Louis Walsh

Born on August 15 of 1769, in the small capital of Ajaccio, Corsica, Napoleon Bonaparte. A great fact is that he was named after a well-known Egyptian religious symbol (Thutmose III). Maria Letizia Ramolino and Carlo Bonaparte had eight living kids and Napoleon was the second son of the eight. Napoleon was a small and furious young boy and would often fight his older brother (Joseph Bonaparte) and even win those childish and foolish fights. The Bonaparte family was known for being generous and…

The songwriting team of songwriter Eubie Blake and Lyricist Noble Sissle were the ones who found success with shuffle along. Blake was born and raised in Baltimore. Blake had a religious mother but a drunken father. Blake began by performing hymns in church to later preforming at clubs and later Blake joined Sissle as a “Hell fighter member. Later the pair began performing in Vaudeville acts where they created the act Shuffle Along. Shuffle along was a huge success both colored and the white…

“The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.” ("Women Who Changed") Dian Fossey found out more than the gorillas' habits. In the 1980's Dian Fossey went to Rwanda to study gorillas with the help of Dr. Louis Leakey. When she was studying them she found that the gorillas were being decimated by poachers. Born on January 16, 1932 in San Francisco, California, Dian Fossey loved animals from the beginning. (“Dian Fossey”) When she was in high school…

and experimentation” which “ultimately conducted one of the world’s first clinical trials” (p. 612). Jenner’s discovery of the vaccine concept relied on his knowledge of local farming communities and outbreaks of smallpox that affected the area. Louis Pasteur, a scientist, discovered his first vaccine in 1879, with a disease called chicken cholera. He accidentally exposed chickens to a form of a culture and he observed and demonstrated that they became resistant to the actual virus.…

In Raymond Williams writing, “The Analysis of Culture” he discusses that there are three types of culture. There is the ideal culture, high culture that is of value and will be eternal, documentary culture, recorded and documented history of human thought and experiences, and social culture, actual societies behavior, institutions, and practices. This means that within culture our values and way of life are categorized into three different subjects, each representing our complex communities and…

Known for her unbelievable work and dedication, an Australian singer-songwriter, who has started her career as a singer in the local Adelaide acid jazz band Crisp in the mid-1990s. This talented extraordinary women has worked with and written songs for celebrities such as: Beyoncé, Rhianna, Ne-Yo, Katy Perry, Celine Dion, Brittney Spears, and Birdy. She is well known for her hit single “chandelier” and the heart touching music she’s written for other celebrity’s. Although she’s a very…

Jane in Action. Photo by unknown. Date unknown. Goodall left school when she was eighteen. Despite this, she became a secretary, as well as a film production assistant. Throughout her time as a film production assistant, Goodall was introduced to Louis Leakey, an archaeologist, and a paleoanthropologist, who…

Napoleon is arguably one of the greatest and most determined French leaders the world has ever seen. He had redrawn the boundary of the French empire and did so with the utmost ability to lead a successful and powerful army for numerous years. Throughout the empire, Napoleon was able to spread his ideas and reform movements that influenced other countries around France. Napoleons fall created an uprising of the other countries surrounding France that had been suppressed throughout his reign and…

Holes, written by the excellent author, Louis Sachar, is an adventure and mystery book with a humorous touch. The story takes place mainly at the hot and humid Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and no happy campers. In place of what used to be "the largest lake in Texas" is now a dry, flat, sunburned wasteland. It hasn’t rained there for over a hundred years. The only living plants there were two large trees and a hammock stretched out between the trees. Of…

“There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. There once was a very large lake, the largest lake in Texas. That was over 100 years ago. Now it’s just a dry flat wasteland.” (Sachar 3) But Stanley didn’t know that. Little did Stanley this camp would change his life forever. In the novel “Holes” destiny forces Stanley to encounter situations, and he chooses which path to follow. Stanley changes from weak and shy to happy and self reliant because of how Sachar describes him showing weakness,…