Samuel Perry Jacks, also known as Sam Jacks was born in Glasgow, Scotland on April 23, 1915. He immigrated to Canada in 1920. He is best known for the invention of floor hockey and ringette. Jacks began as an assistant physical director at the West End YMCA in Toronto until 1940, after 1940 he was a member of the Army until he returned to the YMCA to create the Toronto Boy’s club, becoming its first president. In 1936 he designed and created the game of floor hockey, and developed the very first set of rules.…
Elvis Aaron Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi on January 8, 1935. His parents are Vernon and Gladys Presley; he also had a twin brother, who died at birth. Presley’s middle name was originally spelled Aron after his brother passed, but he later legally changed it to the more traditionally spelling “Aaron.” Elvis started singing and dancing at a very young age, and he now has immortality even after his death. Elvis Presley is one of the most tremendous musicians of the fifties Rock and Rolls era; because of his phenomenal talent and his miraculous way of dressing and dancing, he changes the world’s perspective of music with his incredible talent and charisma (Petersen 1).…
He was born February 24, 1817 in Hamden, Connecticut. His middle name is Morris. At the age of four he became an orphan. 1836 he was nineteen and joined Whitman-Spaulding missionary party. He then told them he wanted to be his own man.…
He was born May 3, 1850 at Greens Fork Wayne County Indiana, USA. He was born into a good family. Born John Peters Ringo on May 3, 1850, the oldest child of Martin and Mary (Peters) Ringo in Washington, Wayne County, Indiana, Johnny became the proverbial black sheep of the family. He did go to school in Gallatin, Missouri, which was where his father moved the family in 1856 to escape the increasing vigilante activity in Indiana, but he only had an elementary school education.…
Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron or also known as “Hammer” was considered as one of the greatest Major League Baseball players of his time. Hank Aaron left behind not just his record setting legacy, but his all around aura in the world of Major League Baseball. Born into unpretentious circumstances in 1934 to grow up in a poor African American area of Mobile, Alabama that was known as "Down the Bay. " Aaron was the third child born of his eight siblings to Herbert and Estella Aaron, who both worked as a dry dock boilermaker’s assistant, and a bar tavern owner.…
1923. Everyone told him that the sky was the limit. His mother, his father, and his little…
From the beginning Aaron Hernandez was destined to be a great football player. He had all the athletic skill in the world and had the physical size to back it up. He had made a name for himself since his high school days, breaking and setting state records, and then in college he boasted that he would eventually make it into the NFL. That day did come but in a matter of seconds Aaron Hernandez threw that privilege all away; one bad decision has now altered his life path. He had gone from a $40 million NFL contract to $4 a day, life in prison without the chance of parole contract.…
Lloyd Hall was born in Elgin, Illinois on June 21, 1894. Hall's grandmother came to Illinois via the "Underground Railroad" at the age of sixteen. His grandfather came to Chicago in 1837 and was one of the founders of the Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church. He became the church's first pastor in 1841. Hall’s parents, Augustus and Isabel, both graduated high school.…
Rocco Corresca, a late 19th century Italian immigrant, moved to the United States after hearing promises that America bred opportunity and, “everybody was rich and that Italians went there and made plenty of money, so they could return to Italy and live in pleasure ever after”(immig. test.) Corresca’s ambition drove the decision to emigrate to America. This ambition for a better life appeared in Corresca’s description of the “house” owned by Corresca’s grandfather. “it was a dark cellar that he lived in and I did not like it at all.…
Since the beginning of time, the World has been facing terrible conflicts. Whether it involved low salaries like Greece(DOC 3) or deplorable taxes in England(DOC 2). “We had to pay every cent we could possibly could produce to taxes… England did this, of course and her regime(DOC 2).” Catherine Moran McNamara, an Irish immigrant who immigrated to the US due to harsh conditions in England. Due to the Irish famine around the 1850’s, I suspect Catherine moved to England hoping for a better start.…
“Don’t be an Indian giver!” it may sound like an innocent phrase. However, that phrase underlines a lot of differences between Native culture and Christianity. The main point of Christianity is to give yourself without expecting anything back just as Jesus gave himself for the world. However, Natives, as a barter economy, were used to giving and expecting something back.…
James Welsh (November 18, 1940 – August 4, 2003) was an award winning Native American writer and founding father of the Native American Renaissance movement, a literary movement for Native American authors. Within the movement, Welch is notable for his works Winter in the Blood (1974) and Fools Crow (1986) James Welch was born in Browning, Montana on Indian territory on November 18, 1940. For the majority of his early life, Welch lived and studied within Native American cultures. Welch was very familiar with the ways of the Native Americans.…
HISTORY 104-Professor. Liebman Jihae Chai Frederick Douglass an African American man, who had been freed from slavery, wrote the historical document "The Composite Nation" in 1869. He wrote this document to argue and discuss the situation of inequality such as discrimination against Chinese and African Americans for the citizens of the United States in the 1860s. During the time, the early White settlers were segregated from the minority ethnical groups such as African Americans, Chinese, Italians, and Jews (Roark, 458).…
The Duel (The Parallel lives of Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr) MaKayley Smallwood. Publisher: Judith St. George. # of pages: 86 (not including the Epilogue) Early on the morning of July 11,1804, two men met on the dueling grounds of Weehawken ,New Jersey.…
In Mount Allegro, the author paints America in light that reflects what and how the immigrants defined it during their struggle to assimilate. The Mangione family soon learned that ‘America’ was more than a piece of land. They found, as Gruesz defines, “…the meaning of America might be said to be a national characteristic” (Gruesz 17). In this novel, it is presented as a goal that immigrants are striving to reach. And if you reach it, you and others can sincerely consider yourself a genuine part of America.…