Research Paper On Emma The New Colossus

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born July 4, 1868 in Lancaster, Massachusetts and died in 1921. Henrietta's parents were George Roswell and Henrietta swan I. George was a divinity doctor and a minister as well, which didn't keep them in one place very long. Henrietta was the first born of seven children, two of which passed away at very young ages. because of the fast pace of her father ministry they moved a lot. when Henrietta was 17 they moved to Ohio where she enrolled at Oberlin College for three years. One of those years she participated in a preparatory course and the other two she studied music. after the three years in Ohio they moved back home to Massachusetts this time to Cambridge. there, no matter how hard she tried she could not enroll

Indications: The patient is a 69 year old black female who fell landing on her right hip. She was seen in the Emergency Room where physical exam and x-ray revealed an intertrochanteric right femoral fracture. She was admitted to Dr. Loyd’s service .

In the play “Grand Concourse,” the talented playwriter and actress Heidi Schreck develops a plot based on the natural human conflict about the forgiveness toward unintentional actions. Heidi Schreck is a recognized writer who has been awarded with one-year residency by New York's Playwrights Horizons (Silk Road Rising 17,18). Named after the main street of the Bronx in New York City, the play shows the conflict that its characters face in the internal war between goodness and evil. The opposition between the actions of Emma (antagonist) and Shelley (protagonist) shows the complexity of human compassion towards the evil (sometimes unintentional) actions. Looking at the main actions of Emma in the play she egotistically seems to manipulate all the characters to feel better about herself. However, a deeper glazing indicates that her depression leads her to hurt people around her unintentionally; she tries to get forgiveness, but she realizes that the solution it is more complex that just an apologize.

She had the courage to show women that they can be more than just a housewife. She went out and helped Lewis and Clark and she took care of her child at the same time. She was sick and kidnapped yet still managed to be a good person and change the world for women.

Lucy Stone was born in August 13, 1818 in West Brookfield Massachusetts. She was one of Francis Stone and Hannah Mathews nine children. Both of her parents were committed abolitionists. She wasn’t afraid to rebel against her parents and decided to pursue her college education after seeing her brothers do theres. In 1839 she attended Mount Holyoke Seminary.

Lucy Stone was born in West Brookfield, Massachusetts on August 13, 1818. She was one of nine Stone children. Her parents, Francais Stone and Hannah Matthew, were both committed abolitionists. Stone was surrounded by anti-slavery growing up due to her parents. Stone was extremely intelligent and strong.

She was known to have stud up to the Puritans of the time and protest a new anti-Quakers law. She is also famous for her set example of determination and sacrifice.

Emma Goldman was born in Kaunas, Lithuania on June 27, 1869 and she died in Toronto, Canada on May 14, 1940. She was raised in a Jewish home.. Her family ran a small inn. At the age of just fifteen her father tried to have her marry someone but she refused to marry him. She was so rebellious that her parents agreed to send her off to America with her half sister Helena to Rochester to go join Helena’s sister Lena and her husband, Samuel. Goldman became a Jewish immigrant which made her realize that America was not what she expected. To her it was just sweatshops but that is where she earned her living in America as a seamstress. From the beginning of her life to that time she was just a

Emma first discovered her magnetism and love of the podium with her first public speech in the winter of 1890. During this time America was focused on expansion. They wanted access to sugar, coffee, fruits, oils, rubber and other materials available in Latin America and the Asian lands (Nash, 452). Along with the want to grow in this market, American factors were making products and at a staggering rate and in turn needed factory laborer’s to make such products. With the growth of expansion came the “progressive movement.” This movement focused on many things. One of them being the working conditions and the rights of labor’s in the middle and lower class. (Nash, 471). It wasn’t uncommon for men, woman and children to work 10 hour days or

for equal rights of women and also for slaves. She was involved in the activist movement along

Emma Willard was raised by her father who was a farmer. He encouraged her to read, write, think independently, and to attend a local academy. Right after she began teaching. In 1809, she married a doctor named John Willard. Then she opened her own school, the Middlebury Female Seminary, in 1814 and provided advanced education for young women who were denied by colleges.

She is best known for her work with anti-slavery. After escaping for freedom in 1826, she worked and worked to make a change. (civilwar.com) When the Civil War hit America, she did all she could to help. She gathered things for black troops such as collecting food and clothing for them (history.com). She met Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, in 1864.

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Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. During her life she filled notebooks upon notebooks with poetry. Her poetry was only published after her death but its success made her a household name an influenced poetry drastically. She experimented with poetry in order to free it from typical constraints. Her poetry speakers are sharp-sighted observers who see the constraints in society.

Emma is broken after Léon’s departure. In the mists of winter, the cold is not only around her but within her. She is resentful after Léon departs, shutting everyone out. Foster explains, “the seasons have stood for the same set of meanings … winter with resentment and death” (Foster 178). Foster gives analysis about the feelings associated with seasons and Emma’s exasperation with her life after the departure of her and her lover comes deeply in winter although Léon leaves in fall. Now that Léon is gone, her light of her life is gone, and Charles is trying to help, however, Charles is the one person Emma does not want to try and