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Lizzie’s family was shocked it was not just that they had lost a beloved member of the family. They were also shocked and surprised to learn that Lizzie had amassed a fortune during her life she had 245,701.In 1844, the family moved to Texas, living in Huntsville, Lockhart and Webberville before settling on Bear Creek in Hays County. Lizzie´s real name is Elizabeth Ellen Johnson. She was the 2nd child out of 7 kids born to Thomas Jefferson Johnson and Catherine Johnson. Lizzie fell in love with…

thing as truth. And the pursuit of truth: Trying to figure out what has really happened; trying to figure out how things really are. Almost fifteen years ago, I stumbled on a story about an innocent man, a man who had been sentenced to die in the Huntsville, Texas electric chair. And through hard work, luck and a certain amount of pathological obsession, I was able to make the movie "The Thin Blue Line" and to help get him out of…

During the summer before I began my eight grade year of high school, I decided to read an old medical encyclopedia of my grandmother’s. Little did I know, I would read this book day after day, eventually leading to the discovery of my chosen career path. From that summer on I knew without a doubt that I wanted to become a doctor. I finished high school with great enthusiasm as I knew next fall I would begin my first collegiate steps to fulfill my dreams of becoming a physician at the only…

Nicholas Jones a Philosophy professor in the University of Alabama in Huntsville gave a talk about liberal arts in the university which he then wrote, edited, and published it as an article “Liberal Arts, The Advantages Of Being Useless” (2012). He published the article on October 2012, Huntsville AL, on academia, so he was probably targeting students, maybe professors, from all over the world. He wanted every student ,those who want/ are pursuing a degree in liberal arts, those who are still…

Disabled Inmates:The Struggle of Adapting According to a report by the U.S. Department of Justice about 40% of females and 31% of males in prison are reported to have some kind of disability. This is very significant as disabled inmates struggle the most in adapting to the prison environment, due to the lack of equipment and funding available in the correction system. Prison population has always been a topic in today's political topics. According to the journal for every specific number of…

Shawn Johnson is a gymnast known for her Olympic debut at the 2008 Olympics held in Beijing, China. Johnson earned a gold medal in the balance beam competition as well as three silvers in the floor, individual all-around, and team competitions. What many people don’t know is the success Johnson had before her Olympic debut and the hard work and dedication that helped her achieve her goals. Shawn Johnson was enrolled in gymnastics at the age of three as a way for her to burn off energy. She…

[21] These tests led to the first rocket to take photos from outer space, and the first two-stage rocket, the WAC Corporal-V2 combination, in 1949.[21] The German rocket team was moved from Fort Bliss to the Army's new Redstone Arsenal, located in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1950.[22] From here, von Braun and his team developed the Army's first operational medium-range ballistic missile, the Redstone rocket, that in slightly modified versions, launched both America's first satellite, and the first…

that Paul fears his brother, Erik. He’s afraid of him so much, that he thought Erik was going to murder him. The flashback tells us that Paul doesn’t like his brother and fears him. Another example can be seen on page 168 in Paul’s backyard in Huntsville. “Suddenly I felt the hot breath of a predator on my neck. I screamed in terror. Erik laughed and ran over to Mom and Dad… I remembered that I started to cry, in the middle of that pretend clock, but Mom and Dad did not notice… And I could…

It’s the time of the year in which a new year has begun, and new resolutions are made. It can be an exciting time where most leave behind the past year and focus on the new and fresh beginnings. We tend to fall back at times and forget the goals we have set for ourselves. My first and main goal is to be determined to get through this year without failing and falling back into old habits without making progress, second is to get fit, eat healthy and go to the gym at least five times a week, and…

Innocent Conviction The Scottsboro Boys Trial was one of the most controversial and shocking trials in American history.The Scottsboro Boys Trial was about nine African American boys who were accused for the sexual assault of two white young women, Ruby Bates and Victoria Price. The trial ended with the nine boys sentenced to prison and death.This trial showed how unjustly African Americans were treated. Though this wasn’t fair, it was how society ran back then. White people were seen as…