Woman born

The story Pirate Women, adapted by Frank R. Stockholm, is a very probable story, in that many elements of the life of the main character, Mary Read, considered to be a famous woman pirate, may have actually happened. Long ago, Mary Read was born to a father who was a sailor, and a mother who accompanied him. When she grew up, Mary joined the army disguised as a man, where she met her first husband, and kept a tavern with him until he died shortly thereafter. Then Mary became a sailor, and, one day

Who is a woman? Is it a caregiver? Teacher? Mother - figure? These are the terms that society associates with woman, but in reality they are much more. A woman can also be a genuine person that helps guide us throughout the journey of life helping us overcome our mistakes and compliments us for our achievements. Most people would even say that the most influential person in their life is their mother. The well-known quote, “Behind every successful man, there is a strong, wise, and hardworking woman”

that he was born as a man because of his pretty face and voice, but there was no action. Chen Zigao still dressed in a man’s clothing. After Chen Zigao met the Prince of Linchuan and moved into the palace with him, he started to dressed up in women’s clothing and also “paint cherry lips and pencil misty-mountains brows” (Wang, 71). The moment when he arrived in the palace, he performed his duties as a wife’s role to the Prince. Chen believed he was the most beautiful and stunning woman in the Palace

a well-known author of biographies, tells the story of Cleopatra, the most powerful woman in history, who ruled Egypt in 70 BC. She is also the beauty, with whom Caesar and Mark Anthony fell hopelessly in love. Written in a unique way, trying to abolish stereotypes about Cleopatra, it is a fascinating novel, about power and love. It shows how these two mix and matched, while creating history. Stacy Schiff was born in 1961. She finished the Philips Andover Academy and went on to earn a BA at Williams

Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange is a social realistic photographer born in 1845. She was born in Hoboken, New Jersey to Johanna and Heinrich Nutzhorn. In her upbringing, art and literature were huge parts of her life. Exposure to the Arts filled her with creativity that carried her to her adult years. After high school was when she decides to pursue photography as a career. She went to Columbia University and then worked hard for seven years as an apprentice. Finally, in 1918 she ran a successful portrait

most famous woman characters, namely, Hedda Gabler, and Mrs. Alving, the protagonist of his play, “Ghosts”. He developed the character of Mrs. Alving not as the ideal wife or mother as the society was used to finding in literature uptil then, but by portraying her imperfections in a realistic manner, he garnered the right attention from his audience and made them uncomfortable, by showing them a side of womanhood which was full of vices and shortcomings, but still as real as a woman can get, and

That they, themselves, are in fact, goddesses in their own right? The OED ‘goddess’ helps us understand that a goddess is any woman who is beautiful, empowered, and in touch with nature.     According to the OED, the first definition of ‘goddess’ is a female deity. Its second definition is “a woman who is adored, especially for her beauty”. A beautiful woman is a persuasive woman, but what about her other attributes? Beauty

she was born on, is unlucky for females. Although Esperanza understands the Mexican ideal of an obedient woman, she completely rejects the lifestyle. "She was a horse woman too, born like me in the Chinese year of the horse which is supposed to be bad luck if you're born female but I think this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the Mexicans, don't like their women strong." The strong tone Esperanza writes in shows her admiration of her great grandmother's free spirit as a "horse woman," which

their self image. Thanks to media, magazines, models, and society standards, the image of a normal woman has been twisted into an unobtainable image. Marge Piercy 's “Barbie Doll” perfectly defines this thought, and shadows a woman who feeds into the pressure of a superior image. Let it be noticed that this piece was written in the late 60 's, and compare the harsh and drastic change from the “perfect woman” from that day and age to now. The comparison is exquisite, seeing as the pressure was so strong

ynn Peril’s, Pink Think is a book that examines the influences of the feminine ideal. Peril was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1985. She writes, edits, publishes, and dissects popular culture, especially that concerning gender-related behavioral instructions. She starts off the essay with her thesis saying that the human female is bombarded with advice on how to wield those feminine craftiness. She starts the book with how young women were supposed