Ordinary Person Interview Essay

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For this project I was lucky to have an extra-ordinary person to interview. I had the chance to interview Mrs. Stewart she was an ordinary person in her time and she still in ordinary till this day. She was born in 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio and is still living strong till today! Many generations of her family have been living here in Ohio. She was the only child in her family, she had no siblings. At the age of five years old, she would have to walk by herself to school and this was a journey of a mile each day. When she entered school, she already had known the Abc’s because her mother had taught them to her at a young age. She decided to move back to Norwalk when she was ten years old this was in 1927. In her neighborhood, there were …show more content…

In her time it was not okay for females being smarter than the guys because they wanted the males to be the image of the school and if the females were smarter it would be a bad image for the males. For example, she was involved in the Girl Reserved, a cheerleader, and she was also involved in girls basketball, but she was only allowed to play in the gym they never traveled. The basketball game she played in gym class was different from the boys, in the game there was only half forwards and half guards they could only be able to run to the center of the line because back then they thought that girls were not strong enough to run the full court. When she was a teenager, she did not have any job as she stated, “ I only had fun”. As a teenager she would play a game called, “Spin the Milk Bottle” with her friends in a big closet and they would have the chance to go home at twelve at midnight! She later graduated high school in 1939 and attended college in the 1940’s. The college she had attended was Ohio Wesleyan University, she took a course on mechanics. She was involved in a sorority and it was named Pi Kappa Sisters and her mother was also involved in this sorority during her

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