World War I left many families dead, creating large numbers of orphans. Jamaie (later to become James) Decartes was one of those orphans. His father died in the trenches in France, and his mother was stolen away, never to be seen again. James was 14 when this happened, he hid under floor boards when his …
Those with the gift of being a magnificent artist are very unique. Not many people have such special talents that get them so far in life. However, out of the ones that do, they are well admired by others for their work and their talents. One such extremely marvelous artist is Audrey Flack. I strongly …
Prince William tries to live a normal life, but being royalty makesit just too hard (Morton, Diana: Her True Story, 79). “He is the mostfascinating person of 1997,” says Walters (Unknown, Facts on PrinceWilliam, 1). Prince William lives an active life where he deals withdisappointments of the past, but family members help him deal with …
Elizabeth Arden, formally known as Florence Nightingale, changed her name in 1909 with the introduction of her first shop selling facial creams. She began as a normal working girl, taking different odd jobs here and there. Then she was introduced into the cosmetic world by Eleanor Adair, who hired Arden on as a clerical consultant …
Desiree N. CalderonMr.JallohMay 15, 2002 Pd.1Oprah WinfreyOprah Winery’s life experiences have made her into the woman she is today. She was born on January 9,1954,in Kosciusko, Mississippi. She has stated that she is a woman in progress, just trying like everyone else. Taking every conflict and every experience and learning from it. Oprah Winfrey has …
He was born on May 5, 1937 in Presbyterian Hospital. He was born, and grew up, in the South Bronx, New York. There was a big influence of drugs and gangs where Powell lived but, he seemed to steer away from all of that (source 1, page 23). Powell’s parents were immigrants from Jamaica. His …
Speaking Truth to Power: A Rhetorical Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Our forefathers’ proclamation in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal” has held little value in the eyes of the countless citizens belonging to oppressed groups. The years following the summer of 1776 and the social inequalities that we as a …
Roberto Baggio was born on February 18, 1967 to his mother Matilde and his father Fiorindo, in the small Italian town of Caldogno which is located north of the city of Vicenza. His brothers and sisters are Gianna, Walter, Carla, Giorgio, Anna Maria, Nadia, and Eddy. Roberto had much freedom as a child. His father …
Federal justice Sonia Sotomayor was born as the eldest of two kids in the South Bronx country of New York City. on June 25. 1954. Parents Juan and Celina ( Baez ) Sotomayor. who were of Puerto Rican descent. moved to New York City to raise the household. Sotomayor’s household functioned on a really modest …
Helen “Nellie” Laetitia Mooney was born October 20, 1873 in a log cabin on Garafraxa Road, two kilometers from Chatsworth, Ontario. She and her family moved to Manitoba when she was six years old. One of Nellie’s best influences was her mother. Her family’s influence was no doubt the reason she became an activist. Her …
With the Death of a Salesman during the winter of 1949 on Broadway, Arthur Miller began to live as a playwright who has since been called one of this century’s three great American dramatists. He has also written other powerful, often mind-altering plays: The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays, …
Lenny Bruce Leonard Alfred Schneider, or more commonly known as Lenny Bruce, was a comedian, a family man, drug addict, and philosopher. A conventional Jewish child from Long Island, who joked about homosexuality, drugs, religion, and race. Arguably, he paved the way for the comics of today, paying the price for being twenty years ahead …
Benedict Arnold: Life in the American Revolution On January 14, 1741, Benedict Arnold was born in Norwich, Connecticut. (B Arnold) Arnolds father, also named Benedict, had a drinking problem and his mother Hannah often worried. (B Arnold) Arnold received his schooling at Canterbury. (B Arnold) While away at school, a few of Arnolds siblings passed …
Harry Hess was born in the year 1906 in New York City. In the year 1969 he suffered an heart attack disease while chairing a meeting of the space science board of the National Academy of Science, that saw his death in the same year .He is famously know as the proponent of the sea …
Adler, Alfred (1870-1937), Austrian psychologist and psychiatrist, born in Vienna, and educated at Vienna University. After leaving the university he studied and was associated with Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. In 1911 Adler left the orthodox psychoanalytic school to found a neo-Freudian school of psychoanalysis. After 1926 he was a visiting professor at Columbia …
Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1919 to a family of sharecroppers. His mother, Mallie Robinson, raised Jackie and her four other children on her own. They were the only black family on their block, and therefore encountered a great deal of racial prejudices. For a man coming from a poor family of …
Alexander Grothendieck Alexander Grothendieck is a prominent mathematician who is well known for his theories in algebraic geometry, homological algebra and functional analysis. He was born in the capital of Germany, Berlin, in 1928, one year before the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Grothendieck’s parents were Sascha Shapiro and Hanka Grothendieck. Shapiro was a Russian …
Martin Luther King Jr.’s wife, Coretta Scott King, once writ that “We still are struggling with racism and prejudice. But… some great men have decided to use their lives to serve humanity. They found… something that showed them a way to serve others… and that makes their stories special, and worth knowing” (Scott, 8). One …
Many of us are familiar with the Spice Girls. who held many hit singles throughout the 1890ss. They were a stone esthesis and had 1000000s of fans back uping them through their music. their films. and their public presentations. Out of the five Spice Girls. merely one is still celebrated today. Victoria Adams Beckham. She …
L. L. COOL J was born as James Todd Smith, on January 14, 1968, in Long island, New York City, to his parents James and Ondrea smith. As a child he was called Todd, and didn’t have a very happy childhood. When he was only four, he saw his mother and grandfather get shot by …
Antonio Salieri (August 18, 1750 – May 7, 1825), born in Legnano, Italy, near the Austrian dukedom of Mantua, was a composer and conductor who received considerable public acclaim in his day. He studied violin and harpsichord with his brother Francesco, who was a student of Giuseppe Tartini. After the death of his parents, he …
Big Payback Notes • Early con? ict in the the ? scal underpinnings of hiphop. There was signi? cant backlash from urban purists (essentially those living and breathing hiphop’s four elements by DJing, MCing, breakdancing, and graf? ti tagging in its raw street setting) who disliked the commerical sensibiltiies of the Sugar Hill Gang and …
Marlee Matlin was born in Morton Grove, Illinois on August 24, 1965. At the age of 18 months, she lost all of the hearing in her right ear and 80 percent of the hearing in her left. Roseola Infantum caused her hearing loss. Marlee is Jewish and has two older brothers. She is a deaf …
Surgeon, food reformer; born in Tyrone Township, Mich. (brother of Will K. Kellogg). Born into a Seventh Day Adventist family, he took a course in a “hygieotherapeutic” school. He rejected this approach and took regular medical training, finishing at Bellevue Hospital Medical College (New York City) but with a thesis claiming that disease is the …
