Martha Ballard

“My life as a midwife is about being an ordinary woman who witnesses everyday miracles.” (Sommers) Martha Ballard in A Midwife’s Tale, comparatively presented herself as the first famous midwife. However, Martha showed herself as a major figure in a male-dominated society. Although she was married to Ephraim Ballard, that didn't stop her from doing what she loved. She was a free woman in a male-dominated society, doing as she pleased to put food on the table. Martha’s tasks as a midwife and personality

As a midwife, mother, and medicinal worker in revolutionary America, Martha Ballard demonstrates the tenacity of women in this era. She works endlessly, serves people in need, runs her own household, and engages in economic and social affairs sometimes all in the same day. Combining these facets of her life, Ballard creates a unique identity for herself in her world, and this identity reveals itself through the entries in her personal journal. Ballard’s identity is composed of her value of labor

Ballard, Martha (1785-1812). “Martha Ballard’s Diary Online.” Do History Archive. Martha Ballard, a famous Maine midwife, attended more than eight hundred births during her twenty-seven year tenure as sole midwife to her community. She journaled regularly over the course other adult life, yielding nearly ten thousand diary entries in total. This archive provides an unparalleled look into the role of the midwife in the delivery process. Additionally, several of Martha Ballard’s patients, especially

Robert Ballard: Exploration of the Deep Sea Robert Ballard was one of the great explorers who discovered numerous secrets about the deep sea and science while encountering new creatures and natural resources as he explored and exchanged new ideas of using technology and incorporating it into his discoveries. Ballard is known for two of his most famous findings: the shipwreck of the Titanic and the Bismarck. The ideas of using technology to assist with his findings helped him create his own equipment

The Awakening: Comparison Of Main Characters Verses Biblical Women Throughout history, there have been certain gender roles established for both males and females. For ages, many held the belief that women must fit a certain mold— good wife, housekeeper, caretaker, etc.,— solely based on the notion that "that 's what women are supposed to do". These societal standards that women are held to are prevalent in all kinds of literature, ranging from works from biblical times to the late nineteenth century

The Painting Martha and Mary Magdalene is one of the many masterpieces in the DIA’s collection in Detroit. Although there is much more to understanding a work of art then just looking at it. In order to understand a piece, you have to understand the Artist, the time period, and the symbols in that painting that may have very different meaning today. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio better known as simply Caravaggio was an Italian Baroque master painter born in Italy around 1571. After he apprenticed

Ballard along with many other new wave science fiction writers believed that science fiction should be taken seriously as a form of literature. In order to fulfill this belief the new wave science fiction writers began experimenting with language and their style of writing, creating "cognitive estrangement”, indicating a kind of alienation or de-familiarization effect that they used to separate postmodern/new wave science fiction from traditional/pulp science fiction. Ballard, amongst many others

Biography of Martha Graham Martha Graham was known as the mother of American dance. She was born on May 11, 1894 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. At fourteen she moved with her family to California and began dancing. The first dance recital she saw was in Los Angeles, California by choreographer and dance pioneer, Ruth St. Denis. When Graham was twenty-two years old she joined the Denishawn school and dance troupe. The school of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn had a great impact on Graham’s

1990 in North Tarrytown, New York at the age of ninety. Without question his most famous work is his Pulitzer Prize winning “Appalachian Spring” with which he received the prestigious award in 1945. Commissioned by American dancer and choreographer Martha Graham in 1943, Copland finished the work a year later while teaching at Harvard. The song had a traditional American sound much like his previous works, “Quiet City” and “Billy the Kid” and won immediate success with audiences when it debuted in

resemblance to Doris Humphrey’s technique which focused on the breath while dancing. I noticed this in almost all of the dances in the first half, but especially “Etched Breath” by Kelly Francis. “Separating the Strand” was slightly dissimilar to Martha Graham’s technique because it didn’t seem to utilize the contract and release method and did not include as much of the percussive, sharp movement quality. Because of all I have learned about modern dance this semester, I believe I was better able