Ms. Lawson was born in Detroit and raised in Alabama by her grandmother Lula Horn, who shared stories from the quilts she made from family members' clothes. After high school, Ms. Lawson joined the Air Force and later Army National Guard, serving in Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan. She received her bachelor's degree in sociology and worked as a counselor before retiring from the military in 2013. Since publishing her memoir Quilt of Souls in 2015, it has received critical acclaim and Ms. Lawson has been interviewed over 40 times on television, radio, and in newspapers.
Alice walker Presentation 2015 By An AriyanAn Ariyan
Alice Walker Born at home in Eatonton , Georgia on Feb.29th , 1944.
She is the youngest of 8th children.
Accidently shot by her siblings in the eye that made her one eyed.
Walked with Martin Luther King and credits him for her decision to return to the solve and become an activist .
She is a vegetarian
Alice walker Presentation 2015 By An AriyanAn Ariyan
Alice Walker Born at home in Eatonton , Georgia on Feb.29th , 1944.
She is the youngest of 8th children.
Accidently shot by her siblings in the eye that made her one eyed.
Walked with Martin Luther King and credits him for her decision to return to the solve and become an activist .
She is a vegetarian
Litt 507 - Joy Luck Club as a Contemporary American FictionBernard Paderes
An analysis of Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club proving the "contemporariness" and "Americaness" of the book despite Chinese background of the author and its historical theme.
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor PresentationBri Dold
AP English Literature and Composition is one of those classes where there is no right or wrong; there are no formulas or set values to which even the most unenthused mathematician can simply “plug and chug.” Literature is the exponent of collaboration, creativity, and communication, values instilled by Academy at the Lakes.
As a first semester project for AP English Literature and Composition, students in groups of four analyzed a short story and shared their analysis as a keynote-style presentation. Instances where the roles are reversed – students teaching other students and even teachers – is a great way to foster growth in public speaking among other soft skills all the while engaging seniors who seem to be halfway out Academy’s front door.
Our group focused on Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” An example of Southern gothic literature, O’Connor explores the sentiments of the pre-civil rights era in rural Georgia. To preface our presentation, we posed two essential questions to our audience: (1) Does being a good person entail decency, nobility, wealth, social position, or piousness? (2) Are sinners those who are simply lost or looking for salvation?
Leading up to our group presentation, we collectively analyzed this short story, examining the work with a fine-tooth comb to exhaust every literary element and rhetorical device. This is the beauty of collaboration: we each were able to share our own, unique perspectives and interpretations about O’Connor’s words. Collaborative efforts go hand-in-hand with a balanced, liberal arts education, for the skills nursed in this environment empower the leaders of tomorrow.
Litt 507 - Joy Luck Club as a Contemporary American FictionBernard Paderes
An analysis of Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club proving the "contemporariness" and "Americaness" of the book despite Chinese background of the author and its historical theme.
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor PresentationBri Dold
AP English Literature and Composition is one of those classes where there is no right or wrong; there are no formulas or set values to which even the most unenthused mathematician can simply “plug and chug.” Literature is the exponent of collaboration, creativity, and communication, values instilled by Academy at the Lakes.
As a first semester project for AP English Literature and Composition, students in groups of four analyzed a short story and shared their analysis as a keynote-style presentation. Instances where the roles are reversed – students teaching other students and even teachers – is a great way to foster growth in public speaking among other soft skills all the while engaging seniors who seem to be halfway out Academy’s front door.
Our group focused on Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” An example of Southern gothic literature, O’Connor explores the sentiments of the pre-civil rights era in rural Georgia. To preface our presentation, we posed two essential questions to our audience: (1) Does being a good person entail decency, nobility, wealth, social position, or piousness? (2) Are sinners those who are simply lost or looking for salvation?
