Jaycee Dugard was a regular 11 year old girl living in South Lake Tahoe, California. But, one day as she was outside of her home when two strangers asked her for directions on the side of a road. Seconds later she was shot with a stun gun. She instantly went numb and fell into the bushes. A man then rushed out of the car and abducted her.…
Born a slave in 1818, Elizabeth Keckley became a skilled dressmaker for First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. After President Lincoln’s assassination, Keckley wrote one of the first personal accounts of life inside the Lincoln White House, Behind the Scenes: Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. Elizabeth Keckley had experienced the exploitation and degradation common to thousands of slave women. She was born in Dinwiddie Court House, Virginia, and spent her childhood as a slave of the Burwell family. During adolescence, she was “loaned” to a North Carolina slave owner and beaten and eventually raped.…
Mindy McCready was born Malinda McCready in Fort Myers, Florida on November 30, 1975. She began singing at her local church at the age of 3. By the time she was 9, McCready began to study opera singing with a retired Juilliard Professor. After studying opera for some time, she realized that she preferred the country music that she would sing along to with her karaoke tapes. She especially liked Trish Yearwood and Reba McEntire.…
Many years later her experience being molested would come back and affect her relationship with her daughter Kyiesha. Kyiesha revealed that her mother was overprotective and this was because she was afraid her daughter would be molested as well. Because of Gertie’s personality at that time, Kyiesha ran away but she ended up moving back because she was raped by her boyfriend’s brother. This was not the first incident of her being sexually assaulted, because she had recently been gang raped between this incident and when she ran away. It was discovered later on that her attacker was actually bragging about raping Kyiesha, which enraged Mark.…
When I was 12 years old, my grandfather passed away. Being that my mother is an only child, she had to be with him a lot. My grandfather lived in England, and that is where my mother had to be when he was ill. I was in sixth grade at that time. The memory is still very clear to me.…
This is the reason this has got so out of hand. Teens dealing with everything all by themselves because they fear or no one helps. Teens rely on each other and somewhere along the line turn on each other for a reason or another and that is when everything goes down. Something interesting at Madera High that was pointed out by Martinez was that most of the bullying occurred between friends or acquaintances, not so much strangers.…
Olympia, in Greece is the reserved site for the ancient Greek deities. The focal piece of Olympia was the magnificent shrine of Zeus. The ancient Olympic games delighted in a common tradition and went for securing great relations between the city-states of Greece. They demonstrated the physical qualities and development of the young men in the civilization. The Olympic Games were held in four year interims at the antiquated stadium in Olympia that had a maximum capacity of more than 40,000 people.…
I-Kappa-B-alpha which is often abbreviated IkBa is a protein whose role is to mask the nuclear localization signals to inhibit the NF-kB (nuclear factor kappa beta) proteins by keeping them in inactive states and isolating them in the cytoplasm, this inhibits the NF-kB transcription factors and blocks the NF-kB transcription factors from binding with DNA. NF-kB is a protein complex that is responsible for controlling cytokine production, transcription of DNA, cell survival, and plays a key role in regulating the body’s immune response to infection. It is important for IkBa is be present in cells and carry out its role because incorrect regulation of the NF-kB protein complex has been linked to cancer, viral infections, inflammatory diseases,…
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Throughout the years, my life has been full of stories. Some full of laughter and others full of sadness and misery. These four stories are about the times where I made a mistake that ended up in me feeling some sort of pain or sorrow. Kindergarten…
Canada! Canada! Canada! Here we come. I will never forget the time I went to Canada.…
Maryam was born 1951 in the capital of Somalia Mogadishu. She is from a small family who consist of parents and two siblings. She is the oldest child in the family and her sister Halima was born in Mogadishu, the same house Maryam was born. Her father was a soldier and used to go to different cities in Somali. Her father went to a city called Kismayo, and built a house for his family.…
The day I wish I could relive is the day that my family and I landed in Germany for part of our summer vacation. This was a special day for me because it was my first time out of the country, and my dad is always talking about when he would always go to Germany when he was a kid. He has a lot of family members there, his mom was born in a town near a huge city called Hamburg. When we landed we had to get our bags from the baggage claim. Then we had to go buy train tickets because the hotel was pretty far away.…
I do not remember exactly the particular day but all I remember was that it was very humid and the sky was cloudy. It was just a few days before I joined first grade and I had just arrived home from my neighbors. I was utilizing my last few days of freedom and hence was tired and hungry. I had rushed home looking forward to my grandmother’s food and playing time.…
The Camping Trip During the summer after my fifth grade school year had ended, I went on one of the worst camping trips in my life. It was sometime during the 2nd week of June. I was looking forward to this trip because all of my family was going. I mean everyone was going, my grandma & grandpa, my aunts & uncles, and my cousins. The year before not many of my family went, so that’s why I was looking forward to this camping trip.…