Mary Dunford Case Study

From an evolutionary perspective, John Bowlby made the connection that children form an attachment to their parents in the best interest of survival. Therefore, in a well functioning parent-infant relationship, infants learn to seek their parents in frightening situations and use them as a secure base (Hesse, 2014). However, Mary Ainsworth exemplifies that this is not the case for all infants. In the Strange Situation Study, Mary Ainsworth discovered three fundamental attachment styles: secure, ambivalent, and avoidant attachment. A fourth attachment style was later discovered by Main and Solomon and classified as disorganized attachment. These are known as the four fundamental unidirectional types of attachment between an infant and their caregiver. These relationship patterns are often established between infant and primary caregiver during their early stages of life. In the following, I will exemplify how these attachment styles differ when the infant experiences significant disruptions in their family relationships because of changes in caregivers and separation from imprisoned parents?

Mary Pitchford or “America’s sweetheart” was an iconic silent film actress and overall great entertainer in just about all categories film related. Mary was born on April 8, 1892, in Toronto, Canada and after only five years on the planet she would begin performing for an audience. Ten years later she would already find herself performing on Broadway in New York along side some of the most talented actors in the world.

In Alabama in the early 1970’s, there was a height and weight limitation, in order to be considered as a candidate for becoming a prison guard. The restrictions were minimum 5’2 and 120 pounds. Such requests ruled out Dianne Rawlinson, who made a class action suit against the requirements, as she thought that they violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Dianne Rawlinson raised the legal question in Court whenever height and weight requirements for employment as a prison guard in the Alabama would violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

left and right to people undeserving. No one should stand down to what they believe in.

Mary Pickford considered one of the most influential women in motion pictures. Mary Pickford was not all glamour and fame; she had a story, a great one at that too. Mary Pickford had many family and poverty problems as a young child, yet she remained to have a lot of ambition to act, all of which put a great impact on not only Canada but also the entire world.

“Go within everyday and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out” (A Quote by Katherine Dunham 1). Once one of the most successful dancers in both American and European theater, Katherine Dunham, a dancer, anthropologist,social activist,and educator, continues to inspire people throughout the world. Named America’s irreplaceable Dance Treasure in 2000. Dunham remains a name heard regularly in dance schools across the world (“Katherine Dunham Biography” 4). She is known for always trying to make a difference and in the process she has become of the world’s greatest humanitarians (Osumare 5). Katherine Dunham’s work in African American rights in the dance world and her creation of new styles of dance makes her an important figure in American dance History.

In 1882, Mary Hall had applied for admittance in order to practice law. Most women's career choices and expectations of work were not as fulfilling as those of men. So once this boundary breaking news was told, it was a sensation. Little did Mary know that she would help establish the right for women to practice law in Connecticut and be a role model to so many people. Mary studied law for four years with an attorney in Hartford who was well respected and assisted her to get admittance by the Connecticut Supreme Court.  Shortly after she began to study with the attorney, Hall was named “Commissioner of the Superior Court of Marlborough”, but she then went on and persevered to be able to practice law. Once connecticut's Supreme Court reviewed

Curiosity blinded the peculiar artist, an artist infatuated with stigma of a world and a person's path in life. Her name was Mary Frankford, her hometown was where no one knew where one side of the road meet the dusty trails of yesterday's hidden promises. Mary's hair was the color of an autumns leaf before winter, with eyes that share the color of the Blue Jay, with skin color of wheat germ. Her parents she never knew nor is she certain where exactly she was initially born. All she knew, 1902 was the year in the month was August, was when she had met a dancing field of positive energy. Energy, if condensed to a summary of shortcomings with a tireless new beginnings for a positive change in life; that is where anyone could find it. Where galaxies

February 10, 1675 was a sorrowful day for Mary Rowlandson’s hometown (Lancaster). Indians came and destroyed their town showing no remorse. Many were killed and wounded. Some were taken captive. Among those captive is a women named Mary Rowlandson. Throughout her captivity she kept a journal of all her removals and interactions she had with the Indians.

Ankylosing Spondylitis, also called Bechterew’s Disease or Marie Strumpell Disease has been defined by the Spondylitis Association of America as “a form of arthritis that primarily affects the spine, although other joints can be affected. It causes severe inflammation of the spinal joints and in more advanced cases this inflammation can lead ankylosis- which is new bone formation in the spine- causing sections of the spine to fuse in a fixed, immobile positions”. (Spondylitis Associations of America at spondylitis.org) “While palaeopathioligical studies of Egyptian mummies suggest that AS has afflicted humankind since the very beginning, AS was not found in literature until 1559 in the book De Re Anatomica by Realdo Colombo. One hundred years later, Irish doctor Bernard Connor, described a disinterred human skeleton that had a spine with marked curvature.” (2002 Sieper J, Braun J, Rudwaleit M, et al Ankylosing spondylitis: An overview. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases) Information on AS did not pop up again on the medical literature field until the mid 1800’s. With such sporadic and unclear information filling the medical fields it is imperative that medical discoveries do not impede progress and help fill in the gaps of our knowledge and understandings of this disease.

The first step to any problem resolution is identify the cause of the problem. Mary was able to identify the origin of her problem, but what she could have done next was to seek for professional help, i.e. counselor, who are bound by confidential law, and also trained to help people like Mary Watson, cope with their problem. Getting a professional help would have reduce the impact of the problem on her job performance.

-Working with Mary, I feel that one barrier that she is facing in regards to her expressing/accepting her sexual orientation and gender identity is fear of being rejected and shamed by her family. Evidence suggests that for LGBTQ young adults, a heightened level of

Mary Ann’s life along time ago was very difficult. Mary Ann is a woman who lived in Alaska, Scammon Bay. She didn’t live in comfort and sometimes she starved. What would you have done if you were Mary Ann? However, when she got older, everything changed.

Mary Lasker, visited Dr. Clarence Cook, who was in charge of the American Society for the Control Cancer in New York. She was interested in finding what this society was researching about cancer. She went to the society with high expectations, and she left the society with lower expectations. The society has a budget about $250,000 which is not a lot of money for researching advanced cancer. They had a lot of fundraising and help from another organization called Women’s Field Army. The doctors who worked at this organization, weren’t even that rich. They were small businessmen who wanted to make a difference in the world and cure cancer patients. Lasker wanted to help out this society and started to inform the public about donating more money

Bob and Mary have final exam to complete in their senior English class with a prompt from a 19th century writer and philosopher. Mary devotes her time writing text messages, Instant messaging and emailing her friends which will not benefit her in anyway because no information that is applicable to exam will be gained through her actions . Unlike Mary, Bob however uses his time differently. He spends his time reading books from authors such as Shakespeare, Orwell, Dickens and so on. Bobs medium of expanding and learning his knowledge makes him far more successful in the upcoming exam. The books he reads provide him with information that one can apply in the exam.