Leading up to our group presentation, we collectively analyzed this short story, examining the work with a fine-tooth comb to exhaust every literary element and rhetorical device. This is the beauty of collaboration: we each were able to share our own, unique perspectives and interpretations about O’Connor’s words. Collaborative efforts go hand-in-hand with a balanced, liberal arts education, for the skills nursed in this environment empower the leaders of tomorrow.
Les implications stratégiques et managériales du LBOAurore Cassin
Cette présentation décrit les relations qui existent entre la direction d'une entreprise et leurs actionnaires en période de LBO.
This presentation shows the relationship between managers and shareholders in an LBO.
Susan GlaspellHer complete name is Susan Keating Glaspell, born .docxmattinsonjanel
Susan Glaspell
Her complete name is Susan Keating Glaspell, born July 1, 1876, Davenport, Iowa. She died July 27, 1948, Provincetown, Mass. Her husband, George Cram Cook, founded the influential Provincetown Players in 1915.
Glaspell graduated in 1899 from Duke University in Des Moines, Iowa. In college she had published a few short stories in the Youth’s Companion and had worked as college correspondent for a local newspaper, and on graduating she became a reporter for the Des Moines Daily News. In 1901 she returned to her native Davenport to devote herself to writing; her stories, mainly local-colour pieces set in Freeport (Davenport), were soon appearing regularly in such magazines as the Ladies’ Home Journal. The American, and Harper’s.
In 1909 Glaspell published her first novel, The Glory of the Conquered, a romance of little distinction the nonetheless enjoyed some success. After a year in Paris she produced a second novel, The Visioning (1911). In 1912 a collection of previously published stories appeared under the title Lifted Masks. The following year she married Cook, a longtime friend and the literary and radical son of a wealthy Davenport family. They quickly became central figures in the life of Greenwich Village in New York City. In 1915 she published Fidelity, a novel, and together with her husband Suppressed Desires, a satirical one act play on popular Freudianism. These works show a wide stylistic range, from psychological realism to Symbolism and Expressionism.
Glaspell wrote several one act plays for the group Provincetown Players, performances at the Playwright’s Theatre in Greenwich Village. Notably, Trifles in 1916, Close the Book in 1919, A Woman’s Hour in 1918, and Tickless Time in 1919, and four full-length plays, including Bernice also in 1919, Inheritors in 1921, and The Verge in 1921.
Wilkins 2
J. Wilkins
Professor R. Wall
English 1102 Fri. 11am- 1:45pm
March 21, 2014
The Faces of Women by Susan Glaspell
Thesis Statement
In Susan Glaspell’s era (1876-1948) men may have seen her work of fictional compositions as ill-mannered, laxity and unskillful for prejudice and chauvinist intentions; However female readers believe Ms. Glaspell is a talented novelist and this is seen in many of her works for the reason that the stories the reader has observed by her in many examples as “Lifted Faces” (1912), “Suppressed Desires” (1915), “Trifles” (1916), “A Jury of Her Peers” (1916) and in “ A Woman’s Hour”(1918) in which demonstrates a great deal of extraordinary abilities to create, captivate and harness your attention with depth subject matters with a thought provoking visualization that is still relevant today. The reader observed confidence in her understandings of women’s rights, rational thoughts, observances, creations and in her personal life’s history. Ms. Glaspell drew on being a woman first then as a human being. As the reader examine excerpts of her novels it was realized that many of her fictional chara ...
Maya Angelou Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie J.docxjessiehampson
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie
Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents
divorced when she was only three and she was
sent with her brother Bailey to live with their
grandmother in the small town of Stamps,
Arkansas. In Stamps, the young girl experienced
the racial discrimination that was the legally
enforced way of life in the American South, but
she also absorbed the deep religious faith and old-
fashioned courtesy of traditional African American
life. She credits her grandmother and her extended family with instilling in
her the values that informed her later life and career. She enjoyed a close
relationship with her brother. Unable to pronounce her name because of a
stutter, Bailey called her "My" for "My sister." A few years later, when he
read a book about the Maya Indians, he began to call her "Maya," and the
name stuck.
