Ida Tarbell She was born in a log cabin in Erie County, Pennsylvania on November 5th, 1857. When she was 3 years old when her family moved to Titusville where her father used his skills to build wooden oil storage tanks. She saw firsthand on what big companies did to littler companies, just like what happened to her father’s company and other small businessmen. In 1880 she graduated from Allegheny College where she studied biology. After graduation she became a teacher in Poland, Ohio, however after two short years she realized that teaching was too much and she enjoyed writing more. Ida then pursued a journalism career, which is when she met Theodore L. Flood the editor of The Chautauquan and offered a job. She quickly accepted. After four
Dorothy Height had given leadership to the skirmish for fairness and human rights for all people. Dorothy was born March 24, 1912, in Richmond, Virginia. She was educated in the public schools in Rankin, Pennsylvania, a small town where her and her family moved to when she was four years old. Her mother worked as a nurse for cancer patients, her father was a building contractor. Height was a straight-A student at Rankin High School, she also played center on a basketball team. She had graduated from Rankin High School at age 14, in 1926, she was younger than her classmates since the school had to advance her to grade levels. She went to college and she did further postgraduate work at Columbia University and the New York School of Social Work. While she is working as a case worker for the welfare department in New York in 1937. Height participated in virtually all over the major civil and human rights events throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s. Heights childhood was really upright and once
The Life and Career of Mildred D. Taylor Mildred D. Taylor was a very successful woman. She brought faith to a lot of African Americans. Her books were based on segregation and racism growing up and growing up in the South. Mildred stories came from family experience’s. She gave good information on how things were growing up in that type of environment.
Vera Claythorne’s mental instability which has driven her actions, was caused by the students she taught as a games mistress. Her experience caused her hatred for children, which isn’t a new wonder of the world considering they inherently ruined her life. The madness is what prompted her decisions and created her motives. Her spiral into insanity was not because of love, guilt, or death, but rather her students.
Tartuffe is one of the most famous comedies Moliere wrote and is one of the most famous theatrical comedies to ever exist. It’s watered down summary is a man, named Tartuffe, is taken in by a family head, Orgon, because it is a good act of kindness and it is “what Christians are supposed to do”. Tartuffe exploits the family and uses them whilst portraying a man of god and the family succumbs to everything that he says and does only because he has this pseudo holy persona. The church was outraged by this play and its “insult on religion”, threatening anybody who went to see it with excommunication from the church. Eventually, the haters or detractors of the play lost their powers and influence and Moliere was able to perform the original play,
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
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
Ida Wells Barnett was born in Holly Springs, Missouri, on July 16, 1862, exactly 2 months and 6 days later prior to when United States President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in Confederate-held territory. Ida attended Shaw University, also known as Rust College, a school that was established for freed men after the Civil War. Like her father, Ida attended Shaw University, but was expelled for rebellious behavior after a confrontation with the college president. While visiting family in the Mississippi Valley in 1878, at the age of 16, she became primary caregiver to her six brothers and sisters, when both of her parents and brother succumbed to yellow fever, leaving her and her five other siblings orphaned.
Mary Haydock, now formally known as Mary Reibey was born on the 12th May 1777 (source 1) and was raised by her grandmother after both her parents died when Mary was of a young age. Mary was convicted of horse stealing at the age of 13 and was to be sent to Australia for seven years (source 1). Being sent away from her family and in particular her grandmother, meant that Mary was alone and isolated from the people that she would have felt most comfortable around. This lack of belongingness may have caused Mary Reibey depression which was common for convicts of such a young age.
I Shaleta Garrett have been providing financial support for Trevious Z. Garrett and Ziiana S. Garrett since birth. They, Ziiana and Trevious, have been residing with me, Shaleta Garrett, in my residence, 315 Powell Mill rd. since birth. I, Shaleta Garrett, provide shelter, clothing, hygiene, medical bills, school funds, food, and all of their other needs.
Born on March 26, 1930, in El Paso, Texas, to Harry and Ida Mae Day, O’Connor was raised on her family’s cattle ranch in Arizona, the Lazy B (biography.com). While she was young, her family did not have access to electricity, so O’Connor grew up branding cattle, and fixing anything broken by hand. By the age of four, O’Connor had already learned how to read, and her parents were desperate for her to one day move out of the remote location in which they lived, so that she could get the best education possible. Harry and Ida Mae sent her back to El Paso to live with her grandmother, where she would spend her school years, then summers back on the Lazy B. While in El Paso, she attended Radford School for Girls, and Austin High until she graduated
If I am telling you about Ida Tarbell’s life, then what better place to start than with her birth. she was born on the oil frontier of Western Pennsylvania in 1857, She was an extremely smart girl growing up, in fact she graduated from Allegheny College in 1880, becoming one of the first women to do so. Soon after graduating she briefly became a teacher, which was a traditional job for women at the time, but
Ida Minerva Tarbell was born in Hatch Hollow, Pennsylvania on November fifth, eighteen fifty seven. Ida was brought up in a strict Christian household. She often questioned her faith, even though she was too afraid to admit it sometimes. She was a very curious child, “suddenly… I found in certain textbooks the [open] sesame which was to free my curiosity, stir desires to know, set me working on my own to find out more than these books had to offer. These textbooks were for zoology, geology, botany, natural philosophy, and chemistry (McCully 26).”
Ida Minerva Tarbell was born on November 5, 1857, in the oil-rich region of northwestern Pennsylvania. Her father was an oil producer and refiner whose livelihood—like many others in the area—was negatively impacted by an 1872 price-fixing scheme concocted by the Pennsylvania Railroad and HYPERLINK "http://www.biography.com/people/john-d-rockefeller-20710159" John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company, who were operating under the guise of the South Improvement Company. Like many young journalists of her era, Tarbell had become concerned by the proliferation of monopolies and trusts. In 1900, she proposed a series of articles in which she would use her experiences as a child during the South Improvement scandal to illustrate her points and
When Ida was 34 years old, she moved to Paris to write her biography. While she was oversees, she supported herself by writing a plethora of articles on the City of Light for the popular magazines.
Ida Tarbell was one of the most successful magazine writers in the United States during the last century. Working with a few male colleagues, in a group that collectively became known as the only woman muckrakers, she emerged as one of America’s earliest and finest investigative reporters. She is the famous journalists who is known for the her pioneering investigative report that led to break up the Standard Oil Company’s monopoly.