Ida M. Tarbell

When black Wacoans tell God, they tell the weather and the land. On May 11, 1953, divine violence upset the natural weather patterns in the central Texas landscape. Mary Denkins recalls in detail her father rushing to pick her up from the all-black Moore High School. She remembers hearing on the radio the threat of a massive tornado. When Mary arrived home, her mother gave a cautious, deliberate prophecy to her and her siblings: “God is fixin’ to work, so you all be quiet.” Late afternoon, the…

As of 2013 more than eighty six percent of adults say they already have children, are planning to have children, or wish to have children yet one in every four couples suffer from infertility. Infertility may be due to a single cause in either you or your partner’s reproductive system, or a combination of both that may prevent pregnancy from occurring. Fortunately there are many therapies and treatments for overcoming infertility. One of the most controversial solutions is Surrogacy. Now for…

” (5). “Another question that arises concerns the issue of who is liable if the ‘product’ (the baby) is defective or does not meet the parents’ expectations and who will take care of such a child,” (3). The most famous case of surrogacy is the “Baby M” affair. Mary Beth Whitehead, age 29 in 1986, had carried and delivered a baby girl for an infertile couple (1). Whitehead was the baby’s genetic mother in this case of surrogacy and tried to keep her after delivery which led to a two year custody…

The play M. Butterfly, was written by David Henry Hwang. To help the actors gain a complete understanding of the play, a resource packet with references to the people and events that the play is based on, information on the role of women in 1960s China, and information on the opera Madama Butterfly would be provided to them. The characters Rene Gallimard (Hwang, pg. 1672 line 1) and Song Liling (Hwang, pg. 1679 line 4) are based loosely off Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu, respectively, and…

Paid surrogate motherhood has become a subject undergoing intense research and scrutiny in recent years because of multiple cases, including baby M and many others. It raises a moral question: is this practice equivalent to selling babies? The answer is unclear and the arguments made for it often lead to a “slippery slope.” In attempting to answer this question I will argue that paid surrogacy should be legal in certain circumstances and under regulation. To start I will defend paid surrogacy,…

of the nation. However, there were no shortage of individuals and groups that worked towards equal rights and justice for all. For African-Americans, and women in some respect, one of the trailblazers who fought racism, inequality, and injustice was Ida B. Wells. Born into slavery six months before President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Wells was a fierce civil rights leader, activist, suffragist, and journalist; but was best known as a fearless anti-lynching crusader. Wells was…

the tragic lynching was Ida B Wells-Barnett, “There was the pioneer organizer of the crusade against lynching, an African-American woman named Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Almost alone, she rallied anti-lynching sentiment in the United States, exposing the barbarity of lynching.”(“Duluth’s Shameful” n.pag.)Wells-Barnett spoke out against lynchings and got supporters to create an anti lynching law. Since the law was passed people cannot legally lynch people anymore thanks to Ida B Wells- Barnett and her…

mob, has been recorded throughout history; since the dawn of man. Whether you look at the mob that sent Christ to the cross or the pogroms in imperial Russia in the 1800s, this method of justice is timeless. In the piece “Lynch Law in America”, by Ida B. Wells, Mrs. Wells presents to the audience, a problem. This piece was released in January of the year 1900, in the city of Chicago. Mrs. Wells brings forth an emotional, graphic, history on lynching that tugs at the moral…

One possible direction to press Cavell in a theological register is to read the centering of the ordinary as an explicit critique of the messianic, that is, of discontinuous eschatological formations of redemption. Cavell’s fear that we take too much for granted about our everyday lives—in what our shared language and therefore our shared world implies—certainly lends this pressure. Any sense of uncritical or one-sided otherworldliness threatens to perpetuate the failure of not taking language…

Ignorance is the Real Enemy Origin: Ray Stannard Baker. After 1896. US cities. Muckraker. Primary. Purpose: To explain muckrakers impact society What does Baker say is the reason or purpose for Muckrakers? What is their responsibility? Baker states that the reason or purpose for Muckrakers is to expose the world around them. To really look at it and they are responsible to report honestly, fully, and above all interestingly at what they found. Muckrakers must report the facts, they can’t…