Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker, also known as, Pearl S. Buck, was an incredible writer. She wrote genres ranging from children’s books to non-fiction. Pearl was born on June 6, 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia and died on March 6, 1973 in Danby, Vermont (Pearl). Her parents were Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker. Pearl was the fourth child of seven and she was one of them who made made it to the adult years. She was born She had two children, one was her biological kid and the other was adopted, with her husband, John Lossing Buck. Their children’s names are Janice Walsh and Carol Buck (Brief). When Pearl was just three months old, her parents and her moved to China, where she spent the most of the first forty years of her life. She was taught by a Chinese tutor and her mother therefore, she was fluent in english and chinese. At age 17, Pearl moved back to the states and was enrolled in Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia. In her senior year of college she won two literary prizes. She later graduated in 1914 at age 21. After she graduated she received news that her mother, Caroline Sydenstricker, was not doing well and Pearl moved back to China to spend time with her (Brief). After her mother died she took her place as a counselor for Chinese women and tried to help them get over their …show more content…
Her style is very simple. Nothing is really hard to understand. It is all so easy to comprehend that an elementary student could do so. The Good Earth is sort of written in almost a holy way. What this means is that it can be read how a preacher speaks his sermon. Some think that her style of writing comes from the Chinese storytelling traditions. She did say that the chinese traditions and the King James Bible were an influence on the way she writes. Another interesting fact about Pearl S. Buck is that when she wrote she translated all of her works from Chinese to English
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.
Helene Melanie Lebel, one of two daughters born to a Jewish family, was raised as a Catholic in Vienna. Her father died during World War I when Helene was only 5 years old, and when Helene was 15, her mother remarried. Helene entered law school, but at age 19, she started showing signs of an illness. By 1935, her illness became so bad severe that she had to give up her law studies. Helene was diagnosed with Schizophrenia and was placed in Vienna’s Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital. Although her condition improved in 1940, Helene was forced to stay in Steinhof. Her parents believed she would soon be released, but in August, her mother was informed that Helene was transferred to Niedernhart. She was actually transported to Brandenburg, Germany where she was led into a gas chamber or room? disguised as a shower room, and was gassed to death. Helene was listed as dying in her room of “acute schizophrenic excitement”.
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.
She explains that there is no lasting shame in being born in America, and that as a minority you are the first in line for scholarships. Most importantly, she notes that "In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you (289).” Living in America, it was effortless for Waverly to accept American circumstances, simply because she was born into liberties of America without a true realization of what advantages she had gained effortlessly. Her mother was far less fortunate however, having struggled so hard to find her own independence while attempting to keep true to her cultural background. As a Chinese mother though, she also wanted her daughter to learn the importance of Chinese character. She tried to teach her Chinese-American daughter "How to obey parents and listen to your mother 's mind. How not to show your own thoughts, to put your feelings behind your face so you can take advantage of hidden opportunities . . . How to know your own worth and polish it, never flashing it around like a cheap ring
Mary Bryant was in the group of the first convicts (and the only female convict) to ever escape from the Australian shores. Mary escaped from a penal colony which often is a remote place to escape from and is a place for prisoners to be separated. The fact that Bryant escaped from Australia suggests that she was a very courageous person, this was a trait most convicts seemed to loose once they were sentenced to transportation. This made her unique using the convicts.
“All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary”, Sally Ride (http://www.brainyquote.com). This, of course, is true for the inspirational astronaut we know today. Sally Ride changed society’s views on women, and made it into American history books. She impacted modern day space exploration and young women by being the first American woman in space as shown by her work for NASA and her dedication toward young women and girls pursuing careers in science and math.
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.
Gertrude Ederle was born in New York City on October 23, 1905. She was one of five children of Henry and Anna Ederle, German immigrants who owned a butcher shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side. From a young age she was passionate about swimming, which she learned at the local public pool and at the New Jersey beach where her family spent summers. As a kid she left school to practice as an athletic swimmer. Later she joined the Women’s Swimming Association. She had her first win at the age of 16, between 1921 and 1925 holding 29 records. Ederle swam at the Olympic Games in Paris, where her freestyle team won three straight medals. In 1925, she began training to swim across live television. Twenty-one miles of water between England and the European mainland. Other men swimmers had already crossed the channel but she was trying to be the first woman to ever achieve the goal.
Similarly, Wong also grew up in America with a traditional Chinese mother. In contrast, Wong’s upbringing involves her mother forcing her into attending two different schools. After her American school day, Wong continues on with Chinese school to learn both cultures. Her mother felt it was her duty to “[. . .] learn the language of [her] heritage” (Wong 144). This puts a burden on Wong as she starts to despise the Chinese culture.
Mary McLeod Bethune was born in Mayesville, South Carolina in 1875. She had sixteen siblings, and her parents were slaves. Mary McLeod Bethune got married to Albertus Bethune in 1898, they had a son named Albert. Considering that Mary McLeod Bethune was born in the late 1800’s as a African American female, she had to fight extraneously hard to be treated as an equal.
...ers it as a way to show her patriotism. On the other hand, Pearl move from living in the east in a western lifestyle to living in the west in an eastern lifestyle. She adjusts and assimilates as she began to feel that she belong to America.
Hillary Clinton, a politician and the first women to run for president in the United States, once said, ”We don’t back down from a fight worth fighting.” She and many others believe that if a cause is truly worth fighting for, a person should spend their life raising awareness. Just like Clinton, Susan B. Anthony also believed in this concept and in the 1900s in the United States, she decided to dedicate her life towards civil rights. Her early life led her to fight in a vigorous battle for equality, which had many effects on her and those around her. Susan B. Anthony fought against racism and sexism because she believed in equality for everyone.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck started her eventful life as Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker in Hillsboro, Virginia on June 26, 1892. Important events took place before this that made her birth even more special than a normal birth.
A writer's style can't always be traced to the influences of his or her childhood reading, but in Pearl Buck's case the two influences mentioned above did exist. As the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries, Buck was brought up on the Bible. And although she read widely in English literature, she also read Chinese novels.
In addition, shortly thereafter, she and a small group of American business professionals left to Japan. The conflict between values became evident very early on when it was discovered that women in Japan were treated by locals as second-class citizens. The country values there were very different, and the women began almost immediately feeling alienated. The options ... ... middle of paper ... ...