Gary, Indiana

Married at twenty-one to Katherine Screws, nineteen, Joel and Katherine immediately wanted to start a family, which continued to blossom and steadily grew with a home filled with children. Even though he wanted to pursue his dreams as a professional boxer, it was not a job for a family man. He therefore obtained work as an overhead crane operator. Joel always wanted to make it big, though he could not as a boxer, nor in his very short musical stretch in the 1950s with his band the “The falcons.”…

Jesika Tolar K. Neidlinger MUS-110-02 23 March 2017 Michael Jackson and His Influence on Pop Music Michael Jackson was born on August 29th, 1958 in Gary, Indiana. He was one of ten among the rest of his brothers and sisters. His parents were Joe Jackson, his father and Katherine Jackson, his mother. In his lifetime, Michael had three children; two which were boys and one girl. Ever since Michael was a child he had been exposed to music and the show business. His parents were largely involved in…

Refusing to “Stay Put” In the passage, “Staying Put,” Scott Russell Sanders encourages people to “stay put”: commit to the given place and stay here during a long time. For this reason, the benefits of “staying put” in a place are that people can make a remarkable devotion to one place, learn more and go deeper about this ground, and “staying put” does not prevent people from recognizing and honoring the diversity of other places, cultures, and ways. However, from my point of view, staying…

Many things shaped Nikki’s writings. Her style was sensitive, talking about the struggles of being black from social, political, cultural, and economic standpoints (Carson 901). Nikki often wrote about what she was going through at the time (Carson 903); she wrote many of her works while dealing with the anger she felt toward her grandma’s death, as well as when she had cancer (“Nikki” 154). She also wrote about what she believes in. focusing on how people are more important than ideas…

Introduction Pharmaceutical sales representatives, also known as drug representatives or pharmaceutical salespeople, provide drug information and product samples to physicians. A pharmaceutical representative typically represents a particular drug or group of drugs from their company and meet with physicians who specialize in that specific medical field. In comparison to pharmaceutical sales, agricultural sales representatives sell equipment used for growing food and raising animals on farms…

All families have their difficulties, some more than others, and some different, but in my case I consider my family to be fairly ordinary. The movie Parenthood is a great example of how four contrasting families, all related, can be completely different. The movie can fully describe a lot of typical families around the world, I didn’t feel that my family related to any of the families in the movie; I felt that there was a message that related to my family. One message in the movie that stood…

Gladys and Vernon Presley in East Tupelo, Mississippi. Unfortunately at the time of birth Elvis’s twin brother Jesse was stillborn, and Elvis grew up an only child. While Michael Jackson was born on Aug 29, 1958 to Katherine and Joe Jackson in Gary Indiana. Michael grew up in a large family with nine siblings, five brothers and six sisters. Although both Elvis and Michael entered talent shows as children, Elvis’s entry into the music industry didn’t come about until 1954 when he met Sam…

Challenging Conventions: Rethinking Carnigie’s Meritocracy In his highly praised and influential essay “The Gospel of Wealth” (1889), Andrew Carnigie champions the idea that those who possess industrious habits and talents “invariably secure enormous rewards, no matter where or under what laws or conditions” (528). After immigrating from Scotland as a young boy and finding immense success in the capitalist marketplace of the United States, Carnegie positioned himself as the epitome of the “rags…

Ethnographic Interview Project I decided to interview my grandma, Doris Boggs, for my interview project. She lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana and because of the five hour distance I rarely get to spend time with her. When my grandfather, her husband, passed away last spring I realized how little I knew about them and when we received this project I thought it would be the perfect way to preserve some of the important things from her life. She was born Dorris Mae Deiter on November 26, 1927. So, she…

Dean of the University school, and Dean of the community college system. Hartford began his education at Kentucky Wesleyan but after an injury pertaining to sports he decided to drop school and begin working at an oil refinery near Hammond and Gary, Indiana. Not long after he’d begun, he decided to instead move back to Kentucky where he received his teaching certificate at the Bowling Green State Normal School. His only novel published was The Little White School House The Little White…