It was like business school without the reward of a well-paying job at the end." (piece of Yona Zeldis Mc Donough's biogragraphy. I found graduate school the antithesis of undergraduate education while the latter encouraged experimentation, growth, expansion, the former seemed to demand a kind of narrowing of focus and a rigidity that was simply at odds with my soul. I didn’t like the teachers, the students or the classes.
I enrolled in a PhD program at Columbia University where I have to confess that I was miserable. I was so taken with the field that I decided to pursue my studies on a graduate level. I was not accepted into the poetry workshop I applied to, so I avoided all other writing classes, and instead focused on literature, language and art history, which was my declared major. "As a student at Vassar College, I never once took a writing course. So.being the courageous woman she was, Harriet went back down to the South. When Harriet got there, though, she realized-she was the only one. Who Was Harriet Tubman? by Yona Zeldis McDonough is a great African-American history book for kids! Harriet Tubman, born Araminta "Minty" Harriet Ross, was probably one of the bravest African-American women of her time! After being a cruelly treated slave for a long while, she decides that she has had enough, and she ran up to the north. Though it is a great idea to introduce children to notable and courageous people who made a positive difference to other people's lives in a simple story format, I also thought that some aspects of the story were over-simplified, while others will be unsuitable for young children. The story is mixed with some information on Tubman's time period, for example, explaining abolitionists and Quakers.
She was a passionate activist for equality, too, and later also campaigned for women's rights. She worked as a nurse, as a spy and also as the Commander of Intelligence Operations for the Union's Army Department of the South. She returned many times to the South, though, guiding some seventy other slaves to their freedom to the North, including devising their roots of escape, communicating with abolitionists and Quakers, and both physically and symbolically paving their road to freedom. She had dreams of freedom and and one day managed to escape her master, travelling on the Underground Railroad. In a very simple language, it explains that Harriet Tubman ("The Moses of Her People") was a fiercely independent young woman who always stood up for her people. Who Was Harriet Tubman? talks about the life and achievements of one slave woman, born 1822, in the US who helped many black people in slavery become free. This series of books illustrates the lives of notable people for children.
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