At age seven, while visiting her mother in Chicago, she was sexually
molested by her mother's boyfriend. Too ashamed to tell any of the adults
in her life, she confided in her brother. When she later heard the news that
an uncle had killed her attacker, she felt that her words had killed the man.
She fell silent and did not speak for five years.
Maya began to speak again at 13, when she and her brother rejoined their
mother in San Francisco. Maya attended Mission High School and won a
scholarship to study dance and drama at San Francisco's Labor School,
where she was exposed to the progressive ideals that animated her later
political activism. She dropped out of school in her teens to become San
Francisco's first African American female cable car conductor. She later
returned to high school, but became pregnant in her senior year and
graduated a few weeks before giving birth to her son, Guy. She left home at
16 and took on the difficult life of a single mother, supporting herself and
her son by working as a waitress and cook, but she had not given up on
her talents for music, dance, performance and poetry.
In 1952, she married a Greek sailor named
Anastasios Angelopulos. When she began
her career as a nightclub singer, she took the
professional name Maya Angelou, combining
her childhood nickname with a form of her
husband's name. Although the marriage did
not last, her performing career flourished. She
toured Europe with a production of the opera
Porgy and Bess in 1954 and 1955. She
studied modern dance with Martha Graham,
danced with Alvin Ailey on television variety
shows and recorded her first record album,
Calypso Lady (1957).
She had composed song lyrics and poems for many years, and by the end
of the 1950s was increasingly interested in developing her skills as a writer.
She moved to New York, where she joined the Harlem Writers Guild and
took her place among the growing number of young black writers and
artists associated with the Civil Rights Movement. She acted in the historic
Off-Broadwa.
Maya Angelou Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie J.docxalfredacavx97
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie
Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents
divorced when she was only three and she was
sent with her brother Bailey to live with their
grandmother in the small town of Stamps,
Arkansas. In Stamps, the young girl experienced
the racial discrimination that was the legally
enforced way of life in the American South, but
she also absorbed the deep religious faith and old-
fashioned courtesy of traditional African American
life. She credits her grandmother and her extended family with instilling in
her the values that informed her later life and career. She enjoyed a close
relationship with her brother. Unable to pronounce her name because of a
stutter, Bailey called her "My" for "My sister." A few years later, when he
read a book about the Maya Indians, he began to call her "Maya," and the
name stuck.
At age seven, while visiting her mother in Chicago, she was sexually
molested by her mother's boyfriend. Too ashamed to tell any of the adults
in her life, she confided in her brother. When she later heard the news that
an uncle had killed her attacker, she felt that her words had killed the man.
She fell silent and did not speak for five years.
Maya began to speak again at 13, when she and her brother rejoined their
mother in San Francisco. Maya attended Mission High School and won a
scholarship to study dance and drama at San Francisco's Labor School,
where she was exposed to the progressive ideals that animated her later
political activism. She dropped out of school in her teens to become San
Francisco's first African American female cable car conductor. She later
returned to high school, but became pregnant in her senior year and
graduated a few weeks before giving birth to her son, Guy. She left home at
16 and took on the difficult life of a single mother, supporting herself and
her son by working as a waitress and cook, but she had not given up on
her talents for music, dance, performance and poetry.
In 1952, she married a Greek sailor named
Anastasios Angelopulos. When she began
her career as a nightclub singer, she took the
professional name Maya Angelou, combining
her childhood nickname with a form of her
husband's name. Although the marriage did
not last, her performing career flourished. She
toured Europe with a production of the opera
Porgy and Bess in 1954 and 1955. She
studied modern dance with Martha Graham,
danced with Alvin Ailey on television variety
shows and recorded her first record album,
Calypso Lady (1957).
She had composed song lyrics and poems for many years, and by the end
of the 1950s was increasingly interested in developing her skills as a writer.
She moved to New York, where she joined the Harlem Writers Guild and
took her place among the growing number of young black writers and
artists associated with the Civil Rights Movement. She acted in the historic
Off-Broadwa.
