ivy Weston is Violets middle daughter who lives close by. She is very personal with her love life. The youngest daughter is Karen Weston, who lives in Florida with her fiancé Steve Heidebrecht.

Fondly referred to as the "angel of the battlefield" (The Encyclopedia Britannica Online), Clara Barton served as one of the greatest humanitarians this country has ever known. Persistent beyond belief, Clara employed her remarkable interpersonal skills to teach unruly school children, to collect supplies to send to the battlefront, and to struggle to form the American Red Cross. An equal rights advocate, her most memorable successes consisted of improvements in education, foreign aid, and blacks' and women's rights. This American heroine, whose efforts and bravery have become legendary, worked diligently to reach her ideal: "creating the vigilant social conscience which alone can safeguard individual

What does a hero means to me? A hero to me is someone having a great achievements and someone I can look up too. This hero has great influence to me. My hero inspires other students to be someone when they get out of school. My hero is a great role model as a teacher and as a friend. My Vision of a hero is Ms. Tommie Leigh Johnson.

Most Americans know John Wilkes Booth as the assassin of Abraham Lincoln- shot at a play at Ford’s Theater on April 14th, 1865. However, the names of the conspirators that surrounded Wilkes Booth are relatively unknown, especially that of Mary Surratt. Mary Surratt, a mother and boardinghouse proprietor, was arrested and tried for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln along with her son, John Surratt. Pleas from her family, lawyer, and fellow conspirators did not allow her to escape her fate, and she was hanged for her crimes on July 7th, 1865. Even from the scaffold, Lewis Powell, another conspirator condemned to die, cried, “Mrs. Surratt is innocent. She doesn't deserve to die with the rest of us.” So who was this woman, and most

Patricia Roberts Harris was born on May 31,1924 and died of breast cancer on March 23,1985. Harris did a lot in her 60 years of living. She was the first African American woman to hold a position in Cabinet, serve as an Ambassador, and head a law school. Harris fought hard for fair housing and employment under the Carter Administration as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Mary Pickford considered one of the most influential women in motion pictures. Mary Pickford was not all glamour and fame; she had a story, a great one at that too. Mary Pickford had many family and poverty problems as a young child, yet she remained to have a lot of ambition to act, all of which put a great impact on not only Canada but also the entire world.

Clara Barton was born on December 25, 1821 in Massachusetts. She was born into a family of four, two brothers and two sisters. Her parents were Stephan and Sarah Barton, a militia man and a home maker. Stephan was a non-commissioned officer in the French and Indian Wars, which made his soilder habits and tastes hard to dismiss. He had a love for horses and became one of the first to introduce blooded stocks, with large lands in England, he raised his own colts and highlanders. He told Clara many war stories, he even drew maps, made models of battles and explained war strategies. Some of her first memories are of thunder storm which looked like a whole heaven full of angry rams , marching down upon her.1

During the colonial period women were frequently found to work alongside their husbands and brothers to punish newspapers as a family business. It was also very common to find wives become the publisher of the newspaper after their husbands became ill or died, usually until their son could take over the newspaper. Elizabeth Timothy was America’s first female newspaper publisher and editor, in 1738 after her husband died. Mrs. Timothy became the publisher of South-Carolina Gazette in Charleston, she ran it for seven years in partnership with founding father Benjamin Franklin. Since Elizabeth was a women she wasn’t allowed to publish under her own name, she used her 13-year-old son’s name, Peter. Anna Franklin was the first women to be involved

Jane Long also know as Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long was known as the Mother of Texas. She got this name for her brave actions. At the time, women were not allowed to own a plantation but she proved them wrong.

Olivia Judson, an evolutionary biologist with a doctorate in biological sciences and the author of The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex: Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation tells of her in-depth research on procreation to educate others on the sex life of all creation while incorporating the organismsf scientific names. Each chapter of the book begins with letters containing questions from an animal, amphibian, bug, arachnid, or other organism that, at times, must be put under a magnifying glass to see. The questions themselves are under three different categories. These categories are as follows:

In the novel, The Path of Names by Ari Goelman has a theme of believing in things even when others don’t have the same opinion. Dahlia Sherman had absolutely no interest in attending any camp but magic camp. She sees two little girls with bright blonde hair walk straight through the burgundy wood wall of her cabin. Dahlia was as scared as a bunny in a fox hole. She tried to tell some of the other campers and counselors but no one believes her. Her dreams have been filled with a yeshiva student named David. The guy in her dreams and the little girls that walked through the walls lived about a gazillion years ago together. David cast out of his Chasidic community. Dahlia must find out who these girls are and what they want to do with her.

The History of Mary Prince was a seminal work of the nineteenth century, which today remains an important historical device. Mary Prince’s story is not unique, but the circumstances and context surrounding her novel are. Defying contemporary standards and beliefs, The History of Mary Prince demonstrates the atrocities of slavery, but also a distinctive and deliberate political message. The History of Mary Prince is not only important for its demonstration of human suffering and the legal history it documents, but it also offers insight into the British abolition movement. Twofold, it remains an important text through both its straightforward portrayal of facts and experience as well as its underlying careful manipulation of political and moral themes. The History of Mary Prince served as an influential abolitionist piece of writing, but furthermore can incite multiple layers of interpretation and analysis of the abolition movement.

As a person who aided in the construction of the social work profession, Mary E. Richmond (1861-1921) is best known for her role in the development of casework practice. Her studies helped build the foundation of direct assessment. In conjunction with her studies, she is also remembered for her remarkable ability to perform research and teach communities about the topics of social work. One of her most notable achievements is her representation of the modern idea of “client in environment”, which she labeled the “social diagnosis”. During her time, Mary was a key player in focusing the transition from charity work to social work (Szymoniak, 2015). Mary founded the Pennsylvania Child Labor Committee, the juvenile court, the Housing Association and the Public Charities Association (NASW, 2004). She is also the author of numerous publications that illustrate the importance of social work, and social practice.