Clyde Champion Barrow (actually his middle name was "Chestnut") was born in Ellis County Texas on March 24, 1909. He had six siblings and was a very poor family. This is him at 16. His father actually gave up the farming and moved to West Dallas and he opened up a auto shop His first arrest came in 1926 when he didn’t return a rental car on time.…
In the fairly small town of Sherwood, OR, there is a very controversial mayor. The mayor is Krisanna Clark. The controversial mayor has done numerous things to help Sherwood become a better, safer, and happier place to live for all ages. Recently, Krissana has done things many people do not agree with, such as taking away one of the best places for kids and working out, the YMCA. Countless people have gotten very angry with her for that idea and it has caused backlash from a great deal of families.…
Lucy Craft Laney was born April 13, 1854 in Macon, Georgia. She was the daughter of former slaves. She was taught to read by her mother as an adolescent. At the age of 15, she enrolled at Atlanta University, and then she graduated in 1873. From the university, she went to educate African Americans, and later, opened her own school in 1883.…
Roberta Joan “Joni” Anderson is a talented musician, singer-songwriter, poet and painter. She was born on November 7, 1943. As the daughter of Bill Anderson her father who was a trumpet player in the Canadian marching band, officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and a grocer and of Myrtle Anderson her mother who was a schoolteacher. Joni was born in a Canadian town called Fort Macleod in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan as an only child. As a child in Saskatoon, she was able to take piano lessons when she had begged her parents to allow her to take piano lessons.…
Pam Oliver Bio, Married, Boyfriend, Husband, Net Worth and Wiki Short Bio - Who is Pam Oliver? The daughter of Mary Oliver and John Oliver, Pam Oliver was born in Dallas, Texas. She was born on 10 March 1961 and parents named her Pamela Donielle Oliver. She is of American nationality and has a black ethnicity. Her family relocated to different places because of her father being in the United States Air Force.…
Close your eyes and imagine you are a very famous deaf actress and they just called your name as the winner of the Tony award. The whole audience is clapping and screaming for you but you can't hear it. This is exactly what Phyllis Frelich went through. Phyllis Frelich, the first deaf tony award winner, was born into the Pisces(zodiac sign) family on a leap year in 1944(February 29th) in Devils Lake, North Dakota.…
Jane Long was the “Mother of Texas” because the birth of her child on Bolivar Peninsula. Jane long also was one of the first Anglo American’s in Texas. If you want to find out some more stuff about her just keep reading. Jane Long was born on July 23, 1798 in Charles County, Maryland. When she was born, she was one of ten children.…
There's a dynamic young lady with a candid attitude and a traveling voice that many don't know who to take in, Charquica Mccurdy was new to Lee High School as well as being new to the whole environment, but many didn't take the chance to get to know her yet. What most people at Lee failed to learn about her was that she's lived a hard life to be at a young age which is one of the reasons she moved to Wyoming, MI after living in Detroit,MI all her life. Most students at Lee go to work, and school; because their forced too meanwhile Charquica does those things to make a change in her life. Her grades have improved extremely since being enrolled in Lee High School because she made that change, so she can prepare herself to go to college and make…
She wanted to be well-known; for everyone to know her name. With some help from another individual, she reached that goal. However, not in a way many people would expect. This was the head of Bonnie Parker’s life.…
Catherine Opie is an American fine-art photographer. Best known as a portraitist, she also photographs landscapes, cityscapes, architecture, and lifestyles. At the center of her investigations are many questions about relationships to community, which she explores on in all her bodies of work. She has investigated the aspects of many different communities, while creating portraits of the people from them. Opie takes interest in how identities are shaped by our surroundings.…
Marcy Playground was formed in 1996 by John Woznaik, Dylan Keefe. and Shlomi Lavie. John named the band after Marcy Open grade school in Minneapolis that he attended, because many of his songs were inspired by his childhood. They were influenced by David Bowie, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Wham! and the Beatles.…
Phyllis Wheatley Phyllis Wheatley was born in Senegal, Africa in about 1753, there is no official record of her birth. Phyllis was around the age of seven when she was brought into America as a slave. Phyllis lived her childhood and most of her short adult life as a slave to the Wheatley family in Boston, Massachusetts. One of the most amazing facts about Phyllis Wheatley is although she was a slave who was considered a child prodigy and because of this she was allowed an education that featured theology, philosophy, literature and history. Phyllis Wheatley’s occupation was slave, but her official occupation was poet.…
As I was reading over the story of how Cecily McMillan and how she assaulted the police officer. I believe in my opinion she is guilty. The reasons why I say this is because when you read the story and watch the video of the activists outside protesting you notice the officer in the video are holding her arm and walking her through the crowd and you notice her jump and throw her elbow into the officers face causing him to have a black eye. So right then and there the officers take her to the ground and she goes into a seizure. They arrest her and take her to jail.…
Sophie Germain is one of France’s greatest female mathematician prior to revolutionary war, she was the daughter of Ambroise-François Germain and Marie-Madeleine Gruguelu. Her father worked as a part time deputy to the State-General. In his speeches he gave he referred to himself as a merchant and ardently defended the rights of the Third Estate, which he was there to represent. Somewhat later in his life time he became one of the directors of the Banque de France or in English the Bank of France. His library with wide ranging information enabled his daughter to than educate herself while at home.…
Frances Burney is, only now, being viewed as a feminist, albeit a covert feminist (McMASTER). She publicly suggested that she was apolitical(DAVIDSON), but throughout her writings she developed a balance between the growing rebellion against the restrictions and the limitations levied against womankind and her need to maintain societal appropriateness (CUTTING). She writes and differentiates her feminist agenda through her novels’ characterizations and depictions of strong, thoughtful, and intelligent heroines (CUTTING) who are all vulnerable to forces beyond their control (WALLACE). “Her heroines face life alone and settle their fortunes with a ruthless individuality that defies eighteenth-century notions of the female condition” (HAGGERTY). However, despite her leading ladies being given emotional endurance, she does not write her characters as feminists; instead, she gives the heroines a unique awareness that the limitations and subordinate positions imposed upon them are unfair without providing the characters the means to overcome (McMASTER).…