Hillary Rodham Clinton was born on October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. When she was a toddler, she moved to Park Ridge, IL. It was the quiet upper-middle-class suburban area. She was raised in a United Methodist family. Her father, Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, was of Welsh and English descent. He managed a successful small business in the textile industry. Her mother, Dorothy Emma Howell, was a homemaker of English, Scottish, French, and Welsh descent. Hillary has two younger brothers, Hugh, and Tony. As a child, Hillary Rodham was a teacher's favorite at her public schools in Park Ridge. She participated in sports, such as swimming and baseball, and earned numerous awards as a Brownie and as a Girl Scout. While in High School, Maine South…
picture to the whole school. She felt alienated and moved schools because of the bullying from her classmates. Her stalker continued to follow her, and continued to send the photo. It soon lead to depression, drugs, alcohol, and cutting. Her dad found her once laying in a ditch, saying “she wanted to die so bad”. When she got home, she drank bleach and had to go to the hospital to have her stomach pumped. She soon moved although the harassment started again. Kids posted pictures of ditches and…
Tayler Walters FYS 100 Autobiography My education has been a little bit spread out in the different variety of schools I have attended. I started my adventure in a Bodhi Tree Montessori school. I started attending Bodhi Tree in Pre-school. I continued to stay at Bodhi Tree all the way through 1st grade. I was so young so I do not remember too much about the environment or the "teachings", all I really do remember was that I was in a Montessori school because my brother had a difficult time…
Henry Ward Beecher. Catharine Beecher grew up to be an author and a teacher. Isabella,another one of her sisters grew up to be a leader in the cause for women's rights. When it comes to her education, she enrolled in a school run by her sister Catharine, taking the same classes that are normally for young men. When she turned 21, Harriet migrated to Cincinnati, Ohio, where her dad gained the title of commander in highest esteem of the Lane Theological Seminary. Her father held a tenacious…
impressed him with her poetry and King started to fancy her (Whitelaw 44). Subsequently, he married Tabby on January 2nd, 1971 (Whitelaw 48). After college, King was unsuccessful in finding a job teaching as he had planned (Whitelaw 48). In the summer of 1973, the family moved south due to his mother’s failing health (StephenKing.com). There, he published several novels before Ruth died of cancer at age 59 (StephenKing.com). The family struggled to provide enough money for the family.…
not insist upon these privileges and prerogatives identified in the past as exclusively feminine.” (SMITH, Margaret Chase | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives) Margaret Chase Smith believed in equal rights between men and women. However she did not want her gender to get her into a higher position. She was a political role model for women all over the world. She was not afraid to speak out against what was wrong. She became an independent and dominant legislator. Margaret…
Payne is currently attending Martha Brown Middle School. Sarah Payne’s teachers include Mrs. Smith and Mr. O’Dell. Sarah really enjoys learning about the world every day, but most of all learning about different writing tricks which can make Sarah a better writer. Sarah has a pretty big family with parents, two siblings, Joshua and Carly and a dog named Savannah. Sarah’s family is lucky enough to go on many trips including ones to Tybee Island, Maine, Disney World (like 10 times), Atlanta,…
churches. The baptist church was split to two different denomination. The 2nd Great Awakening movement strengthen the concept of religious brotherhood and some white northerners started to view African American slaves as fellow christians. At the same time, southerners argued that slavery in biblically sanctioned, therefore, it could not be immoral.The northern states gradually moved toward abolition of slavery starting from Vermont in 1777. In 1831, the Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper was…
Introduction Tobacco use among teenagers and young adults in South Dakota is one of the most important public health issues in the state. The rates of both smoking and smokeless tobacco, known as “chew” or “spit,” in this age group are higher in South Dakota than in the nation. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2012), conducted a report noting that 30.3% of young adults in South Dakota smoke, as compared to the national rate of 21.3%. South Dakota also ranks 43 out of 44…
Laila Durham English 9B Ms. Sofich April 16th 2024 Is cheering a sport? Many studies have found that cheerleading accounted for 70.5% of all female catastrophic sports injuries in high schools. In 2016, the International Olympic Committee designated cheer leading as a sport, although many people still believe cheer isn’t a sport. However, many states and committees have stated that cheer is a sport, including California, Alaska, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma,…