Farah Ahmedi:
Though Farah Ahmedi had a prosthetic leg, she was able to undertake the greatest mission: climbing an enormous mountain to reach freedom and safety. Farah was only seven years old when she lost her leg. She took a shortcut home from school, stepped on a landmine, and made it explode. …show more content…
In 1903, Annie Johnson, a divorced Negro, was living in a one room house with her two young boys. It all started when she told her husband that she was dissatisfied with their marriage. He conceded and told her that he wanted to study religion in Ewid, Oklahoma. He took most of the money with him and left her with very little. One day, she put stones in a bucket and walked to the cotton gin. She dumped some out, then walked to the lumber mill. Both of these places were about five miles each away from her house. When she came back home she made some meat pies and worked on them all through the night. In the morning, she took some charcoal, the meat pies, newspaper, and an iron brazier to a empty lot behind the cotton gin. she would make and sell the fresh meat pies for five cents at the cotton gin and the cold ones at the lumber mill for three cents each. Years later, she built a stand between the two "hives of industry" where they can come and buy her pies. Over time, it became a little general store where you can still buy, of course, her meat pies. Even though she endured all this hardship, she was determined and built a very successful business out of a mere