Maria

listening to Maria Covarrubias, I can see the pain in her eyes as she recounts her story. The pain that I was not aware of until now. My mother came to the United States of America at a very young age. She came here to fulfill her dreams of coming to California “El Norte” for a better future. However, not all things turned out like she wanted. She faced many difficult situations and life challenges which molded her into the woman she is today. How has being a female shaped your life? Maria…

Brooklyn, NY -- On Monday, September 12 everything seemed to be going wrong for Maria Hatziminadakis, 16. As she was waiting for her package to arrive with her costume for Comic Con, it had finally arrived on her mother’s birthday. Hatziminadakis very excitedly opened the package and first got a look at her costume she was very happy that it had arrived. When she took it out of the box and eventually tried it on, she had noticed that it was too long, had missing buttons, and the clip for the wig…

Maria Agnesi was born in Milan, Italy on May 16, 1718 and died January 6, 1799. She is the oldest daughter of Pietro Agnesi and Anna Brivio. Pierto Agnesi was a wealthy man who was able to afford her the best tutors so they she was literate. At a young age she was a prodigy and spoke French at five. At the age of nine she mastered Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and several modern languages. In her teenage years she mastered mathematics. The house of the Agnesi had many guests, but she was shy and didn’t…

Welcome back to the list of 15 things you didn't know about Maria Sharapova. In part one, much was mentioned about her early life and her history of many endorsements. But there's plenty more to cover here in part two, including not just the struggles she had to overcome to get to where she is today, but also the myriad accomplishments she has pulled off in the realm of tennis. Read on for more Maria Sharapova facts! Number Eight: Her Father Taught Her to Play on Public Courts He worked many…

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico at exactly 6:15 am. It sustained winds at one hundred fifty five miles per hour. Puerto Rico got hit with thirty hours of rain. This hurricane was considered a Category 4, but was nearly considered as a Category 5. The Category 4 turned out to be quiet a catastrophe. The money damages it caused were no electric, no clean water, blown out windows and doors, trees,signs knocked down, houses destroyed, landslides, and injury and/or deaths.…

Anna Maria Zieglerin was a sixteenth century female alchemist. Alchemy, a science of the Middle Ages, was used with the goal being to turn normal metals into gold. Anna Maria was tried, and found guilty, of murder of a courier, attempted poisoning of a Duchess, and the intent to steal papers from a Duke’s chamber. She was burned alive for her crimes at the age of 25 on February 7, 1575. Most of what we know about Zieglerin and her early life comes from court documents during her trial in 1575.…

listening to Maria Covarrubias I can see the pain in her eyes as she recounts her story. The pain that I was not aware of until now. My mother came to the United States of America at a very young age. She came here to fulfill her dreams of coming to California “El Norte” for a better future. However, not all things turned out like she wanted. She faced many difficult situations and life challenges which molded her to the woman she is today. How has being a female shaped your life? Maria…

The film, “Maria Full of Grace”, was directed and written by Joshua Marston. (Wikipedia) And it is talking about a Colombia girl Maria taking risks to smuggle drugs into the United States instead of working in the flower industry for domestic subsidies. The whole process is rise and fall. But fortunately, Maria arrived in New York and end the drug trafficking. The method for smuggling is really dangerous because people need to wrap them up and swallow. If people don’t care, drugs will rupture…

Maria Edgeworth’s Ennui, when published in 1809 was meant to be a didactic tale, a moral piece of literature meant to entertain it’s decidedly English readers. However, as seen throughout the course of history, politics and comedy often go hand in hand. Edgeworth uses this idea to make some very interesting commentary about the state of the relationship between Britain and Ireland at the time, and what it meant to be truly British or Irish. Within the novel we meet the character of young Lord…

Maria Konnikova’s article, The Walking Dead, demonstrates how important sleep truly is. Maria says “Fifty to seventy million Americans have chronic sleep disorders.”(Pg. 1) Many sleep scientists, from the Harvard Medical School Media Fellowship, have come to the conclusion that the lack of sleep can affect a person greatly. If you do not get enough sleep, your sleep inertia can stay for as long as the whole day. Judith Owens, the director of the Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders at Boston…