Jessica Ennis's Life And Accomplishments

She was born and raised in McAlester, Oklahoma. She was the third of four children. She was born into a family of champion steel ropers. During her schooling years she was a great athlete. She was a cheerleader, a member of the track team, and a basketball player. In junior high she and two of her siblings formed the group the “Singing McEntires”. The group later

Simone Biles is not only a big daredevil with all her tricks but also has a weakness, Biles HATES bee’s. In fact, in her flowers at the Rio olympics there was a bee in her flowers she dropped the flowers and ran off the podium and backed off until the bee flew away. Simone Biles is also the shortest out of 555 gymnasts competing in Rio. (She is 4-feet-9) Biles loves German shepard and recently lost one of her shepherds. Overall Simone Biles is almost an unbeatable

Sonia Sotomayor was born in The Bronx, New York City, in June 1954. Her father died when she was nine, and her mother raised her. After high school graduation, she entered Princeton University where she in 1976 graduated Summa Cum Laude and in 1979 received her J. D. from Yale Law School.

Her parents are Norman Freeman and Cecelia Freeman. She and her brothers Gavin, Garth Norman (who died after a motor vehicle accident on 16 September 2008) were raised there and in other parts of Queensland. She also had a sister named Anne-Marie (1966-1990). Freeman was not taken from her family, she had a difficult childhood. She was molested as a child and both her younger sister and her father died, Freeman’s grandmother was part of the ‘stolen generation’ of Aboriginal people in Australian. Freeman attended several schools, but was mostly educated at Fairholme Collage, in Toowoomba. Freeman’s mother Cecelia was born in the Aboriginal community on Palm Island. Freeman’s father was Norman Fisher; Normal was raised by his mother Geraldine Roy and his stepfather Claude Freeman. Freeman’s late grandfather, Frank Fisher was an outstanding rugby player. In 2009 Freeman was inducted into the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame. She’s one of the most inspirational athletes Australia has ever produced and one of the most iconic and inspiring aboriginal person. Cathy’s success has raised a lot of awareness of issues that the aboriginal youth are faced with every

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery.Eleanor Roosevelt was to me brought up like anyone didn't want her.Her parents giving her up 10 years of age for adoption.Causing her to have to stay with her aunt. That's not much as a good childhood memory to have. Mrs.Roosevelt thought she was just an ugly blue eye little girl.To me, this reminds of my cousin how she felt as little girl she thought that she was fat, not cute, and not interested.Her mother thought appearance look better than her daughter which is Eleanor Roosevelt.She had to grow up fast.Learning how to lots of things on her own.This reminds me of my aunts and my grandmother (wawa). Learning how to cook, clean, and wash clothes.Eleanor Roosevelt had to get used to taking 3-minute showers

Born in South Africa in 1966 and brought up in New Zealand, Dinnigan had experienced a range of cultures from early on in life. Dinnigan attended Wellington Polytechnic College until the age of 19 by which time she had graduated, majoring fashion design. Once graduated, Dinnigan moved to Sydney where she was given a job in the costume department of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC).

“I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it” said Laura Hillenbrand. Hillenbrand overcame her suffering. by writing books and short little stories and not going out and staying home. Hillenbrand is best known of her biographies and writing about famous runners. After taking a look at the life and work of Laura Hillenbrand, it is apparent that this writer deserves recognition as a profound American author.

Over 100 years ago, when humanity looked for new places to conquer, two men looked to the skies. Wilbur and Orville Wright built the first working motor airplane, and after that day, the world took a huge interest in aviation, causing many leading pioneers and innovators in the aerospace field to emerge, revolutionizing the way we look at the skies.

Dorothea Dix was a woman who stood for the treatment and housing conditions of prisoners and the mentally ill.She observed and documented what she had seen and experienced. Her documentation changed her audiences minds and started the reform.

Gabby Douglas was the first African-American female gymnast in Olympic history to become the individual All-Around champion. In the 2012 Olympic Games, she won gold in the team competition and the individual competition. She is a gymnastics phenom. From the beginning of her career to where she is today, she has been a true trooper through everything. Gabrielle Douglas is an inspiration to me and many others because she overcame being homeless,moved in with a new family, and won Olympic gold in gymnastics.

A former world champion track and field athlete from 1992-2007, and a former professional basketball player who played 47 games for the Tulsa Shock, Marion Jones has won 3 gold medals and 2 bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, making her the first woman to win five track-and-field medals at a single Olympics. However, she admitted to using banned substances and subsequently returned the medals. Marion Jones has said that she has been using a steroid called the tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), or commonly known as “the clear”, since 1999. With this, her career, reputation, endorsement, and her freedom was lost.

Anne Hutchinson was born in Alford, Lincolnshire, England. In 1591, in those times the dates of birth were unclear, because they didn’t have archives where they could keep all the births written down, as today. As women used to give birth in their own houses. But we know the date of her christening was on July 20, 1591. Families didn’t usually take a lot of time to baptized there kids, because on those dates child mortality was very important so if it happened, they will go to the ‘paradise’. So we can supposed she borne a few days, maybe a week earlier than her baptism.

To begin, Dorothea Dix was a key player in bettering the treatment for mentally ill patients.  In the mid-1800’s, many mentally inept people dwelled in prisons.  This was because the people of the time didn’t exactly know how to properly treat or deal with these mentally ill people.  Initially, Dix worked as a nurse and teacher for prisoners, where their living conditions were less than adequate (History.com Staff).  Altogether, seeing what was happening to these abused people made her feel as though she had to do something to help.  While working at the prison, she saw firsthand what these people had to face.  One of Dorothea Dix’s reports accounted that, “prisoners [were] flogged, starved, chained, physically and sexually abused

A woman who changed the world forever No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action, Emma Goldman once said. Emma Goldman was one of the most important people of the 20th century. She was a pioneer for feminism and anarchism, and ultimately changed society for the better. Her influences included Johann Most and Peter Kropotkin (Notable Anarchist theorists) , and she influenced tens of thousands of anarchists and feminists all over the world.

I am Emma Mae Jones, Queen of Gymnastics and Baking. I am athletic, helpful and full of laughter! I am as cool as ice. I am destined for being a world explorer. I come from the crazy, yet quiet country.