...In the autobiography, Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton, events in Harriet Tubman’s life are highlighted throughout and the legacy she left. From when she was born in Maryland around 1820, up to when she was referred to as a powerful spirit on her deathbed. So many events are highlighted in Harriet’s life such as her escape from slavery, helping others escape, and helping her family out as well. Throughout Harriet Tubman’s life, she showed her heart to help others and showed great strength and bravery during the time she worked on the Underground Railroad. In the biography, Tubman’s life showed her heart for others in need throughout her life. One example of her heart for others is when she went back for her family...
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...diligently. Anyone who shows any of these qualities is a hero. A true hero is a person that is hard working. Jackie Robinson is perfect for this. He was the 1st African American to play major league baseball in history. His road to success was not so easy though. He was mistreated by all of the other white players in the league because they didn’t like him. Jackie Robinson was constantly getting big cuts on his legs because when he would slide into base, the other players would get him with the bottom of their cleats. Jackie Robinson was on the Brooklyn Dodgers so many of his own teammates did not like him. Many of the pitchers from other teams threw the ball at him which gave him many bruises. Despite all of this, Jackie Robinson became a star in baseball and led the Brooklyn Dodgers to a World Series appearance. This example of Jackie Robinson shows that no matter how much adversity you go through, if you keep on working hard, you can achieve great things. Heroes also show the great quality of perseverance. Harriet Tubman is someone who showed exemplary perseverance. She was a slave that worked hard, but was still abused by her plantation owner. One day she decided that she was going to escape and that’s exactly what she did. She made it off the plantation and eventually found some people that thought slavery was wrong and decided to hide Harriet in their attic. They then helped Harriet find all of the safe houses. Once Harriet made it to freedom in one of the northern states...
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...INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust ~ Jesse Owens. 1)It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog − Archie Griffen. 2) Nothing lasts forever. Not even your troubles − Arnold H Glasgow 3) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle − Albert Einstein 4) Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave – Mary Tyler Moore 5) Being strong means rejoicing in who you are, complete with imperfections − Margaret Woodhouse 6) If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place − Nora Roberts 7) I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed − Michael Jordan. 8) The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary − May V. Smith 9) Where hope grows, miracles blossom − Elna Rae 10) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing − George Bernard Shaw 11) Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent − Eleanor Roosevelt 12) It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's...
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...Personal Responsibilities Essay Mariela Favela GEN/200 April 14, 2014 Indira Gauri Personal Responsibilities Essay Personal responsibility and academic success are intertwined. Responsibility means one’s commitment to a task one needs to complete, a task undertaken. One can be successful in college if both teacher and student are responsible, if one is committed, and if one allows one’s high level of responsibility to reflect in one's goals and result in achievements. Responsibility also shows one's devotion to the goals one sets for one's self. There needs to be a connection established between the student and the professor. Every institution has a curriculum, rules and regulations that are required to be followed by every student and every teacher; if followed as directed, students and professors will achieve success. The teacher and students all need to be willing to teach and be taught. Ask oneself, is the teacher devoted to the class? Is there richness in his or her teachings? Are they efficient and captivating? Being that I have been in community college for several years now, I expected myself to know all the fundamentals of writing. As I approached my third week in the University of Phoenix, I learned basics that I should have known by now. Then I think back to my previous writing classes and I remember the attitudes of my former professors, they were not always passionate about their duties and did not always care too much for their students' academic...
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...instead writing about the life of William Shakespeare himself, you will find writing here that addresses both figures. You may be looking for expository writing that addresses the complicated reputation of Oliver Cromwell and the fact that he was lauded and revered by men like Thomas Carlyle, while being reviled by other men like David Hume. What was his lasting impact on the history of the British Isles? You may be writing about Napoleon Bonaparte and his military genius or about Benjamin Franklin's pithy sayings or his notoriety with women. Who was Patrick Henry, and why was he considered to be a great orator? As you scroll through this section, you will find essays addressing African American heroes of the underground railroad like Harriet Tubman and early women's rights leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton. You'll discover writing samples explaining Machiavelli's political philosophies and evaluating them in light of our contemporary political climate. Read about the life of Karl Marx and the Russia he knew. What was the impetus behind Marx's Communist beliefs? Whether you are researching an ancient figure or someone still making headlines, you are likely to find expository samples here that will serve as reference points for your own essay and that will help to kindle your imagination and creativity as you...
