Frank Harkin Research Paper

Monroe Harless is a 12 year old girl who lives in Buford, Georgia with her parents and her brothers. She goes to Jones Middle School, where her favorite subject is Social Studies. She also attends Buford School of Ballet, where she dances ballet, tap, and jazz for their company. When she is not busy with school or dance, she likes to play outside with her two little brothers, Brock and Baret. She adores reading, especially books like The Outsiders, and watching HGTV. Some of her favorite activities involve singing and acting. On Sundays, she looks forward to church and going to her youth group. She is thrilled to be going into 7th grade and to meet her new teachers.

Gates was born in 1950, and raised in Piedmont, West Virginia, by his father, Henry Louis Sr. and his mother Pauline Coleman Gates. His father worked at the local Westvaco paper mill during the day and worked nights as a janitor for a local telephone company in order to support his family. Gates ' mother, was a house cleaner and worked hard to raise her sons to live and excel in an integrated world so that they

December 16, 2009, Chris Henry, a wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals, had an argument with Loleini Tonga his finacee at the time. She was in a pickup as they were arguing. She decided to drive away, as she was pulling out of the driveway Chris jumped in the bed of the truck. As she was driving down the road Chris fell from the bed of the truck. To this day the circumstances of Chris’s death, if he jumped from the truck or if it was just a tragic accident brought on by a brain disease, nobody knows. Chris Henry’s tragic story, just one example of a former athlete’s life ending due to tragic circumstances. A twelve year veteran of the Minnesota Vikings, Fred McNeill, went on to finish law school after his retirement from the NFL. He was

Timothy Schmit, an Oakland-born musician, songwriter and former bassist for the Eagles, returns to the Bay Area to perform his carefully crafted blend of rock, country and pop live at the Bankhead Theater. Schmit writes all of his own songs, infusing them with heartfelt emotion and experience acquired during a career that began in the 1960s. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Eagles in 1998, Schmit continues his love affair with music as he tours, sharing his passion with audiences across the nation.

It’s a noun, it’s a verb, it’s McClurg! If the river is famous to the fish, McClurg is famous (perhaps infamous) to the liver. “Meet me at McClurg,” or “I’ve been McClurged”... there are a lot of associations with the dining hall, but the last thing anyone seems to think of is C. V. McClurg, for whom the caf was named. When you Google “C.V. McClurg: images” you get some pictures of desks, a book by someone named Emma McClurg, and a picture of Ferris Bueller. So who was the elusive Mr. McClurg?”

He attended Iowa College after moving from his slave owners house. Before he went to

MORGANTOWN, W.Va.–In West Virginia’s 91-62 win over Long Beach State on Monday night, the Mountaineers had an unusual cast carry them to victory.

My grandfather, George Eveleth, was eight years old when he and his family survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Their house also survived, and on that day, George sat on the front steps watching the parade of refugee’s stream passed on their way to the tent city in Golden Gate Park. His father left the house that morning and when he returned, he brought with him two items - an antique clock and a banjo. George took up the banjo and by the time he was in high school, he was playing professionally. Along the way he met and was mentored by a local percussionist and bandleader named Art Hickman.

“More than 4 percent of inmates sentenced to death in the United States are probably

Doug Swieteck is a fourteen-year-old boy and is also the youngest of three boys. The oldest is fighting in the Vietnam war. The second to oldest is a bully who takes everything valuable from Doug. The one thing Doug has comfort in doing is drawing. Doug does not know how to read even though he is in 8th grade. He is a scrawny little kid who people say looks like a thug.

Ryan Coomber is a five-year-old boy who lives in Saskatchewan; every day bullies taunt Ryan on his half an hour bus ride home from junior kindergarten in Assiniboia, which is 40 kilometers away. There have been multiple occurrences on the bus where Ryan has had bullies pick on him numerous times without reason; older children steal Ryan’s backpack and try to pull off his prosthetic leg which he lost in a lawnmower accident when he was 3; “A lot of kids beat me up. Lots of big kids,” Ryan said, which hearing this breaks his dad’s heart. Robert Coomber (Ryan’s father) spoke to the parents to resolve the issues on the bus. Currently, he thought it was all over until a thirteen-year-old boy punched defenceless Ryan in the face and giving him a

Francis Newton Gifford was born on the 16th August 1930 in Santa Monica, California, and died on the 9th August 2015. He is best known to the world as the Frank Gifford, former NFL player and sports commentator on CBS after his retirement from football.

Have you ever heard about the great Sam Huston? If you haven’t heard about him this is his story. Sam Huston was a great man during has years of age. Sam Houston was born on March 2,1793 he was the fifth of the family.During his childhood he attended school for no more than six months.When he was thirteen years old his dad died and a few months later he emigrated with his family to Blount county in eastern Tennessee that's where his family established a farm near Maryville on Bakers creek.After war broke out with the british Sam joined the United states army as a twenty year old. During March 1813 and in 1818 he became the attorney general of the district of Nashville. In 1827 he was elected governor of Tennessee and was thirty-four years

Jesse Helms, a Senator from North Carolina from 1973 to 2003, is the most contemporary of this collection of political villains. Called “the last prominent unabashed white racist politician in this country” by the Washington Post, Helms never apologized for his racism, and showcased it for his whole career. But his racist statements were largely for political benefit. He dealt far more serious damage to the cause of gay rights, and was something of an arch-nemesis to the gay community during his tenure.

Former Secretary of State, Henry clay, was born on April 12, 1777 in Hanover County, Virginia. Henry Clay’s parents were Reverend John Clay and Elizabeth Hudson Clay and in addition to him they had six children. Reverend John Clay died in 1781 when Henry Clay was only four years old. His father’s death resulted in a meager upbringing in which continued even when his mother remarried. As a young boy, he obtained a public education in a small rural school in Virginia and to assist his family financially he found employment plowing fields; working in mills; and eventually as a store clerk. Henry Clay married the daughter of Colonel Thomas Hart, Lucretia Hart on April 11, 1799 and together they had eleven children.