Mary Lambert There have been many great poets in the past, but I think that it’s good to also recognize the great poets of the modern day. Different types of poets are special in different ways. Each writer has their own way of writing, but originality can seem hard to find these days. Though, I think one poet has introduced originality in a new, raw sense. Mary Lambert, a singer-songwriter and poet, is a one of a kind artist who is truthful with her words and doesn’t hold back. Mary Lambert is a poet of this generation. She was born on May 3, 1989 in Everett, Washington and is now twenty-six years old. During her childhood, she suffered from many hardships. At a very young age, she was abused by her father and other family members. In her family, she was raised as Pentecostal, …show more content…
Mary is known to be very revealing in her poetry and music. She mostly writes of her childhood traumas, the abuse she suffered from, body image and positivity, her bipolar disorder, her sexuality, and love. Her writing, in her words, “has a lot of darkness, and sadness, and grief.” She lets everything she’s experienced flow out onto the page and readers can really tell the pain and hurt that is underlying beneath the written words. The tone of most of her work is very dark, truthful, and can be controversial at times.
Mary Lambert is mostly known for her lyrics and voice in the chorus of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ “Same Love,” which is a song about equality and homosexuality. The song was nominated from “Song of the Year” at the 56th Annual Grammy’s. In 2013, she released a book titled 500 Tips for Fat Girls, which humorously titled, features many serious poems that focus on body image, abuse, and sexuality. Two examples of some of her poems include “Dear One,” and “Epidemic.” “Dear One” is a heartfelt homage about her love for someone, while “Epidemic” is a brutally honest, controversial poem about sexual
Mary White Rowlandson was a colonial American who was held captive by Algonkian Indians during King Philip's War. She was born in 1637 in Somerset, England. Her parents brought her along with her nine siblings to the colonies when she was young. Her parents were John and Joan White and she married Reverend Joseph Rowlandson in 1656. Their first child, Mary, died after her third birthday and they had three other children named Joseph, Mary, and Sarah.
Mary Wollstonecraft was a pioneer in feminist thinking and writing. She was influenced by Thomas Paine that all women should have equal rights. When Wollstonecraft was younger she witnessed her mom being verbally and physically abused by her father. Her father referred to her mother as a piece of property who cannot have the same future as him due to her sex. After her mother’s death, Wollstonecraft decided to make her own livelihood with her sister Eliza and her best friend Fanny.
As as result of the relocation of people from England to Australia, it turned Australia into the land of opportunity and made for a better world. It benefited England and the world for many reasons such as securing trade routes with China. The movement of the convicts also spread fear among english society deterring crime. Furthermore, some of the convicts were fortunate enough to the opportunity to live and potentially earn their freedom. Crime rates rose and England's jails become overcrowded with prisoners they resorted to using prison hulks as temporary, makeshift confinements on the river Thames eventually leading to the penal transportation to Australia.
In the poem “Half-Hanged Mary” and in The Crucible women have very specific gender roles set, especially as a woman, they must carry forward after each fall. Mary is an outcast in her hometown in Massachusetts. No one agreed with the way she carried herself independently without
Mary Haydock, now formally known as Mary Reibey was born on the 12th May 1777 (source 1) and was raised by her grandmother after both her parents died when Mary was of a young age. Mary was convicted of horse stealing at the age of 13 and was to be sent to Australia for seven years (source 1). Being sent away from her family and in particular her grandmother, meant that Mary was alone and isolated from the people that she would have felt most comfortable around. This lack of belongingness may have caused Mary Reibey depression which was common for convicts of such a young age.
Anthony’s first paid position was headmistress of the girls department of Canajoharie Academy in 1846. During this time she was deeply troubled by the fact that women received much lower wages than their male counterparts for equal work. She returned to the family farm in Rochester New York when Canajoharie Academy closed in 1849. At this time she began to be fully involved in reform work. She was introduced to Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851 who had played a key role in organizing the Seneca Falls convention in 1848, which was the first women’s rights convention in the United States. The two of them formed a lifelong friendship and ever after were constant partners in the battle for women’s rights and social justice. Their relationship was complimentary: Stanton did the writing and came up with ideas while Anthony excelled at organizing and delivering speeches. Her methods of raising public awareness and building grassroots support for social causes are still in use by political parties today.
