The Death Of Belle Starr

In 1983 Elizabeth Bouvia, who was a 26-year-old quadriplegic who was affected by cerebral palsy, entered a hospital in Riverside, California wishing to starve herself to death. Elizabeth Bouvia suffered from cerebral palsy and severe arthritis causing her to be in chronic pain and close to being completely paralyzed. Bouvia was only able to make movement in some fingers on her right hand and make a few facial movements. Elizabeth Bouvia was unable to sit up and could only lay flat causing her to be confined to her bed, and further causing her to depend on others for even the simplest of tasks. Bouvia relied on others to feed her, bathe her, and help her defecate. Bouvia had no one in her life able to care for her around the clock like she needed, so out of options Bouvia entered Riverside General Hospital.

Charmayne James was a shy girl that grew up in small town of Clayton, New Mexico. Beginning her way to being the Million Dollar Cowgirl she is today at the age of 3 riding from sun up to sun down. She started rodeo at a young age on a horse named Bardo. When Charmayne needed her next horse she looked to a young bay gelding that was used in her fathers feed lot. This bay gelding became Charmayne’s once in a life time horse. The pair was entered in the Rodeo Hall of Fame, and hold the record for most consecutive qualifications into the NFR for men or women.

Death… the cause or occasion of loss of life or the passing or destruction of something inanimate. The Women of Sugar Hill features many themes such as rape, power, control, self-esteem, drugs and sex. However, the most prominent theme in all three stories is death. Death in the stories affects the characters through inanimate objects or humans. All three stories end with cliffhangers as far as whether the characters overcome the affects death has on them but the story shows how the characters are affected by death. The debate of who lost more is a hard debate but there is no debate over if the deaths affected their lives and that “something was always happening to women in Sugar Hill” (Montayj, 2015, p.

Security can be a tool to rationalize, legitimize, marginalize violence (keeping minority groups in their place) which could in turn reinforce systemic inequalities present in society by turning a blind eye to context. This dichotomy serves as a platform for other invalidation ideologies that works on the continuum of fear that can divide into categories of “us” and “them”, which are then used to send us messages about who is a threat, and leads to constructions of what individuals who are not able to stand up for themselves. The death of Ashley Smith illustrates how the range of oppressive structures were responsible for the persistent and severe denials of her fundamental rights. In this context, we can see that the state has both the means to violate and protect human rights.

Pearl was very rich at the time so she decided to team up with her brother and Rob the Globe to Florence stagecoach near the settlement of Troy and Kane Springs Canyon. After the stagecoach alerted the authorities that they were robbed the sheriff immediately took action. The Sheriff was able to catch Pearl Hart and taker her into the Globe jail, where she got the name “Bandit Queen”. Pearl Hart was very admired by other ladies and then people wanted her autograph. After a couple of week in jail, Pearl escaped the jail in 1899. However she did not escape alone, Pearl escaped with a prisoner named Ed

On April 15, 1894 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a baby girl named Elizabeth Smith was born. Her house was full, as she was one of seven children and a daughter to a Baptist minister. At age nine, Elizabeth lost her mother and one of her brothers. To make ends meet, she and her brother, Andrew, began to perform on the streets: She sang and danced and he played the guitar. As she grew older, Elizabeth went by the nickname ‘Bessie.’

Bessie Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas, 1892,few years later she moved to Waxahachie,Texas where she is living on a farm. When she was nine,her dad left to go back to the Indian Territory,and her mom didn’t want to go with him , so he left. All the time she would skip school to help her mom pick cotton. Years later when Coleman graduated from high school, she went to college at Langston University in Oklahoma. After the first semester she was forced to dropped out because she didn’t have enough money to stay in college.

Pearl Hart, one of the baddest of the bad west outlaws in the 1800’s. She was originally born as Pearl Taylor of French descendant in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada. She was known as the “Bandit Queen,” as some would call her, and she was known as one of the only American female stagecoach robbers, who was very fast and skilled. She was born in the year 1876, and passed away in 1956. Pearl was one of many children and received an exceptional education due to being in a respectable middle-class family.

