Norma Lemus Research Paper

Luma was an undocumented illegal immigrant, and had no work permit in the U.S. She ended up making small amounts of money by doing any job that was available for illegal immigrants, such as washing dishes and cleaning toilets. She eventually settled in Clarkson, a small town in Georgia filled with refugees. One day she came upon a group of refugee boys playing soccer in the parking lot, and Luma joined in. She started to frequently visit these boys, eventually getting to know all of them and their backgrounds. Luma ultimately decided that they needed an official soccer program, and that she would be the coach.

Ann Deborah Lynn knew she was born to be leader despite her circumstances as an African American in Lexington, Kentucky. Born October 3, 1810 to William Henry Lynn and Sarah Mae Lynn, her vision to be an inspiring Civil Rights Activist would be the biggest challenge of her life. Her father, William was a slave captured in Angola, Africa in broad daylight and her mother, Sarah was a daughter of slaves from Guinea. Free blacks in the South couldn’t express how they felt and wasn’t able to travel as freely as the free slaves in the Northern cities. The North also had more to offer because they were becoming more urban which meant better jobs, transportation and growing middle-class. Ann always knew she wanted to travel and speak to other slaves

On February 21, 1933, Mary Kate Waymon and John Divine Waymon begot a child named Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina. She learned to play piano at the age of 3 and sang in her church's choir. Growing up, she wanted to be the first African American concert pianist. Eunice taught piano and worked as an accompanist for other performers when she attended Juilliard; however, she had to leave school after she ran out of funds. She moved to Philadelphia and lived with her family there in order to save money and go to a more affordable music program.

“They carry different diseases than we do (The Help, 2011)” said Hilly Holbrook as she struggled to hide the fact she was dying to use the bathroom during a card game at Elizabeth Leefolt’s home. She figures that since Mrs. Leefolt does not have an outside bathroom for the colored help that Aibileen uses the guess bathroom as well and she refuses to use it. She later talked the Leefolt’s into building Aibileen her own bathroom outside the house… Racism in Jackson was at its prime in the 1960’s during the Civil Rights Movement. All negro women and some men work for white families and are treated like slaves. All over town signs say ‘COLORED’ or ‘WHITES ONLY.’ You did not talk to the colored help unless you were the one they are working for.

By Amberley SparkesDel Kathryn Barton was born to two teachers in 1972, Sydney, New South Wales. She grew up on a hobby-style goat farm, obsessed with drawing from a young age. Barton suffered a cacophony of psychotic disorders, nothing of which doctors could officially diagnose. She escaped her reality of mental instability by emerging herself in drawing and arts. Barton went through several periods of “self loathing” and eating disorders, of which are reflected in many of Barton’s pieces. Barton explores ideas of femininity, exploring and understanding the female body and the stigmas associated with children and sexual representations

Del Kathryn Barton (born 11 December 1972) is an Australian artist, who won the 2008 and 2013 Archibald Prizes. Barton studied at the College of Fine Arts of the University of New South Wales. She then graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993. Later on in her life she employed for a college and became a lecturer. But before she won the Archibald Prize she became famous for painting, Barton was well known for erotic charged ink and watercolour pieces.

On January 31, 2001 Logan Marr was found dead in an unfinished basement, yards of duct tape surrounding her, and a foster mother claiming that she just fell and hit her head. Sally Schofield, a respected caseworker at Maine's Department of Health and Human Services, had taken Logan in 2000. By 2001, 5 year old Logan would be dead. “I just want Sally Schofield out of my life forever,” Logan’s mother says, 16 years later, “She’s ruined my children’s lives and mine. She took an innocent child from this world for no reason.” Logan’s death was a tragedy that highlighted the problems in Maine's child welfare systems. The mistakes that were made were unforgivable, but a lesson learned from DHHS.

Angela L. Shine, LMSW is a local, regional and national champion of increasing mental health awareness, especially working together with interfaith organizations and communities. Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, Angela currently lives in Columbus, Mississippi. She is a graduate of Tennessee State University and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville where she received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree, respectively, in social work.

Frances Perkins wanted to make a change in the American people’s lives. She looked at individuals with the perspective of hopes, fears, virtues, and as citizens of the United States (“Frances Perkins,”2011). Her outlook of society was to help the poor, promote the working individual and to improve the quality of life for all. Perkins witnessed a fire that killed helpless factory workers where she realized her role in the world. “Seared on my mind, as well as my heart- a never to be forgotten reminder of why I must spend my life fighting conditions that could permit such tragedy” (“Frances Perkins (1880-1965),” 2016). The scene provoked Perkins to work for reform in working condition, especially women and children (Sprague, L. W. 2014). Frances Perkins began to volunteer and work with families, individuals, and communities. She accompanied women in factories and in the settlement house. It became an opportunity to study workers, the poor, and their work/living conditions within the community. She also became educated

Father passed away when she was 4. Her mother works in the office and gets the minimum wage.

Born into a Mexican family she is the older of two children, she was born and raised in Los Angeles California. She went to Garfield high school.

Eugenie Delacroix was born in France on April 26, 1798 to an artistic family. He started studying arts at the age of 17 under the influence of academic painter, Baron Pierre Narcisse Guerin. Delacroix experienced childhood in agreeable upper-white collar class circumstances regardless of the agitated times. He got a decent traditional training at the Lychee Imperial .At the age of 24, Delacroix was placed accountable for compositional adornments for another statesman, Adolph Theirs. His initial years were affected by kindred Romantic specialists and additionally Polish author and musician Frederic Chopin.

Antonia Maury was born on March 21, 1866, in Cold Spring, New York. She was the oldest sibling out of her brother and sister. Maury grew up in a household with her dad, Mytton Maury he was an Episcopal minister and amateur naturalist and her mom Virginia (Draper), Maury. Her uncle was the respected Harvard astronomer, Henry Draper the first person to photograph the stellar spectra and her grandfather was a historian and physicist, named John William Draper. She was educated at home with her brother and younger sister until she became a teenager.

Castillo is the sixth of ten children born into an underprivileged family on the Spanish island of Mallorca. She came to Florida, in 1987, as a tourist visiting friends. She was infatuated with the United States; she saw it as a place to fulfill her dreams and ambition of one day owning a business. She came back to the Unites States the next year on a student visa and went to culinary school in Palm Beach while she figured out how she would open a business of her own.

She was living in Oak Park with some friends from the high school, the experience was different, she always was living with her parents. She found also a part time job as a Spanish teacher to adults is where the idea to have her own school came from. Mrs. Milagros Andrews married student from Spanish class, life