Brooke Howell-Martin Research Paper

Althea Gibson was an African American woman born August 25, 1957 in Silver, North Carolina. She attended Florida Agricultural and Mechanical School and later Lincoln University as an athletic instructor. In her early life she moved to Harlem, New York, New York because of the Great Depression. She was also increased in basketball and paddle tennis. She quickly became good at tennis and people stared o notice, so Robert Walter Johnson coached, mentored, and sponsored her. She went on to win 11 Grand Slam titles, cementing her legacy, was the first black woman to play professional tennis, and on top of that she broke he racial barrier in tennis. She also played tennis, played he saxophone, and wrote an autobiography called “I Always wanted to

Mollie Goodnight did all that she could throughout her whole life from taking care of her siblings right after both of her parents’ deaths, to just teaching some of her husband's farm hands how to read. Mollie tried to do her best even in the darkest of times, which is one of the reasons that she is one of the best women Texas has ever had.

Carrie Amelia Moore thought that drinking caused most of the problems in the world. She was against alcohol and she started trying to get it to be banned. Carrie is known for carrying a hatchet with her that helped her smashed public places. She kept thinking that god wanted her to travel around and get people to see the way she saw the problems of alcohol. She did speeches, used violence, and she was a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union who was known most from all of the other people who were in there..

On October 3, 1984, Christine Jessop was reported missing by her parents. There were no signs of the nine year old girl despite the search by police and many community volunteers until over 3 months later, where she was discovered dead over 50 kilometres from her home on December 31, 1984. She was killed by multiple stab wounds, and police investigators believed she was also raped, supported by the physical evidence that is the discovered semen stains on her underwear. She was sexually assaulted before being stabbed to death.

Laura S. Haviland risked her own life trying to make a difference for the lives of others. She was not very concerned about what would happen to her, she just wanted to make sure others were getting what she thought they deserved. She was an abolitionist and a writer. Throughout her life she was devoted to helping people in many different ways, spending much of her life doing different activities that involved helping people, most importantly slaves and their families. These were things she never had to do, but chose to do. She took it upon herself to spend her life doing this. One of the biggest things she devoted her life to was the underground railroad. She also helped to make big improvements for African Americans. This almost cost her, her life, but she kept going and helping. Without Laura Haviland's demanding work and dedication Michigan would not have made such drastic improvements as they did during this time. Laura worked her whole life to selflessly help so many different people in their current situations. Laura was a teacher,

On January 31, 2001 Logan Marr was found dead in an unfinished basement, yards of duct tape surrounding her, and a foster mother claiming that she just fell and hit her head. Sally Schofield, a respected caseworker at Maine's Department of Health and Human Services, had taken Logan in 2000. By 2001, 5 year old Logan would be dead. “I just want Sally Schofield out of my life forever,” Logan’s mother says, 16 years later, “She’s ruined my children’s lives and mine. She took an innocent child from this world for no reason.” Logan’s death was a tragedy that highlighted the problems in Maine's child welfare systems. The mistakes that were made were unforgivable, but a lesson learned from DHHS.

Allison Burnett, an honorary Irvin, creates wholesome meals with filling grains and hearty vegetables for her family to enjoy. She loves hot stews and cold beers. The meditative woman who gracefully takes life one step at a time inspires the recipes below.

He was a minuteman for the local militia to help stop the British. He protested against the British. Since he loved to read and write, he wrote poems and stories. Those poems and stories would reach out to people about what the British are doing. Also it would tell what life was life in the war. Since he was telling what the British were doing, the Tories (stayed for the British) might change to patriots and support the Americans.

Jennifer Lynn Harriman was born in council bluffs Iowa. She was born November 13, 2002. She has three parents Trish her mom, Cindy her stepmom and David her Dad. She has two sibling and one older sibling is her sister named Alicia she is 15. Jennifer brother is the younger sibling he is 9 and his name is Jonathan.

At this point Henry started to look back to Catholicism after the horrendously failed marriage of Anne by Cromwell, and so the Catholic supporters at court urged marriage to the young Catholic Catherine Howard. Catherine was very young and very ‘bouncy’, which the king adored, but she was extremely inept and even more frivolous than the now-aging king. The king preferred to admire her rather than sleep with her, and so Catherine sought companionship with the King’s favorite, Thomas Culpeper. Once the affair was found out they were, shockingly, both executed and Henry once again turned his head back towards the Protestant reformation. Henry’s sixth and final marriage was again to a Protestant named Catherine Parr. Catherine was a peacemaker

Melinda Whitfield was born April 10, 1947. She is one of six siblings, three brothers and two sisters. She have four children, three girls and 1 boy. Ms Whitfield started working her first job at the age of fourteen grinding tobacco. The pay back then was five dollars a day for working in the field. She got her first car at the age of 21. Ms Whitfield lived in New Jersey in her early ages, while living in New Jersey she occupied two jobs. The first job she occupied was working as a cashier at McDonald's. The second job she occupied was a phone operator. After living in New Jersey for a couple of years she moved to North Carolina, where she worked as a panties inspector. In the year of 1988 her mother passed. Also this was the year she started

“I can do all the things through Christ who strengthens me - Philippians 4:13.” A quote that Kiara Burwell lives by on a daily basis.

Imagine living in a state one's entire life and living somewhere completely different for three years as a teenager.Hannah Long used to live in Rangely, Colorado and she moved to Greensburg, Pennsylvania three years ago. She has been my friend since sophomore year of high school. We met last year in our choir class and our world history class. We also attended each others sweet sixteen’s last year.While conducting an interview with Hannah I learned many unique things about her family life, schooling, and type of personality traits she displays as an individual.

Ellen Hopkins was born on March 26, 1955 in Long Beach, CA. Ellen is a poet, freelance writer, and the award-winning author of twenty nonfiction titles and five NY Times Bestselling novels-in-verse. She has published hundreds of articles on subjects ranging from aviation to child abuse to wine growing. She is a regular speaker at schools, book festivals and writers conferences across the US, and now throughout the world. Hopkins was adopted at birth by an older couple. Albert C. Wagner was 72, and Valeria was 42. She graduated from Santa Ynez Valley Union High School in 1973. She went to study journalism in college (at Crafton Hills College at UCSB), but had to drop out to get married and start a family. Her stories are based off of real life

Sarah Johnson is a current UCR freshman undergraduate student. She grew up with a older sister and brother, and a wonderful mother. Her father was occasionally in her life. Whenever Sarah encountered something unpleasant as a child she sought solitude and the freedom of the novels surrounding her. From Harry Potter to Romeo and Juliet to Maximum ride her head was always in book. She always tried her best to make her mother proud so she took the Honors, AP, and IB classes that were offered at her middle and high school. She played basketball in high school and did various community service clubs and programs. Which ranged from being an assistant at her community library to teaching young children to play