The Proudy: The Death Of Ruby Darrow

The Burning of Bridget Cleary by Angela Bourke tells the investigation of a death of an ill woman whom was believed to have been abducted and later killed by fairies. The young vibrant Bridget Cleary became suddenly ill after receiving a chill while traveling to a relative’s house. After walking a total of 8 miles in the cold she later fell sick with bronchitis and pneumonia. These signs of weakness spread rumors around a small town with a population roughly around 100 people. Suddenly Bridget Cleary went missing, and her body was found a few days after she reportedly walked out of the house to later return. The Burning of Bridget Cleary by Angela Bourke asserts that the burning of Bridget for being a fairy was a response to anxiety and fear

The beginning of “The Hound of Heaven” represents Dorothy Day’s childhood. The poem begins with, “I fled Him, down the nights and down the days/ I fled Him, down the arches of the years/ I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways / Of my own mind, and in the mist of tears/ I hid from him…” (Thompson 1-4). These lines symbolizes the escape that the author was making away from God. Thompson was running away from God and his responsibilities. While reading this poem, Dorothy Day immediately drew a connection. Growing up in a Christian family who rarely attended church sessions, Day did not know what she believed in. When she was young, she asked her mother why didn’t the family sing hymns and pray. She never got a satisfying answer from her mother.

Love is a tool that can blind a person and make them do something they would have never probably did if they received the right nurturing love early on. The film The Night of the Hunter, created by Charles Laughton, addresses this reality. A teenage orphan named Ruby falls for an evil man named Harry; a woman-hating psychopath who believes he is a preacher. Ruby becomes blind to Harry wickedness because she is motivated by the need for love.

Sentence #1: Curzon makes his first appearance as a real risk taker when he comes forward when Grandfather calls him and he replies, “‘I say I’m an American.’ Curzon said, ‘An American Soldier” (pg. 164).

“Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.” The grisly murders of Andrew and Abby Durfee Gray Borden remain to be one of the most sensational double murders in American history, rivaling even the likes of the O.J. Simpson trials. The “Lizzie Borden took an axe” rhyme is supposed to chronicle the macabre accounts of the murders. However, the rhyme possesses several historical inaccuracies. Lizzie’s “mother” in this rhyme was actually Lizzie’s stepmother and was “only” struck nineteen times with a hatchet not with an axe. Lizzie’s father, Andrew, received about ten blows to the head ( ). Though the children's rhyme is not quite historically accurate the

When many people think of the Civil Rights Movement and its leaders, the first names that comes to mind are Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. However, there were so many people that were just as influential and deserving of recognition as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. One of these people, Claudette Colvin, was “Rosa Parks before Rosa Parks”. Claudette Colvin grew up in King Hill, Alabama- a close-knit community that was stuck between two white neighborhoods. She attended a one-room school, with one teacher teaching all six elementary grades. When she refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a Montgomery bus, she was only fifteen years old. Claudette was arrested, and seen as an outsider by her classmates. She suffered

Although the use of historical fiction to understand the past had various drawbacks, historical fiction such as Bound by Sally Gunning proved to also have numerous benefits. Set in pre-revolutionary America, the story of Alice Cole was effective in teaching its readers about indentured servitude and certain aspects of colonial life leading up to the Revolutionary War. However, some drawback in using historical fiction included readers focusing on storyline rather than the history, and romanticizing the time period. Despite a few drawbacks, the use of historical fiction such as Bound to teach about the past had many benefits including showing the social dynamic and daily life, enhancing understanding of setting and history, and creating relatable characters that allow the reader to connect and better remember history.

“Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks”, but did she actually do it. On August 4, 1892 Andrew Borden and Abby Borden were brutally murder. Most people think that Lizzie Borden was the murder, but I don’t think she murdered them. There are many clues that prove her innocent. Lizzie Borden was innocent and another person killed her parents. Lizzie Borden deeply cared about her father, there was no physical evidence, and other people didn’t like her father. LIzzie Borden would never kill her parents, but other people would.

“Cultivate Positive Identities.” Laura M. Roberts. How to be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact. Jane E. Dutton and Gretchan M. Sprieitzer. San Francisco: Berret-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2014. 54-63.

Ruby Laffoon (1869–1941) was an American politician and the 43rd governor of Kentucky, from 1931 to 1935. At age 17, Laffoon moved to Washington, D.C. to live with his uncle, U.S. Representative Polk Laffoon. In 1931, he defeated Republican William B. Harrison by what was then the largest margin of victory ever in a Kentucky gubernatorial election. To make up for a revenue shortfall during the Great Depression, Laffoon advocated the enactment of the state's first sales tax. This issue dominated most of his term in office and split the state Democratic Party and his own administration; the tax was defeated three times before he forged a bipartisan alliance to get it passed in a special legislative session in 1934. Term-limited by the state

Hannah Duston was a big example of Heroism. Hannah was born in 1657. Hannah and her husband Thomas Duston from Massachusetts were attacked by Indians in there town Haverhill. As they were attacked Hannah's husband fled to save there 7 kids and hannah didn't leave because she was in bed rest from just giving birth. Hannah and her nurse got captured by Natives while the newborn got its head bashed against a tree and house got burnt to the ground. Hannah and her nurse both turned into slaves and experienced lots of torture and harsh living inviroments. The Indians started moving and were beyond Penacook where they had some really brutal things done to them. This is when Hannah descided it was time to escape and she had help from her nurse and

In 1982, Lizzie Borden became publically known for killing her mother and father in their home located in Fall River Massachusetts. Many people believe that this murder is the most notorious murder in America due to the abundance of press. Hitt J states that “Between the telephone and the newspapers, this crime became a worldwide phenomenon.” Countless people weren’t surprised at the crime that was committed, they were surprised at the person that did the crime. HittJ says, “this murder was so significant because of the brutality of the crime and the fact a woman was accused of it, most people do not associate this kind of bloody crime with a woman.”

Government officials tend to be stern, professional, and likeable, but courage is not a common trait amongst this group of people. The goal of working for the government is expected to be doing what is right for the people, by listening to the people’s wants and needs. Nowadays, the people in power aim to stay in power, instead of doing the morally right thing. Susan Collins is an exception to this; Collins knows what is right for the people, not just her party’s voters, and acts upon it. John F. Kennedy wrote Profiles in Courage, which consists of eight short biographies highlighting the importance of courage and integrity that Collins displays regularly when he writes, “A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences, in spite

Bridget Cleary or more popularly described as "the last witch burned in Ireland", though not actually accused of witchcraft, was murdered and burned by her husband in 1895, whose motive was his belief that she had been abducted by fairies and in her place the fairies had left only a changeling; he claimed to have killed the changeling and not his actual wife. Bridget was burned - immolated which either caused her death or was done post mortum which prompted extensive press coverage during a time when Ireland's quest for self-government was being hotly debated.

The Liberation Madame Bovary Women have always been seen as the inferior gender. When women act out of turn they are considered nontraditional or uncouth. It isn’t until recent where women have stopped worrying about what society thinks of them. The women’s movement in the 1960’s opened the doors for women to get jobs and feel equal and in some ways superior to men. Long before women were burning their bras, long before the women’s suffrage movement, centuries ago in France a man by the name of Gustave Flaubert breathed life by means of pen and paper into a woman who would be seen as a disgrace in her time, but just another celebrity in our present reality.