St. Ella Dutton Research Paper

As I take this chance to reflect, I discovered a truth, the sky is the limit. During my years at St. Luke, I have developed as a student, an athlete, and as a member of the Catholic Church. I believe that everyone brings something special gift to the world, and I believe my gift is that of determination to become a great man through faith and education. I have been an alter server for about two years. Being an alter server has brought me closer to God and my Catholic community. Education has been a big part of my life. I can truly say I am grateful for the opportunity I have had to attend St. Luke. After St. Luke, my plans are to use my education and become prepared to take on the challenges and rewards of high school.

In the days leading up to my school enrollment in high school, I wondered what this new school system would be like and if I could manage to cope and blend in with the rest of the crowd without losing my unique characteristics. Other than that, I was filled with great exuberance beginning to build the foundation of my destined career as a pharmacist at the same time increasing my skills as a woods craftsman.

I have not and will never forget those series of events. This time hurt me but also helped build upon my character. It was my freshman year of high school. I had decided to play soccer, which was not a hard decision for me since I had played travel soccer pretty much my whole life. Also my brother was in high school at the time and played for the boys soccer team, and had my dad as his coach. He loved it and was having a great experience playing high school soccer so of course I like to follow in my brother’s footsteps. I was very nervous at first. There were over eleven seniors on the team, and they were pretty intimidating to me. During the summer, I played with the varsity often and enjoyed it. As I kept playing with them and performing well, my nerves lessened. Finally when the actual season rolled around, I was put on full varsity. All my hard work had paid off. I was one of the two freshman put on varsity. I was ecstatic. I was actually very lucky at getting put on varsity because at this point in my life I played purely out of natural talent. I was never one to put in extra work outside of practice and be disciplined in the way I lived my life. I never really strived to be the best I could be. Making varsity made me somewhat of a threat for the older girls. Some were happy for me, others did not like the thought of a freshman on varsity. These girls were hard coore they were bound and determined to make it to state that year. They were not going to accept anything less than amazing. This put an incredible amount of pressure on us younger girls. I remember going to every practice nervous that I was going to mess up and they get mad at me. I never really felt at ease with them. In the first few games I got good playing time. I was doing really well. I was finally getting comfortable out there on the field, but that was not the direction God was taking me and with one swift kick of the soccer

Margaret Lea Houston (April 11, 1819 – December 3, 1867) was First Lady of the Republic of Texas, First Lady of the state of Texas, and a founding member of Concord Baptist Church in Grand Cane. She was a poet and an accomplished musician. Her influence on husband Sam Houston persuaded him to give up alcohol and profane language. Margaret gave birth inside the governor's mansion to the youngest of their eight children, as angry mobs gathered outside in response to her husband's opposition to Texas signing the Ordinance of Secession of the Civil War. He was removed from office for refusing to swear loyalty to the Confederacy. Their eldest son joined the Confederate army and was left for dead on the battlefield at Shiloh, saved by a Union Army

Clara Brown was born in Virginia in 1800. She was a former slave from Virginia who became a community leader, philanthropist, and aided settlement of former slaves during the time of the Colorado Gold Rush. Brown married another slave when she was eighteen, and together they had four children. In 1835 Brown’s family was broken apart when they were all sold to different slave owners. Clara was sold to a plantation owner in Kentucky. When Brown was 56 years old, she received her freedom and required by law to leave the state, and work her way west as a cook and laundress in Denver, Colorado. Brown settled in the mining town now called Central City, Colorado, where she worked as a laundress, cook and midwife, she took the money she made investing

Finally, I am finished with middle school. Anxiously thinking about the first day of high school, I knew that it would be hectic and wild, but I was ecstatic. Of course, the night before I could not sleep. I lay awake dreaming about how my first day at John Paul II will go. How will it be meeting new people and seeing old friends from last year? Will high school be hard? Will I get lost? I kept thinking about the unknown and worst possible outcomes. My first day of high school was unexpected.

