Research Paper On Florence Joyner

On February 22, 1971 Fernandez was born in Long Beach, California to her father, a Cuban baseball star and her mother, a Puerto Rican softball player. At the age of seven she started out in a local children's league where she tried out as a pitcher. However, her coach told her that she will never make it because of her size and build. In 1986 she moved to Lakewood,

Mary Lou dominated the world of gymnastics. She made records and had fun doing it. She is still an idol for gymnasts today. That's why I think Mary Lou Retton is the most supreme gymnast

This project is about a brave woman who survived the Holocaust.Eva Galler was born in january 1,1924 and she died on january 5,2006. She was the oldest of eight children.Her father,Israel Vagel,was the head of the jewish community in their town.Eva’s family were well off compared to the other.Eva,unlike most girls at the time,she went to high school,educated herself and got employed at the local office as a secretary.

As as result of the relocation of people from England to Australia, it turned Australia into the land of opportunity and made for a better world. It benefited England and the world for many reasons such as securing trade routes with China. The movement of the convicts also spread fear among english society deterring crime. Furthermore, some of the convicts were fortunate enough to the opportunity to live and potentially earn their freedom. Crime rates rose and England's jails become overcrowded with prisoners they resorted to using prison hulks as temporary, makeshift confinements on the river Thames eventually leading to the penal transportation to Australia.

Eugenie Clark was born on May 4, 1922 in New York City; she died at age 92 on Feb. 25, 2015. She died due to lung cancer which she had a tough battle for many years. Eugenie started her interest in fish and sharks when she went to her first aquarium when she was nine years old. From there she went to college to study ichthyologist in New York City University. Ichthyologist is a branch of zoology that deals with fishes. Eugenie received her Bachelor of Arts degree where she majored in zoology and her Master of Arts degree.

Anthony’s first paid position was headmistress of the girls department of Canajoharie Academy in 1846. During this time she was deeply troubled by the fact that women received much lower wages than their male counterparts for equal work. She returned to the family farm in Rochester New York when Canajoharie Academy closed in 1849. At this time she began to be fully involved in reform work. She was introduced to Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851 who had played a key role in organizing the Seneca Falls convention in 1848, which was the first women’s rights convention in the United States. The two of them formed a lifelong friendship and ever after were constant partners in the battle for women’s rights and social justice. Their relationship was complimentary: Stanton did the writing and came up with ideas while Anthony excelled at organizing and delivering speeches. Her methods of raising public awareness and building grassroots support for social causes are still in use by political parties today.

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi, in 1917. She was the granddaughter of a slave and the youngest of twenty children. Her parents were poor sharecroppers and at age six, Fannie began helping them pick cotton. Fannie Lou met her husband, Perry Hamer, on the plantation where she worked. In 1962, she underwent surgery to remove a small uterine tumor. Without her knowledge

Mary Elizabeth Bowser was born the year of 1839 in Richmond, Virginia. Mary was born to slave owner John Van Lew who was a well-off hardware merchant. Mary and fellow slaves were freed by Elizabeth and her mother after the death of their master John Van Lew who died the year of 1843. Despite the fact that she was considered a free slave, she chose to stay an work for the Van Lew family as a free paid servant. She was sent to an African American Quaker school in Philadelphia by Elizabeth Van Lew, during the year of 1860 tension with the Civil War began to brew so she moved back to Richmond.

grandmother, Mary Lou Wiseman. Mary Lou is an 83 year old Caucasian, born in the fall of 1933, in Marble Hill Missouri. She lived in Marble Hill up until 2007. She then moved to Elgin, South Carolina to stay with her second to youngest child David Wiseman, his wife, Tia Wiseman and three younger children, Jamie, Vanessa and Ashley Wiseman. After remaining in South Carolina for three years, she decided to move back to her hometown in Missouri. Over her years, Mary Lou has held several jobs in multiple different fields. Her first job was collecting eggs from her neighbor’s chicken coop.

Daisy Bates was a heroic women who fought for the Civil Rights of students in Arkansas and the rest of the country. Daisy grew up during a time when segregation was common and many people were racist towards African Americans. She had a challenging and depressing childhood which led her to become the strong role model she is today. Her most famous endeavour was with the Little Rock Nine. Daisy Bates impacted American schools as an influential African American through the risks and struggles she overcame segregation to push progress into schools.

It is a standard December day in 1960, in the lethargic Florida town of Fort Repose. On the stream street, Florence Wechek, the nearby Western Union broadcast administrator, stirs and watches the morning news as she makes her breakfast. Pressures between the Soviet Union and the United States are high—the Russians are propelling more Sputnik satellites, and there is an emergency in the Middle East—however as Florence leaves for work, she is more worried with her neighbor, Randy Bragg, who she suspects of keeping an eye on

Thank you so much for your positive and reassuring words of wisdom. Indeed, without support from peers, friends, relations and others who are expecting only the best from us, the journey would be a mammoth task. Through hard work and a can-do attitude, anything is possible.

She was considered a "hero" in her hometown of Clarksville, Tennessee. She was recruited by Ed Temple, to attend a track summer camp at Tennessee State University, which is where she later attended college. She devoted herself to running, and in September, 1960, she won the 100, 200, and 400 meter dash. She was the first woman to win 3 gold medals in track at a single Olympics. During the European Circuit in 1961, the French nicknamed her, "The Black Pearl", while the Italians called her, "The Black Gazelle.”

Daisy Miller leaves America and is placed into a foreign society in which she has no connections, and is left without a guide to help her assimilate to the culture. While maturing into an adult she is also having to deal with this cultural collision, and the way she responds to it is highly frowned upon. Her actions, deemed childish and improper, cause her to be shunned from European society, which relates back to Henry James purpose of shining light upon the flaws of a woman’s “proper” place in society in the late 1800’s. Daisy Miller is still a young teenager and has not been shown the proper way to attract a man’s attention, let alone a man in a foreign country who has a higher social standing than her. When Winterbourne first tries to

Florence Delorez Griffith-Joyner also know as Flo-Jo was an American track and field athlete. She was considered the faster woman of all time based on the world record. Florence Joyner was born in Los Angeles California, on December 21,1959. Joyner died an unexpectedly death in September 1998 at the age of 38 after suffering epileptic