Mary Reibey Research Paper

Mary MacKillop was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne on January the 15th 1842. She was the first child to Alexander MacKillop and Flora MacDonald. Mary was one child out of 8 and spent most of her childhood years looking after and acting like a second mother to her siblings. The MacKillop family were quite poor so at the young age of 14, Mary got herself a job as a governess and as teacher at a Portland school. All the money Mary earned went towards her families everyday living. While working as a governess, Mary met Father Julian Tension Woods. By the time Mary had reached the age of 15 she had decided that she wanted to be a nun. She also wanted to devote her life to the poor and less fortunate. So upon meeting Father Julian Tension Woods she

Mary Mallon was a woman of Irish descent who came to the United States as an immigrant to start a new life in 1886. She worked as a cook in a house where wealthy families came to celebrate their vacation. She was a healthy carrier of typhoid and made the guests sick and they died because of her. Although science had not been developed enough yet and she was tried unfairly it did not make her only a victim. Mary Mallon transformed from victim to villain. When she decided not to report to the police and return to cooking.

When they first got married Thomas Reibey was involved in the grain-carrying business, but then they later acquired properties and farms. Thomas Reibey with the help of Mary started to dabble in the arts of trade and Furs, skin, coal and cedar were the most important and popular items of trade, there trade grew as they started to trade with overseas countries such as China, India and other Pacific islands. Her family became very important in the industry of trade and they became very wealthy which she would never have had if she didn’t steal and horse and get transported over to Australia which is a very go impact that being a convict had on her because she never would have had this opportunity to become one of Australia’s most biggest entrepreneurs and business owner of Australia at the

Mary Reibey’s journey into becoming a prosperous woman began with her being a convict from Lancashire, England. Mary was born on the 12th

Mary Lou Retton is the greatest gymnast ever. She was the first American gymnast to win the gold, for male and females. In this paper, I'm going to be telling you about Mary Lou's childhood, her Olympic experience and her achievements.

Mary Abigail Wambach, otherwise known as Abby Wambach, was born on June 2nd, 1980 in Rochester, New York. She is the youngest of 7 children, 4 older brother and 2 older sisters. Her childhood was filled with playing whatever sports her older siblings were playing. Even though she was the youngest she was still able to be compete with her older siblings and their friends. In high school she focused on her two favorite sports basketball and soccer. The first heartbreak of her playing career game came during her senior year of high school soccer. During the state Championship game her team blew a 3-0 lead and eventually lost 4-3. While Abby scored two goals in this game, she still considers this one of the biggest disappoints of her playing career.

Kingseed, Wyatt. "A Burned Letter, Conflicting Stories and an Absent Son Helped to Send Mary Surratt to the Gallows." America's Civil War 16.6 (2004): 12-14. Web.

The impact of the convict experience would have had a harsh yet inspiring impact on the life of Mary Reibey. Although the experience can’t be straightforwardly analysed as positive or negative, the overall impact can be determined. Mary Reibey’s life began on the 12th of May 1777. At the age of 13, Mary was sentenced and order to be transported to Australia due to her actions the time. Mary was disguised as a boy by the name James Burrow. She was sentenced to seven years ' transportation; she arrived in Sydney, Australia, on the Royal Admiral in October 1792. This is when the convict experience began for young Mary Reibey.

Maria W. Stewart, a “black abolitionist, feminist, author and educator” originating in the nineteenth century, can be considered as one of the most influential women in history (African American Registry). Known for writing articles for William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper, The Liberator, Stewart became the first American woman, who also happened to be black, to deliver multiple speeches to an audience from a public platform. Between writing about anti-slavery to spreading her opinions through four powerful speeches in Boston, Massachusetts, Maria Stewart is unquestionably worthy and qualified to be the subject of a film or documentary due to the fact that she was “the first woman in America to address mixed gender and race audiences on the topic

Mary expressed more feelings and concerns about her travels than Robert Robe did in his journal entries. Being that she was the wife of a doctor, most likely she lived a more privileged life. Life on the trail must have been extremely difficult for her since she never before slept in a tent. In her diary she wrote about the city, being stuck in the mud even the rain. She adamantly talks about how they should have never left their home where they left all of their friends and family. Her journal shows the risks people took when moving westward. Losing their personal belongings like her husband did in a fire in Sacramento City. Mary’s journal gives a glimpse of the past to historians, it shows them that life in the city wasn’t always easy, even if you had money and many had to start over from nothing.

Mary Lou Retton was a girl from a large town with a major hobby. Mary Lou was born on January 24, 1968 in fairmont West Virginia, she had 4 sisters and brothers. Mary Lou’s parents are Louis Retton and Ronnie Retton. Louis was a homemaker (stay at home mom) and Ronnie had quite a lot of jobs that included being a security guard; business owner, a former baseball and basketball player and a coal and equipment transporter. At the age of 4 Mary Lou studied dance and acro bactics, this eventually led to her joining gymnastics. She enjoyed gymnastics so much that she practiced many times at home. One time she watched the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and practiced gymnastics at the same time at age 8, she recalls being in a split as she was watching.

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.

Mary was the daughter of a revolutionary author Mary Wollstonecraft who is regarded as one of the earliest feminist writers by the critics (Zimmerman, 2007, 65-123). By some of the

Mary Rowlandson was born in the south of England in 1637 and passed away in 1711. Rowlandson originated to this country in 1639 when her father, John White, became a wealthy land owner. She became a very busy lady when she married Joseph Rowlandson, because not only did she become a mother to three children, she also became a minister’s wife. She made her Puritan religion well known through her works of writing. Rowlandson seemed to support her husband with his ministry throughout the time she was married to him. While being married to Joseph, Mary and

Long ago, Mary Read was born to a father who was a sailor, and a mother who accompanied him. When she grew up, Mary joined the army disguised as a man, where she met her first husband, and kept a tavern with him until he died shortly thereafter. Then Mary became a sailor, and, one day, she was approached by a band of pirates and was asked to join. Mary did so, and it was in this career in which she met her second husband as well as her friend Anne Bonny. Mary was finally captured and sent to England, where she was imprisoned and