$25 for short notice & tons of reading...... Due SundayLITR221.docxmarilynnhoare
$25 for short notice & tons of reading...... Due Sunday
LITR221 – American Literature from the Civil War to Present
Week 2 – Racial and Ethnic Identity
Part I:
Name one surprising fact you discovered about any of this week's authors. Why did it surprise you?
Part II:
Most of the works this week were somewhat specific in terms of location. How might the perspective have changed if the events were placed in a another location? For instance, lynchings took place in the North, as well as the South. What is the significance of placing "Song for a Dark Girl" in the South? How would the impact have changed without that information? That is only one example.
Part III:
Although the focus of the week was race and ethnicity, Morrison, Hurston, and Walker present strong female characters. What characteristics do these stories imply are desirable? Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of any one of these characters. Use examples from the text to support your argument.
Submission Instructions:
As with every "main" forum post, please make comments substantive (in at least 300 words). Use quotations to support your points, but make sure to balance them with your own original ideas. Finally, please engage two of your classmates in their forum posts to help further our conversation. Please be sure to check back to read and respond to anyone who responded to your forum as a common courtesy. Respond to classmates' posts in at least 100-150 words each.
Reading & Resources:
"A Month in the Country" by Jay Wright
"Song for a Dark Girl" by Langston Hughes
"How it Feels to Be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston
"Sula" by Toni Morrison
or
"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
"What You Pawn I Will Redeem" by Sherman Alexie
"The Third and Final Continent" by Jhumpa Lahiri
"The Conversion of the Jews" by Philip Roth
"The Day the Cisco Kid Shot John Wayne" by Nash Candelaria
or
"The Last of the Menu Girls" by Denise Chavez
Student Response #1 – Martin
Part I:
One interesting fact I discovered this week is that Native American Author, Sherman Alexie suffers from bi-polar disorder. This has played into his work. Through the depression times he speaks of struggling to leave his bed however, when in the manic state he beams of writing entire novels in two weeks. From this he argues that most of the world’s great art comes from manic periods of an artists life. I have never put much thought to associating great writers and their mental limitations…or might it be their mental strengths. For example, greats like Sylvia Plath who plummeted into depression while still in college. Similarly there was Ernest Hemmingway (one of my personal favorites as he lived in my home state of Idaho) who too suffered from depression and bipolar disorder. (McCann)
Finally, I found it interesting that Alexie spoke of harnessing this disorder and utilizing its powers to produce his works.
Part II:
In the poem, A Month in the Country, author Jay Wright describes escaping the wiles of.
1. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Phyllis Lawson
www.quiltofsouls.org
Ms. Lawson was born in Detroit, Michigan. At the age of four, she was sent to the tiny town of Livingston,
Alabama to be raised by her grandmother Lula Horn (1883-1986), who made beautiful quilts out of the clothing of
her loved ones. Each strip of fabric tells the story of the wearer’s life and death. She shared these mostly tragic and
sometimes witty tales with little Phyllis as she sewed their clothes into a quilt that threaded broken lives back
together. Ms.Lawson now shares these profound stories with the world as Grandmother Lula told them to her.
After graduating from High School, Ms. Lawson joined the United States Air Force as a WAF (Women’s Air Force)
and was one of the first female B-52 mechanics. She served one tour in the Air Force and left the service in 1978.
She used her military educational benefits to attend the University of Maryland, receiving a Bachelor’s of Arts
Degree in Sociology and Social Work. She spent twenty years working as a counselor for incarcerated youth,
women who were victims of domestic violence, and with youth and adults suffering from alcohol/substance abuse.
Three of those years were spent in the United States Army Reserves.
