Good morning teacher and class, today my presentation is on Mary Helen MacKillop, the first Australian saint. I will talk about Mary MacKillop and how she was motivated to act because of her faith, prayer and the society in which she lived. Saint Mary MacKillop was a courageous woman of action. Born in 1842, she showed compassion for anyone in need regardless of race, colour or faith. Mary believed in the power of education for all and set up schools around Australia to make sure those disadvantaged by poverty and distance received an education. Mary MacKillop was the co-founder of the Josephites, the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart and under the guidance of the Order, she established schools for the poor and underprivileged in SA and later across Victoria and Sydney. Mary MacKillop was canonised on October 17, 2010 at St Peter's Basilica, Rome. …show more content…
Today, in an increasingly complex society, we must carry on Mary's legacy to continue helping those in need, with the aim of making more connected, stronger communities. Mary MacKillop was born in Melbourne in 1842.
Her parents, Flora and Alexander MacKillop, were Catholic immigrants from Scotland. Mary was the eldest of 8 children and was raised in a working-class Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy. Even though they rarely received formal school-based education, the MacKillop children were well-educated by their father in their faith and school work. In 1850, she received her first Holy Communion. In 1861, Mary took a position as Governess at Penola Homestead and met Father Julian Tenison Woods. 2 years later, she was appointed a paid teaching position at Portland Catholic Denominational School. She started a Stable School in 1866 on St Joseph’s day. Mary wore a plain black dress to indicate her devotion to God’s work. One year later, she opened the first convent-cottage in Grote Street, Adelaide. In 1871, Mary was excommunicated, but a year later, the order was removed. Mary travelled to Rome to seek approval of rules for the Sisters written by Fr Woods in 1873. In 1891, Mary suffered the first of many bouts of serious illness, and died 18 years later, on the 8th of August
1909. “In today’s second reading, Colossians 3:12-17, Paul describes the proper response of the Christian community to God’s love for and forgiveness of them: ‘As the chosen of God, the holy people whom he loves, you are to be clothed in heartfelt compassion, in generosity and humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with one another; forgive each other if one of you has a complaint against another.’ Mary MacKillop modelled this behaviour throughout the trials and tribulations of her life, and certainly followed the precepts set down in today’s gospel reading from Matthew: ‘Set your hearts on his kingdom first, and on God’s saving justice, and all these other things will be given you as well. So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” (liturgybrisbane.net, n.d.). Mary viewed crosses as blessings in disguise, an opportunity to learn and grow. “Mary cared about the people who had no one to look after them such as boys and girls who just roamed the streets, children in the country who had no school to go to, people who were old and sick and people who had nowhere to live. Mary wanted more than anything to help these people. Mary went to work as a teacher in Penola, a little country town in South Australia. There she met Father Julian Tenison Woods who also wanted to do something for the poor children who could not afford to pay the money needed to go to school. Together, in 1866, they created the first St Joseph’s School in an old stable. Two of Mary’s younger sisters also taught in the school and other young women came to help them. Mary’s school offered all students the opportunity to learn basic life skills.” (www.marymackillop.org.au, n.d.)
Mildred Day and Malitta Jensen had a problem. Often times amazing things can happen when people can find a solution to a problem. These homemakers were leaders of a Campfire Girls group. They needed the girls to make something that they could sell to raise funds for activities. The year was 1939 and these two busy ladies came up with Rice Krispie treats. They have truly become a world wide treat.
“Unteaching the Five Paragraph Essay” by Marie Foley demonstrates how a five paragraph essay formula disturbs the thought process of the students and limits what they can write. A five paragraph essay is an introduction with the main idea, with three supporting topics showing the relationship to the main idea, and a conclusion summarizing the entire essay. Foley argues that this formula forces students to fill in the blank and meet a certain a word limit. She noted that this formula was intended for teachers in the education system to teach an overcrowded class how to write. While it is beneficial for the first-time students learning how to write. In the long run, this standard destroys any free style writing, new connections between a topic,
Lucille Mulhall was born on October 21, 1885 in Oklahoma and died December 21, 1940 in Oklahoma when she got in a terrible vehicle accident. She is the first born child of Zach (1847-1931) and Mary Agnes Mulhall (1859-1931). Her sister’s name is Margaret Reed (1906-1925) and she was the last child born. She married her first husband in 1916 and his name was Martin Van Bergen. Lucille then divorced this man and married a man named Thomas Loyd Burnett (1871-1939). He was born in Denton County, Texas and died in Wichita County, Texas on December 26, 1938. Lucille Mulhall was a soft spoken and beautiful young lady. She was very feminine and had a very good education. When she was a teenager, she was known as one of the top cowboy performers in
Mary Eugenia Surratt, née Jenkins, was born to Samuel Isaac Jenkins and his wife near Waterloo, Maryland. After her father died when she was young, her mother and older siblings kept the family and the farm together. After attending a Catholic girls’ school for a few years, she met and married John Surratt at age fifteen. They had three children: Isaac, John, and Anna. After a fire at their first farm, John Surratt Sr. began jumping from occupation to occupation.
Mary Musgrove was a very powerful woman. She had influence in both the Indian and the Georgian colonist worlds. She kept the peace between the two groups and protested the unfair treatment towards those of Indian heritage. She also helped keep the Spaniards from overtaking Georgia by influencing the Indians to side with the colonists. Without her, things today could be quite different.
