Mike Bendfelt Research Paper

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

Michael Bowman, 47, was born in Aurora Illinois on July 18, 1970, a saturday night. He went to Allen Elementary School, Simmons Junior High, and East Aurora High School, graduating in 1988. He is the oldest out of three siblings, all being boys, him, Terrence, and Sean Bowman being the youngest. His mother was not really in his life much as he was growing up so he was raised by his grandmother, Irene Bowman. After graduating high school, he did go to college, he went to Waubonsee Community College in Illinois and Gateway Community College in Phoenix, Arizona in 2018. He is the father of two children, Autumn Elizabeth Bowman and Davion Bowman and the grandfather of one little boy. Michael was living in Illinois until three to four years ago then he moved to Arizona, the last time he has been up here was within the first few months of 2017, sadly for a funeral and thanksgiving of 2016. As a job Michael is a health care professional.

The senator of the 19th district, Michael Hastings of Orland Hills, Illinois has been a part of many different areas throughout the years from the military to an attorney. According to Hastings’ biography from his website, “He was selected an Illinois All-State Football player, served as student government president and later qualified for an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point” (Sen. Hastings). By attaining a liking from his community he was voted to move higher up throughout the political rankings. Over the years he has been able to handle many situations such as attaining high standing medals and awards which later led to him being elected to the state senate. From his biography he stands to hold the title

When Bobby Adedge was 18 years old, he had already won two Olympic gold medals. By the time he was twenty-two, he had been a well-known goalie on a prestigious professional hockey team. He had married an even more famous supermodel, who had her own budding career as an actress. He was thought to be smart, having invented the first dissolvable hockey puck, which was great for planet Earth and recycling, but not-so-good when hockey games went into overtime, the puck often melting onto the ice before the game was over. His inventor-phase was short-lived.

The story of Sam Ferris, an eleven year old boy who was diagnosed with neuroblastoma. Neuroblastoma is “a life threatening cancer that affects the nervous system (Make-A-Wish 2012).” Sam always has this passion for baseball and his wish was for a baseball field to be built in his backyard, which would allow him to play with his friends whenever he wanted. Make-A-Wish knew that this was his one true wish, so they asked help from volunteers and donors to make his wish come true. The University of Mississippi and Itawamba Community College’s ground crew decided that they would contribute to building the baseball field. Those in the community generously donated the materials needed to build the baseball field such as “fencing, backstop, sod, clay,

Only May 30 1969, sixteen-year-old David Milgaard was falsely convicted for the murder of Gail Miller. He was sentenced a life imprisonment for someone else’s crime. His friends turning on him due to drugs, police failing to look into statements and lies for money all lead to Milgaard being sentenced to a life imprisonment.

Mike Pikelis has raised four puppies for Leader Dogs. Currently he is raising Holman a Lab/Golden Cross.

On July 4, 1954, Sheppard’s family invited Ahern’s family for dinner. Don and Nancy Ahern and their two children joined Sheppard family for casual dinner. Ahern family is a neighbour of Sheppard’s family. After the dinner, Nancy’s two children fallen to sleep and Don dropped those kid in his house and he came back to Sheppard’s house. Meanwhile, Marilyn Sheppard drop off his child to upstair to the bed, Samuel Reese Sheppard. Sheppard’s family and Nancy’s family watched a film together. As Marilyn tried to sleep on Sam’s lap, he felt tired from working all day, so he got up and went to his couch to take a nap. Later on that night, Marilyn was beaten to death. There were 35 curved gashes on her body.

Seventy-four years old, white hair, maimed of battle, unknown if sane or haunted. Like veterans of all wars, he lived a great bit closer to death than most people like to think about. Dressed in cammo, wide-eyed, wary, and drunk, joined the service at seventeen. Mike Archer was born in 1942 on Naval Air Station Memphis today Naval Support Activity Mid-South. Father a pilot for the navy, mother a nurse; there was a strong military presence at home.

Randy Wayne White is an American writer of crime fiction and non-fiction adventure tales. He has written New York Times best-selling novels and has received awards for his fiction and a television documentary. He is best known for his series of crime novels featuring Doc Ford, a marine biologist living on the Gulf Coast of southern Florida.

Dr. J. Matthew Sleeth, his wife, Nancy, and their two children lived the life that most people would refer to as the American dream. A prestigious physician’s career, big house, and more material items than the small family knew what to do with. While working, Sleeth noticed an increase in chronic illnesses, and was brought to his breaking point treating children whose lives were cut short. A highly-educated man, Sleeth, outlined what every person could do to help preserve what God provided to sustain human life, not by doing more, but by doing less. The concepts that were highlighted included: conscious use of natural resources, materialistic views, improved personal habits, critical thinking processes, as well as what life would be like if

“I wanted to be better than my parents.” As a kid Michael Davis observed his parents smoke drugs and drink alcohol. He always wanted to be sure that he didn’t do either of these things when he grew up. Mike wanted to set an example for his future children. Michael grew up with a twin brother named Jimmy Davis. Mike had multiple other brothers but Jimmy was the closest to him. Jimmy was an hour older than Mike, and always tried setting an example for Mike. Jimmy wanted his brother to grow up and be successful. “Jimmy is always here for me even to this day.”

Chris McCandles story and Anthony Storrs principle about realizing the importance of solitude. Chris’s time alone and out in the open wild gave him time to think about what he truly wanted. Being in total solitude is a never-ending thinking process where everything goes through your mind. Also his encounters with other people he met along the was showed him a different perspective about life and what it can be like and what his was becoming before entering the wild and after.

Thirty six years, for thirty six years he had been able to live with the dirty secret in his families past hidden away. For thirty six years people had believed that Justin Delaney was the pure blooded heir of the Delaney family, inheritor of a rather respectable fortune, and an expert in Arithmancy if one was so inclined to seek guidance on that subject.

Joe Hill is from a family of very well known writers, and has tried to get his work to stand on its own. His father Stephen King, mother Tabitha King, brother Owen King, and sister Naomi King. All are authors and some more successful than the others. Joe Hill has tried to get away from his father’s vision, but has eventually accepted it.