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...I am Lucy, a fourteen year old slave girl who is going to escape slavery. Let's start on my journey to escaping as a slave. I lived on the King Plantation in Kentucky. The owners had to sell the us at a slave auction because plantation was in bankruptcy. I did not want to get sold at the auction. Before I ran away, I stole some food from the slave and plantation garden in the middle of the night and then I ran. When I ran away from the plantation one night, I had to be careful not to be spotted by a patroller on the backroad. I had to overcome some obstacles on my runaway journey. I had to steal a boat to sneak across the river. On my escape, I did not stop to help someone or ask for help with my journey, I did not want to risk being caught....
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...Everyone has character traits, whether it be nice,funny,confident,bold,shy or just plain stupid. Harriet Tubman has three main character traits and more.These played huge roles for her to escape the evilness of slavery.These traits are bravery, courageous, and confident.Less talk let’s write. Let’s begin with being confident.Harriet was confident about moving on.Yes she doubted herself ‘cause that’s a natural born trait everyone has but did it stop her from going up North,no it didn’t ‘cause she made it up North and helped other slaves get there too.She was confident in everything she did.She was confident in her work, escaping,and a very huge thing, she brung her confident self back to help others be free.Harriet Tubman was a confident...
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...respected. One Hero Many people admire is Harriet Tubman for helping many people to freedom. The life of hero Harriet Tubman had struggles and hard times. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery around 1820 in Maryland, she was one of nine siblings. In 1849 Harriet's owner fell ill and later died, she saw this as her chance to escape. She traveled nearly 90 miles on the underground railroad rather than continuing to live her life in the north, Harriet made it her mission to help her family to freedom.Harriet not only rescued her family from slavery but also rescued hundreds of other slaves.In the few years Harriet was working on the underground railroad she earned the nickname "Moses" and became the most famous "Conductor".When Harriet decided she was done being a conductor of the underground railroad she had rescued her parents, several siblings, and about 60 other slaves. After Harriet rescued her family from slavery she served as a nurse, scout, and spy for union government during the...
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...B.C. there were recorded codes regarding sanitation and public health. The Bible even speaks of quarantine to prevent disease and nurses are mentioned as caring for infants and the sick. But, much of today’s nursing practice seems to have evolved from the need to provide care to soldiers during wartimes. Two historical figures that left an impact on the development of modern nursing are Harriet Tubman and Walt Whitman. Araminta Ross, also known as Harriet Tubman, was born into slavery. At age 25 she married John Tubman, a free African American. They did not share the same desire to move north and after 5 years of marriage, Harriet left her husband and escaped to Philadelphia (“Harriet Ross Tubman Timeline”, 1996). After her escape, she became an operator of the Underground Railroad, an abolitionist, nurse and spy for the Civil War, suffragist, and humanitarian. In 1862, in support of Union activities, Harriet joined Northern abolitionists. She provided nursing care during the Civil War to newly freed slaves and black soldiers. After the war she moved to Auburn, New York. Tubman treated dysentery with a brew of boiled roots and herbs, a remedy she brought from her native Maryland (Domrose, 2011). Such accounts were recorded in letters written by others, because she could not read or write. Henry Durrant, the assistant surgeon in charge of the Union’s Contraband Hospital in Beaufort, S.C., wrote: “My position as medical officer in charge of contrabands in...
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...Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks: Rebellious Historical Heroes Monique Jones ENG/220 Philip Schunk April 25, 2016 Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks: Rebellious Historical Heroes Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks were two incredibly brave women who became heroes in history. They had a calling to stand up for what they believed in from the time they knew the world around them was not a fair place to live. A time when African Americans were sold to Caucasians, to work as slaves, and segregation was alive, black and whites were not allowed to sit together on buses, or learn together in schools. Both Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks were heroes in different eras around the civil war, but both experienced discrimination, wanted freedom, and acted in rebellious ways to stand up to what they believed in. Maturing into the Unbeknownst Heroes Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks were maturing when white supremacy had the upper hand, although in different ways they held the same belief. On one hand, Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave who wanted to help her friends and family, too, escape to their freedom. She was illiterate due to a childhood head injury or furthermore by the law that was against the teaching of enslaved Africans (Singer, 2012). On the other hand, Rosa Parks grew up standing up to the white bullies back talking the whites who treated her in an unfair way. She stated to her grandmother, "I would rather be lynched than live to be mistreated and not be allowed to say 'I don't like...
