Judy Martz Chapter Summaries

Prompt 3: Ed Boone and Judy Boone are different and similar in many ways. One way Ed and Judy are different is Ed is more patient. “ Your father is a much more patient. He just get on with thing and if things upset him he doesn’t let it show. But that is not the way I am and there is nothing i can do to change that. This quote is basically saying that she is different from ED. He is more patient than her.

Margaret Floy Washburn was born on July 25, 1871 in New York City to parents Reverend Francis and Elizabeth Floy Washburn. She was born in a time when women were not allowed to display any type of power, higher reasoning, or desire for higher education. At the age of seven, she began her educational journey in the home of a retired Presbyterian minister who lived next door to her family. In 1886, she graduated from high school at the young age of 15 years old. Upon completion of high school, she attended Vassar College where she studied Chemistry and French. However, by the time she had graduated her educational interests had changed to philosophy and science, which

This film documents Dr. Barbara Myerhoff’s work in studying elderly Jewish people in Venice, California. This was a different kind of study for her, because she was studying people that were of her ethnicity and religion. She is doing this work because she will one day be old and, she wants to know the daily lives of these people. She gets to know the elders by being a part of their community and going to their senior center. She interviews the elders and asks them to be specific about their daily tasks, living conditions, struggles, and their past. Her main focus is on the senior club. Because it is the center of these citizen’s lives. Here they feel like they have a purpose and can express themselves. She also studies how they celebrate the Sabbath every week. A tradition at the club is celebrating New Years at 2:00 p.m. so the elders can enjoy a performance and hear a speech about celebrating life and get motivated for the upcoming year. This study taught her to celebrate life and embrace the process of aging.

Elizabeth Griscom was born on New Year's day 1752. Known as Betsy to family and friends, she was the eighth of seventeen youths bound for Rebecca and Samuel Griscom. They lived in Philadelphia. Being strong and relentless Quakers, they were particularly traditionalist. Betsy was completely taught at a friend's Quaker school. It was in this Quaker school that she made sense of how to upholster. With her parent's assent, Betsy transformed into a natural pro in the upholstery shop of John Ross.Betsy soon started to look all starry peered toward at John Ross and they (secretly got hitched) on November fourth, 1773 in Gloucester, New Jersey. Betsy and John ran the upholstery shop together for quite a while. In 1775 John joined the get-together of

Rachel Marie Hartfield is a senior at Sandy Creek High School in Tyrone, GA. She is the daughter of Tanesha and Harold Jenkins and Devin and Salina Hartfield. Rachel has been a member of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. for 13 years and currently serves as the Teen Vice President. She participated in the Grady Hospital Teen Volunteer Program and served in various student government elected positions. Rachel is a 21st Century Leaders Board Member and a two -time recipient of the President’s Volunteer Service Award. She plans to attend a four-year university and major in business

In the early 1930’s, Mrs. Tillery was born on a small farm located in the rural area of the Alabama town of Troy. She is now in her early eighties and a resident of Noble Manor Troy, AL. Mrs. Tillery is the wife of the late Mr. Tillery and mother of one (son). She has led an eventful life while traveling with her husband during his career, being a mother, and perfecting her relationship with Christ. Our interview session was conducted on the topics of the social, political, and technological changes that she has undergrown within the many decades of her life.

Educators require just "books, a board, and a couple of legs that will last the day," Marva Collins told Dan Hurley in 50 Plus magazine. These three things were basically all that Collins had when she opened the Westside Preparatory School in Chicago, Illinois, in 1975 with the $5,000 she had added to her benefits subsidize. Frustrated in the wake of instructing in the state funded educational system for a long time, Collins chose to leave and open a school that would welcome understudies who had been dismisses by different schools and marked problematic and "closed off." She had seen an excessive number of kids go through an insufficient educational system in which they were given indifferent instructors, some of whom came to class artificially debilitated.

John Singleton Copley’s a Bostonian Anglo-American Painter who lived in the late 1700s to early 1800s. One of Copley’s most infamous works of art is the painting, “Mrs. Richard Skinner.” This painting is noted in being a woman named Dorothy Wendell (Dorothy Quincy). Dorothy Wendell came from a reputable family “Quincy family” and was wed to John Hancock, a well-known political figure. Copley is trying to convey the struggles of women during the eighteenth century and the yearn for equal rights which are reflected on the subject Mrs. Richard Skinner. This is shown through the way Copley expresses and emphasizes Mrs. Richard Skinner femininity. This painting was created in 1772, in the midst of the American Revolution, which is usually

In chapter 10 Jamie goes back to his village and finds out that everyone's worried about him and he has dinner.Then his father talked about how the natives stole some more things up in the coast. After what his dad said Jamie made a connection with how his dad acts and how Tethani`s dad acts. The next day he goes fishing with Tethani after he talks about his brother. And after he decides to play the flute with his brothers bone whistle which Jamie thinks it`s really sad more then usual.The reader is left to believe that Robert will shoot Shadowthai (Tethani’s little brother) later on in the story because Robert thinks that he is a coward.

John lives in a countryside near New York city. Here he stumbles upon an injured duck since he always has been an animal lover he takes the duck home. The duck slowly heals over time and begins talking. Jimmy tells John that he can do more than just talk, he demonstrated his power by lifting a book that was across the room.

On the day of January 2, 1931, Helen Katz was born into and raised in a very religious Jewish family in a town in northeastern Hungary. Being the youngest of eight children, she was the baby of the family and was often the focus of everyone’s hopes and affection. Helen was born with the Hebrew name Hannah, but her family mostly called her by her nickname, Potyo, which meant “the dear little one.” Helen had a very pleasant childhood that was filled with love and affection from everyone she knew.

What I like about this book is because it’s telling us about the past and what happened during the Revolutionary War. Also it tells about this horse called Sherry that was a very fast horse and strong. Also, Sherry was a great horse to protect their town from the British people. This horse was friendly to people except for the British people that wanted to destroy the town and make a war. Sherry liked kids even kids liked Sherry and they would ride on Sherry around the town. Sherry was like a pet for the town and was the most famous horse out of the whole world.

Judith Butler questions the belief that behaviors of either sex are natural. She proposes a rather radical theory that gender is performative and that sex is constructed. When gender is being performed, it means that someone would take on a role, acting in such a way that gives society the idea of their gender and constructs part of their identity. To be performative means that we produce a series of effects.Gender is constructed and is not in any way connected ‘naturally’ to sex.

Sally Mann’s style incorporates black and white photographs of her children, which are presented with “ordinary moments of childhood, suspended in time and transformed into aesthetic objects, takes on a distorted, even uncanny quality” (Arnason and Mansfield 719). Sally Mann photographed The New Mothers in 1989. This photograph’s most dominant elements are value and space. Having the photographs black and white really enhances the visibility of values. Most of Mann’s work is outside and has a define depth of field to blur out the background and emphasize the focus of the children. This compositional style helps to identify the high and low key values within the photos. The clothes, the reflection of the sun on the girls’ hair, and the girls fair skin are the part of the image that show high-key values, while the rest of the photo in more middle and low-key values. The intense depth of field increases a feeling of space for the viewer. In the photo you can see that the two young girls and their stroller is all in a line horizontally. Behind the girls you can notice they are outside in a open area because of the blurred grass and trees behind them. This photograph’s most dominant principles are movement and variety. The depth of field and lack of distraction in the background of the photo allows your eye to focus and move around with the subjects in the photo. The height of the subjects forms a triangle shape, which is

by his father never to talk about her. It was a terrible burden to Morrie.