Following a seventeen-yearbreak in 2002, Ms. Lawson returned to the military as a member of the U.S. Army
National Guard and Active Duty Service, retiring from the U.S Army in 2013. Ms. Lawson was one of only a
handful of women in the military who served in three major military conflicts including the Vietnam Era where she
served three temporary duty assignments to Vietnam before the 1975 fall of Saigon. She was also deployed to Saudi
Arabia as a member of Operation Desert Storm, and in December 2003 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
She has received three military campaign medals for assignments where she served to support the United States
Armed Services in armed conflict, including a U.S. Army Expeditionary, Global War on Terrorism and a host of
other Army and Air Force medals for superior performance in the line of duty.
After retiring from the military, Ms. Lawson spent the following two years writing her Memoir Quilt of Souls,
released March 13, 2015. Since its release, this poignant memoir has garnered a great deal of buzz from social, print
and television media. Quilt of Souls is consistently viral on Facebook. As a result of the popularity of her memoir,
she has been interviewed and appeared in over 40 different media outlets including internet blog talks, on-line
newspapers,social media forums, television and radio and media advertisements. Below is a partial list of her
accomplishments:
PBS interview with Nancy Zieman April 28, 2016. Will be aired October 2016. Quilt of Souls
will also appear on Nancy’s Notions Website beginning in early October.
Guest Speaker at Texas A&M University Women on Women Symposium, 30 March 2016
2. Appeared on NBC affiliate KBTX, College Station, Texas 29 March 2016
Will appear as a guest speakeron June 9th for One Hundred Black Men of Tallahassee ”We are
One”, Diversity and Inclusion Forum and 10 June serves as a VIP guest for the Black Tie Gala.
Ms. Lawson will be hosted by the City of Mission Viejo and the Orange County, California
Genealogical Association on June 18th 2016. An honor only given to New York Times Best
Selling Authors.
February 2016 Quilt of Souls was placed on the Reader’s List of the Alabama Writer’s Guild/Club
Chapter One of Quilt of Souls was chosen to be included in a book of Anthology ofwriters from
around the world. Stories compiled by Frank Joussein of Germany. The book will be released
later this year.
Guest Speaker for the South Genealogical Society annual conference on July 15,, 2016, with an
upcoming television interview on WLTX 19 TV in Columbia, South Carolina where she will
discuss Quilt of Souls and how it pertains to her upcoming conference appearance.
December 5th 2015, interviewed by award winning journalist Dan Rodricks of the Baltimore Sun
Newspaper. Podcast was aired December 17th nationwide.
On November 11, 2015, Ms.Lawson achieved a 5 Star Gold Seal from prestigious Book
Reviewer; Readers Favorite.
December interview by MotherLove Rogers on Los Angeles,Talk Radio.
Live radio broadcast with Talktainment radio hosted by; S. Yolanda Robinson, August 2015.
Featured speaker at the renowned Pratt Library, Baltimore, Maryland for the Brown Lecture
Series. Presentation was recorded for the Library Podcast and added to their lecture series
collection.
Live Sirius XM 128 Radio interview; Urban Talk Radio with showhost Maggie Linton, March
2015.
Newspaper special feature interview with the Laurel Leader (Mississippi) October 2015.
Appearance on WDAM Television Hattiesburg, MS to kick off authortour. Featured on The
Noon Show, October 2015.
November 2015, guest on The National Archives and Beyond internet radio talk showhosted by
Bernice Bennett. Discussion on the importance of documenting family history.
Quilt of Souls received a Five Star Book Review on the highly viewed Women for One on-line
magazine. May 2015.
Featured story and Book Review by Shenoba Kinsey for the Chicago Scene Magazine June 2015.
Since October 2015, Ms.Lawson has had over 30 public appearances in support of her memoir
Quilt of Souls. She has appeared at Public Libraries, Book Clubs, High Schools , Quilting Guilds
and Genealogical Societies.
Ms. Lawson has an overall Five Star rating on Amazon including 125 Five Star Reviews. She also
has an overall Five Star Review on Amazon Europe.
Ms. Lawson currently resides in Viera/Suntree, Florida with her husband Larry. She has two sons and five
Granddaughters.