Spend some time with Maxine Horne, one of Australia’s most successful businesswomen. Starting with just $1,500, Maxine established a single telecommunications store on the Gold Coast. Today, her company Vita Group is an ASX-listed enterprise with a national footprint, more than 1,500 employees and annual revenues of more than $450 million.
Hosea Humphrey of Middleville will be entertaining residents of Rest Haven Homes with his mixture of gospel, country and cowboy style music. The singer, songwriter and broadcaster has made countless personal appearances and hosts his own Sunday morning radio program, "Gospel Song Roundup."
ROME, ITALY -- 18-year-old Alexandria resident, Shayla Thomas-Pollard has broken a world record for the Guinness Book of World Records two weeks ago.
Tommy and his twin sister Tammy Jean were born in Oakland,California on June 28,1964.His mom Nina Sells was a single mother with three other children when the twins were born.They moved to St. Louis,Missouri and at 18 months old,sells and tammy jean contracted spinal meningitis, which was fatal to tammy.After he got better sells was sent to live with his aunt Bonnie Walpole in Holcomb,Missouri.He stayed there until he was five when his mom went back to take him when she found out that his aunt was thinking about adopting him.Through his childhood he was left alone to fend for himself.He barely went to school and by the time he was seven he was drinking alcohol.Around the same time he started hanging around this old man.The man showed him a
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.
Early 1990’s was a difficult time, especially for the south central. During 1991 and 19992 was the worst record for crime; the murder rate was the highest in LA in history. There were about 1077 murders many of which came from gang violence in south central. The match that set off the 1992 LA Riots. Was the videotape of Rodney King being brutally beaten by five police officers, as well as the murder of Latasha Harlins in 1991. The officers were found not guilty by a mostly white jury, so the African American grew angry and disappointed. The Korean woman who killed Latasha didn’t serve jail time, which caused a deep strain on the relationship between Korean and Africans. White people were the main targets, but Koreans also experienced gun battles
History has referred to her as "the Jackie Robinson of tennis" for breaking the color barrier. On August 22, 1950, Althea Gibson, an American sportswoman, became the first African-American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour. She was the first to win a 'grand slam' title in 1957. She was a pioneer in both amateur tennis and professional golf forging a road for future greats to include Tiger Woods and Venus Williams. She was also the first black woman on the LPGA tour.
where she was already curious. Her life was going to be everything but ordinary. She was born
For an extensive period of time, Marcus Hiles has built rich and moderate gatherings over the state of Texas. From Dallas and San Antonio down to Corpus Christi and past, his association has spent the latest decade endeavoring to make life remarkable for persisting Texans all around. Recently, the city of Houston has gotten a kick out of an augmentation in life quality, on account of the steady work and responsibility of Marcus Hiles.
Ashley Huerta Osores is a successful pharmacist, who focused her career on community service. Her journey began in the City of Baltimore, where she attended both undergraduate and professional school. Within her community, she was dedicated to serving the underprivileged. For years, she immersed herself in aiding the neighborhood. In her undergraduate years, she volunteered at the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC); while in pharmacy school, she participated in local health fairs by giving flu shots, and she worked at a local pharmacy. Additionally, Osores was enrolled in a duel degree program, earning the Doctor in Pharmacy (PharmD) and Masters in Public Health (MPH) degree. For her, becoming a pharmacist was not enough. She felt it important to understand policies, regarding healthcare, so that she could help implement change in wide communities.
Jan Platt was born in 1936 to Peter and Adele Kaminis. From the time she was young Platt was introduced to nature and her love for it only continued to grow. As a family, her parents and her sister, Bobbie Lou, spent their time fishing and swimming all over the Tampa Bay area. Platt attended Hillsborough High School where she excelled. She attended Florida State University where she was the president of the student senate the vice president of the student body. She graduated Pi Beta Kappa (oldest and most respected academic honors society in the United States.). Up until this point in her life one could say she had had it easily. She was met with her first true hardship when she enrolled as the only woman at the University of Florida Law School.
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.
For my research paper, I plan to write about the Boleyn/Howard family. I will be focusing mainly on Henry VIII wives Anne Boleyn and her cousin Catherine Howard. The time frame I look to examine is from the rise of Anne Boleyn and her family to the fall of Catherine Howard and the aftermath of their executions and how it affected the family left behind. I think that both the Boleyn's and Howard's were very influential towards the middle and end of Henry’s reign. Most prominent is Anne Boleyn who has been polarized throughout history as either an innocently executed wife or a malicious and ambitious she-wolf who brought down Catholicism in England. Whichever way you look at it Anne is one of his most remembered and influential wives. For whatever
American actress Emma Stone once stated, “What sets you apart can sometimes feel like a burden and it’s not. And a lot of the time, it’s what makes you great.” Everyone must accept that they are different in order to release a burden and reach their full potential. One can achieve great things following this rule. Diane Arbus was an American photographer, she lived 1923 - 1971(“Diane Arbus”, 2010). Diane Arbus created acceptance for the “freaks” in the world by focusing on them in her photos, she innovated the field of photography by doing so, and illuminated the world and civilization’s views.
hild labor was a huge issue, since more than two million children under the age of 14 working in these dangerous unhealthy places which is just a waste of time for them and risking their lives for a very very low amount of wages. An American sociologist and professional photographer Lewis Hine. Hine was known for his amazing job he does with his camera as a tool for social reform. The photographs he used to take were clear and had specific details. Hine was against child labor, he wanted to end it. Lewis Hine was told to complete a mission which was to take photographs and evidence from the supreme court. Although this sounds really hard but Lewis Hine was smart enough to take clear pictures and he fought the Child labor issue with all of his
Darwin's theory that “ the same animal changed over time to adapt to certain things and surroundings affects certain people due to their beliefs over God.Evolution is not accepted as a fact yet because they don't feel as if they have enough information. Some people have a religious belief that a “higher power” created the animals , plants, and humans that are on our planet today through a supernatural intervention. In Darwin's theory, he stresses that a “non” living object and a “living” object can be related. He states that complex creatures evolve from more simple objects over time when given the right environment. Today, with the technology that we have you can easily tell that a “non” living object and a “living”