Biography

This book, John Adams, is a biography that tells us of the life lived by John Adams. There is a lot of historical information that is involved regarding John Adams, but there is also parts that focus on John Adams the man outside of his political stature in American history. In this book you will see who he truly was and get an unbiased perspective of how he carried himself. The author David McCullough did a great job with his book about John Adams. His writing style and diction flow well…

The Longman’s The Longman name’s been around for very long time it used to own the largest publishing company in the world of England very well-to-do family that as my great great grandfather was kicked out of England and came to America doing this research I’ve learned a lot about my family on my father’s side for some other side I’ve had a dead-end but we will look at the Longman side on my wife’s we can go back to the Cortez but we will stay with the Longman’s Coming to America When Robert…

I was born in Fresno, California in 1977. My mom was nine teen when I was born. My mom and dad broke up before I was born. I mainly stayed with my mom, two aunts, or with my maternal grandmother. My dad would pick me for a couple of days a week until I was two. When I was two my mom started seeing my soon to be stepdad. After they got married my dad stopped coming around. I have not seen my bio dad since I was two. I grow up in yours, mine, and our family. I was my mom’s, my step sister…

Hi Ms. Johnson! This is Anne. One fact about me is that I come from a family of seven. I have an older brother and sister whose names are Patrick, and Nica. My brother is 15, and my sister is 16. Yes, we are one year apart from each other. My mom, Rowena, is a science teacher, and my dad, Jess, works in the United Nations. The sixth member of my family is my dog. My dog actually has an interesting background. Her name's Peaches but we call her by her nickname which is, Poochie. She is Pomeranian…

When I was 13 years old, my parents wanted me to change my name from Osama to Rayan. They feared that my having the world’s most-wanted terrorist as my namesake would lead to me being persecuted outside of Pakistan. And so I was an adolescent crying in the bathroom, not because of puberty nor school, but because of the lose-lose situation with which I was faced: I had to change what I perceived to be the very core of my identity or face getting labeled by the world around me as a devotee of bin…

due to the influence of a huge name in pop music productions, Mickal Blue, Caillat further chose to align herself more firmly with pop music (Lymangrover, 2016; “Mikal Blue: biography,” 2016). Blue is very significant in this genre, which is apparent in his affiliation with groups such as OneRepublic (“Mikal Blue: biography,” 2016). Although Caillat didn’t do a very stellar job in being fully inspired by her idol, it’s clear that she was extensively influenced by her father, his occupation,…

It’s almost every little kid’s dream to have a puppy while growing up. I was lucky to be one of those kid’s. Before I was born my parents already had a chocolate lab named Abenea. She was the sweetest dog until she got hit by a car when I was 6. After that I was a dog less kid, which wasn’t bad thing, but I would always beg my parents for one. That all changed a couple of years after my sister was born. I didn’t think that the next dog I would get, would be the best friend I could have ever…

As a child, I grew up playing soccer. On my father’s side of the family my uncles as well as my father were fanatics of the sport. Both my father and my uncles raised my siblings, cousins, and myself to play and love the sport. Soccer was an intense sport in my family; we would get together and have scrimmages usually once or twice a week against ourselves or other teams. I also had soccer practice on weekday evenings and games Saturday mornings. Soccer helped me get fit as a child, before I…

On Tuesday October 31, I attended the “Pixar on Campus” event at which Gini Santos spoke. She was born in the Philippines and prior to her career at Pixar, was an art director. She served as one of two supervising animators on the newest Pixar film, Coco. She is Pixar’s first female supervising animator. During the presentation, Santos spoke about the creation of Coco. Coco is an animated cartoon that centers around Dia De Los Muertos, the Mexican holiday in which family members’ spirits can…

The rapper extraordinaire. The real slim shady. The bleach blonde white dude who really knows how to write some slick lyrics. To his family he is Marshall Mathers. To us, he is Eminem. The most controversial rock musician of the 21st century. With several Grammy awards and platinum records to his name. Eminem is often a closed book with regards to his personal life (apart from when he is rapping about it in his songs). Here are 10 secrets you didn't know about his life. Number Ten: His Mother…