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Bette Greene was born on June 28, 1934, in Memphis, Teneesee. Although she was born in Memphis, Bette grew up in Parkin, Arkansas. She lived during the Great Depression and World War II. Her and her family were of Jewish faith which didn't bode them too well in the very dense Christian community they resided in. She was constantly put under descrimination because of it. Her parents owned a store and so did her grandparents. The parents however, were rarely there to care for her so Bette was mostly cared for by her African-American housekeeper named “Ruth”. Later in life, her and her parents moved back to Memphis where she attended highscool. Her grades were lackluster especially when it came to English since she had trouble with small grammatical mistakes as well as spelling errors. This didn't stop her however, from writing for the school. After graduating, she studied in France for a bit, then came back to Tennessee. She then went …show more content…
From there on after, life began to slow down for her, and she began writing books such as, Summer of My German Solider. In her book, Summer of My German Soldier, a major idea was the fact that Patty started to like a German POW who she eventually fall in love with. During World War II, there were all sorts of POW camps. The Germans, Japanese, British and others all had these camps. The Americans had around 155 camps which they controlled. These camps were heaven compared to those in other countries. The American POW camps provide the prisoners with huge meals, the ability to decorate their prison cells, and strong relationships between them and the guards watching over them. However in Japan, out of all 95000 or so prisoners in the camps, more than
O’Hara was born in Chicago Illinois in 1913. There, she initially lived a happy life as the daughter of strict Catholic parents. She was a beautiful Irish woman with fair skin and dark eyes and hair. Dazzled by jewels and gorgeous clothing, O’Hara fell into the oldest profession. Becoming accustomed to fast money, she left home and went to San Francisco. A few years later in mid-1938 she took what she learned and moved to Hawaii to make money.
To start with, Rosie Perez or Rosa Marie Perez was born on September 6, 1964 in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, United States. She is a actress, dancer, choreographer, director, and community activist. Her parents are Lydia Perez, a singer and Ismael Serrano, a merchant marine seaman. Her aunt had been raising and catering her until her mother, Lydia Perez took her away and put her in Foster Care when she was 3. It wouldn't be much of a surprise if Rosie was to detest her parents after all they put her through. Rosie stayed there until she moved in with another aunt when she was 12. Later on she joined a high school in Rightwood, Grover Cleveland High School. Now most of the confusion and sadness had culminate.
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate is the story of an African boy, Kek, who loses his father and a brother and flees, leaving his mother to secure his safety. Kek, now in Minnesota, is faced with difficulties of adapting to a new life and of finding his lost mother. He believes that his mother still lives and would soon join him in the new found family. Kek is taken from the airport by a caregiver who takes him to live with his aunt. It is here that Kek meets all that amazed him compared to his home in Sudan, Africa. Home of the brave shows conflicts that Kek faces. He is caught between two worlds, Africa and America. He feels guilty leaving behind his people to live in a distant land especially his mother, who he left in the midst of an attack.
Leroy and Norma Jean in the short story, “Shiloh” by Bobbie Ann Mason, are a married couple, and they experience a series of events, which shapes them and determines there future. The final setting, Shiloh, works well to highlight the battles of war to the battles between Norma Jean and Leroy. Throughout the story Mason is focused on the persistency of grief, the instability of gender roles, along with the distance and lack of communication separating Leroy and Norma Jean from each other. Mason illustrates how marriage can be a struggle striving to work out to the very end.
Coretta Scott King was born on April 27, 1927 in Heiberger, Alabama. Heiberger was a small segregated town. Coretta’s parents were Obadiah and Bernice Scott. She has an older sister named Edythe and a younger brother, Obie. Coretta was named after her grandmother Cora Scott. Her family was hard working and devoted Christians. Coretta had a strong temper, feared no one and stood up for herself.
Lena Horne was born on June 30, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents were Teddy and Edna Scottron Horne. After her father left her at the age of two in order to pursue his gambling career; her mother leaving soon after that to pursue her acting career; she went to live with her grandparents. Through her grandparents influence she became involved with organizations like the NAACP, at an early age.
The poem, “Field of Autumn”, by Laurie Lee exposes the languorous passage of time along with the unavoidability of closure, more precisely; death, by describing a shift of seasons. In six stanzas, with four sentences each, the author also contrasts two different branches of time; past and future. Death and slowness are the main motifs of this literary work, and are efficiently portrayed through the overall assonance of the letter “o”, which helps the reader understand the tranquility of the poem by creating an equally calmed atmosphere. This poem is to be analyzed by stanzas, one per paragraph, with the exception of the third and fourth stanzas, which will be analyzed as one for a better understanding of Lee’s poem.
