Leo Africanus has been known with many names. He was born in in a Muslim family of Granada as Al-Hassan b. Muhammad Al-Wazzan Al-Zayyati before they moved to Fez in the rising of Christian Reconquista . It is claimed that hostile Spanish policy towards Muslim population in Granada drive the family to Africa and they settled in Fez of the western Maghrib. At the age of 17, he accompanied his uncle on a diplomatic mission to Timbuktu in the name of Wattasid Sultan of Fez . In 1518, a dramatic event happened where he was captured by Sicilian corsairs and subsequently presented to Pope Leo X on his return from a visit to Egypt (possibly also Istanbul), and a pilgrimage to Mecca. Within a year, he then got baptized by the Pope and his name changed
There were several survivors during the Holocaust and one of them was Eugene Black. His life was very hard and intense, but in the end it all turned out to be good for him. Eugene was born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia in 1928. He had a happy life with his family of three sister and a brother. Two of his sister's names were Paula and Jolan. Eugene’s mother came from an orthodox Jewish family but his father, who was a master tailor, did not.
Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator and New York Times Bestselling author of 24 books. In 2015, his book, The Crossover, received the 2015 John Newbery Medal for the Most Distinguished Contribution to American literature for Children, the Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor, The NCTE Charlotte Huck Honor, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, and the Paterson Poetry Prize (Kwame Alexander Bio,2017). Alexander travels the world to inspiring young people and plant the “seeds of literary love.” He is( the square root of 64 multiplied by four minus five plus the number of NBA championship rings Phil Jackson has plus the age of my six-year-old minus one) years old. Kwame Alexander believes poetry can change the world.
Born in the Renaissance era as al - Hassan ibn Muhammad al - Wazzam, Leo Africanus came from Granada, a city found at the bottom of the mountains in Andalusia, Spain. Even though he was not technically raised here, this is the place that he always acknowledged and claimed to be his true city. His name literally means "the son of Muhammad - the weigh master. Shortly after his birth, this city was conquered by the Catholics, Isabella and Ferdinand. The once diverse city, where Muslims, Jews, Christians, etc coexisted, became divided. The Kings apparently decided, around 1492, that they would force the people (Muslims specifically according to the YouTube video) to convert to Catholicism; if not they would have to leave Granada. Leo's family chose
Dr. David Livingston was a Scottish missionary. He is also one of the greatest explorers of Africa who contributed to the “Scramble for Africa.” In 1836 he attended college in Glasgow for theology and decided to become a missionary doctor. His original plan was to open a "Missionary Road"—"God's Highway." Later on, a three-year journey from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean Livingstone was introduced to the 1,700-mile-long Zambezi river. The river was the home to Victoria Falls. He disappeared for two years, without a letter or scrap of information. Later he reported that he had been very sick, but during that time he has read the bible straight through 4 times.
“There’s the possibility of balance, Unbearable burdens that the world somehow does bear with a certain grace […] I am the un-missionary, as Adah would say, beginning each day on my knees, asking to be converted. If I could reach backward somehow to give Father just one
An able military leader, Osei Tutu, won control of the trading city of Kumasi. From there he conquered neighboring peoples and unified the Asante kingdom. Osei Tutu had been a hostage in the Denkyera court but had escaped eastward to the powerful state of Akwamu, where he was exposed to new ideas of political and military organization.
To be a hero does not mean flying around the city saving people from burning buildings. According to The Merriam Webster Dictionary a hero simply means “a person admired for achievements and noble qualities”. In order achieve greatness in something you must work for it. If Michael Jordan didn’t want to play basketball, he wouldn’t have put hours and hours of work into it or if William Kamkwamba didn't care about going to school, he probably wouldn’t have gone through all of that work to make a windmill. I believe William Kamkwamba is a hero to his family and Masitala Village. He is a hero because he overcame a huge challenge in an unexpected way.
This is our final week in the class. I have enjoyed learning with you guys and wish you all great success in your studies and in life. This week, I will share with you some information on Marcus Aurelius.
Do you ever question yourself if you ever are declining Gods love? I personally sometimes do and I feel like I need someone to help me reconnect with God in a very spiritual way and in a spiritual environment. Spiritus a ministry in Menasha, Wisconsin can help you reach out and help you connect with God. Spiritus has goals to ignite the youth with God, they want to leave an impact on every individual they meet so they go out and spread God's word, and they also have been very significant to the community. Spiritus Ministry has came a long way from just starting in a small retreat center in Wisconsin. They have reached out to other communities and made them excited to spread the word of God, so how have they impacted the youth and made them
Leo Szilard was born on February 11, 1898 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. His father was a civil engineer, and Szilard decided to follow in his father’s footsteps. In 1916, he went to college at a technical university in Budapest for a year before he joined the Austro-Hungarian Army. In 1917, Szilard was saved from going to the front lines by an unknown illness. After the war in 1920, he went to school at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg, Germany. He studied physics with famous physicists Albert Einstein, Max Planck and Max Von Laue. After studying with Einstein, they became close friends. He went far with his academics in Germany, but eventually moved from Germany to London due to the rise of the Nazi Party in 1933 and then
Can you remember a dream that you had when you were younger? As you got older, your dream probably changed. Jean Patrick Nkuba, a natural born Tutsi, dreamed of being just like his father, until he met an Olympian and discovered that running was his talent. Unfortunately, he grew up in a world where Hutu were favored over Tutsi. Jean Patrick knew that running was going to be a major aspect of his life; unfortunately, he didn’t know that he would have to use running to save his life.
As Americans, we live in a society today that is controlled by the media, and we are sometimes blind-sided by it and what it informs us about other countries due to the fact that the media leaves a mass amount of information. Questions that will be challenged example, why is it so important to learn about other countries history when we don’t even know much of our own? Or why does the media have such an incredible impact on how we view other countries like Africa. Our school systems are set up to, limited to what needs to be taught, so that our generations coming up, will not be as uneducated also uninformed about what is going on in the world. Africa history is beautiful history and some may say that Africa is where all of our world history started.
When learning about the history of the world, we can not ignore the fact that Africa plays a significant role. Many believe that Africa is the birth place of all races, and although that is true, the history and cultures of Africa and its natives are misunderstood among Americans. People do not take the time to expand their knowledge about Africa, yet they create their own perceptions of the continent based upon the image that America created. America creates this stereotype that Africa is inferior to the other continents by picturing them as savage like individuals who live an insufficient life. To truly understand Africa, you must understand these two important elements: the demographics of Africa and the true history of Africa
Alexandre Dumas was born July 24, 1802 to Thomas Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, a mullatto illegitimate son of a Marquis and Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Labouret, an innkeeper’s daughter, in Viller-Cotterets, a suburb of Paris, France. Unfortunately, in 1806 his father died because of his poor health and his mother took care of him from there on. When he was eighteen the only thing he knew about was hunting and woodcraft, he had little education. He lived in the suburbs of Paris with souvenirs from the eighteenth century that would influence his future novels. His father was a general for Napoleon I’s service, but went against him and lost future honors (Kashuba).
In many poems the theme sometimes requires a lot of thinking and debating to find out what it really is, and “Eleven and “Same Song” was no difference. I found the theme by first analyzing “Eleven”. In the poem “Eleven” the author said, “Maybe one day when you're all grown up maybe you will need to cry like if you're three, and that's okay.” From this sentence I concluded that you shouldn't feel bad if you feel a certain way because maybe you're just ,like the author said, feeling three and that's perfectly fine, In “Same Song” the author talks about their daughter and son and how they both don't maybe like something about themselves and it doesn't focus on how the girl may not be happy it focuses on both the daughter and son. An example of