The Ordeal Of Elizabeth Marsh

“Wake up, wake up!” says my owner, Eliza Emerson. She has been my owner ever since her husband, my old owner, died. I have been a slave my whole life and when our old owner died I thought that maybe our new owner Eliza, would set us free if I paid her. She actually liked me here and liked the earnings she got for paying me out. What I thought I could do after she said no was go to court. When our old owner died we had already lived in a free state so I thought that since I lived in a free state I was free.

Life for the women in the Elizabethan times was very hard. Women were expected to find some rich and successful guy to end up marrying and then expected to have babies and spend their life caring for the children, their husband, and their home. Women were not able to have paying jobs or schooling. All they did was clean and obey the men around

The next innocent suspect was Elizabeth Howe. Elizabeth Howe was a blind Ipswich woman who tenderly took care of her husband with a kind soul. Her neighbors foolishly accused her of causing their youngest daughter and cows die, which Elizabeth truthfully denied. Soon more people had their animals injured, in which they interpreted as a supernatural sign of revenge. In court, her own brother-in-law, Captain John accused her of killing his sow and inflicting pain upon him and making his hand not able to work. Elizabeth had nothing to do with this, so she testified “God knows I am innocent of anything of this nature” (National Geographic Channel 2011). Even though her witness vouched for her and her character she was found guilty (National Geographic Channel 2011).

“If ever any person had either the gift or the style to win the hearts of people, it was this Queen, and if she did express the same it was at that present, in coupling mildness with majesty as she did, and in stately stooping to the meanest sort”(Elizabeth I Accession). Politically, Elizabeth I kept the the government of England stable, and protected England from invasion, most famously the Spanish Armada. Elizabeth brought people together under one protestant church, and largely the people got along and agreed with Elizabeth. She was liked by the people for her character and talent for speech making. When Elizabeth inherited the throne, England economy was in ruins, but shortly thereafter she turned the economy around, finances improved and the lives of the general public were better. Elizabeth brough Protestantism back to England and allowed to Catholics to keep their personal beliefs hidden. Many questioned Elizabeth's ability to govern because of her gender, but others support her, and she has address the people's concerns but promises them that her gender is irrelevant

Hannah, “Mum Bett’s” owner, was angry. She was about to hit Lizzie, “Mum Bett’s” sister, with a hot kitchen shovel, but “Mum Bett” couldn’t let this happen to her sister. She jumped in front to protect Lizzie and got a scar on her face, that remained exposed to show how harshly she was treated. “Mum Bett,” also known as Elizabeth Freeman, performed this heroic act in 1780. There are several accounts of the story. Another version of it is that Freeman had a daughter named Betsy who Hannah attempted to hit with the kitchen shovel. But Freeman’s story started in 1742 when she was born to slave parents in Claverack, New York. She was sold when she was six months old, possibly with her sister. Freeman became the property of Hannah, but when Hannah

     The purpose of a biography is to enhance the reader’s knowledge about a particular person’s life, in this case, Florence Beatrice Price, and offer a sort of historical background focusing on significant events, accomplishments, and personal aspects of that particular individual’s life. Ideally, the writer molds complex biographical facts—birth and death, education, ambition, conflict, milieu, work, relationship, accident—into a book [or article] that has the independent vitality of any creative work but is, at the same time, "true to life." Barbara Garvey Jackson, author of the biography on Florence Price chosen for this class, has noted that the purpose of her article is

The novel Lincoln in The Bardo by George Saunders is labeled as a work of historical fiction on its copyright page. However this book has many aspects of a biographical novel in it. While William Lincoln is only one of the main characters the focus is on the importance for both him and his father to move on from the tragedy of William’s death. Biographical novels use historical figures to tell a truth about society today and in some cases (usually children and teen forms) emotional truth. In Lincoln in The Bardo the main focus of the novel is the idea of moving on from tragedy. In the end of the novel there is also a small amount of focus on the idea of understanding another person and what they have gone through.

Who is Elizabeth Blackwell? She was a wonderful women who allowed women to become doctors and go to medical school. People thought it was not a woman’s job to be a doctor. It was there job to say at home with the kids and do the housework. Elizabeth Blackwell was inspired to go to medical school and become a doctor because one of her close friends who was dying suggested she would have been spared her worst suffering if her physician had been a women. That made Elizabeth start thinking about what her friend had said. She tried going to many different medical school but she got declined by most of the school’s because of her gender. (Women weren't allowed to become doctors back then, and that's what made it rough.) Eventually she got accepted

Compare “Biography” and “Amelia Earhart: Biography & Facts About Disappearance.” How might the author’s purpose for writing be different for the two pieces of text.

Elizabeth must have taken account of the prevailing custom by asserting her strength and authority as inherent in her position as monarch, rather than in her person as a woman. Her refusal to marry was a politic way to avoid questions of women’s subservience to man as well as to avoid the force of marital conventions herself. As the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth exemplified the importance attached to chastity, even if it was often more observed in the breach than in the practice (“Society and Culture in Shakespeare's Day”).

Power and ascension to a throne always comes with a price as many have opposing views due to tradition, religion, and values. After Henry VIII’s rule of England came to an end with his death, a struggle of power was imposed, as his three children would later succeed him as rulers to impact England. Primogeniture allowed Edward VI to rule, but after his death, older sister Mary I claimed the throne. Lastly Elizabeth I claimed the throne as the last Tudor monarch and in the long run, bringing success and a golden age of England with her. With Elizabeth’s rise to the throne, ruling from 1558-1603, came strong influences of gender on her reign and affected her responses to them.

Elizabeth is a 28-year-old female who is currently living in a shelter. She reports that her four children are in foster care due to a drug raid at her home. She was three years old her mother and father had an altercation, and her father kidnaped her. When she returned to her mother five months later, she was not allowed to see her father again; he died in 2008. Her parents were never married. Two years later her sister died at the age of 15 due to complications with cancer. Elizabeth has experienced significant loss of loved ones in her life. What she shared was denied an opportunity to have closer with her father or his family due to her mother behavior. She also struggles with thoughts of possibly having more mental health issues which

The term, “Elizabethan Era” is considered as English history of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558–1603). The Social Classes in order from the highest class to the lowest are: Monarchy, Nobility, Gentry, Merchants, Yeomen, and Laborers. These classes are determined by their fame, wealth, skills, and even birth. If you were part of the Monarchy you were the ruler of the nation and their family; usually King or Queen. Life as a Monarch was very Spectacular because you were pampered and had to do none of the cooking and cleaning of the house, your only job was to rule the nation. You were always dressed nice and were wealthy. Anything you wanted you got without complaints. Everyone looked up as you and envied you because you were royal. The Nobility

I will show students the Anchor chart we will be using during this unit. A Biography is a story about a real person’s life that is written by another person. Today I am going to read to you a biography. This Biography is about Garret Morgan. Garret Morgan was the man who invented the stoplight! (Read aloud, Garret Morgan.)

Historians use literary techniques and even poetic devices to craft historiographies that are compelling for readers. For example, a historian may construct a plot or narrative based on a series of events or on biographical data. A fiction author likewise relies on historical events and biographical data to construct plots: a process White calls "emplotment," (1714). Emplotment is basically the "encodation of facts," (White 1714). The storyteller is a historian, for no fiction is created out of thin air. Likewise, the historian is a storyteller, for readers of history require a