In 1944, Marguerite Bonnema experienced a life-threatening situation. Marguerite had been informed her neighbor's illegitimate baby girl was going to be killed. Immediately, Marguerite took in the child with her friend, Mary DeBoer. Eventually, the two roommates had taken in five more babies. In November of 1944, with the help of Andrew VanderMeer, Bethany Christian Home was established as a nonprofit organization. In 1951, Bethany was able to serve as an adoption agency and gave twenty-five children a loving home and pregnancy services to 59 expecting mothers were given that
In Karen Russell’s short story St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves Claudette, the main character, and other teenagers are being raised in a home where they learn how to adapt to human society. Some girls accomplish this task while other girls fail. The wolf girl Claudette truly is conformed and successfully adapts to human society. Claudette proves this by her relationship with her other sisters along with her relationship with herself.
Myrtle Wells, a nurse. At 6 months of age she and her parents were sent to a
Watkins, S.A. (1990). The Mary Ellen myth: Correcting child welfare history. Social Work, 35(6), pp. 500-503.
“The Pastoralization of Housework” by Jeanne Boydston is a publication that demonstrates women’s roles during the antebellum period. Women during this period began to embrace housework and believed their responsibilities were to maintain the home, and produce contented and healthy families. As things progressed, housework no longer held monetary value, and as a result, womanhood slowly shifted from worker to nurturer. The roles that women once held in the household were slowly diminishing as the economy became more industrialized. Despite the discomfort of men, when women realized they could find decent employment, still maintain their household and have extra income, women began exploring their option.
The foster care system, then as now was desperate for qualified homes. Kathy and her husband had become certified foster parents, she was a certified teacher, and they had empty beds in their home. Their phone soon bega...
Madeleine Neveu eloquently gives words of wisdom to her daughter Catherine in her piece entitled, "Epistle to My Daughter." Madeleine is quite aware of the attitude surrounding educated women in her time period. Yet, she abandons those opinions to express her own for her daughter. Her epistle embraces the need for a woman to be true to herself and to stand on her own two feet, as opposed to relying on a man to hold her up.
In Innocent Voices, directed by Luis Mandoki and Maria Full of Grace, directed by Joshua Marston, Chava and Maria struggle with abuse in Latin America. In Innocent Voices, Chava, struggling for an average childhood in El Salvador, is hard-pressed to avoid the war which is raving around him. In Maria Full of Grace, Maria's floriculture income helps her family until she is fired. Her lack of a job, makes her accept a job as a drug mule where she will fly to the United States with cocaine inside her. Chava and Maria achieve contradictory positions as humans determining their stance within violence going on in Latin American.
The lessons that are taught through experience are usually the ones that stick with children for a lifetime. In Toni Cade Bambara's “The Lesson”, Miss Moore, a prominent character in the story, teaches a lesson to underprivileged children growing up in Harlem. Bambara's work is described as “stories [that] portray women who struggle with issues and learn from them.” (Vertreace, Par. 48) Bambara uses Miss Moore and her characteristics to teach Sylvia and the other children about social inequality and the idea of pursuing personal aspirations regardless of social status. Miss Moore has many admirable characteristics; she's intelligent, patient and caring.
Everyone seeks the comfort of the stability in their own home. Ellen Foster knows her home is rather abnormal. Enduring physical, mental, and sexual abuse from her family, Ellen learns early on that what she wants is what she cannot seem to find: a loving home. Through challenging adversities in the novel, Ellen finally found a family that suited her needs, in a foster home. Once she had at last found her place that she felt fit, her first thought was to invite her best friend, Starletta, to present her pride of her new, blissful, life. This passage, references to history, repayment, and equality serve to emphasize Ellen’s desire to atone for thinking she was better than Starletta in the past. Ellen’s journey of finding a stable home life leads to her discovery of the love of her true friend.
