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Ray Lewis was born on Bartow, Florida on May 15, 1975. Elbert Ray Jackson was his father and was largely absent during his son’s childhood. As a boy, Ray Lewis was the oldest and soon became the man of the house. Ray used to do his sister’s hair. He used to take his brothers to daycare every single day. Ray Lewis became a great football player at Kathleen High School. He was also a great wrestler in high school. Lewis played in the NFL with the Ravens for 17 years. He retired 2013.
Ray Lewis got a Defensive Player of the Year Award. He was one of the best linebackers in the history of football. Ray Lewis led the Ravens to the Super Bowl. The Ravens won in the 2000’s. Lewis earned 13 trips to the Pro Bowl
Joe Montana wanted to play basketball until Notre Dame needed a Qb. Joe Montana took Notre Dame all the way to the Cotton Bowl. Joe Montana was a big help to Notre Dame winning the Cotton Bowl (“Joe Montana”)
The eldest of George and Lucille Ray’s nine children was born on March 10, 1928 in Alton, Illinois (“James Earl Ray”) (“James Earl Ray Biography”). During Ray’s early childhood, the family moved several times (“James Earl Ray Biography”). In 1935, the family suddenly left and moved to Ewing, Missouri after police started looking for the father for a forgery charge (“James Earl Ray
Walter Payton was an American football running back who was drafted as the fourth overall he was picked by the Chicago Bears he earned nine Pro Bowl during his 13 seasons in the league with 16,726 rushing yards, 110 rushing touchdowns, and 3,838 rushing attempts. Walter Payton earned nine Pro Bowls From Jackson State he was an All-American running back with 598 rushing attempts, 3600 rushing yards, and 63 touchdowns. One of the strongest and most talented men in football, Walter Payton could bench-press 390 pounds, leg-press more than 700 pounds, throw a football 60 yards, punt it 70 yards, kick 45-yard
Bo had signed with the Auburn tigers. It shocked most of his community and many others because he had the chance to go big and make money, but Bo chose otherwise. Bo attend Auburn Unversity from 1982-1985 and played the two sports he loved, football and baseball. In his career Bo had won a suagr bowl championship in football and earned all-american as a freshman. Later on in his last football season at Auburn he earned the Heisman trophy. Bo all so earned all-district and all-region in baseball.
Born Ray Charles Robinson on the 23rd of September 1930 in Albany, Georgia, Charles was raised by his two parents. Charles had witnessed the droning death of his younger brother, which had left him traumatised, and soon after this, at the age of 6, he contracted glaucoma, which was left untreated, and eventually left him completely blind. Charles attended the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind in St. Augustine, Florida, where he learned to read, write and compose music in Braille. But his love for music started way before attending school, as he had learnt to play the piano before the age of five.
He later went on in 1939 to play on the UCLA Bruins football team. At the time very few Division I football programs across the country had a black player on their team if any. Robinson was one of four black players to be on UCLA’s football team which was very different. In the years 1939 and 1940 Robinson lead the nation in punt return average while his career average of 18.8 yards per return is fourth all time in NCAA history. He not only could return punts but while being used as mostly a decoy at running back averaged 11.4 yards per carry in 1939.
Jackie Robinson was born January 31, 1919 in Cairo,GA . He was also the youngest of 5 children, and was also raised with a single mother. Life wasn't always the easiest or best fro jackie, considering he grew up in a very segregational
Although there are many turning points in John Lewis’ life. I will be discussing three of his turning points. These turning points are important because it helped him become resilient, determined, and gave him ways to elaborate on an issue that arose during that time which was Civil Rights. His first turning point was at age four when he got his first bible. The second turning point was when he was inspired by Martin Luther King’s speech on the Social Gospel and his view on Civil Rights. John Lewis’ attendance at Jim Lawson’s workshops about non-violent protesting was his third turning point.
Ray Charles was born on Sept. 23, 1930, in Albany, Georgia, and grew up in Greenville, Florida. At the young age of five, he began losing his sight, and became completely blind by the time he was seven. However, this did not hinder Ray Charles at all, as he continued to persevere in developing his musical talents. One of the most unique aspects of Ray Charles was his unparalleled ability to crossover different genres of music. He mixed together genres such as blues, jazz, gospel, R&B, pop, and even country. With this integration, he created smash hits such as “I Got a Woman,” “Hit the Road Jack,” and “I Can’t Stop Loving You.” When a listener listens close enough to one of Charles’ songs, aspects of the various styles he incorporated can be heard not only through the way the lyrics are
Ray Charles Robinson was born on September 23, 1930, in Albany, Georgia. His dad was Baiely Robinson. He worked as a railroad mechanic. His mother was Aretha Robinson. She worked in a sawmill and washed other people’s clothes for extra money. Charles had two brothers. Brother Ray was really never around. Brother George was the youngest and he drowned in a tub when he was a child. Ray witnessed his little brother drown. Charles
Ray Charles was born on September 23 1930 in Albany, Georgia as Ray Charles Robinson. He spent most of his childhood growing up in Greenville, Florida. At the age of six, he started to lose his sight from glaucoma after being traumatized by watching his brother drown in a washtub. When Ray tuned seven, he attended the St. Augustine School for the Deaf and Blind, from 1937 to 1945, where he learned to play the piano, clarinet, and alto saxophone. He also learned how to compose for orchestras and read and write music in Braile. He was soon orphaned when he was fifteen but started to perform in bands around Florida. In 1948 at the age of seventeen, Ray moved to Seattle, Washington, with his $600 in savings. In Seattle, he formed the Maxim trio,
Ray Charle known as “Genius” or “Father of Soul” was born on September 23, 1930 in Albany Georgia, he was a poor kid growing up. (http://www.pbs.org/). He was raised in Florida and became blind at age seven. (http://www.pbs.org/). Ray Charles played music before he became blind so
Today we will take a look into the life and legacy of one of the most prominent and controversial leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement of the fifties and sixties: Malcolm X. We will discover how different historical perspectives viewed him as an agent of change, whether it be positive or negative. In stark contrast to the multitude of positive views of his actions and philosophy immediately before and after his assassination, we will also view sources that look into the more negative responses to the anti-white philosophy and segregationist views that defined most of his years of activism. Malcolm X’s life has generally been studied in stages; from his wild days of hard drugs and petty crime, to his prison transformation into a highly
Jerry Lewis was an american actor, comedian, singer, producer, director, screenwriter, and humanitarian. He was born on March 16, 1992 in Newark, NJ and died on August 20, 2017 in Las Vegas, NV. Lewis started performing at age five and would often perform alongside his parents in the Catskill Mountains in New York. By 15, he had developed his "Record Act" in which he exaggeratedly mimed the lyrics to songs on a phonograph. He used the professional name Joey Lewis but soon changed it to Jerry Lewis to avoid confusion with comedian Joe E. Lewis and heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis.He dropped out of Irvington High School in the tenth grade. He was a "character" even in his teenage years, pulling pranks
Everyone has turning points during his or her life, some of them change our mind, and some others change our life. In this essay I will be writing about an African American named John Lewis, he was born and raised in the State of Alabama and had several turning points during his life, some of them happened during his childhood and others as an adult. Many turning points are remarkable and well known by the society who has read about him, but some others are hidden somewhere and not too many people talk about them and how it influenced him, nevertheless all of them helped him to create his character and becoming the person who he wanted to become. For example, since almost killing one of his precious chickens trying to baptize it (because he