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...Women against Slavery Sojourner Truth, named Isabella Baumfree by her parents (1797-1883), and Harriet Tubman, named Araminta Ross by her parents (1826-1913). Naturally introduced to slavery, neither could read or write, but both ladies figured out how too offhand around this world with their individual stories of trials and triumph (Gawron 2002). Slavery Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman were African-American slaves who picked up their tractability, changed their names, and rebelled against enslavement. The uniformities between the two ladies make an unmistakable obligation of sisterhood between two of history's most dynamic African-American ladies. Both ladies ascended from the shadows of servitude to unmistakable parts of initiative. They both had reflective and tolerating beliefs in higher energy to direct and ensure them. Truth and Tubman saw the power of music as a technique for correspondence (Humez 2008). Both women had confidence, and followed up on, their hunches, however, the similarities ended there. One fundamental way they differentiated from each other was in appearance. Sojourner Truth was more than six feet tall with a slim figure while Harriet Tubman was a foot shorter and thick (Gawron 2002). Sojourner Truth wearing the Quaker style, with a white cap worn on the head, dresses light in weight and a shawl over the shoulders (Gawron 2002). Harriet Tubman wrapped a tissue on her head, her dresses were made of overpowering and grinding cotton, and she didn't...
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...One of the most influential women of the 19th century was Harriet Tubman. She was born into slavery as Araminta Ross. She was nicknamed Minty by her mother. Her exact birthdate is unknown because slave owners did not keep birth records of their slaves. It is estimated that she was born around 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland. Her parents were Benjamin Ross and Harriet Green. She had ten brother and sisters. They lived on the plantation of Edward Brodas. Edward would sell many of her sisters to plantations further south which tore her family apart. She started out as a slave but she became one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad, fought on the Union side in the Civil War, and ran an elderly home after the war for African Americans. Harriet was hired out to multiple neighboring masters during her time on the Edward Brodas plantation. Her first job began when she was only five years old. She was hired out to a mistress to be a maid and babysitter. She would tend to her maid duties in the day time and had to stay alert for the baby at night. She dozed off one night and did not get to the crying baby before the mistress woke up. She was punished by being slapped across the face and neck. She was hired out to a new master when she was six years old. Her new master taught her how to catch muskrats and how to weave. She was caught taking a sugar cube from the table one day and ran away to avoid her punishment which only delayed her punishment. She received her...
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...Araminta Ross better known as Harriet Tubman historically broke the mold for people of her time. Although she was best known for her work with the Underground Railroad Tubman was also an African-American humanitarian and abolitionist. In the year 1820 Tubman was born of two slave parents in Dorchester County, Maryland. Since she was born into slavery Tubman got hired out at the young age of six. Later in her life as the result of her abuse she suffered from a major head injury that would lead to other health issues. Due to her medical problems no one would buyer after the sudden of her previous owner; thus causing her the fear of being separated from her family. In her first attempt to run away she was going to bring her brother, but they...
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...The Legacy of Harriet Tubman Often called the ``Moses`` of her people Harriet Tubman is an individual who fought for change and won. She fought for the Abolitionist Movement: and later in life she also helped Women’s Rights in her lifetime. Through Harriett, many great successes were achieved in ending slavery on a large scale, without her slavery may have taken longer to be abolished. Harriet Tubman was born in Bucktown, Maryland on a large plantation in 1820, her parents were Benjamin Ross and Harriet Green: both slaves. Her original name was Araminta, ``Minty``, She changed it later when she married John Tubman, she had no children with her first or second husband, Nelson Davis. She met her husband John Tubman...
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...know that Harriet Tubman will soon be the face of the $20 bill? To accomplish this, she risked her own life by freeing slaves and fighting for rights as the conductor of the Underground Railroad. She was motivated and had a strong character, she was a true hero, and she impacted history. If it weren’t for Tubman's motivation and determined personality many slaves would have never known freedom. According to History.com Tubman was, "born a slave on Maryland's Eastern shore, she endured the harsh existence of a field hand, including brutal beatings." This shows why Tubman was so motivated to be free. After being a slave for approximately 29 years she had escaped (biography.com). The amazing part is that she wasn't satisfied with her own freedom, she wanted everyone to be free. She constantly said, "Mah people mus' go free." -History.com. She wanted everyone to know freedom so badly that she freed more and more...
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