to women. In order to become a nurse midwife, I would need to attend a graduate-level nurse midwifery program. After careful consideration of various factors, the University of Massachusetts UMass Lowell appears to be the most suitable option for my nursing education and midwifery specialization given my location in Lowell. UMass Lowell stands out with its accredited undergraduate and graduate nursing programs which prioritize evidence-based practice, clinical excellence, and interdisciplinary
education system can be found right here in the city of Lowell. According to the United States Census Bureau, the median household income for the year 2012 was about $51,714 annually compared with the average income throughout Massachusetts which was about $66,658 annually. Additionally in the year 2012, the statistics for the persons below the poverty level was 17.3 percent, significantly higher than Massachusetts average of 11.0 percent. Lowell is known as an urban environment and a city full of many
Percival Lowell was a well-known businessman, mathematician, author, and astronomer. He is the founder of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. He is also well known for popularizing the idea that Mars had life. His ideas had an immense impact on science fiction, as well as science itself. Not only that, Lowell’s search for “Planet-X” led to the discovery of Pluto. On March 13, 1855, Percival Lowell was born in Cambridge, to a wealthy Bostonian family. His parents were Augustus Lowell, a president
Antebellum Biography Research Paper: Francis Cabot Lowell “One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?” once said Francis Cabot Lowell. This quote explains the relevance of having goals and continuing to accomplish them while inspiring many people that imagining is just the beginning of accomplishing our goals. This basically means that everybody should have specific goals and one way
Capitalism and Feudalism: The Lowell System During the mid-nineteenth century, as the industrial revolution was taking shape, so too, was an economic system in Lowell, Massachusetts. The system involved a series of textile mills, which hired mostly women from rural towns, which were slowly giving way to the large cities as a result of industrialization. The textile mills hired the women to work long hours in brutal, often dangerous conditions, and many paid high rent to company boardinghouses
13. Lowell Within this suburban community, investors will find urban amenities and exceptionally beautiful parks. Why Investing Is the Smart Choice Placed within Middlesex County, this community is the fourth largest city by population in the state. It is also the second biggest city according to population in the Boston metropolitan area. While this means that there is a lot of competition for real estate properties, investors will also find plenty of customers, renters and buyers for their investment
Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts. Plath’s mom met her soul mate while she was a master’s student at Boston University. Sylvia’s mom’s name was Aurelia Schober, and her dad’s name was Otto Plath. When Sylvia was only 8 years old, her father died from problems with diabetes. Her father was very strict and mean. Sylvia’s father’s death and strict authority was the reason for all her poems and stories. She specifically wrote a poem about her father, “Daddy”. Sylvia was
mill executives, foremen and operatives. The cotton mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, and other New England sites began to employ the first female industrial labor force in the United States. Almost twenty years later, factory workers wrote and edited the Lowell Offering, a literary magazine showcasing the virtues and talents of the female operatives in verse, essays and short fiction (Eisler, 13-22). This ESSAY discusses the female Lowell factory worker as portrayed in the Offering. Although the magazine
Jean-Louis Kerouac aka Jack was born on March 12th, 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts to Leo and Gabrielle who were immigrants from Quebec, Canada. Kerouac learned to speak French at home then he learned how to speak English at school. His father owned a print shop and his mother stayed a home. In the summer of 1926 Jack's older brother Gerard died of rheumatic fever at nine years old. The family was overcome by grief and became more involved in church as is shown in some of his books. Jack loved to
What is the purpose of college? Imagine a classroom with 30 students. The desks are in evenly spaced rows facing the whiteboard. The professor paces back and forth, while reading off a PowerPoint. The students frantically write what is said, in case of something not being in the textbook. Every week there are quizzes and every month there is a test. Not once does the professor ask the class their thoughts on the topic. Rarely does the professor stop to answer questions. When the class is stopped
My love of the U.S military had always been the guiding light in what I thought my future would be. I knew I would join the military, I was unwaveringly certain; in my mind, there was nothing that would get in my way. I strove to adhere to the principles of what I thought a soldier should be. I did my utmost to live with honor, I tirelessly honed my physical prowess, I selflessly endeavored to serve my local community, and I loved the country which provided my family with many an opportunity. This
Town were upheld. My work with the ZBA involved extensive engagement with other Town boards and officials, providing valuable insight into the administration of the Town as a whole. In my time with the ZBA, I also became well acquainted with the Massachusetts Open Meeting
Stephen Longfellow who was a politician and a lawyer. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an influential American poet, translator (He was the first American poet to translate Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy) and a professor at the Harvard University. One of Longfellow's most pretentious work is Evangeline: A tale of Acadie, an epic poem which follows the Acadian girl Evangeline and her search for her love Gabriel, a poem set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians (The forced removal
he would at school, the young boy is able to solve some of math’s most difficult problems. Studying at Princeton University, Nash is undaunted by other brilliant students and professors. At twenty-one, he writes a doctoral thesis which eventually makes him a Nobel Laureate. Falling in love with Alicia Larde (In the Film Jennifer Connelly), one of his graduate students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, John Nash marries and quickly has a son, John Charles Martin Nash. The family's world, sadly
With the utilization of the internet search engine Bing, I was able to pursue a Pennsylvania State University source from the electronically published brochure Policies Safety & U: 2017 Annual Security Report and Annual Fire Safety Report in PDF form, updated on September 28th. As a well-established institution, Penn State has an accredited reputation that accumulated over the course of the last century and a half, dedicated to education, research, and serving the public through various ways. The
explored the archetypal relationships between people and families and the myths our culture lives and dies by. She was greatly known for her personal poetry and confessional poetry, a genre much identified with poets such as Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, and W.D. Snodgrass. Sexton’s poetic themes involve her relationship with her family and intimate details about her life (her struggle against depression and suicidal attempts). Her most important poems express the chaos that she dealt with and her
was seventeen years old. His high school guidance counselor put emphasis on the saying of “work smart not hard.” This lead to the aggressive pushing of Universities and because of that trade schools began to decrease and vocational classes began to not be implemented into high school course selections. Everyone who choose not to go to a University were looked at as getting an “alternative education” with apprenticeship programs and community colleges because they were not “college
unspeakable in poetry. She was the voice that struggled so dearly to be heard through her confessional style of poetry. 1. Anne Sexton’s Personal Life Anne Gray Harvey Sexton was a famous poet and playwright of her time. She was born in Newton, Massachusetts. Her father was Ralph Harvey who was a successful woolen manufacturer. Her mother was Mary Gray Staples. She was an unwanted third daughter in the family. She was raised in a middle-class environment. Her life remained uneasy due to the fact that
(2011). Criminology: The Core. Fourth edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning. University of Massachusetts, Lowell. United Nations; (2014). Right to be Considered Innocent until Proven Guilty. Retrieved from www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/humanrights/.../11.asp/. Retrieved on May 19, 2014. Works Cited Siegel, L.J.; (2011). Criminology: The Core. Fourth edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning. University of Massachusetts, Lowell. United Nations; (2014). Right to be Considered Innocent until Proven Guilty
Alexa Leo Mrs. Garvey English III Honors 21 January 2016 The Life of Jack Kerouac The iconoclast of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts on March 12, 1922 to a French Canadian Family. Kerouac was a serious child, devoted to his controlling mother. From a young age, he created stories inspired first by the media surrounding him, such as radio shows and later by the novels of Thomas Wolfe, the writer he would model himself after. As a result of the decline of the economy