Category: Biography

Annotated Bibliography Primary Sources: History, A&E Television Network March 9, 2010 https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/susan-b-anthony This website goes into a little bit about her biography and the family she grew up in. It also gives examples of how she fought for what she believed in, and the consequences she faced during that time. It also explains her involvement…

Last night, October 5, 1955, The First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald, and other well-known musicians to the name of Dizzy Gillespie and Illinois Jacquet were taken into police custody for gambling before the end of the first desegregated show at the Music Hall, Houston. The police officers at the scene took $185 in cash…

Emily Dickinson was a prominent writer in the nineteenth century, a time imbued with Transcendentalism. Transcendentalism is a philosophical and literary movement based on the idea that spiritual reality transcends empiricism and science. Hawthorne was one of the proponents of this movement and, while she has not been officially claimed as a transcendentalist writer or…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is an exceptional writer. She writes well-rounded, intricate characters who are extremely realistic. The characters, Eugene, Kambili, and Chukwuka (Jaja) Achike, from Adichie’s novel, Purple Hibiscus, perfectly encapsulate her ability to create complicated characters, as there are ever-evolving emotions and clear character developments displayed throughout the book. Eugene Achike (who is referred…

Douglass’ experience with his few owners varied in different aspects, but everywhere he went there was always injustice. The way Douglass explains the behavior of his masters is with stories including specific details of the physical actions taken by his masters to him and to others. He goes into depth and paints a picture of…

Foreign policy refers to all the steps taken by the government to deal with other countries. All the matters of trade of defense are included in it. Pakistan’s foreign policy objectives are made under the influence of Quaid’s vision which was presented before us years ago. The great leader Quaid-e-Azam explained completely the basic tenets…

Death of George Carver Did Not End His Everlasting Legacy “It is simply service that measures success”,(George Washington Carver). George Carver was born in the year 1864. He died in the year 1943. Carver was the first African American to have a national masterpiece dedicated to him. Carver’s most common name was the Peanut Man.…

Walt Whitman was an amazing American poet, essayist, and journalist. He wrote many pieces surrounding Civil War experiences. He wrote a poem describing the nighttime dreams of a Civil War veteran called The Artilleryman’s Vision. Another piece of writing he wrote surrounding the Civil War was a letter to his mother describing a meaningful encounter…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie addresses how corruption can affect everyone on a personal and political level in ‘Purple Hibiscus’. This is demonstrated through the violence Papa uses to oppress his family, the social and military unrest in the country, and Papa’s surveillance of the children. Firstly, Adichie presents power and corruption through Papa’s violence towards the…

Born into slavery aroound 1818, Frederick Douglass stands as an influential leader of abolitionists, amongst other major titles. He remains as one of the most important figures in America’s struggle for civil rights and racial equality. Douglass spoke out against oppression throughout America and abroad, and his struggle for freedom, self-discovery, and identity. In his…