Bessie Smith was born on April 15, 1894, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Smith had a mother, father, and seven brothers. Her mother, father, and two brothers died before she turned nine years old, which greatly impacted her life. Viola Smith, Bessie’s eldest sister, took up the mother role of their family, and to help pay rent, Bessie and one of her brothers began street performing. The brother Bessie would street perform with began performing minstrel troupes, which is where she got inspiration from. After finishing eighth grade, Smith began her entertainment career. She began working in the Moses Stokes minstrel show, and later in the Rabbit Foot Minstrels, which Pa and Ma Rainey, both popular blues
June is one of the most important and inspiring characters in the novel. Although she dies in the beginning of the novel, her existence still appears throughout the whole novel. As a child June suffered from emotional damage and it has a major effect on her life. June’s mother dies when she is young and her father is not stable enough to take care of her so Marie Kashpaw decides to take her in and allow her to become a Kashpaw She does not have any similarities with Marie so her uncle Eli raises her. She does not want to trust a woman after the encounter with her parents. Before her mother dies she lets June out into the wilderness and June was found living off of tree sap. As a result of her not having parents she does not be the mother that
Great people often arise from unlikely places. During the civil war women were barred from serving in the army; however, women did sometimes disguise themselves as men and enlisted in both the Confederate and Union armies. During the Civil War years of 1861 to 18-65, soldiers under arms mailed countless letters home from the front. There are multiple accounts of women serving in military units during the Civil War, but a majority of these incidents are extremely hard to verify. Nevertheless, there is the one well-documented incident of the female Civil War soldier by the name of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman.
But in world war two, they weren’t the only country with camps worst than death. In even today’s world, human trafficking is a problem, women and men taken from their homes and some sold to satisfy people 's “needs”. During world war two, a woman slave or ‘comfort women’ were made to perform anything the Japanese soldiers wanted. These women were very rarely women in their 20s or older, usually these girls were as young as 13 years old and as old as 15 years old. These women could be forced into rape up to 20 or more times a day with many different men. Interviewed, Prescilla Bartonico tells her story that at the age of 17 he cousin was raped by the army in front of her then killed. They then did the same to her but kept her alive and made her family watch. She was then taken and imprisoned, forced to work, and obey any order given. At the age of only 15, Rosa Maria Henson suffered the same fate, she was abducted and imprisoned for 9 months. Many more women came forward after Henson shared her story. It was later found out that “An estimated 400,000 women and girls across Asia were abducted and forced to serve in so-called “comfort stations” by the Japanese military during World War II. A majority of these victims were taken hostage in South Korea and China, but women were captured in virtually every territory occupied by the Japanese”(Mosbergen). These women were pretty much stipped of any rights
Prisoners and Jews taken during the war were forcibly relocated to areas with “no prepared lodging or sanitary facilities and little food for them” (Tucker). Often said the people were simply being held prisoner, many of them died; some from the brutality of the German soldiers and others through methods for mass killing (Tucker). The labor camps in the novel are based off of this concept; people being taken to an area with poor treatment and then being killed. Towards the beginning of the novel, June believes students who fail the trial go to labor camps and are never seen again (Lu 8). Later in the novel, Day enlightens June about the labor camps by telling her “the only labor camps are the morgues in hospital basements” (Lu 205). In both the labor camps featured in Legend and World War II prison camps, the people are told they are being taken away when in reality they are killed. Furthermore, in the Nazi Germany prison camps the people were living in poor conditions up until their death, similar to the individuals in the novel who were experimented on for the benefit of the military. The portrayal of labor camps as similar to wartime prison camps points out the brutality of the government towards its citizens, as well as, the way leaders tell lies to cover their unethical
This is an essay on the short story “Soldier’s Home” by Hemingway. Will the life of a soldier ever be the same after returning from war? Many generations of young adults have gone from their homes with tranquil settings to experience war and come home to a different world. Many have witnessed the devastations and atrocities that occur with war. Harold Krebs, a young man from a small town with a loving family is no different from those before him and those to follow. The anguish of what war is however cannot dispel the thoughts and memories of what many young men come home to face in the real world. Many have trouble coping in the new world known as home.
Civil rights activist and writer, Maya Angelou was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928. At the age of three, Angelou witnessed a divorce between her parents and was sent to live with her grandmother. At the age of eight, she was removed from her comfortable lifestyle
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4th, 1913. She was born in the town Tuskegee of Alabama. Her father and mother were James McCauley and Leona Edwards. Her father worked as a carpenter and her mother was a teacher. She also had a younger brother named Sylvester. During her childhood though, her parents separated. Rosa’s mother took Rosa and her younger brother to live with her in a town located near Montgomery called Pine Level. Since the separation of Rosa’s parents when she moved, she spent the rest of her childhood living on her grandparent’s , Sylvester and Rose Edwards, farm. Rosa’s grandparents were by the way, former slaves. Rosa was homeschooled until she turned 11 years old. After that she was then sent to public school , she went to the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery. Unfortunately Rosa’s grandmother became very ill and Rosa was forced to drop out and care for her sick grandmother. On the bright side, she later went back to school and got her education back on track.