Rita Jaima Paru is an owner and Manageress of Dial-A-Lunch services. A locally owned catering business operating in Port Moresby that supplies affordable and nutritious catering services for government organizations, businesses and general public in PNG. In 2014, she won the Westpac Outstanding Women Awards, the Finalist for the SP Brewery Entrepreneur Award. In 2016, she was awarded as a Global Women in Management leadership training programme recipient by Exxon Mobil and Plan USA. Rita is an inspiring community leader and businesswoman that help young girls and women in local churches to learn basic cooking, food handling, baking and other safety
Sarah Phulajanma was bored. Her skills as a great ship pilot were not being challenged while working as the largely ceremonial captain of a funeral barge. As middle age set into her waistline, she decided to change her dishwater career circling between a dozen star systems to the more exciting seas of working for a shipping company to assist the expanding frontier colonies in the Verdes Mujeres systems. But the recruitment posters did not warn Sarah of the hardships she was to endure.
Miriam Amanda Wallace “Ma” Ferguson (1875-1961), first woman governor of Texas, daughter of Joseph L. and Eliza (Garrison) Wallace, was born in Bell County, Texas, on June 13, 1875. She went to Salado College and Baylor Female College at Belton. In 1899, at the age of 24, she married James Edward Ferguson, as well of Bell County. Mrs. Ferguson served as the first lady of Texas during the gubernatorial terms of her husband (1915-17), who was challenged during his 2nd administration. When James Ferguson failed to get his name on the ballot in 1924, Miriam entered the race for the Texas governorship. Before announcing for office, she had committed her energies mostly to her husband and two daughters. This fact, and the mixture of her first and
Marilyn Reese Sheppard was a rich Cleveland physician. She was the wife of Dr, Samuel Sheppard. She was born in April 1923, in Cleveland Ohio. Marilyn was murdered on July 4th 1954 in Bay Village Ohio. She was found in the couples lake house brutally beat to death with about 20 to 30 blows to the head. Her son, Sam Reese, who was seven years old, was in the room next to his mothers during the murder. Her husband Samuel was sleeping on the couch that night when he woke to what he thought was his wife calling his name. He went to the bedroom and found his wife being beaten by a “bushy haired man”. The husband had been badly beaten as well. He claimed he had “grappled with one or two men” before he had been knocked out. He had sustained severe
Jenni Pulos is an Emmy-nominated television producer who was born on January 3, 1973, in Oregon being a Capricorn. She earned her fame through her role on Bravo’s hit show, Flipping Out which came out around the year 2007. The show also has a spinoff named “Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis” which came on 2012 and she was an assistant of Jeff Lewis for the show. She is a Greek-American. She is a multi-talented person and she is also a writer, a rapper, a comedienne and was also in sports. As a writer, her work can be seen in her book ‘Grin and Bear It: How to Be Happy No Matter What Reality Throws Your Way’ which was published in March 2014.
. As a result of the civil wars wracking El Salvador,Guatemala and Nicaragua, refugees flooded northward. Many of them wound up in Los Angeles, living among the mostly Mexican barrios of East Los Angeles. While the Mexican gangs reined in the local underworld, the war-hardened immigrants quickly organized themselves into competing groups, the strongest of which was called the Mara
Queen Esther Julia Kapiolani Napelakapuokakae, other known Queen Kapiolani, was born on December 31,1834 in Hilo, Hawaii, and died on June 24, 1899 in Waikiki. She was married to David Kalakaua and both of them changed Hawaii. Queen Kapiolani is one of Hawaii’s greatest monarchs because of her good morals, she created the Iolani Palace, and she created Queen Kapiolani Medical Center
Iriana P. Luna Lozada attends San Jose City College, where she will began working as a tutor in the Reading & Writing Center during Fall 2015. Ms. Luna has worked as a tutor for the non-profit organization Reading Partners, where she helped students improve their literacy and comprehension skills. She plans to transfer and obtain a bachelor degree in Human Biology and then attend medical school. She wishes to provide quality healthcare to the Latino community, in order to raise awareness of prominent health issues that affect that community. Ms. Luna has a strong work ethic that pushes her to challenge herself and accomplish her tasks. She enjoys spending time with her family, friends and pets; furthermore, she likes to do makeup, draw and
Over 400,000 Jews were imprisoned in the Warsaw ghettos. Tilar J. Mazzeo’s Irena’s Children inspired further research. Irena Sendler was born February fifteenth, 1910 in Warsaw, Poland. Her father was a small town doctor who helped everyone no matter of their religion. Helping others no matter their religion was extremely rare during that time in Poland because there was a lot of hate towards Jews. He taught her to be kind to everyone no matter what religion they were. Her father was her biggest inspiration throughout her life. When she was faced option to leave or stay and help during world war 2 she choose to stay. Her decision to stay allowed her to save over 2,500 Jewish lives. Irena Sendler had a notable effect on
I believe that Sylvia Rivera is one of the three most important LGBTQ+ figures in America since 1970, because of her actions during her lifetime and the legacy that she left behind. In particular, her activism called out the conservative and exclusionary politics of LGBT rights groups in the 1970s, and the erasure of transgender women and drag queens from larger movements despite their significance to those groups. Much of Rivera’s activism focused on the inclusion and protection of transgender people, and that legacy continues today. For example, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, an organization that provides legal help to non-cisgender people of color, is named in her honor and fights for many of the same causes that Sylvia herself did. Sylvia, along with her friend and fellow activist Marsha P. Johnson, formed the organization Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) in the 1970s, to advocate for and house homeless drag queens in New York City. Although STAR was not a particularly long-lasting organization, Sylvia’s work through STAR and the Metropolitan Community Church of New York left their mark, and the Metropolitan Community Church of New York’s shelter for LGBT youth is named after Sylvia. Because of her impact upon the LGBT community during and after the 1970s, I think that Sylvia Rivera would be an excellent choice for one of the three most important LGBTQ+ figures since 1970.
Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson a.k.a “MA” was the first woman governor of texas, she was born in Bell County, TX on June 13, 1875 she had two daughters Joseph L. and Eliza (Garrison) Wallace, Miriam A. Ferguson married James E. Ferguson in 1899 at the age 24. Her husband James E. Ferguson tried to get his name on the ballot in 1924 sadly he failed that’s when Miriam A. Ferguson ran for governor before then Miriam always took care of her family that’s why Miriam supporters made up “MA” Ferguson and her first and middle name make up “MA” so they always called her “MA” and to make people vote for her she said she promised with her husband she would have “two governors for the price of one” Miriam promised that she would extensive cuts in the in
The Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang is noted to be one of the most brutal street gangs. This gang has been around since the1980s and continues to make headlines today. Mara Salvatrucha is a vicious street gang that was born in Los Angeles, but its roots mainly stemmed from El Salvador. Although the location of this gang is mainly in Los Angeles, the FBI emphasized that the gang spread to 46 states (MS-13, 2017). The idea that these MS-13 gangs spread throughout the United States is not because gangs choose to immigrate as a whole, but it is because gang members choose to go to different places because of their responsibilities such as family or friends. Most of these gang members who move to different places recruit individuals of all ages to form another version of MS-13 in the location they reside in. The immediate popularity of this gang increased mainly because it consisted of immigrants who fled El Salvador’s lengthy and traumatizing war (MS-13, 2017). However, not only did this gang consist of Salvadorians, but it also led people from Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico to become a part of it. Mara Salvatrucha is a street gang that accommodates people from the lower part of Mexico, not just from El Salvador.
Dorothy Parker was a civil rights activist, journalist and poet of the 20th century. She unfortunately had an unhappy childhood and lost her parents at a young age. Dorothy Parker attended a Catholic grammar school, but at the age of 14 her education came to an end (Academy of American Poets, para. 1). Parker became to be known for her legendary literary figure. In fact Parker worked for several magazines and worked as a book reviewer for The New Yorker.
Dorothea Puente was not always a Puente. She was born as Dorothea Helen Gray in Redlands, California on January 9, 1929. Trudy Mae Yates, her mother, and Jesse James Gray, her father, according to Dorothea Puente, were alcoholics and abused her. Her father was a cotton-picker, and Puente claimed that her mother was a prostitute. However, how accurate is this information is debatable since Puente has been proven as a compulsive liar. She has lied about her life since she was young so as to make her seem more interesting to others and gain attention. When she was eight years old, her father died from tuberculosis in 1937. Her mother died a year later from a motorcycle accident in 1938. Left as an orphan at a very young age, she was sent to an
They are persons in your life that when you meet them, you wish to be with them forever, and that's what I used to feel with my big friend Fabiola Lizeth Bonilla. She was a really proud Honduran girl. Proud of their food and culture and lived there for 17 years, then she moved to the United States of America and got in love with the country. Fabiola was an amazing person, she didn't like to see someone sad, and if I'm not wrong, her favorite hobby was to make all her friends happy.
Despite our ability to perceive beauty as something beyond one’s exterior, Imelda Marcos charmed her audiences with her porcelain and flawless skin, her distinct up-do, her demeanor, and her numerous shoes. People still clamor for her and some still worship the ground she walks on. As an influential woman, she aimed to inspire others to live by God, love and beauty as she had, albeit the methods. Little does she recognize, however, that despite her seemingly heroic attempts to reclaim Filipino identity, she illustrated how beguiled men and women to believe her and her husband as agents of change for several years before they finally rid themselves of the smoke and mirrors.