World War II war hero Doris “Dorie” Miller was born in Waco, Texas on October 12, 1919, and played football at Waco’s A.J. Moore Academy. He dropped out of school at the age of 17 and enlisted in the US Navy in 1939 at the age of 20. He was a mess attendant, one of few positions available to African Americans at the time. Then he was eventually elevated to Cook, Third Class and was soldier of West Virginia at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.…
Christian Biography of Jean McCord Ina Jean McCord, the daughter of Joseph and Telitha (Owens) Nicholson, was born on November 8, 1927 at DeWitt, Nebraska. She passed away on Friday, February 26, 2010 at the Brodstone Memorial Hospital in Superior at the age of 82 years, 3 months and 18 days. Jean attended school and graduated from Tobias High School. On Jue 28th, 1947 she was united in marriage to Lester McCord at Belleville, Kansas. This union was blessed with two sons. Jean was bookkeeper for the Nelson Ideal Market from 1956 to 1960 and was co-owner and bookkeeper with her husband Lester of the Nelson Food Center from 1960 to 1991. She was a family historian of the Nicholson and Owens families, a charter member…
This paper is about Margaret Cochran Corbin. She was the first wounded woman of the American Revolution. She was a strong woman and an interesting person. Margaret Cochran Corbin was a woman who fought in the American Revolution war that was her job. This paper is about her early life, adult life, and contribution to the Revolutionary War.…
In July of 1984, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino became a victim of breaking and entering, and sexual assault in her North Carolina apartment (Ronald Cotton). However, Thompson-Cannino wasn't an ordinary victim; she was going to find her attacker after that night, and she did everything she could try and remember him. While being assaulted, she studied his facial features, hair, tried finding any significant scars or marks that could help identify him in the future (The Perfect…
Vicki Gunvalson has always been a fan favorite. The reality show star has been with Bravo since the beginning of the franchise and the viewers have watched her good days and her bad days too. Apparently, she doesn’t mind sharing her life with the fans, but she is keeping an eye on the new cast members that sign on to “The Real Housewives of Orange County.” According to Yahoo News on Tuesday, Vicki Gunvalson fears that every new cast member has a motive and their first priority could be to rip her apart.…
Mary Whiton calkins was born in Harford, Connecticut on March 30th, 1863. She spent most of her growing up time in buffalo, New York. Her father was a Minister and mother was a puritan, they had five children between themselves and Mary was the oldest. Several sources claim Mary’s father never believed in public education and will rather educate his children by boarding them with German and French families. Although it was later recorded that Mary graduated from an established four wall academic setting high school. Mary showed her first interest in psychology while writing her final graduating paper. Topic was” Apology Plato should have written: a vindication…
Only 1.5 % of people will get pancreatic cancer in their lifetime. Unfortunately Diane Schendezos was one of them. Diane was a strong person who inspired people to to give up hate, and be loving. So be lovin gand generous in her honor. Her personality was as hard as a rock but as loving as a puppy, and she had enough tough hope for 5 people.…
Lily Roe Scott isn't your normal girl in all sense and purposes. Her entire life all she wanted was to be normal and live a normal life, but that wasn't what her mother and step-father had in mind for her. From an early age she was traveling the world and learning new customs including when it came to who her family was. Born in June of 1989 in Tree Hill, North Carolina to Karen Roe and Keith Alan Scott; except when Lily was born her father had been dead for almost a year. Soon after Lily was born her mother left Tree Hill and went in search of a new life where she found that with former boyfriend Andrew Hargrave. When Lily was 5 years old, her mom married Andrew Hargrave in a small ceremony back in Tree Hill shortly after her big brother Lucas marrLily Roe Scott isn't your normal girl in all sense and purposes.…
Living in a rural area of Northeast Georgia gives Laura Motes the opportunity to appreciate the bounty of nature that surrounds her home. She loves placing bird seed and suet in various places around her yard, so she can watch the local bird and wildlife eat during the day and night.…
Kerri Morgan is a forty-three-year-old woman who lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Kerri was born in New York, and at a young age, her family relocated to St. Louis. St. Louis is unique in that it has the Special School district. Upon arrival, Kerri’s parents fought hard for inclusion. As a result, Kerri attended a mainstream school throughout her primary and secondary education. After high school, Kerri attended college at Texas Christian University where she received a bachelor’s degree in Psychology. She then received a Master’s degree in Occupational Therapy and a PhD in Movement Science from Washington University. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the occupational therapy program at her alma mater, Washington University.…
Born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867 on a Louisiana plantation,Walker transformed herself from an uneducated farm worker of the twentieth century's most successful, self-made women entrepreneurs. Orphaned at age seven, she often said, "I got my start by giving myself a start." She and her older sister, Louvenia, survived by working in the cotton fields of Vicksburg, Mississippi. At 14, she married Moses McWilliams to escape abuse from her cruel brother-in-law, Jesse Powell.…
Rebecca Nurse made a lot of good decisions in her life that makes her the person she is today. She is always doing the right thing and helping everyone. Once Betty was in a ‘coma like state’ and screaming Rebecca Nurse just simply walked over to her and she stopped screaming. She also tells everyone that there is no witchcraft involved in the town of Salem. She says that “kids are just being kids.” But when Ann Putnam says that her child is in a ‘zombie like state’ and not talking, Rebecca says again that she’s just being a kid, and when she’s tired of acting that way, she’ll stop. Ann then mentions that she isn’t eating either. Rebecca told her that she’s just not simply hungry yet, and once she is she will wake up and stop playing around. I am similar to Rebecca Nurse in a way that we both are caring and truthful people.…
Margaret Bourke – White, an American journalist photographer, was born in New York City on June 14, 1904. She was raised in a strict household. During her time in high school she became the yearbook editor and that is when she started showing her writing talent.…
Madam C.J Walker was the first female African American self made millionaire in America thanks to her haircare products directed to African American women who had very few products in the nineteen-hundreds. The early nineteen-hundreds in which Madam Walker was born in, was a tough time to be black. Walker’s own parents were just freed slaves in the time she was born. African Americans were faced with many barriers such as violence, Jim Crow Laws, and lack of education directed to them. Not only was Madam Walker black, she was a woman and they too had very few rights. When Walker was thirty years old, she encountered hair loss due to poor hair care and stress, this lead her to find a solution. She explored solutions by herself to hair loss and made hair care products to Black women. This was very rare for the early in the early nineteen-hundreds because they were mostly ignored in society in that time period. Madam Walker helped African American women have a voice,and she is…
Sara Teasdale is an American lyrical poet born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1884. Throughout her childhood and adulthood, she suffered from many illnesses. This caused her to be homeschooled until she was well enough to be put in school, which finally came at the age of nine. Teasdale finished school in 1903 after going to three different schools and battling many more illnesses along the way. She was an accomplished writer of poetry shortly after finishing school and she has had many poems published to multiple different sources. Her poems have also been used as lyrics for many choral pieces and she has won awards for her collection of poems entitled “Love Songs”. At Sara’s funeral, her mother spoke of how Sara always loved reading poetry and looking at anything beautiful, so she was amazing at taking those beautiful things she saw and turning them into poetry.…