Mary MacKillop was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne on January the 15th 1842. She was the first child to Alexander MacKillop and Flora MacDonald. Mary was one child out of 8 and spent most of her childhood years looking after and acting like a second mother to her siblings. The MacKillop family were quite poor so at the young age of 14, Mary got herself a job as a governess and as teacher at a Portland school. All the money Mary earned went towards her families everyday living. While working as a governess, Mary met Father Julian Tension Woods. By the time Mary had reached the age of 15 she had decided that she wanted to be a nun. She also wanted to devote her life to the poor and less fortunate. So upon meeting Father Julian Tension Woods she told him her hopes and dreams, and together they decided to set up a school. In 1861, they worked together and opened Australia's first free Catholic school. At the time only the rich could afford schooling. But at the school Mary opened anyone was welcome. Mary was a great teacher and became very popular within the community. Although Mary was very pleased with her work she still felt a religious calling. So Mary and Father Woods started their own order, 'The Sisters of St. Joseph.' In 1867 Mary then moved to Adelaide where she opened another school. Before long there were 17 schools open across Australia. Mary's followers grew and by 1909 she had followers all over Australia. Mary later died on the 8th of August 1909.
“Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art,” said Josef Mengele, comparing science to an art. He was less of an artist and more of a curious, debatably crazy, doctor. He was a scientist in Nazi Germany. In general, there was a history of injustice in the world targeting a certain race. When Mengele was around, there were very few medical regulations, so no consent had to be given for doctors to take patients’ cells and other tests done on the patients’ bodies without their consent. This was the same time that Henrietta Lacks lived. Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman who went to the doctor because she had cervical cancer. Her cells were taken and are still alive in culture today (Skloot 41). Hence, her cells were nicknamed Immortal (Skloot 41). Although many, at the time, saw no issue with using a patient without consent issue with what?, on numerous occasions since then courts have determined that having consent is necessary for taking any cells. The story of Henrietta lacks is has similarities to an episode of Law and Order titled Immortal, which is an ethical conundrum. Despite this, the shows are not exactly the same and show differences between them. Both of these stories, one supposedly fictional, can also be compared to the injustices performed by Josef Mengele in Nazi Germany.
When asked to write about an important activist who has demonstrated protest, I immediately drifted towards a Hispanic and/or feminist activist. Various names came across my mind initially such as Cesar Chavez and Joan Baez but as a later discussion in class concluded, there are numerous others who are rarely highlighted for their activism and struggles, which lead to me researching more. In my research I came across Dolores Huerta, an American labor leader and civil rights activist, who I felt was an underdog and brushed over activist in the Hispanic community.
Mary became the first African-American graduate nurse in 1879. (Smith, J, & Phelps, S, 1992) She contributed to organizations such as the American Nurses Association, the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, and was an active participant in the the Women's Suffrage Movement, becoming one of the first women to register vote to in Boston, Massachusetts. The issue closest to the heart of Mary Mahoney was equality of the African-American nurse with...
Mary lived from 1869 to 1938, she was born in Ireland and moved to New York in 1884, when she was 15 years old. Everywhere Mary went, she seemed to bring disaster in the form of Typhoid fever. The problem was, Mary didn’t believe she could possibly be a Typhoid carrier “I never had typhoid in my life, and have always been healthy. Why should I be banished like a leper and compelled to live in solitary confinement with only a dog for a companion” (Mallon, 1)? She was very firm in her belief that she was not a threat to the public, despite previous happenings where she was the only common factor. In 1902, Mary was hired to be a cook over the summer, two weeks into her employment, 7 of the 9 servants living with her in the servants quarters caught the fever. Mary stayed and tried to help nurse the sick, they only became sicker in the process, despite this Mary received a $50 bonus for sticking around. Sometime after that, a man named Walter Browne hired Mary, soon after Mary began to work, the chambermaid fell sick. Along with the chambermaid, Browne’s daughter, Effie also fell ill. Eventually, Effie died on February 23,1907...
Coretta Scott King was one of the most important women leaders in the world. Working side-by-side with her husband, she took part in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and worked to pass the Civil Rights Act. After King's death, she founded The King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. Mrs. King traveled around the world speaking out on behalf of racial and economic justice, women’s and children’s rights, religious freedom, the needs of the poor and homeless, full-employment, health care, educational opportunities, and environmental justice.
Before she could get her little shop going a fire burnt down her business and her house with all of her belongings in 1871. Mary was having an awful time but managed to keep on trying. She finally got a job working with people who wanted to get decent wages and have their working environment improved. She also tried to stop child labor. Her work involved making speeches, recruiting members and organizing soup kitchens and women's auxiliary groups during strikes.
Mary Cassatt was most widely known for her impressionist pieces that depicted mother (or nanny) and child. She was faced with many struggles throughout her life and received much criticism, even after her death in 1926. She found it difficult to receive appropriate recognition for her pieces during her early career. Many were unaccepted by the Salon. Cassatt lived for many years in France after her successful career, which ended abruptly when she went blind. Her talent placed her pieces in many famous museums throughout the world and landed her name among the famous artists of her time. As well as paving the way for powerful women, like herself. She lived during a time of suffragettes searching for equality.
Mary of Bethany did what she believed was right and also was able to mourn with Christ. When Martha wanted to make the stay of Jesus as perfect
Then, with the help of her sister and their friend Francis Fanny Blood, they established a school. Even though that school collapsed quickly, Mary used what she learned from this experience to form her theories on education. After that, Mary moved to Ireland to work as a governess to Lord Kings Borough’s family. She also had her influence on the girls she helped take care of by teaching them how to be independent. In 1787, Mary went back to London pursuing a literary career as a translator and literary advisor to Joseph Johnson, who was a radical writer.