Research Paper On Nancy Button

Julia Butterfly Hill is an environmentalist and stands up for what she believes is right. Hill is most commonly known for her 738 day tree sit in Luna. By living in a tree for over 2 years hill protested against the clear cutting of the redwood forest. Butterfly, a name given to her from the earth first! Group, sought to prevent deforestation, show the media the PL’s disregard for the environment and educate the public about the role forests play in landslides. She became the founder of the organization The circle of life.

Vera Claythorne’s mental instability which has driven her actions, was caused by the students she taught as a games mistress. Her experience caused her hatred for children, which isn’t a new wonder of the world considering they inherently ruined her life. The madness is what prompted her decisions and created her motives. Her spiral into insanity was not because of love, guilt, or death, but rather her students.

“If you say 1.5 million, it’s just a number. When you see a person, you realize what it was, what it meant, and the one life lost, and then you can multiply that by a million and a half, and you realize what a horror it was” (Burstein). The Holocaust is one event that captures how hideous the world can be. During the duration of 12 years, 11 million people of different cultures, religions, and races were executed because of the Nazi party. Of those 11 million people, 1.5 million were children (Burstein). Hana Brady was one of these children who was persecuted because she chose to practice a religion other than what the Nazi party thought was proper. Although the Holocaust was a deplorable time in world history, humankind had the unfortunate

Bonnie Parker met her soon to be husband her second year of high though though shortly into she dropped out. She was married six days after her sixteenth birthday to Roy Thornton. His brushes with law and being gone left their marriage short lived. Although shortly after their marriage he was arrested and sentenced to jail time. Though they never divorced they never saw each other again after January 1929. She still wore her wedding ring until the day she died even while being separated from Roy.

Women have virtually the same rights as men. However, the fault needing to be recognized in today’s society is the way that women are treated. Even in simple areas, such as jobs, women are put on the back burner. A woman is able to become a CEO of a company, nonetheless, she will struggle twice as hard as a man would. Even as an employee, women are statistically paid less than men are.

Cynthia Ann Parker was a true pioneer of of the west. She was a young girl who lived in the white community, then her life changed in one night. Cynthia parker lived a rough life. She was captured, she was forced back into the white community, the white people kept her locked in her room, her children died of diseases, she refused to eat, then she died of the same disease her child Topsannah did.

Ann Deborah Lynn knew she was born to be leader despite her circumstances as an African American in Lexington, Kentucky. Born October 3, 1810 to William Henry Lynn and Sarah Mae Lynn, her vision to be an inspiring Civil Rights Activist would be the biggest challenge of her life. Her father, William was a slave captured in Angola, Africa in broad daylight and her mother, Sarah was a daughter of slaves from Guinea. Free blacks in the South couldn’t express how they felt and wasn’t able to travel as freely as the free slaves in the Northern cities. The North also had more to offer because they were becoming more urban which meant better jobs, transportation and growing middle-class. Ann always knew she wanted to travel and speak to other slaves

My mom, Shameka Walker, was born in New Rochelle, New York in 1973. She has two sisters and one brother. Her mother moved from Virginia and her father moved from North Carolina She is mixed race. She was segregated because she was mixed. Her family left New york because there was high crime and poverty. She left New York when she was 4 years old. They moved to Los Angeles, California. They thought that it was better than New York, until they got there.

Anna Cathryn Nowak was born to David and Wendy Nowak on Thursday August 29th, 2001 at 2:11pm in Hazleton General Hospital. Anna measured 20.5 inches and weighed 7 lbs 14 oz .Her name honors her father’s grandmothers. Grandparents are John and Carol Sessock and the late Robert and MaryAnn Nowak of Freeland. She will be joining an older brother Shane.

The Famous Murder Trial’s Killer Discovered Lizzie Borden’s trial was one of the mysterious and famous murder trials in 1900’s. This murder trial took place in the Borden’s house on the 4th of August, 1892 in the city called Fall River, Massachusetts. The Borden’s house incorporated Andrew Borden and his second wife, Abby, his two daughters, Lizzie and Emma, and a housemaid Bridget Sullivan. However, the main suspect was revealed to be Lizzie Borden in the trial; therefore, she was arrested for her father’s and stepmother’s murder. A look at the evidence of the murder case proves that Lizzie Borden was guilty of her father and stepmother's murder.

The article “Boise police release sketch of suspect wanted in sexual assault “ goes over the latest reported sexual assault. On February 9, 2016, Boise police released the sketch of a suspect wanted due to a sexual assault. The assault took place in the area of West Hickory Court and North Wheaton Lane in West Boise.

Becoming a licensed practical nurse is a rewarding job that allows a nurse to care for other people and it has a rewarding salary, while the disadvantages is the lack of sleep and the multiple hours that a nurse has to spend on his/her feet. Cathy Parker is a licensed practical nurse and also a clinical director at Bay Springs After Hours Clinic in Bay Springs,M.S. She has been a licensed practical nurse for twenty-eight years and a clinical director for thirteen years. Cathy has several reasons why she chose her career to be a licensed practical nurse. She says the main reason she chose to be a nurse is because one night at church a little boy had cut his arm and as she bandaged him up God called her to be a nurse. Her second reason she became a nurse is her love for people and wanting to see others properly cared for. As she cared for her elderly grandmother when she was a teenager it made her feel helpful to see someone smile while being cared for. Her favorite part of her job is to see someone who has been in pain, smile after being cared for.

It seems like Teen Mom 3 and 16 & Pregnant star Mackenzie Mckee's battle with diabetes is getting tougher and tougher for her. The young mom rushed to the hospital after she suffered complications from diabetes and her blood sugar went sky high.

Brenda Morehead-Campbell attended Toledo Public Schools and is a 1975 graduate of Jesup Scott High School. She started her athletic career as a track runner in the sixth grade at Fulton Elementary School. During high school, Ms. Morehead competed in many national championship track meets. She gained exposure to the international track level as a sprinter during her sophomore year of high school at the USA vs. Russia championship meet. In her senior year of high school, the State of Ohio had the first ever girl’s track meet where she won the 100 and 200 yard dash, long jump, and successfully anchored the winning 800-yard dash relay team.

Betty Davis (26 July 1945) a pioneer in the development of funk music’s cultural senses,also known for her scandalous outfits, distinctively lascivious lyrics, fierce and impenitent personality, protruded and faced the male-dominated rock and funk music culture of the 1960s and 1970s. Her goal was to portray ‘black aspirations’ (Greene, 2013: 58) within her music, fashion statements, beliefs, and performances. Betty Davis’s indisputable desire for fame never passed by inconspicuously, Nonetheless, her bluntly honest music and lyrics became overwhelming to some audiences as well as male music critics. The main certainty of her being a black woman and her unforgettable statements produced through her music originated her exclusion from the American History of popular music (Keys, 2013: 44) who refused to be limited by general categorisation (Hundley, 2007).