Tuesday, September 21, 2010
What I thought About When I Read The Women's Stories
When I read the 2 stories it made me think about all the hardships all the settlers must have faced while entering in the new land. One of the hardest things about traveling to a new place so that you could have rileign freedom would probably be that you wouldn't know what to expect. Another thing I think would be hard was when you got to the new land would be that you would have new diseases and you could starve to dealth. I think that all the people that traveled to the new land would have to have been very brave.
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I agree. The people who came to the New World did face many hardships. But why do you think both of these women came to America? Do you think that they might have known before they came how hard their lives' would be when they got here? There are many letters that were written and sent to Europe by people who came to America during the late seventeenth century that makes the New World seem like the most fertile and abundant land on the planet. Some letters written at this time make it seem like life was easy in America, when in fact it was far from easy. Maybe what the women were leaving behind was much worse than all the hard labour they had to endure when they arrived here. Maybe people traveled the long distance because of the opportunities the New World had to offer. They had a chance to leave their children and grandchildren with more than they had. The places these women came from had societies that didn't easily allow people from a lower class to move upward and become rich. Do you see anything in these two stories that may support this line of reasoning? How about anything that may suggest the contrary?
ReplyDeleteI think that they probably came to the New World because they wanted religious freedom! I think they didn't know all the hardships they were going to face because alot of the letters sent over made the New World sound very spectacular!
ReplyDeleteHenrietta Deering Johnston helped us better understand the lifes of others who came over to the new world. Henrietta was the earliest American pastelist who supported her family by painting. If she didn't paint we wouldn't know what people wore or what life was like. Hannah English Williams was recorded as SC's 1st women biologist. She studied vipers and several sorts of snakes, scorpions and lizards. She also studied shells and nests made by wild bees, and she studied many birds. If it were not for her we would not have known about all the different species that were found in the new land.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think Henrietta's husband was so critical of her art work? The reading says that, like most women of the time, she was dependent on her husband and his income. Do you think that maybe her husband was threatened by the propect of Henrietta being the bread winner in their household? Maybe his was critical of her work because he didnt want his wife to make more money than him, in a time when a wife making more money than the husband wasnt socially accepted. Also, how much money do you think her husband made being a clergyman? How much money do you think he left behind for her to care for her family. The reading says that she has to paint to support her family, so maybe this means he left his estate to someone else in his will. To be a biologist one must recieve a degree in biology. What institute do you think Hannah English Williams attened? Do you think that it was easy or difficult for women to be excepted by Univeristies during the 18th century? I think she was a living example that women were as intelligent as men, an ideas that wasnt a common perception.
ReplyDeleteI think that he didn't want her to paint in fear of her making more money than him! He probably made alot of money! I think he might have left it for someone else or maybe he gave the money to someone else because she didn't really have a lot of money to support her family. I think it was good that she had the painting skills so she could support her family after her husband died! I think that Hannah probably went to a college in her homeland an than came over here to find out more about the new land!
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