Mary Bell

In the girls’ home, Mary has to make a decision on whether she wants to clear her charges or live as a murderer. Stereotypically, girls like Mary face prejudice for actions they may or may not have committed, controversially, Mary acts unlike the other teenagers in her girls’ home trying

When she enters the bedroom, her voice changes from present to past tense and she starts to reminisce and begins to talk about her mother and aunts. She seems happy to remember her mother’s room and introduces her aunts to the audiences. Mary delivers her dialogue saying that the dressing table and the small elephant statue figures are all same. When Mary gently touches her mother’s photo, she delivers a sad tone. Her performance conveys to the audiences that she misses her mother. The tone of her voice represents that she is a gentle, innocent and a loving child. Her verbal and non-verbal interactions conveyed the viewers with a message that she is an orphan.

Mary begins the story as a doting housewife going through her daily routine with her husband. She is content to sit in his company silently until he begins a conversation. Everything is going as usual until he goes “ slowly to get himself another drink” while telling Mary to “sit down” (Dahl 1). This shocks Mary as she is used to getting things for him. After downing his second drink, her husband coldly informs her that he is leaving her and the child. This brutal news prompts the first change in Mary, from loving wife to emotionless and detached from everything.

There is a deep emotional attachment towards the story “Kabnis,” that the author felt: “I want Kabnis to remain an immediate record of my first contact with Southern life” (Foley 156). As mentioned earlier, Toomer traveled to Sparta in late September 1921, “a year when more lynchings occurred throughout the South than in any previous years other than 1909” (158). In fact, there were about 429 total of lynchings just in Georgia during that year. Toomer based the lynching of Mame Lamkins on real life Mary Turner: “They kill her in th street, an some white man seein th risin in her stomach as she lay there soppy in her blood like any cow, took an ripped her belly open, an the kid fell out. It was living; but a nigger baby aint supposed t live.

Mary Flannery O’Connor is considered one of the most successful short story writers in history. She composed her works during a period of prosperity and economic boom following World War II. Although the economy was thriving, the 1950’s were a period of struggle for women’s rights, as well as other minorities. (Digital History) Based on her success, one could conclude O’Connor exceeded all barriers against women during the fifties. Flannery O’Connor’s life experiences based on her faith, her novels, and the time period of the 1950’s contribute to her unique writing style.

Mary Jo Peckham Park is a free park to have fun.The park in Katy, Texas and named after Mary Jo Peckham. Mary Jo Peckham was an active woman in the Assistance League of Houston, which is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization committed to serving children and adults in need from the surrounding communities. The park opened in 1991 to offer lots of fun for children, adults, families, older people, and even people with disabilities, and in Harris County Precinct 3. The park occupies thirty-two acres with playgrounds, golfing, a picnic pavilion, a fishing lake, ducks, walking trail, and a pool. Mary Jo Peckham Park is a safe place for a family to go and enjoy family fun. Harris County Precinct 3 regularly

A once peaceful community was torn apart by the revolutionary war and fueled by hatred. A loving wife and mother, devoted Christian, and caring neighbor, Mary was also a good, honorable citizen of her community. Some of her neighbors were Tories (Loyalists) and others were Patriots. Moreover, the once loving and peaceful community relationship, that existed amongst neighbors, turned into hatred due to the imprisonment of the Loyalists. Despite, her neighbors’ hatred towards her, Mary made efforts to console them, but her efforts fell in deaf ears.

(Bowen, 2000.) Although not much insight is given into the awful relationship Mary had with her late husband, there’s is evident that she resents her daughter. Precious became the target of neglect and abuse due to the fact that, her father raped her and her mother instead of protecting her became jealous of her own daughter. Mary intentionally tries to impair her daughter Precious by constantly demoralizing her by telling her that she is ugly, fat and stupid. Mary is fixed on the idea of hurting her physically, emotionally and psychologically. Mary is a constant remind to Precious of how she will be nothing without her. As a result, she internalizes this tension and many aspects of her life suffers. Precious is performing poorly at school, her physical health is bad as she is overly obese and she is a loner in the sense that she makes no effort to befriend anyone. She is constantly worried about what her mother is going to do to her for the day or she is constantly on edge with her mother, not knowing what to

Additionally, the further adversity she experiences in the distrust and derogatory behaviour from the ranchers reinforces the sexist behaviour and patriarchal society of the 1930’s. She is described as a “tramp”, “a bitch”, “jail bait” and a “rat-trap” based on her flirtatious behaviour, which presumably originates from the loneliness and isolation she experiences in her unhappy marriage and life on the male-dominated ranch (32). The attitudes of the men towards her character only worsen the problems of isolation and loneliness, and creates a vicious cycle whereby Curley’s Wife seeks more attention and is degraded further for doing so, and ultimately this leads to her untimely demise in her search for companionship. Whilst her death was accidental, Curley’s Wife, as a symbol of female inequality, signifies the adversity faced by women during the Depression, and the difficulties they experienced in attempting to achieve their dreams. In today’s Western world, feminist issues remain, albeit on a far lesser scale than 80 years prior - however, in some parts of the world, little progress for women’s rights has been made and the issues experienced by Curley’s Wife are a reality for some.

Mary Ann Cotton was born October 31 1832 and died on March 24 1873. She was England’s first female murderer as her murders reached the front cover of every single news stand in Britain. She is best known for killing three of her four husbands, apparently in order to collect on their insurance policies. Overall she killed and poisoned 21 people in total ,including eleven of her thirteen children. Moreover, she grew up in the City of Sunderland, Endlnad. At the age of 8 her parents moved the entire family to the County Durham village of Murton. While in school, she was extremely lonely and did not make any friends. Right after the move, her father fell to his death down a mine shaft. After her father’s death, her mother remarried to George Stott. Mary found it difficult to get along with him and at the age of 16 she eventually moved out to become a nurse.After three years studying to become a nurse, Mary’s dreams fell apart as she returned home to live with her mother and eventually became a dressmaker.

In Mary Rowlandson's A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Rowlandson, ethnocentric bias is clearly evident throughout the entire narrative. Ethnocentrism is the judgment of other cultures according to the standards of one's own cultural values or being closed-minded about the lifestyle of another ethnic and/or cultural group. Mary Rowlandson's narrative has many examples supporting the notion that Puritans are ethnocentric in their worldview.

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By the novel, Mary discusses several issues related to relationships which terrorize aspects of her personal life, including birth and childhood, the death of her mother, her miscarriage and new child and her coming across with the events which occurred in the summer of 1816 (see notes).

Have you ever loved something so much that you will do anything for it? Do you play an instrument? Maddison Bell is a talented, skilled and dedicated musician. She is also a fantastic person who loves to express herself through music. She plays the violin, acts, as one so many awards, and has a very embarrassing dad! The following paragraphs ties a knot around Maddie, and her love for music. Everything from embarrassing moments involving music, to her first violin solo, and her best friend. Keep on reading to find out more about Maddie and her awesome talent! She tries so hard in her music, acting. Maddie always puts a smile on others faces when she is doing what she loves. She is a funny, and loving girl! She is determent

Mary Astell was a feminist theorist, insists women are guided by reason in society. She believes that women should look to themselves or to God, not to men, for the hope of a better life (The Norton Anthology 2421). (Tyson 1). In Mary Astell’s piece from The Norton Anthology of English Literature,“From Some Reflections upon Marriage”, she argues the ideas of a feminist approach on marriage through an honest depiction of male motivations, irony in marriage, and lack of education of women. Overall, she illustrates that men hold the power in a marriage, leaving uneducated woman undermining self- confidence and assertiveness.