Contributions

A.B. Graham 4-h’s mission is "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development"(4-H wikipedia, 2015). A.B Graham started his teaching career right after he graduated college at the age of 17. A.B Graham created 4-H, he used striving for accuracy to innovate ways to overcome learning and illuminated the world by making a fun way to learn. A.B. Graham created the organization 4-H. “4-H is a global network of youth organizations whose mission is…

Black people made many contributions to the United States in the 1800s. They faced discrimanitioin, but they always tried to make life better for other black people and themselves. They had booming businesses, fought for education rights, and even helped start the gold rush. Black people had almost no rights. In fact they couldn’t “testify in court against a White person, reactive a public education, homestead public lands, or vote.” However they believed that they ccould change that by…

became an important figure that is believed to have started the Reformation process of 1517. During this process he challenged, the process for the retribution of sins, sexuality amongst priest and nouns, and the denial of free will. All these contributions to Christianity, psychology and reformation lead him to be a part of history. Martin Luther was born in eastern Germany in 1483, in his book The Bondage of Free will, a book written by Luther reprinted in 2011, and we read how Luther grew up…

Via women’s contribution to the morality movement of the nation, for instance, they had received in return the benefit of increased equality to men, though it had still not been wholly present. More women had become the breadwinners of their respective households, and…

The chapter three on The Twilight of Paganism: Magic in Norse and Irish Culture describes the mythology of Irish culture. One of the Irish literature involves a man named Conle that is tempted by a seductive female fairy. As the fairy invites Conle to partake in paradise with her at Fairy Hill where there are never ending feasts and no death. However, Conle uses a charm that was given to him by a Druid to fend off the fairy’s allurement. Although, this only lasts temporally and the fairy…

Canada has a relatively short history at about 150 years but it does cultivate many people that had great contributions to the country and the world. John A. Macdonald is the first prime minster of Canada and a truly funding father of this country. Ellen Louks Fairclough, the first woman who had served in the Canadian cabinet, as a member of parliament, she advocated women's rights including equal pay for equal work. David Suzuki is the best-known environmentalist in Canada; he organized the…

We are gathered here to recognize the contributions Tessie Hutchinson made to this world. Although she is gone now, she will forever be with us, and all the others that have fallen in the lottery. She was a outstanding mother, wife, citizen, and friend in this community, and she will always be remembered as an amazing human being. Her family has been a big part of the community, ever since its beginnings. In order to make a living, her family settled this valley many many years ago. As you…

leveled, burned, and looted the city and tilled the ground with salt so Carthage would never be able to rise again. The Roman Empire crumbled after a nearly 500-year run as the world’s greatest superpower. Roman society can be credited with contributions to modern government, politics, engineering, law, architecture, literature, art, warfare, religion, language and even some technology. Rome was highly advanced for its time and had a thriving military with strong leaders and generals. They…

off the tongue as easily to the common American than Benjamin Franklin, a true Founder. In those history books read (willingly or not), Benjamin Franklin is one of the most important characters inside. Very few people can complete such amazing contributions to society in their lifetime. Very few create society-changing inventions through their life. Very few meet the same standard the Benjamin Franklin, one of the most notable of the few is Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs had his problems that came with…

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” – Booker T. Washington. Booker was unconventional as a child, but later contributed greatly to society. Booker’s contributions impacted not only society, but his own unconventionality. Booker was born in 1856 on a large Virginia plantation and died in 1915 of heart congestion at the age of 59. At nine, he received his first book from his mother. Even though she had not…