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homas Cruise Mapother IV, better known as Tom Cruise, was born on July 3, 1962, in Syracuse, New York, to Mary and Thomas Mapother. Cruise's mother was an amateur actress and schoolteacher, and his father was an electrical engineer. His family moved around a great deal when Cruise was a child in order to accommodate his father's career. Cruise's parents divorced when he was 11, and the children moved with their mother to Louisville, Kentucky, and then to Glen Ridge, New Jersey, after her…

This film covers the thirteen day period in October of 1962 where John F. Kennedy fought to keep the Cuba Missile Crisis from leading to the third world war. The movie follows the life of Kenny O’Donnell, Special Assistant to President, and his involvement with this situation. The event began when U-2 fighter jets flew over Cuba while taking photographs of the land below, reveling nuclear missles brought there by the Soviets. President Kennedy was left with a very hard decision. The options…

“Give a girl the right pair of shoes and she’ll conquer the world.” but she died having become a million - dollar movie star. In 1962 was fried by twentieth-century fox from the production of something’s got to give because of her chronic lateness and no-shows ( she didn’t appear for the first two weeks of filming). 2. Jeane russell was paid around 10 times as much as marilyn when they co-starred in prefer blondes.…

John F. Kennedy was born May 12, 1917. He was born in Brookline, MA. Kennedy went to college at Harvard University.His nickname was “Jack” which he did not like being called. After college he went to the navy and served on a pt boat during WW2. John F. Kennedy ran for president in 1960 against Richard M. Nixon the vice president of the U.S. during this time who was running for president. John was the democratic candidate in the 1960 election and Nixon was the republican candidate. When running…

When you see a beautiful girl that became famous you would believe she had an easy life or she became famous because of her looks but it wasn’t that easy for Norma Mortensen. Her childhood wasn’t the best. She eventually became an actress. She died of a barbiturates overdose. She had a very difficult childhood but she didn’t let that get in the way of her success. Marilyn Monroe was born June 1st, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. Her mother was a film cutter at RKO studios who,…

Ethnohealth Family Interview On August 7, 1962, my mother, Jami Collier was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. She had two younger twin sisters and no brothers. Her mother was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma which is not too far from where my mother grew up. She grew up in Schulter, Oklahoma and that is still where my grandmother resides. Ethnic Background The United States is the country of origin for my mother and grandmother. My mother is Methodist, and grandmother is Baptist. There are three…

to be hanged though. After two little girls accused Bridget Bishop of being a witch. Paranoia swept throughout the small village, Salem. There had already been a trial the month before. Why were groups of people hanged for witchcraft in Salem in 1962. There were some poor teenage girls drunk with power and they started the Salem witch trials. The teenage girls accused older women of witchcraft, some little girls were drunk with power, and the poor people were jealous of the rich people.…

Franklin Frazier was another criminologist that I found interesting. He studied in sociology and was deemed uncommon in his era for an African American. He was born in 1894 in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied at Howard University and social work in New York. He was able to obtain bachelor’s degree in 1916 which is encouraging because in those times there were so many obstacles that had to be dealt with in those times. He began teaching at the Morehouse College. His contributions toward…

Rosalind Franklin an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer was born on July 25, 1920 in London, England. She was most known for her contributions to the discovery of the DNA structure. She was born into an influential Jewish family and at an early age she excelled in her studies, at the age of fifteen she discovered her love to become a scientist. She later on attended Newnham College in 1938 where she studied chemistry. Upon graduating she worked with Jacques Mering who taught her X-ray…

frames . In the Holocaust and Salem Witch Trials they both compared how the women and the Jews were pushed out of society, how they were seen in the community and the effect they both had on our world's history. The Witch Trials began in the spring of 1962 after a group of girls claimed to be processed by the devil and accused many women of witchcraft quickly it raise red flags to the village so they opened up court cases to trial the women(Thomas). Throughout the cases the girls started to…