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My name is Mary Cary, and I reside in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You might think that not much happens in an orphanage, but you’d be mistaken. The orphans here are just like any other children, deserving of love and care, and that’s why I’m compelled to share my story. In my diary, I recount my adventures and the lessons I learn while navigating life at the Asylum in Virginia. I have strong feelings about the people around me—my disdain for Miss Bray, the self-serving head of the Asylum, and my deep affection for Miss Katherine, the kind-hearted nurse who acts as a guiding ...

Featured full of guests and advice on how to navigate life. Cryptic and Unhinged will give a behind-the-scenes look into the controlled chaos that is MaryJaneNotKate.

Embracing God's Plan sounds easier said than done. Take it from us, a young married couple who has learned the hard way that God is piloting this airplane and we only need to trust and believe in His will for our lives. We all have our trials and tribulations, no matter how big or small. It's how you look forward that matters, not how you look back.

To be a woman is to be half the world’s population but, in many countries, unfortunately still now and for most of history, women were decidedly second class, normally no more than chattels and the bearers and nurturers of children. As society involved into a complex and overlapping system where education and equality begin to seek space things began to change. In this volume our authors describe and reveal how life actually felt for almost all women before the recent past.

In January of 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an 86-year-old charter member of the NAACP, headed into Thompson’s Restaurant, just a few blocks from the White House, and requested to be served. She and her companions were informed by the manager that they could not eat in his establishment, because they were “colored.” Terrell, a former suffragette and one of the country’s first college-educated African-American women, took the matter to court. Three years later, the Supreme Court vindicated her outrage: District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co., Inc. was decided in 1953.