Sarah Casson Essay

Born into chaos Cyntoia Brown, has lived a tragic life full of unfortunate events. Going from guardian to guardian until finding a safe haven with Ellenette Brown who would be the woman Cyntoia would learn to call mother. Stability wasn’t something Cyntoia was accustomed to nor something she experienced much of. Her childhood or lack off mold her into the individual who would at 16 murder a man, she believed was going to harm her, rob him of his possessions and later leave the premises in his vehicle and call the cops to report the homicide because she didn’t want him to be alone. Her train of thought and actions speaks drastically of her innocence. She did not mean to kill Johnny Allen nor was it her intention that night on August 6, 2006.

The concept of a “carrier” first emerged with typhoid fever with Mary Mallon in 1907. Mary Mallon was a working as a cook in her employer’s household, Charles Henry Warren, in New York. Working as a cook allow the bacteria, Salmonella typhi, to be transmitted to the household members through the food she was handling. George Sober, a sanitary engineer, was brought in to find the cause of illness and had proposed that it was the ingestion of freshwater clams. This was later disproven by the questioning of the infected individuals having denied they had eaten the clams. Sober then moved his suspicions onto Mary Mallon, believing she was spreading the disease as a carrier. This was a new concept at the time and was not readily accepted, especially

Once released from custody, Cassidy returned to the UK where she shared her experiences to raise awareness for violation of human rights in Chile, as she was one of 30,000 tortured. She continues to give back to the community with her want to improve people’s lives.

Susan Eloise Hinton, one of the world's most respected authors was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on July 22, 1950. Also known as S.E Hinton, best known for her young adult novels, especially The Outsiders. Antoine Wilson’sbiography The Library of Author Biographies: S.E Hinton highlights some of the problems Hinton endured on her path to become one of the most influential authors in America.

In this constantly evolving television landscape, HBO executive Kathleen McCaffrey admits that she is uncertain about what the future holds for her career and for the industry, in general. However, McCaffrey confidently states, “There will always be people who have to choose content and support a creative mind.”

NO the question you should be asking yourself is why the hell have you done nothing to fix this issue, the things that have been happening to others because of many people discriminating them for how they look, for how they talk, for who they choose to be in life. In the 1960s this woman called Katherine Johnson was one of the first African American woman to work for Nasa, she worked as a Mathematician calculating the trajectories for many NASA missions and working with many people in this project which in many cases was hard for her 1. Her being a woman and 2. Her being African American, now these shouldn't be any reasons for her to fail or not be able to do it (right), well in her case it wasn't, it was the fact that many people doubted her, made fun fun of her skin color, and most of all her being equal to a man really made her get laughed at because everyone thought that she can’t do it, how can a woman be with such a high authority and equal with a man working for NASA, although many people did not agree with what she did however, with her working there for 33 years taking all the discrimination words she heard, brought eather to her face or in secret she toughened up and realized no matter how many things they say about me I will keep on going, she later on started proving everyone that she can do it she started solving various complex equations and multiple plans on what types of angles the ships should be held from, what speed to blast

Jan started at a new school and was a very bright student. She particularly liked history and even liked writing essays. Living by the philosophy that you should continue working at what you enjoy and are good at, Jan progressed with history and found that it led on to law. Before her father’s passing he had told her that law might suit her. After finding there were no prerequisites for studying law she successfully applied for a scholarship to Melbourne University. She then studied law with 8 or so other women and 120 men. Jan found that she was exceptional at law and that her father was correct when he said it would suit her. Although she achieved high marks, Jan now feels that she probably could have tried

Michele Marie Amble was born in Waterloo, Iowa on April 6 1956. Michele grew up in a Democratic family but later became a republican while in her senior of attending Winona State University. Her parents David John Amble and “Ariene” Jean Amble are Norwegian American. Her father who was an engineer, moved the family to Brooklyn Park MN when she was 13 years old. When Michele was only 14 years old her parents filed for a divorce, and her father moved to California. While Michele and her mother did stay in MN they moved to the city if Anoka. Her mother then started working at the First National Bank in Anoka MN, and also remarried which resulted in a family of nine children.

Mary Cassatt is known world-wide for her impressing art in which she focuses mainly in the everyday life of women and children. She is an American artist born in Pennsylvania on May 22, 1844, but later relocates to Europe in 1866 to pursue to work in art. This was mainly due to her family’s and society’s objections to women in the field of art. There she met and befriended famous Impressionist Edgar Degas. Because of her close friendship with Degas, she grew courage to continue to do art in her own way. She continued to paint until she slowly began to lose her eyesight and later died in 1926. Cassatt was part of the Impressionist style movement, in which she painted portraits unlike many others who painted landscapes (biography.com). Her artwork

Welcome to Bixby, a seemingly normal town in Oklahoma. Possibly a very stereotypical Midwestern rural community, Bixby is all about dirt roads and country living. What could possibly be strange about this unexciting place? A group of high school students; Rex, Dess, Melissa, and Jonathan sure know. They hold the power to walk in the secret 25th hour of the day; one that was made purely to keep humans out.

To whom it may concern, Georgia Beckmann is one of the most intelligent, thoughtful and witty students I have seen in my counselling career. These qualities are impossible to miss through how she approaches her assignments, the quality of her insight into topics at hand, discussions in class and extracurricular activities. Georgia’s hard work has consistently earned her some of the highest grades of her class since freshman year, and she has continuously challenged herself each year to improve the quality of her work and analyses across academic disciplines. Georgia has earned straight A’s throughout her entire high school career, which is no surprise based on the hard-working spirit she exudes every day in all of her classes. This has carried

There were many great artists who have done impeccable work. One was Mary Stevenson Cassatt was born on May 22, 1844, in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, which is now part of Pittsburgh. She was the daughter of a real-state and investment broker. She was one of seven children, but two of her siblings died when they were infants. She was brought up in a high social ranking and her family reflected that. Mary went to schooling to prepare her to be a proper wife and mother. Other classes included homemaking, embroidery, music, sketching and painting. The Cassatt thought that travel was in essential part of learning, so in the 1850’s her parents moved her and her siblings to Europe. She spent five years in Europe and visited many of the capitals,

Homeland: Carrie Mathison Homeland is a television series on Showtime that is a political thriller about the Central Intelligence Agency and their involvement in the destruction of a man named Abu Nazir. The show takes place in Langley, Virginia and mainly involves a CIA agent named Carrie Mathison, her coworker Saul Berenson, her boss David Estes and a Marine, sergeant Nicholas Brody. Nicholas Brody is a marine that was held captive for 8years in al-queda by Abu Nazir. The CIA’s counterterrorism division is interested on what happened when agent Brody was held captive. Carrie becomes obsessed with uncovering the secrets that agent Brody knows about Abu Nazir.

The author that I chose was Margaret Walker. Born July7, 1915 – November 30, 1998. Her name now is Margaret Walker Alexander, her married name. The county that I chose her from was in Bulter County. This is where I’m from and thought it would be interesting to find someone from the same county that I didn’t know about. Margaret Walker spent most of her time in Birmingham, Alabama, then she moved to New Orleans. Walker graduated from college at University of New Orleans, then transferred to Northwestern University. She graduated here with an AB in English in 1935. Margaret Walker was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African American literary movement in Chicago. After acclaimed poet Langston Hughes recognized her talent and urged