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recalls her roommate at Bryn Mawr contacting her from Chester, Pennsylvania, asking if Birch was able to bail her out of jail after being arrested for civil disobedience during a Civil Rights demonstration.2 Having already become partly involved in progressive experimentation simply by attending a women’s college, it follows that these women held the desire to continue advancement of women’s rights and social positioning through activism. Women’s colleges, including Bryn Mawr, served as a vehicle for

her life fondly and loved being near her mother and was adored by her father. She recollects her parents being happy together. Upon leaving the Earl’s estate, Nussbaum’s family settled into the lavishly opulent suburb of Philadelphia, Bryn Mawr. Life in Bryn Mawr brought Nussbaum private school, an alcoholic mother, and a father incapable of dealing with weakness. During this time, Nussbaum remembers being very angry and feeling like she could not speak of

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women and the leading cause of death among women in underdeveloped countries. In fact, 500,000 cases are diagnosed each year worldwide. This particular cancer is found mainly in middle-aged to older women; it is very rare to find it in women age fifteen and younger. The average age of women with cervical cancer is age 50-55; however, the cancer begins to appear in women in their twenties (2). It is also found in women of lower-class areas, as

There are many mathematicians that have changed the way we think; from simple word problems to the way gravity and motion works. Without them where would we be? Somewhere still stuck in the dark. Where would we be without female mathematicians standing up for girl power? Somewhere lost; somewhere confused; and somewhere brainwashed that men can do better jobs than US females. Amalie Emmy Noether is a great example of a female

up to me and said “I hate you because Donald Trump won. This really hurt my feelings. My situation however wasn’t as bad the one faced by Andi Moritz, a college student at Bryn Mawr. It all started when she put a post online asking for a ride to Trump rally.The comments she received and the bullying after that were so bad she called her college suicide hotline where she found no consolation.

Chinese immigrants in 1915, Boggs studied at Barnard College and went on to earn her Ph.D. in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College. For years, she pored over the work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Polanyi and Karl Marx, and even translated three of Marx's essays from German to English. She was fascinated by the process and challenge of thinking through complicated ideas. She developed a passion for marxism and other people of those beliefs in college. She was also very hardworking. Her dedication

ideas that would directly correspond to his programs and other attempts at federal power gains. Woodrow Wilson was only a young man, only graduation eight years before his article was written. During the time it was written, Wilson taught at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. He wrote this paper to share his political ideas with others. There could be many events that influence Wilson’s writings but it is most likely the local politics of the Gilded Age. The Gilded Age was the time period

Along with the National geographic society being founded, 1888 was also the year Hilda Doolittle was born in Bethlehem Pennsylvania. This soon to be Imagist writer was known mainly for her poems. What differentiated her from most other Imagists at the time was her identity a female and bisexual which both at the time were severely oppressed. Along with the political stance, Hilda Doolittle also faced struggles growing up due to being only daughter in her family and her father being a science professor

Amalie ‘‘Emmy” Noether 1882-1935 Emmy Noether was born on March 23, 1882, in Erlangen, Germany, into a family of five. Her parents were Max and Ida Noether. Since she was a woman, she couldn’t attend college. Instead, she had to attend a finishing school in Erlangen, Germany named Höhere Töcher Schule. In 1900, at the age of 18, she passed the State of Bavaria examinations and became certified to teach English and French. Because she had a strong love of mathematics, she decided to pursue a career

learned things that women were supposed to know and do, such as cooking and cleaning. People began to think she was a mathematical genius when she solved a brain teaser quickly at an early age while she was at a birthday party. Instead of going to college and learning more math, when she was older, she went to finishing school. There she focused on learning different languages, specifically English and French. When she completed school,