Did you know Betty Crocker was never really a real person? She is just a made up figure used to answer letters for a contest started by the Washburn Crosby Company, a precede company of General Mills. Betty Crocker is an American icon who helped women in all types of cooking. Betty Crocker was a character created to sign off letters answering questions for a contest, made a brand and company out of it, and encouraged women to become comfortable in the kitchen.
In 1921 Gold Medal Flour, owned by the Washburn Crosby Company, started a contest that whoever could solve a jigsaw puzzle of a flour milling scene would win a pincushion that resembled a flour sack. Gold Medal Flour started receiving thousands of responses and questions about baking. The Washburn Crosby Company decided to create a woman to answer all the letters. This was the creation of Betty Crocker. They chose the name Betty because the name sounded friendly. Crocker was chosen as the last name after a recently retired director of the company, William G. Crocker. The signature was to be chosen from many signatures sent in from people all over America. The winner was named Florence Lindeberg and her signature for Betty Crocker is still used at the end of all the cooking, baking, and domestic advice letters today. The Betty Crocker name was becoming more and more popular. The
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In 1924 Betty Crocker started a radio show. The station it premiered on was called WCCO and was located in Minneapolis. Betty was first voiced by a woman named Majorie Child Husted. The show was called “The Betty Crocker Cooking School on Air.” It was the first daytime radio cooking show. In the next year the show was a hit and expanded to 13 regional stations. Soon after it became a national broadcast. The show was a huge success and ran for 24 years. The radio show helped women not feel confined to their own towns. Women were able to share their problems with people all over the
Annie Turnbo Malone was an entrepreneur and was also a chemist. She became a millionaire by making some hair products for some black women. She gave most of her money away to charity and to promote the African American. She was born on august 9, 1869, and was the tenth child out of eleven children that where born by Robert and Isabella turnbo. Annie’s parents died when she was young so her older sister took care of her until she was old enough to take care of herself.
Kathleen Orr, popularly known as Kathy Orr is a meteorologist for the Fox 29 Weather Authority team on WTXF in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born on October 19, 1965 and grew up in Westckave, Geddes, New York with her family. The information about her parents and her siblings are still unknown. As per bio obtained online, Kathy Orr is also an author. She has written a number of books like Seductive Deceiver, The drifter's revenge and many others. She graduated in Public Communications from S. I. Newhouse which is affiliated to Syracuse University.
Rosie the riveter was the face of recruiting women into the Armed Forces during WWII. The increasing demand for soldiers was not being filled fast enough by just males. As a result, between the years 1940 and 1945, the percentage of female service members increased from 27% to 37%. Even on the civilian side of things, the ratio of married working women outside of their homes increased to one out of every four. The population of women that did not join the war was prompted by Rosie the Riveter’s iconic image to work in one of the many munitions industries throughout the US. In 1943, not only had the female population contributed exponential numbers in support of the war; but women had begun to dominate. Reports indicate that more than 310,000 women worked in the U.S. aircraft industry; this made up more than half of the total workforce. Prior to this moment in history, women’s involvement in the aircraft industry was merely one percent.
Two years after Life with Elizabeth, White starred in Date with the Angels. Some of Whites early guest appearances were on Petticoat Junction and The United States Steel She was on one of 2010s Super Bowl Commercials for Snickers that was a amazing opportunity in her career. In 2012 Betty White hosted Betty White's Off Their Rockers. Off Their Rockers was a hidden camera show about her older generation pull pranks on younger generations.
Ruth Posner is one of the many few holocaust survivors and a great dancer, choreographer and actress. Ruth was born on April 20, 1933, in Warsaw. She was raised in a Jewish family with her parents, but went to a Catholic school. At home, she spoke Polish. Ruth suddenly started hearing offensive comments by some of her close Polish Catholic friends. They said things like “you killed Christ.” It was an incredible shock.” That was just the beginning. By the time she was just 12, and the Second World War was underway, Ruth had lost both her parents and her world as she knew it. She was in the middle of the Holocaust.
What is it like to live a life with Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)? Narcissism is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy. People with this disorder can be vindictive, selfish, cunning person. They do not care who is harmed or hurt. Abigail was the leader of all of the girls that were seen dancing and calling on evil spirits. Abigail would threaten the girls by saying if they said anything, she would kill or harm them severely. She wanted what she couldn’t have, so that made her psychologically unstable. Abigail William’s would be convicted in today’s court because she gave many threats to kill the girls who were with her the night they were dancing if they spoke up in court, her behavior caused harm to many even though she may not have physically done damage herself and due to previous court cases, some people diagnosed with Narcissism were found innocent due to their mental instability but others were guilty because they were mentally unstable. As it is shown, Narcissistic Personality Disorder causes her to be selfish, arrogant, dangerous, and obsess over the man she could not have, because Abigail threatened the girls she was with the night they were dancing, to not confess to anything in court.
Barbie was created by Ruth Handler, whose husband co-founded Mattel, the world's largest toy company. She noticed a gap in the market as she saw her daughter, Barbra, playing with adult paper dolls. At the time, the market for young girls was focused on baby dolls, but Barbra and her friends preferred to play with a grown-up version, dressing them up in outfits and pretending they were the grown up women they were playing with. Ruth then thought to create a 3- dimensional fashion doll that she would name Barbie after her daughter, Barbra. When presenting the idea to executives at Mattel, she was shot down, being told that they were too expensive to make for the amount of detail Ruth ...
She was revered by many people in her time, a time when women struggled to get that reverence. At the university, she was Dean of Women, a member of the Arizona Board of Regents from 1951 to 1959, and Special Assistant to the University President John Schaefer. My mother told me that
Charlotte Perkins Gilman defied this stereotype. Although she was married twice, in neither relationship did she follow the standard role of homemaker. Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1860, she was raised by a single mother and grew up to be an artist and art teacher. She married in 1884 and had a daughter the following year. However, after her pregnancy she sank into a deep postpartum depression and was sent to a sanitarium for women. There, the prescribed treatment of rest and isolation nearly drove her insane and ...
“She was from Pasadena, this six-foot-two marvel of a woman. It was not so much because she was an extraordinary cook- and she would pointedly remind us that she was a cook, not a chef” (Kehoe 1). Julia Child was an extraordinary woman who had a passion for cooking that she didn’t even know could change the way people cook. Julia Child most definitely influenced cooking for generations to come with her passion for cooking and love for food.
...s to give girls inspiration to live aspire for their dreams. Ruth Handler’s invention came to life just as she thought it would. Even after Handlers time Barbie’s are still such an important part of girl’s childhoods. This simple idea evolved into the number one toy making industry and the most popular doll in the world. Even though her body proportions are not ideal, she is still a beloved part of the common childhood. Ruth Handler believed in herself and her ideas. She was a successful entrepreneur, businesswoman, and inventor.
Maria Rosetta O’Neale (original name) helped end the civil war when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the north won. She was known as “Rebel Rose”. She proved that women could do just as good as a man in the military.
It is because of Ann that I am in the position of a figure skating instructor, today. She is an incredible person and her family history has given women a beautiful reputation. Women like Ann are what make the struggles that women went through in our history worthwhile.
Oodgeroo Noonuccal; high school dropout; domestic servant; divorced; deceased; this is not all she is known for.