Talia Joy Castellano Talia Joy Castellano was a cancer patient internet celebrity and a Cover girl famous for her YouTube channel “taliajoy18” where she manly posted vlogs, makeup tutorials and fashion videos. Was born August 18, 1999 in Orlando, Florida. Since her parents were split, she would live with her mother Desiree Castellano around central Florida, and then with her dad Marc Winthrop in New York city with her siblings Jackson, Kaitlyn Winthrop and Mattia Castellano. When she was just seven years old, she started to experience severe abdominal pains and overall felt extremely sick.…
Hattie Caraway was best known for being the first woman to serve in the United States Senate. Her life before, during, and after the Senate was all very important. She was a very important woman in Arkansas history. Hattie was born on February 1, 1878, in Bakerville, Tennessee on a farm.…
On the morning of August 15, 1961, 12 year old Gerta Lowe woke up to the sounds of sirens. Overnight communist Germany had build a barbed wire fence along the border of east and west Berlin. In the days before, Gerta and her dad had taken an exporatory trip over the border to search for work and opportunities. Now Gerta, her brother Fritz,and their moth…
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to become a U.S senator in congress. Revels was born on September 27, 1827 in Fayetteville, North Carolina as a free black man. His early education came from a local black woman and he later on moved in with his brother, Elias Revels, to become a barber. After his brother died, Hiram continued on with his life with different jobs and eventually joined the United States Army as a chaplain. During the civil war, Hiram helped organize and recruit two black regiments in Missouri and Maryland.…
Doris Watson was born on December 24th, 1937, in Leland Mississippi to the union of Arthur and Carrie Ferguson. Doris was baptized at an early age at Greater St. Matthews Church in Leland Mississippi. She attended Breich High School in Leland. On December 16, 1956, she was united in Holy Matrimony to Willie James Watson and to this union was born five children, Debra Ann, Bonita Lynne, Darryl Thaddeus, Willie Roy, and Jermaine.…
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.…
Alisha Hardy Alisha Hardy, who also goes by Lisha, is an eighteen-year-old Choctaw Native American woman from Wright City, Oklahoma. She is a student at Murray State College in Tishomingo, Oklahoma where she is studying nursing. In high school Lisha was an honors student and played softball. She is a very active member in her tribe’s community and her role as young Choctaw woman is very important. She enjoys taking part in cultural activities and keeping her tribes customs and culture alive.…
Sylvia Mendez Sylvia Mendez is a civil rights activist from the United States of Mexican and Puerto Rican parents. The Mendez family’s attempt to enroll Sylvia and her siblings at a “white-only” school led to the Californian desegregation case, Mendez v. Westminster. Sylvia Mendez is not related to actor, Anthony Mendez, on The CW’s hit show Jane, The Virgin. = =…
Many cities in America boast places that hold mysterious poltergeists and haunted mausoleums, but none of them have more supernatural beings than New Orleans. From a ghostly prostitute to a queen of black magic to a roving rug-rat, New Orleans is filled to the brim with paranormal sightings and experiences. One example of local folklore is the life of Josie Arlington, who led a pretty messed up life. She was living off money that she got from prostituting herself, but she knew that she could not live like that forever.…
The purpose of this study is to present bibliographical information of Hiram Revels and his impact on the culture, politics, and history of the African-American experience. Hiram Revels impacted life, black churches as well as blacks and whites with opposing political views. As the first African American Senate, a person of Revels defeated stereotype that came along with the Dred Scott decision, which stated that no individual of African ancestry was or could be considered a citizen of the United States. In order to provide a preferable understanding of Hiram Revels, this research paper will also contribute biographical information. Hiram Revels was born free in Fayetteville, North Carolina.…
Brandolyn Dianne Davis is an minority hardworking mother. She grew up in hardcore Chicago, Illinois in the 1960’s and the disco of the 1970’s with presidents like John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter. Although she was only a mere child, she can remember the chaos following President Kennedy and Martin Luther King’s assassination. Brandy votes because her forefathers died for her to have that right and she doesn’t want their deaths to be in vain.…
Life as Cassidy Today, like any day, I step off the yellow school bus, and walk into the fiery gates of hell. The gates just as I remember them, the double doors to Martin Luther King Jr. High School. My nerves on high alert waiting to face all of the creatures that lurk around the halls. Being prepared for all of the hate and nastiness I have to face from my peers. The constant name calling of “whore,” “lesbo,” and “fat dyke,” as I pass my classmates.…
Renaissance Persona My individuals name is Giovanna Cellini who is 15 years old, of Florence, Italy. She is eldest child of out of three and the only daughter to Giulio and Lucia Cellini. They are a middle-class family because of Giulio’s success as a banker, a business inherited from his father. She is arranged to marry 32-year-old Duke Filippo Sforza of Milan.…
The photo featured above is that of an Italian grandmother with her granddaughter. The grandmother and granddaughter, though unable to effectively communicate, have found a way to come together and enjoy their time. The grandmother is originally from Italy and therefore is unable to speak much English, if any at all. On the other hand, the granddaughter was born and raised in the United States and therefore, other than the basics, speaks very little Italian. This image was chosen as one that would educate others to show that language does not always have to be a life altering barrier.…
I grew up in Hawthorne, a small, quaint town located in Northern New Jersey. There I met my three best friends—girls with whom I have traveled, spent hours doing homework, and simply enjoyed being in company with. We grew up together in a predominantly Italian, close-knit, traditional neighborhood where our moms always watched over every one of us, teaching us the meaning of “community”. In my time of need, when my father passed away, le miei amiche and their families acted as and became my second family. They would each coordinate early morning school pick-ups, after school homework revisions, and, still to this day, the bonus of home-cooked Italian dinners.…