Louisa May Alcott Research Paper

Annie Easley was born on April 23,1933, In Birmingham Alabama. Easley and her brother were raised by thaier single mother Mary Melvin Hoover. Her mother was one of her greatest inspirations and her role model, she always encouraged her to get a good education. In an oral history interview with NASA, she said that her mother always used to tell her "You can be anything you want to. It doesn't matter what you look like, what your size is, what your color is. You can be anything you want to, but you do have to work at it." Annie Easley attended school in Birmingham and graduated as the valedictorian of her grade. At that time Easly Wanted to become a nurse because she thought it was one of the only careers open to black women. However, later on

Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. Susan B. Anthony was an active woman suffragist who played a big part in the women's rights movement, in 1852. She didn’t only fight for women's rights, she also fought to abolish slavery. Both Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton also helped with social reform. They founded the National Woman Suffrage Association.

" ‘I want something to do…' ‘Write a book,' Qouth the author of my being. ‘Don't know enough, sir. First live, then write.' ‘Try teaching again,' suggested my mother. ‘No thank you, ma'am, ten years of that is enough.' ‘Take a husband like my Darby, and fulfill your mission,' said sister Joan. ‘Can't afford expensive luxuries, Mrs. Coobiddy.' ‘Go nurse the soldiers,' said my young brother, Tom. ‘I will!' (Harper 14)." This is a dialog of Louisa May Alcott with her relatives. Miss Alcott, like many other African American women, helped serve in the Civil War. During the Civil War, Miss Alcott held a variety of jobs. Mainly working as a writer, she held positions as a nurse, teacher, and volunteered in

Sojourner Truth once declared, at the Women’s Rights Convention in 1851, “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again” (“Sojourner Truth” Encyclopedia). This statement brought a wave of protest from the men in the crowd and left most women with renewed hope for receiving equal rights. Sojourner Truth was a woman’s rights activist and African American abolitionist, on top of being a freed slave. Sojourner Truth had the “worst of both worlds” being that she was African American, and also a woman. She spoke at a countless amount of conventions, largely inspired by Lucrietta Mott. Rather than using weapons, Truth

Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811 in a town in Connecticut called Litchfield. Her parents were Reverend Lyman Beecher and Roxanna Foote Beecher, who wanted their children to influence the world in some way. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s family based their philosophies on social justice. Some of the Beecher’s children were ministers, teachers in education for women, the youngest daughter was founder of the National Women’s Suffrage Association, and Harriet was the writer of the family (Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Life). Stowe was part of eleven siblings born to her parents. Harriet Beecher Stowe later died on June 1, 1896 in her own home in Hartford, Connecticut (biography.com).

Martha Washington was the first daughter of John Dandridge and Frances Jones. She was born on June 2, 1731 in New Kent County. Virginia. Frances, her mother, was an orphan and Frances’s father awarded her an inheritance of slaves and land. John, her father, had a background that was humble in England; he then emigrated in 1714. Martha’s parents married in 1730. When they married, John was a successful planter with about 500 acres across the Pamunkey River in New York County. He owned twenty slaves around that time period. John worked as a clerk in the hometown court, a colonel in the militia, and vestryman in the church. The family was not a well known high level of society in Virginia. Martha was the oldest of eight brothers and sisters.

As a child grows, extra care and attention is very essential in order to build the foundation of love and a strong bond. Especially, in today’s society,children are often judged by the act of their parents but in this memoir, written by Miss Jeannette Walls shows how unstainable and dysfunctional relationship Jeannette had with her parents but she still managed to use her tough upbringing for confidence and resourcefulness.

Born in Virginia as Martha Dandridge to Colonel John Dandridge and Frances Dandridge, Martha grew up on a tobacco plantation called Chestnut Grove. She was the eldest of her siblings and referred as Patsy. Since she was the eldest, her mother made sure Martha began to learn how to act like a lady early. Martha and her sister, although not custom, were taught by a tutor for a while since the tutor was already teaching their brothers. The tutor taught her addition and subtraction, reading and spelling. Martha did not like school but she would learn how important spelling, addition and subtraction were in the future. Her mother taught her how to sew and cook, as all girls of that time were taught. Martha was very close to her father, who helped her get out of trouble that her adventurous side got her into and granted many of her wants unlike her strict mother, who wanted her to act like a lady. She had a horse named

     I did a little research on the books themes to get some ideas on what Alcott was trying to convey in Little Women. What I found was a little discouraging. Initially, Alcott’s priority was to show how young women (more specifically from that time period) had to face two premier choices. Many had to choose between staying and caring for their immediate family, or to move on and pursue their life’s interests. Now although the four March girls moved on to better things,

Martha Washington was born on June 13, 1731. She was the eighth child born to Frances Jones and John Dandridge. As Martha grew up she developed a lifelong love for reading. She underwent training, expected for a young woman of her class taking lessons in functional (needlework, household management etc.) and in recreational ( dancing, horseback riding etc.). When Martha was nineteen she got married for the first time. She got married to a Virginia planter named Daniel Parke Custis in 1750. Seven years later in 1757 Daniel died, leaving the plantation for Martha to run. Then two years later Martha being twenty-six and a wealthy widow with two children, met George Washington. When she met him he was just a colonel in the British army, a veteran

There are many African American heroes who have contributed to my life; however, the one who impacted me most was Mildred Loving. Mrs. Loving was born in 1939 in Central Point, Virginia, a small town in the deep South. Racial bias was not an issue in this community because both black and white people were able to interact and form friendships with each other. As a result, Mildred and Richard were able to socialize and become friends. However, schools were not integrated, so they were unable to attend the same school.

Maya Angelou, an extremely successful author taught about in almost every high school in America, did not always have a sweet life. At the age of eight, Angelou was raped by Freeman, her mother’s boyfriend at the time (“Maya Angelou Is Born” ). This event had a major effect on Angelou’s life as she recalled, “I had a voice, but I refused to use it” (Angelou) to express her devastation after the rape. It wasn’t until five years after Angelou got raped that she spoke again. When Angelou built up the courage to speak again, she told several of her uncles who eventually beat Angelou’s rapist to death (“Maya Angelou Is Born”). Despite struggling with the tragic event of being raped, Maya Angelou was a successful author, poet, and civil rights activist.

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), the title of the book was meant to highlight the inferiority of women as compared to men, or, alternatively, describe the lives of simple people, "unimportant" in the social sense. This novel was written in New England during and after the American

Louisa May Alcott was a young and talented writer who wrote Little Women and was portrayed as Jo March, a main character. Alcott was in favor for women's equality, especially in women's suffrage. Suffrage is the right to vote in political elections. In the film, Little Women, Alcott is portrayed as "Jo," who also believes in women's suffrage. Both love reading and writing and had many difficulties and obstacles in their way to become who they were meant to be. She soon left home to go and follow her dreams of writing and got a job at an editor's office in New York. To get her works published, Jo had to work under a male pseudonym. In the novel, Jo came left New York to go back home and has the idea of opening up a kids school. Once back home,

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