Katherine Garetson Research Paper

Mary White Rowlandson was a colonial American who was held captive by Algonkian Indians during King Philip's War. She was born in 1637 in Somerset, England. Her parents brought her along with her nine siblings to the colonies when she was young. Her parents were John and Joan White and she married Reverend Joseph Rowlandson in 1656. Their first child, Mary, died after her third birthday and they had three other children named Joseph, Mary, and Sarah.

Most people don’t know the backstory of one of the first African American women to help the first space launch. Katherine Johnson was one of them. They were called computers because they were African American. She affected the greatest history event of all time.It is a pleasure for me to tell you about the impact Katherine Johnson made in our lives till this day.

Kate Kimball is an award-winning fiction author who has worked hard to be in the position she is in now. Despite currently struggling with her health, she has continued to peruse her English PhD in Creative Writing here at Florida State University. Born in beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah Kimball is surprised to find herself over 2,000 miles away now studying in the sunshine state. FSU offers one of the top creative writing programs that currently is ranked top 5 in the nation according to The Atlantic Monthly. Kimball was excited to be accepted into the accredited program after earning her bachelor’s from the University of Utah and masters at Virginia Tech. Kimball has always loved writing and says, “Creative writing allows you to write about

In fitful sleep, she dreamt dreams of Indians, palmettos, cotton, tobacco, rice, indigo, and eagles flying through the skies calling to her, telling her to take this trail or that, and her reaching up, trying to catch them before they flew away. The next morning, she helped Nancy build a fire under the big, black iron pot out back of the cabin and then fill it with water so they could wash clothes. About an hour later, as they hung the first of the wash on the line, they heard a rider coming up the back trail; the trail that led down to Fort Charlotte.

up with her grandfather Tommy in a two-story log cabin that use to be a slave quarters. Henrietta

Harriet Pullen, mother of four, traveled to Skagway without her husband to make a living to support her children. She arrived there with big dreams and just seven dollars. She soon began making good money selling apple pies to stampeders, and realized that the real money to be made was by tending to the needs of the stampeders. Pullen saved her pie money to set up a freighting business, in which she earned twenty-five dollars a day (this was very good in this time period). Later, her freighting business began to die down, so she pulled up enough money to buy a hotel, which she called the Pullen House. There, she housed travelers and stampeders. It was extremely successful and she became known as “Ma” Pullen for her hospitality. Harriet Pullen

Lynn Burleson was born in Hamlin, TX on July 24, 1960. After attending Cooper High School in the 70's, he worked various jobs from oilfield to construction to food service. On May 9, 1979, he married Judy Lou Grissom and they began a family. As the family grew and more income was needed, he searched out places to find it. Several times he went where it was necessary to make ends meet. Sometimes, he had to go alone and come back for the family later.

     Ada Monroe was the pampered daughter of a Charleston minister, Monroe. Sheltered by her father, who came to Cold Mountain to minister to the “heathen’s,” she is unprepared for his death. Like any lowland lady, she reads well, play the piano, and can plan parties. She knows not to plant, or sow, or reap. She comes very close to starving on her lovely mountain farm before Ruby comes walking up her lane. Ada’s savior is a scrawny mountain girl with will and work ethic for them both. She came to work the land with Ada, saying. “…if I’m to help you here, it’s with both us knowing that everybody empties their own night jar (68).” Ruby forces Ada off the porch rocker and into the fields. Through days of weeding,

Kaylee Swenson is a fourteen year old girl, soon to be fifteen. She is a kind, bubbly, fun person. She is a good person and a good student. She is also an artist and musical fanatic.

Rowlandson and Equiano were filled with terror as they were taken from everything they had ever known and were forced to live with complete strangers. Rowlandson had to live with the Indians, all the while holding her dying daughter in her lap and with no knowledge of where her other two children were. A mother’s most important priority is protecting her children and not being able to do so must have been driving her insane and filling her

     One manner in which this unusual place can be seen is in the women's privileged relationship to the land in the text. While Jim Burden attends school, it is Antonia who shapes and works the new land that the pioneers inhabit, going "from farm to farm" to

Hannah Cavenagh was an intelligent painter. She leads a content life. She wanted to paint something different something that wasn’t the seaside. Then she remembered that she had a sister in Hawaii named Bethany. So later that morning she booked a summer trip to The Aloha State, Hawaii. When Hannah arrived to the airport her sister was already waiting with a welcoming hug. Bethany’s house was like an hour away from the airport so on the way home they stop for dinner. Hannah and her sister have a conversation that is non stop. Hannah told Bethany that over the years she has gotten really go at painting and that is the reason why she came. But what really go Hannah’s attention is that Bethany had said she always wanted a garden.

Bridget Keaton had Lord of the Flies in her hand as she read on her balcony. The pages of her book was withered and dog-eared from the use of reading it so much. The one page she always reminisced was this sentimental quote. Bridget even highlighted it and annotated it for the use of her to comprehend it better. Every time she read it in her mind or out loud, it brought a sense of epiphany for her. Bridget read the quote out loud to herself again: “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.” Goosebumps began to rise on her skin because the society she lived in was right. Bridget lived in Washington DC and it was forbidden to play video games in her country. The government wanted to do an experiment, they believed that video games caused violence, so they passed it through law. The law of banned video games have been going on for about three years now. This year, the government was hoping to ban video games throughout various countries. It

When James I was king, the sport of bear bating became popular. Bears, dogs, lions, and other animals were forced to fight each other to the death for entertainment. He even had a special platform built so the court could witness these “royal games.” There was disappointment when the battles weren’t bloody – even more so when the animals simply refused to fight.

Early in their lives, two young sisters, Ruth and Lucille, experience loss and abandonment from the men in the family. Their grandfather had died in a train derailment into Lake Fingerbone before they were born, and their father leaves them while they are very young. Then their mother commits suicide, but not before dropping the girls off on their grandmother’s porch. Moreover, then, “she sailed in Bernice’s Ford from the top of a cliff named Whiskey Rock into the blackest depth of the lake (23), again into Lake Fingerbone. After only a few months their grandmother dies leaving the girls to the remainder of the family, a collection of eccentric females. The girls deal with all of this by relying on each other. Soon, their great Aunt’s,