Marie Maynard Daly was an american biochemist. She was the first black american in america to have ph.D in chemistry. She use to go to Columbia University in 1947. She was born in 1921 and died in 2003.Daly worked as a physical science instructor at Howard University from 1947 to 1948 while simultaneously conducting research under the direction of Herman Branson. After being awarded an American Cancer Society grant to support her postdoctoral research, she joined Dr. A. E. Mirsky at the Rockefeller Institute, where they studied the cell nucleus. While at the Rockefeller Institute, Daly studied the nuclei of tissues to determine the base compositions of the deoxypentose nucleic acids present. Additionally she explored the role of cytoplasmic
On February 10, 1676 a dreadful event hit the settlers of Lancaster. The Narragansett Indians attacked and killed countless people and destroyed several houses. One of the men they killed begged for his life and even offered them money. The Indians didn’t pay any attention to him and hit him on the head with a hatchet, then proceeded to strip him of his clothes. Throughout this account Mary Rowlandson show an amazing trust and reliance in God.
Mary Sorrells was born on December 23, 1963 at Kings Daughters Hospital in Staunton, Virginia. She was the middle child in a family of four brothers, and four sisters. At the age of eighteen, she graduated high school, and worked in a factory while obtaining a nursing license. On September 3, 1983, she married Gary Spangler in a Pentecostal church in Staunton, Virginia. Thirteen years later, on March 12, 1997, Mary gave birth to her first child (Jacob) at Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where our journey begins. So, after fifty-one years of maturing into a wise adult, this is what this five foot tall woman is today.
Although Mary did not always live with abusive families, the main focus in her book were the ones that treated her poorly. From roughly age twelve to her death in 1833, she was a subject to unfortunate treatment while living with the three families mentioned above, the Inghams, the D-s, and the Woods.
Mary Flannery O’Connor was born in 1925 in Savannah, Georgia. She was an only child, and her parents were deeply religious Roman Catholics. She was educated at the Women’s College of Georgia and the State University of Iowa. While she was at college, she wrote short stories which were published. During this time her father died of lupus, a blood disease that would eventually claim her life as well. After she was diagnosed, she moved to Milledgville, Georgia, for treatment of the disease. She continued writing and published two novels, Wise Blood and The Violent Bear it Away, as well as two collections of short stories, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge. She died from Lupus in 1964
Mary Karr’s life consists of many major changes and dark times. Her early childhood was riddled with struggles such as abusive, unstable parents (The Poetry Foundation), drug use, and being victim of rape by an older boy (McFadden). Her adulthood was unconventional as well, including alcoholism (The Poetry Foundation), but Karr made several realizations and modifications in her lifestyle, including becoming a Catholic. The struggles and change Karr experienced in the past greatly affect her views on life as well as her writing, which is sometimes autobiographical. Karr’s tough background helps her works show different views of reality; she can portray all parts of her life, positive, negative, and times of change, through her words.
She was a married woman who had her struggles at home but wanted to become an engineer which she had to further her education. In addition, Mary wanted to attend an all-white grad school but had to face obstacles and constant belittlement for fighting to be the first black person and women to attend the school. Therefore, she made a plea for the school’s insitutional racists ways for not accepting her because the color of her skin. As a result, she was granted the right to attend the grad
This woman had a roller coaster of a life on the island of her most beloved fictional character Anne, having implications with her parents, spouse, and even children, but still managing to hold onto her passion of writing along the way. Lucy Maud Montgomery lived a life different from Anne yet portrayed parts of herself through the character. Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author of the world known Anne series, changed the writing game with her ability to create such light hearted yet very emotional works of writing that still impact people today.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is an English romantic novelists. She’s had been writing since her childhood from a chaotic life. She has been known to be an amazing novelist, short-story writer, poet, dramatist, and biographer. Today, she is still known for her amazing work. Her childhood really helped with most of her books and novels.