Linda Brent

From learning this we know Harriet is not in for a good future with this family. The way Jacobs describes the importance of the women in her life is inspiring, given that, at the time they had such little power and such few rights. “Mrs. Flint, like many southern women, was totally deficient in energy. She had not the strength to superintend her household affairs; but her nerves were so strong, that she could sit in her easy chair and see a woman whipped, till the blood trickled from every stroke of the lash” (Jacobs 360). The way she describes Mrs. Flint perfectly captures what all women in the south were like. This portrays an excellent example to Northern women how serious slavery can affect a person.

leaving her into the care of her Aunt, Mrs Reed. Mrs Reed is a widow

Maggie the younger sister lived with her mother and liked the life of her living with her mother. Dee didn't like that poor old-fashioned life and she wants to be rich and to forget about this poor family and to live her actual way of life as an African-American. Mama liked their way of life and didn't want to change it and also Maggie liked it and didn't want to change it.

Despite the blood relation between Jane and her aunt and cousins, they treat Jane with sincere disrespect and animosity. " Then Mrs. Reed subjoined: 'Take her away to the red-room, and lock her in there'. Four hands were immediately laid upon me, and I was borne upstairs". Jane's Aunt is a selfish woman and despite knowing the fact that Jane has no other relative, she still lacks any sympathetic feeling towards her.

Also freedom for Harriet Jacob is for her to get away from Dr. Flint as he makes her time in slavery very hard. Considering that she never wants to be like other African American women in slavery. Even though Linda spent nearly her whole life fighting for freedom, she never really achieved social, economic, and political freedom. Even with her being able to become physically free; Linda was able to achieve mental and spiritual freedom, which let her continue on despite horrible hardships and countless

One thing she did was she learned to be cunning and outwitting. She proved to be cunning to Dr. Flint one night which was a major step on her part. “Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the weak and oppressed against the strength of tyrants,” (85). Linda had no other choice. She is the weak and oppressed while Dr. Flint is the tyrant. She had a goal in mind and was willing to do whatever it took to master it. That night, her intelligence saved her which means intelligence became weapon against tyrants. She also showed grit when up north and with people she couldn’t trust. Even though she was in a place she was technically free, she was not really free. Slavery made her unable to trust white people. The way they deceived her, used her, she lost all confidence in them which made her insecure. If this new family she was with showed her kindness, she would think they had some selfish ulterior motive, that they just wanted something out of her (139). She took her experience of being cunning with her to this family and she was taking precaution because she honestly did not know if she was safe or if she could even trust these people. Years passed between these two events which showed that she stayed with her grit over a very long time. Being cunning saved her once, and it saved her twice. She had mastered becoming cunning because of her experiences while in slavery.

In the story, a family heirloom becomes a conflict because while Dee wants to take the quilt to decorate her home, Maggie would make better use of the quilts by using them instead of framing them. This quilt that has been passed down from generation to generation, is symbolic of the love that both the older generations and the present generation has for each other. The quilt also symbolizes the strength of the family and the stitching is symbolic of the bonds that hold a family together. Mama ultimately decides that the quilt will go to Maggie because Dee does not understand the practicality of the quilt which is that they were from pieces of clothes that were lived in, which represented their past. Alice Walker was also emphasizing that it is the woman in the family that have held and currently hold families together by depicting closeness of the female relationships.

. .(The woman screamed) Gone! All gone! Why don’t God kill me?" Linda explains that things like this happen daily, even hourly. This is only a small piece of the torture it was to be a woman in slavery. Linda’s master often made perverted comments to her in which she expressed as to filthy to tell. He began to fill her mind with awful thoughts and words. He often slapped Linda and kicked her around. He was constantly threatening her and her life explaining that he would never sell her and that she would be in their damily as long as he had an heir. When Linda became pregnant with the son of a white man, he became very angry and he constantly reminded her that her baby was to be his property, like a piece of land to be bought. When she had the boy she named Benjamin, he was premature and she became very ill. She refused to let anyone send for a doctor, because the only doctor that could treat her was Dr. Flint. Finally when they thought she would die they sent for her master. He treated her and she refused him as much as possible, but she lived and so did her little Benny, although sometimes she wished he would’ve died. Almost three years later she had a daughter who she called Ellen which angered him even more and when Benny began to run to cling to his mother when he was striking her, Dr. Flint knocked the child all the way across the room nearly killing him.

Margaret Newman’s theory of health as expanding consciousness stemmed from family life experience. According to Alligood & Tomey (2014), Newman was born October of 1933 in Memphis, Tennessee and attended Baylor University in Texas where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in home economics and English. After graduation, she went back home to Tennessee to discover that her mom is suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a chronic and irreversible motor neuron disease. Newman became her mother’s primary caregiver which sparked her interest in the dynamics of health and illness. After her mother passed away, Newman decided to go back to school and earned a second Bachelor’s degree in Nursing in 1962, pursued a Master’s degree in Medical-Surgical

This is to verify that Linda Adekambi is a sub-contractor of St. Theresa Nurselink, Inc. Ms. Adekambi has been working for this company from December 2015 till January 1st 2016.

Linda, for all her warmth and goodness, goes along with her husband and sons in the best success-manual tradition.  She tries to protect them from the forces outside and fails.  The memory of her suffering and her fidelity does not keep Willy and Happy from sex or Biff from wandering.  Miller's irony goes still deeper.  While Linda is a mirror of goodness and the source of the family's sense of identity, she is not protection - by her silence and her support, she unwittingly cooperates

In this post, I would like to feature a Blueberry Milkshake recipe that I found in the book, Eat Beautiful by Wendy Rowe. It is a blueberry milkshake that is chock-full of vitamin C, and is great for those looking for a simple milkshake that is low on sugar!

I visited the Installation by Linda Bond in the Human Rights Institute Gallery which runs from September 5th thru December 20th, 2017. On October 5th, 2017, there was a reception with the artist. Unfortunately, I missed the opportunity to meet her.

In addition to the summer of hard labor, Ellen is able to compare the dysfunctional and hateful relationship she has with her grandmother to the behavior of Mavis and her family. Her grandmother blames Ellen for her mother’s death, even going so far as to accuse Ellen of colluding with her father to force her mother to overdose on heart medication when she says, “You and your daddy let her take them pills or more than likely drove her to it and then you let her die” (Gibbons 78). She then adds insult to injury by accusing Ellen of having slept with her father’s friends and the surprise that she isn’t pregnant or has “some little nigger baby hanging off your titty.” Ellen silently endures the physical abuse of working in the fields and her grandmother’s verbal abuse, wrapped in racist slurs, while taking care of her as she dies of a respiratory disorder. In contrast, Ellen finds herself walking up the road sometimes to where Mavis and her family live in what could pass for slave quarters, in a rundown shack. Instead of verbal abuse and hatred, she sees a loving family sitting on the porch each night talking and picking with one another. The family has very little money and lives in meager accommodations, but they are happy compared to the toxic environment of her grandmother’s pristine and wealthy mansion full of treasures. This goes a long way to persuade Ellen to change her mind about her ingrained stereotypes of race and family. She begins to make a list in her mind of

Linda, for all her warmth and goodness, goes along with her husband and sons in the best success-manual tradition.  She tries to protect them from the forces outside and fails.  The memory of her suffering and her fidelity does not keep Willy and Happy from sex or Biff from wandering.  Miller's irony goes still deeper.  While Linda is a mirror of goodness and the source of the family's sense of identity, she is not protection