No one thought that Chad Bradford would make his high school team. Bradford did. No one thought that Bradford would do well in a hitters ballpark. Bradford did.…
The American Civil War broke out while he was at Wilberforce. He later claimed that he and 115 students from the mostly black University attempted to enlist in the Union…
When he started getting into the judicial field, he stood against many Klan members in the south, including Sam Bowers. He also became close to Charles Evers in his fight against the Klu Klux Klan and his many efforts of integration of the…
Andrew Barr was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 10 December 1915; he had a twin brother, Jack. The family moved to Australia when the boys were six. Growing up in Melbourne, Andrew attended Kew Public School and played Australian rules football. He was also the Victorian Schoolboys' 100 yards athletics champion three years in succession, from 1926 to 1928. In 1931, aged fifteen, he began his association with the Lord Somers Camp and Power House social and sporting organisations located at Western Port.…
On October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten, tortured, tied to a fence, and left for dead by local teenagers all because of his sexuality. Shortly before Matthew’s death, James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old African American man from Jasper, Texas, was found decapitated and dismembered on a road near his hometown. The perpetrators tied him up and dragged his body with their truck. The men who committed this terrible crime had connections with the Ku Klux Klan and held white supremacist ideologies. Two days after the attacks on September 11, 2001, Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh gas station owner in Arizona, was savagely murdered by an attacker who thought that because he wore a turban, he was a follower of Osama…
James Beckwourth passed away October 29, 1866 of mysterious causes along the Bighorn River. He was born in Virginia on April 6, 1798. He was the third child of thirteen children. His mother was an African American slave and his father was English. James was born into slavery and became free when he was an adult.…
Stone Peckham is 14 and is pretty funny and random. His loves to hunt and wrestle. He is apart of the Hoyt crew on the “Hoyt vs. Mathews” Controversy. He is pretty gutsy. Honestly, I can think of many, no, a lot of times that he has done the dumbest things.…
Introduction In the book “The Other Wes Moore” uses a more successful internal factor because in this story both Wes Moore’s have a perspective mindset for how they think and the surrounding and how they act affect the way they grew up. Both Wes Moore’s were younger when they were in there teen years they both acted in a bad way that will affect the future but one mindset change their mindset but one stayed the same. Even Though both Wes grew up in the same environment the type of Mindset or perspective they had changed they way they turned out, after the author’s Wes, dad died and they moved in with his grandparents his mindset was that he was the man of the family and he was going to have to protect them.…
George Bancroft, born in 1800, quickly excelled in school while attending the Phillips Exeter Academy, and then entered into Harvard College at the age of thirteen. Harvard President, John Kirkland, encouraged Bancroft to study abroad, so he left for Germany to obtain his Doctorate degree in Philogy. After earning his doctorate, he helped found a private school for boys in Northampton, Massachusetts. When he married a wealthy woman, Sarah Dwight, he gained more time to pursue his intellectual interests, and he started working on his forty yearlong ten volume collection titled “History,” which was a comprehensive study of the nation’s past. Bancroft entered into the political scene in 1844, endorsing the Democrat party.…
He walked in one of the most famous marches the March on Washington in Washington D.C. where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I have a Dream Speech.” He also was an outspoken opponent of the racial discrimination. He resigned from the N.A.A.C.P. in 1967 because he thought the leader of one of the factions was being racist and being discriminating. He also helped create the Freedom National Bank to help black business owners and other minorities receive loans that they would not be able to get from white banks. Robinson also helped push for black managers and coaches.…
Ultimately, my purpose and responsibility after attending Howard is to ensure that future students continue to receive the same opportunities that were granted to me. One of my first commitments that will ultimately carry out my legacy is a scholarship that I intend to create as a Howard alumni. I do not aim to limit my legacy to the years following my graduation. My legacy at Howard University begins the moment I step foot on campus.…
Edward Abbey had said that the wild needed more defenders than defense. I wonder what he might’ve had meant by the wild needing more defenders, yet it needs no defense? Did Edward Abbey write this to notify those who do not care about nature? Edward had left us with multiple sayings about the wild in need of help but this quote is telling us that it does not need any defense. Half of the human race has over the years stop caring or thinking of the environment, we do not see how important plants or animals who need certain specimens to continue the cycle of animal and plant life.…
David R. Russell and Arturo Yañez’s essay, “Big Picture People Rarely Become Historians’: Genre Systems and the Contradictions of General Education,” is a dynamic piece that attempts to describe the motives and feelings of students being forced to take general education credits using a methodology known as the Activity Theory. Described by Russel and Yañez, the Activity Theory can be described as a way of evaluating human interaction over time, including change and learning (335). The authors apply the Activity Theory to students enrolled in an Irish history general education course in an effort to explain the alienation felt by students whose majors fall outside of history. Also, the authors touch on the “Transmission Model” as it is…
Leo Haas’ Life and Legacy “You will remember this number. You will memorize it. You will answer when it is called. You have no name any longer.…
Malcolm X When we take a look to those people who made history and changes in their lives, those changes became as a lesson, and an example for a good person 's life. We see and realize how hard of a life they lived. They built themselves with many struggles and challenges, until they approached what they want, and be greatest icons. In our life, we have many names and icons who influenced the way that we see and evaluate norms and values. We are pleased that there were those icons who gave life and people a path and an approach to wisdom.…