A Life Worth Remembering

     Zora Neale Hurston was born January 7, 1891 in Eatonville, Florida, the fifth of eight children to Reverend John Hurston and Lucy Potts Hurston. Zora was extraordinary person. When her mother

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, of 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota (Coale 190). He was the only son of four children to his parents, Edward and Mollie

Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. Monroe was originally given

He was born in Washington D.C but later on he moved to New York City.

She was born in 1937 in Jacksonville, Florida, to Billy Daniels a jazz musician. Growing up she was always surrounded by music. She has said that her dad influenced her taste in music from an early age. He would play soothing blues and jazz tunes during her early life. When she was 17, Daniels decided to get her first radio job at a rhythm and blues station in Jacksonville. While at night she would sing at locals nightclubs. Daniels was popular for her

| |24, 1862 in New York, New York. She came from an upper-class New York family and |

Billie Holiday was born on April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania under her birth name, Eleanora Fagan. Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer, from the 1930s to the '50s. All her life she lived with her mother because she did not know her biological father. She grew up in Baltimore, Maryland until her mother, Sadie Fagan, decided to move to New York in search of a better job. In New York, Holiday found a job at a Harlem nightclub. This job will encourage her to pursue a career in music and go on tour with other great artists. She borrowed her professional stage name from her favorite screen star, Billie Dove.

Joss Stone all show signs of Ella's influence. Ella is also credited with inspiring the great Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet and Mel Torme to some extent. Although Ella's influence through style is great, perhaps her greatest achievement can be noticed in her career as a whole. Ella Fitzgerald was an influential woman with many followers around the world, of all races, religions and nationalities.

Ella Baker was born in Norfolk, Virginia on December 13, 1903. She moved to Littleton, North Carolina around the age of 7 years old. Growing up her grandmother told her many stories from her experiences in slavery, which aiding Baker a sense of social justice. Her grandmother was an inspiration to her throughout her life because of the strength and self-respect her grandmother had through difficult times. The stories that were told were a key factor of who Ella Baker became. The injustice, racism, and abuse that were indicated towards African Americans she believed that there was not going to be an end to it unless someone would put up a fight for social justice and equality.

10-Ella Baker was born on December 13,1903 in Norfolk,Virgina. Baker`s grandmother is what inspired her to become who she became. Her grandmother was a slave. She recieved lashes for not wanting to marry a man her slaveowner chose for her. She was a very educated woman graduating from Shaw university as class valedictorian in 1927. AFter college,she moved to new york city where she founded the young negros cooperative league. Sometime in 1940,she bacame a NAACP field secretary untill 1946 where she bacame a national director of branches. Felling like her position required her to travel to much,she eventually left her position. She stayed in new york and worked for a number of new york orgizinations including the New york urban league. Through

Singer. Born April 25, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. (Though many biographical sources give her birth date as 1918, her birth certificate and school records show her to have been born a year earlier.) Often referred to as the "first lady of song," Fitzgerald enjoyed a career that stretched over six decades. With her lucid intonation and a range of three octaves, she became the preeminent jazz singer of her generation, recording over 2,000 songs, selling over 40 million albums, and winning 13 Grammy Awards, including one in 1967 for Lifetime Achievement.

In 1983 Aharon Appelfeld published a work of fiction titled Tzili that closely resembled his own personal Holocaust experiences. This work of fiction revolves around a maturing teen who is alone and on the run during the Holocaust. In Tzili, Appelfeld brings to life his characters, which include Tzili, Katrina, Mark, and Linda. Throughout this literary analysis Appelfelds’ memoir Story of a Life will be used to access the parallels that exist between Appelfeld’s own personal experience and his fictional work Tzili.

Annie Easley was born on April 23, 1993, to Mary Melivina Hoover and Samuel Bird Easley. She had a brother, but with him being six years older than her, Easley was practically the only child raised by her single mother. In Birmingham, Alabama, Easley attended a parochial school all the way to graduation and was valedictorian of her graduating class.

Billie Holiday, whose real name is Eleanora Gough, was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1915. She grew up mostly in Baltimore and always loved jazz. Billie was born to very young parents. Her mother was thirteen when she was born and her father just fifteen. (www.numberonestars.com, 2010)

Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884, in New York City. She was raised by both of her parents until her father, Elliott Roosevelt, entered a