Robert De La Salle By Alynna Medina My French explorer is Robert de la salle. Robert’s whole name is Rene Robert Cavelier Ssieur de la Ssalle. L,la salle was born in Rouen, France on November 22, 1643.…
Casi Gabrielle Becnel is one of the best people I know, even if I have only know her for a few short years, it feels as though I have known her for a lifetime. She is sixteen years old and is a junior at Mount Carmel Academy. Casi has always gotten straight A’s and is a really good person to look up to when it comes to succeeding in high school. Before attending MCA, she went to Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Belle Chase, which is where she now lives.…
Brooklyn, NY -- On Monday, September 12 everything seemed to be going wrong for Maria Hatziminadakis, 16. As she was waiting for her package to arrive with her costume for Comic Con, it had finally arrived on her mother’s birthday. Hatziminadakis very excitedly opened the package and first got a look at her costume she was very happy that it had arrived. When she took it out of the box and eventually tried it on, she had noticed that it was too long, had missing buttons, and the clip for the wig was too large causing it to drag down. Let down by this, she told her mom and she had come to the rescue.…
In the year 1800, 13-year-old Pierre La Page never imagined he would be leaving his home (Montreal) to paddle 2,400 miles across the lakes of Cape Cod, but when his father suffers an accident it will be up to him to quit school and take his father’s brutal job as a voyager for The Northwest Company. Worried for her son’s life Pierre’s mother might never see him again because of the brutal waters, crashing waves, and lack of food and water, Pierre’s courage will keep on pushing him to make his father proud and help his mother and father survive the upcoming winter. Pierre thought his life was going to be easy, but this is one challenge that he never could accomplish. On the first day of the long voyage a burst of courage…
The murals on the second floor of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology are scaled watercolor replications of the those painted on the walls of the so-called Villa of the Mysteries in Italy. They were commissioned by Francis W. Kelsey in 1924 to preserve the amazing images of the frescoes from continuing deterioration and were re-created by Maria Barosso, an Italian artist, over the course of two years. The original images were first painted on the walls of a Roman villa outside of Pompeii and ultimately affected by the infamous eruption of Mount Vesuvius. As they were created near the beginning of the first century, what the murals depict, or why they were created is relatively unknown. There are theories, of course, but Italy today is much different than it was nearly two thousand years ago, so no one knows for certain.…
Marci Francisco was born on April 22, 1950 in Prairie Village, Kansas she is currently 65 years of age. She is a graduate from the University of Kansas for architecture. She is married to Joe Bickford and she does not have any children and she currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas. Marci believes in a Unitarian religion and her political identification is democratic.…
Marisa Bocanegra is someone with an exceptional background. She was born on June 13, 1977 in Bogota, Colombia. Unknown to her at the time, she was kidnapped at an extremely young age of four hours old and sold to an adoption agency under a fake name. She would grow up in Minnesota, unaware of her background, to go on and search for her real family. She would find out that she was a victim of child trafficking and would eventually be reunited with her family.…
When thinking about serial killers, no one really thinks of women, especially from the 1800s. Belle Gunness, a.k.a. Lady Bluebeard, is known as one of the most dangerous serial killers to some, but to others, she’s widely unknown. Having a partner in crime, she would lure men to her farm through ads and proceeded to take everything the victim had along with their life. Lining her pockets with anything she could get, it is said she was criminally active for about fourteen years before she mysteriously disappeared.…
The tens of thousands of people who were persecuted for being witches during the witch hunts showed the world how fear and the right motive can cause people to turn on their own neighbors. After the Malleus Maleficarum and the catholic church’s persecution of heretics witch hunts began to grow more prevalent even spreading to the americas. Usually targeting women who were single, were in a low economic class, and unable to properly fight the accusations they became a easy target to condemn to death. Suzanne, being an uneducated older women, had no chance of beating the court and her accusers leading to a corrupt trial. The trial of Suzanne Gaudry is unfair and unjust which proves that the courts and everyone responsible for the witch trials…
In society today apperance and health concerns play a vast majority in our everyday lives. Furthermore, even relugious traditions have grown rapidly and has been altered in countless different forms. Wheter it was looks or religous beliefs the Naciremas presented a abounding amount of advanced human behavior in their own unique way. From medicine men, holy-mouth-men,their ritual life, and their concern for their health, their advanced actions were displayed numerous times throghout their daily lives.…
As a member of the only poor white family in black ghettos, Antoinette suffers a lot under the poverty and prejudice. Not only black people beyond her family construct the threat, what’s more, her household also help building it. The main threat is produced by black people outside their household. From a slave owner’s daughter to a poor widow, Antoinette’s mother’s dramatic shift in identity creates chance for black people to tease Antoinette and step on her dignity: Spread rumors, poison her mother’s horse, even little girl can call her “white cockroach” (8) and take her belongings without limitations.…
Nicole Byer wiki, married, husband, net worth, salary, Children, Bio and Salary Short Bio The prominent and talented American comedian and actress, Nicole byer has gained wide recognition from her remarkable work in Loosely Exactly Nicole, Are Yu the One? , and many other comedy shows. Nicole Byer was born on 1986 in New Jersey, United States. The American comedian as well as actress celebrate her birthday on August 29 and is 31 years old. She belongs to an Afro-American family.…
The world of psychics has always been a topic of debate. While some believe in the power of psychics, others consider it to be a mere hoax. Unfortunately, the recent news of a Canadian con man, Patrice Runner, has only added fuel to the fire. Runner has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for defrauding tens of millions of dollars from more than a million Americans by claiming to be a psychic.…
The role of women as healers during the middle ages has received some attention from medical historians but remains little known or appreciated. In the 3 centuries preceding the Renaissance this role was heightened by 2 roughly related developments. The first was the evolution of European universities and their professional schools that for the most part systematically excluded women as students thereby creating a legal male monopoly of the practice of medicine. Ineligible as healers women waged a lengthy battle to maintain their right to care for the sick and injured. The 1322 case of Jacqueline Felicie one of many healers charged with illegally practicing medicine raises serious questions about the motives of male physicians in discrediting…
Laura secord Many people know the story of Lara Secord but some of you may be a bit fuzzy on the details. Laura Secord was born Sep.t 13,1775 a Wednesday. When laura was 8 years old her mother died leaving Four little girls to her father. Her father remarried 3 times and had a large family, by his third wife. Laura was married at the age of 20 in 1797.…