Jasmine Beckford’s case is the oldest out of the three; in 1984 Jasmine died as a result of long-term abuse aged 4. In 1981 her and her younger sister suffered serious injuries and were paced with foster carers for six months. After this they were allowed back home with their mother on a trial basis as social services were meant to support them. During the last ten months of Jasmine’s life she was only seen once by social workers (Corby, 2006).
Jeannette and her father Rex have a hopeful beginning to their relationship which consists of its own heroic moments filled with many learning experiences, moments of trust, and source of comfort, which letter on took a disappointing end filled with, hypocrisy, lack of trust, lack of protection, alcohol addictions, and death.
Times of religious upheaval and need for urbanization following the Renaissance gave rise to the production of lavish artworks during the Baroque era in Italy. Characterized by intense emotion and dynamism, Baroque art reflected the power of Roman antiquity but typified the renewed piety of Roman Catholics. The opulent urbanization projects patronized by the church culminated in the verisimilitude of Baroque paintings. One painting that reflects such change is Saint John the Baptist Preaching by Mattia Preti, also known as Il Calabrese. Preti was born in 1613 in Taverna, Calabria to a modest family with ecclesiastical connections. Preti was well traveled around Italy and was exposed to artworks from the likes of Correggio, Mantegna, and Raphael. As with other artists during the Baroque era, his oil painting of St. John the Baptist Preaching executed in 1665 has a distinct Caravagesque style. It exemplifies Italian Baroque art through his dramatic, lively presentation of his subject, extreme attention to naturalism, and monumental composition.
“Courage, Sacrifice , Determination, Commitment, Toughness, Heart, Talent, Guts, that’s what a little Girl made of.” After the terrifying shark attack, Bethany Hamilton demonstrated resilience by overcoming the Tragedy to achieve her surfing dream.
The “General Prologue” provides us with no evidence as to the character of the Nun’s Priest. Only in the prologue to his tale do we finally get a glimpse of who he might be, albeit rather obtusely. As Harry Bailey rather disparagingly remarks: “Telle us swich thyng as may oure hertes glade./Be blithe, though thou ryde upon a jade” (p.235, ll2811-2812). I say this cautiously because much criticism has surrounded the supposed character of the Nun’s Priest, his role in the tale, and his relationship to the Canterbury Tales as a whole. One example, in my opinion, of an unsatisfactory reading is exemplified by Arthur Broes’s 1963 article “Chaucer’s Disgruntled Cleric: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale.” Broes argues that the Nun’s Priest is an “erudite clergyman” (Broes 162) who attacks his ecclesiastical superiors, most notably the Prioress, for their supposed spiritual failings. Although one can clearly find allusions to the Prioress (line 2835 would be a most poignant example, “No deyntee morsel passed thurgh hir throte”) in the tale, nevertheless I think that Broes’s reading is very much one-sided. Indeed, Derek Pearsall would seem to agree. Pearsall’s 1984 Variorum is an invaluable source of information on the sources and analogues of the tale, as well as a fairly thorough summary of critical approaches to the tale. Regarding the Nun’s Priest’s character, and the question of a so-called ‘dramatic’ reading of the text, Pearsall finds there to be two main critical camps: those who maintain that the Nun’s Priest’s character can be ascertained from textual evidence thus affecting any reading of the tale, whilst others, typified perhaps by Robert Kilburn Root hold the following position: “Neither in the General Prologue nor in the links which ...
Religion is a key aspect to the culture of today’s society, as well as, for thousands of years prior. One major key distinction remains, most religions are male dominated traditions. Catholic, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy truly exemplify this. However, the importance and major role women play within the realm of different theologies is evident. Mary, the Catholic Virgin Mary, the Jewish Rachel, and Islamic Fatima are three important saints whose influence and importance is recognized. The term saint sometimes may blur between mortal beings and heavenly realms. Nonetheless, the three saints named have significance within their particular religious content. Rachel, Mary and Fatima contrast significantly in legends, descriptions and religious philosophies, but are comparable in devotions and reasons revered.