Biography Essay

Catherine Moore Barry Catherine Moore Barry also known as Kate Barry was born on October 22, 1752 around Spartanburg, South Carolina to Professor Charles and Mary Moore. Kate was the oldest of ten children. At the age of 15 Kate married Andrew Berry. The newlywed couple moved to Walnut Grove, South Carolina, where the couple began their family. They had three children together. Meanwhile her husband Andrew Berry joined the colonist in the war against Great Britain where he became a Captain in…

Gandhi was a man of hard beginnings and humble endings. The way he lived his life changed the people around him, the world he lived in, and the world we know today. He was the main leader in a peaceful non-violent war against the British for the independence of India. Mahatma Gandhi was a true bro, he would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it, even if it was the only one he owned. On October 2 1869 baby Gandhi entered this world. He was born and raised in a merchant Hindu…

“Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but hasn’t solved one yet.”-Maya Angelou. This is one of my grandmother’s, Glenda Kay Smith, favorite quotes. Glenda’s life began on January 25, 1945. She was born at her grandmother’s house in Wolfpit, North Carolina. Her father was away at France fighting during World War II. Glenda lived in Greensboro, North Carolina. When she was seven, her family moved to Nashville, Tennessee. Her neighborhood was filled with older duplexes and newer…

Petty Officer Hensford has distinguished herself through exceptional performance while serving as the Leading Logistic Petty Officer, Asset Manager, Sexual Assault Program Victim Advocate (SAPR VA) and Command Pay and Personnel Administrator for U.S. Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station (NCTS), Far East Detachment Sasebo from January 2014 to January 2017. She is a proven performer that has continually exhibited drive and dedication. Her outstanding service style of leadership, team…

Galileo Galilei once said “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564 Galilei was an Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist. Who then died on January 8, 1642. He was a man of many talents who was able to invent his own telescope. He invented his first telescope in 1609, Galileo built on the work of others to create a telescope with around 3x magnification, he later improved on this to make…

Did you yet “discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself and the other for helping others” (Hepburn)? This woman strongly believed in this and spent her life to helping others until her death which was possibly caused because she forgot that she had another hand to take care of her own self. Despite her traumatic childhood, Audrey Hepburn was able to overcome the nightmare experiences through possessing strong morals and beliefs of her own and not only had a successful career as…

Yuming Kuo, who was an industrious and earnest organizer, was an investment adviser in a stock broker company. He researched and analyzed the business conditions of both listed and OTC companies, and gathered the world-wide news about everything, especially put close attention to the government's trading and economy policies. Although investing in stock market could not guarantee always making profits, his still reasonably estimated both the risks and the profits under the legitimate company…

Helen Amelia Thomas (1920-2013), was a respected American reporter, political correspondent and author who broke professional and social gender barriers in the field of journalism. In particular she is known for her coverage of ten different Presidential administrations and her role as a premier member of the White House Press Corps for five decades. As a woman reporting at the White House Thomas earned the praise of her colleagues and soon became the first female member of the National Press…

America discovered Red Grange because of football, but football was not Grange’s whole life. He was more than a football player, and it was his trials and triumphs off the field shaped him as a man. Throughout his life Grange repeatedly fought past adversity and through his struggles off of the football field to become a smart, humble and resilient man while still dominating the football gridiron. Red Grange was born in 1903 in a small Pennsylvania town. He was the first of three children…

Pat Summitt “When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score,” said the famous Pat Summitt, as she did an interview with Oprah. One may say that Summitt is the utmost inspirational woman to walk the earth. She was an American women’s college basketball coach who, throughout her career, helped people live their dreams and impressed…