Belle Boyd was born in 1844 as the oldest of eight kids. She went to collage when she was twelve and graduated when she was sixteen. Boyd became a spy for the Confederacy before she was eighteen. When she was a spy she was a messenger and a medical transporter in the south. During many of the wars involving Confederate soldiers Boyd nursed the wounded back to health. Betrayed by one of her first loves, she was arrested twice and after finally being released she went to England to regain her health. While in England she pursued her acting career and started her novel Belle Boyd In Camp and Prison. When she returned to the U.S she shortly toured as an actress until she retired in 1869 and married John Swanston Hammond. Soon after, Boyd suffered a mental collapse and had her first soon in a Stockton insane asylum. She was discharged in 1870 and had three more children before settling in Dallas where her marriage was dissolved in in 1884. She then married her third husband and her full name became Belle Boyd-Harding-Hammond-High. She died of a heart attack in Kilbourn, (Which is currently known as the Dells) Wisconsin in the year 1900 at the age of 57. (Answer to question 1).

Often she would take me and my brothers out on weekends to teach us horseback riding while teaching us about the lives and traditions of the Miami, Shawnee, and Potawatomi tribes to name a few. If for any reason it’s most likely this fondness of childhood times that compelled me to pick Edward Curtis to research.

Annie Oakley’s early years laid the strong foundation that would carry her through a life in the spotlight and her whole life as the most famous female sharpshooter in history. She lived a very eventful life and through it all she remained a steady and iconic woman rather than becoming a flighty and vulgar performer, like the many others that she worked with. Throughout her life it is clear to see the impact that she had on the world around her whether that was in her early childhood life, her time as a performer, or a “retired” senior. Annie Oakley through her whole life never waivered from who she was raised to be and her personal goal to make the world a better place.

Bessie Smith, also known as the “Empress of the Blues”, was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on April 15, 1894. She has six other siblings, a father who was a Baptist minister and died a little while after Smith was born, and a mother who died alongside two of Smith’s brothers. When Smith’s mother died, it left Smith’s aunt to raise Smith’s remaining brothers and her. Around this time when Smith’s aunt began to raise them as her own, Smith began to go on the streets and perform as a singer. She sang along to one of her brother’s strumming of his guitar. Smith singing on the streets lead her to start dancing in the Moses Strokes Minstrel show and then the Rabbit Foot Minstrels show, where Ma Rainey was a current participant of the show as a blues singer. Rainey soon began to mentor

When she was a young girl, Bly was a very independent person, she was a particularly skilled writer, took many travels, and pulled a stunt not anyone would dare to do. Being born into a family of fifteen brothers and sisters, Bly never let it change her perspective on things. Elizabeth Cochrane Seamon (Schneir 425) was born on May 5,1864 (Fritz 1). Her parents gave birth to her in Cochrane’s Mills, Pennsylvania (Schneir 425). The town’s name was Pitts Mills, but was changed to Cochrane’s Mills because her father owned most of the land in the town (Emerson 8). When she was younger, her mother would always dress her in a pink gingham, which earned her the nickname ‘Pinky’ (Emerson 8). Her father finished educating her since she only went to regular

The story says she has a love for horse riding and baseball. Also, in the story she has a horse named Chico’s Flame. Her real name was Dorothy Maguire.

In the beginning, Dido Elizabeth Belle was raised by her great-uncle Lord Mansfield and his wife. Belle’s lineage means she has certain privileges, but the color of her skin prevents her from another form of social standing afforded to her legitimate cousin Elizabeth. Before Belle’s father passes away, he leaves her an inherit of two thousand pounds a month. She was raised in different circumstances compare to people with her background were servants in the houses of wealthy individuals. Belle learns the differences between how people judge her based on her color and wealthy that she inherits. Until John Davinier enters Belle’s life that’s when she discovers the truth over the slaves and how her uncle is overseas making a wise decision in court. John Davinier finds information on the slaves through the help of Belle. Amma Asante illustrates discrimination against color people and agreement of slave trading is acceptable in our society.