Martha Jean Thesis

Jean Talon was the first and the greatest intendant of New France. He was appointed to be the Intendant of Justice, Public order, and Finances in Canada, Acadia, and Newfoundland by King Louis XIV. He attempted to change the economic base of Canada from fur-trading to agriculture,

Would the advances of today be up to such standards without the writings of history? Diary’s and books show the way of life along with what did and did not work. Women such as Martha Ballard and Mary Jemison gave an insight into their life that would have not been accessible to the world we know.

Walking into a silent courtroom, it is quiet. All you can hear is the footsteps you are making as you approach the jury to do an opening statement. You feel anxious and excited all at the same time, because at the beginning of your career, you were the jury. This is what Kellie Howell experiences everyday as she walks into a courtroom. Kellie Howell started this profession with intentions of helping people when nobody else will. Although there are many moments of excitement, there are also difficulties. This is what makes Kellie continue to push forward in this field. Kellie Howell, a defense attorney of Del City, Oklahoma, was motivated to pursue this career because she felt it was necessary to represent others in their darkest hour.

Segregation. Denial of service. Cruel comments. Just a few of the tame acts to name that African Americans dealt with on a daily basis. Many have risen up and fought for justice, desperately looking for a lifestyle of equality. Though, one truly stood out and screamed for freedom and equality. Mary Jane McLeod Bethune, an African American born into slavery who was determined to become educated. To get an education while being of African descent was no easy task; she longed for others like her to have a learning environment that remained unrestricted to them. Mary’s determination blossomed into something much greater from there – the determination to educate others. She started a private school for African American students in Daytona Beach,

Long before there was the Queen of Soul, there was the Queen of Gospel. A title given to “Mahaila Jackson.” A powerful woman with a love for singing the gospel music. She was born on October 26, 1911, in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she began singing early as a child for Mount Moriah Baptist Church. She later became one of the most revered gospel singers in the United States.

February of every year is known as National Black History Month. There are many African American people who made a great impact on all African-Americans today. In honor of this month, though, I have chosen to write about Marian Anderson. Marian Anderson was a singer who had made a great impact on many of the black singers in the past. She was one of the first female African-American to perform with the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1955. Some of Marian’s last words to the public were “I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.”

Brittany Chavez, The Spiritual Rebel, it is her dream and honor to empower women to find their OWN way in life & business. She is a wife & mother of four and if that isn’t enough work she recently decided to start her journey of entrepreneurship. Brittany found her passion when she experienced her own awakening. After spending most of her life living the way others thought she should, she says no more. Now she is on a mission to be her most authentic self in ALL areas of her life and help others do the same. Brittany believes by allowing yourself to be yourself & honoring who you are now is the best way to accelerate your path to success & freedom!

The Glass Castle, a memoir by Jeannette Walls, tells the story of Jeannette's upbringing and her road to adulthood. Jeannette, and her siblings, were raised by dysfunctional, poor, and sometimes homeless parents, Rose Mary and Rex Walls. The Walls children were pretty much abandoned by their parents and in some cases they were forced into making their own money, or stealing food just so they would not starve. Rose Mary and Rex Walls allowed the children to do anything they wanted, whenever they wanted to do it, but that did not stop Jeannette from being successful. She recognized that she did not want to live her life the same way her parents have lived their lives. In The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls believes that sometimes people are actually

Wendy Kopp was born June 29, 1967 in Austin, Texas. After graduating from Highland Park High School in Dallas, Texas, she continued her educational journey at Princeton University. At Princeton University, Wendy majored in Public Policy. As graduation came closer and closer, Wendy realized she did not have a set in stone game plan for what she would do for a job, or even what she would be writing her senior thesis over.

Harriet Jacobs was an African-American slave that left an impact on several people in ending slavery. Not just on how slavery was, but especially how it was for the women. She wrote a autobiography on her time in slavery to address the white women in the North who do not fully comprehend the evils of slavery. She makes direct appeals to their humanity to expand their knowledge and influence their thouhts about slavery as a institution. This autobiography was published in a newspaper in the North and was part of the beginnings on ending slavery.

During the course of summer I read two books, Alas Babylon and The Color of Water. My initial response to hearing about these books isn’t one that would please the author or anyone who enjoyed reading them. But once I began to read and actually imagine my life as the main protagonist in the books my opinion about them began to change by the time I finished the first page.

Marie Sophie Germain was born in Rue Saint-Denis, Paris, France, on April 1, 1776, in a wealthy Persian family. Ambroise-Francois, her father, was a rich man who was assumed to be a wealthy silk merchant, or a goldsmith. Ambroise was elected as the representative of the bourgeoisie to Etats-Généraux en 1789, which had involved his daughter to witness many discussions with her father and his peers. When she was 13, The French Revolution broke out. Enforcing her to remain indoors,as she turned to her father’s library to take away her boredom where she became interested in mathematics. Pouring her time into each book as she had taught herself Latin and Greek, allowing her to read other famous mathematicians work such as Isaac Newton.

The novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is historically accurate because the African Americans were considered to be below the white man during the 1930’s. An African American life was lived with especial difficulty since they were only offered the low paying jobs and neighborhoods that nobody cared. In comparison, white men were offered a good education and high paying jobs. A black man once said, “The American white man has been superior so long, he can’t figure out why he should come down” (Burke). African Americans were always treated like they had a lower status than the white man, even when they first came to America. Although slavery had been abolished in 1865, the white Americans did everything in its power

Immigration has changed the united states because of the people that came here from other countries. First, since people have come the food has gradually changed like I the mall there is a Chinese place and wraps and different food from other countries. I have an encounter of immigration because My friend Dragana her parents come from Macedonia and they have food from their culture and different life style and I get to experience it when we hang out. Another reason immigration has changed the U.S is that I see a lot of Chinese people work at Chinese restraints and for an example there is a janitor in our school that is an immigrant from a place in Africa and people from Mexico been a lot of new Chinese restraints and burrito places.

While filling out a questionnaire like the Census it is solely up to the individual to decide the race they considered themselves to be in. Race can have many different meanings while trying to categorize a person. As we have learned in the past weeks, there are many aspects that can be considered while defining someone’s race. A few examples would be color, culture, family history and place of origin. Because of the flexibility in defining race, different ethnicities focus more on certain aspects. This causes a discontinuity while defining race. This leads to the question brought up by Julie Dowling in her writing.