Did you know Clara brown's life was an adventure?there were a lot of ups and downs in her life.The beginning of Clara Brown’s life was to start an up and went a little down.Her accomplishments were almost all ups except at least one down.The end of her life was a down and up.

Josephine Esther Mentzer is a famous entrepreneur because of her wide spread success and starting from nothing. Estee, Josephine Esther, was born in Queens with Hungarian mother and Czech Father. Growing up Estee took much influence from her family. As the youngest of six children, two of which died before Estee was born, was a close knit Jewish family living in a mostly Italian neighborhood. From working in the family’s hardware store, Estee learned from a young age about retailing and business. Estee would recall her mother being the first beauty she ever recognized. Her mother would slather her skin in thick creams and tell her, “Hands are as telling as any written pedigree”. Her mother Rose always wore gloves and would carry a parasol

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton was born on January 28, 1774 in New York City, she was the second child to an socially prominent couple. Her father was a chief health officer for the port of New York. Her mother was the daughter of on Episcopal minister. Her family was one of the two, earliest settlers in New York. Elizabeth was only 3 years old when her mother died. This was possibly a result of child birth.

Have you ever met someone so caring and loving that the impact they made on your life will never change? Clara Hale was defiantly one of those people, she always had a smile on her face and was ready to help. She was simply a caring person. Hale’s attitude toward life and helping others showed how much she cared and how much she wanted to reach out. Her life reached many and they will never forget the one and only, Mother Hale.

Mary Strickland was born in 1839, Bowenfels along the Billabong Creek and was the daughter of Pierce and Letitia Strickland. Pierce Strickland whose mother was Mary Strickland who had been the lady who administered first aid to Ben Hall, when as a youth had severely broke his leg in the mid-1850's. Peirce Strickland was part of the Strickland family who controlled large stations, the most well known being Bundaburrah Station on the Lachlan Plains, and one in which Ben Hall had a close association with for most of his life. During her childhood and into early womanhood young Mary Strickland was raised in the company of the hard men of the Lachlan plains and the many stockmen and laborers working for her father and from this company had the friendship

Saint Elizabeth Seton is a Native born American. She was the first to be canonized by the Catholic church. She was born on August 28, 1774, in New York. During this time, the American Revolution was about to happen. Her feast day is January 4 and she is a patron of in-law problems, against the death of children, widows, death of parents, and opposition of Church authorities

By the time I got to about fifth grade, everyone started to notice how academically gifted I really was. In fourth and fifth grade, I even joined the spell bowl team. Me and a few other people I knew well were about two grade levels ahead of the rest of our class, mathematically speaking. Then, I got to middle school. It was a big change, lockers, stairs, a very large school it was. It was all very unknown to me, there were really tall kids, and they all had their friends, I had to adjust. By this time, I was still on the gifted academic path, being in Algebra in only seventh grade, a class that is supposed to be for freshmen. My family were always very proud of me because of this, and I had always tried to be smarter than my sister, who was always four grades and a step ahead of me. She was always the teacher's pet, overachiever type of student. School had never really been hard for me, just boring and mentally draining. By the time I was in eighth grade, I had found my true group of friends. There was a few that liked soccer, which fit me really

A serial killer is a person defined as a series of two or more murders, committed as separate events. “They are generally cunning, manipulative, and know the difference between right and wrong but dismiss it as applying to them” (Montaldo, n.d.) We are often captivated by what they have done and not in a positive way but the intriguing part as to “why”. In reality I stop to think what was happening to this person or within their minds that caused them to behave in such a way. It’s said that these acts are due to Abnormal Psychology gratification, this is the unusual patterns of behavior, emotion and thought. After thorough research Dr. Helen Morrison believes that it is due to a chromosome abnormality. Dr. Morrison believes that serial killers begin to start expressing these tendencies in their teen

The summer between my sophomore and junior year was spent as a preparatory period for the following summer. There was significant growth in two main areas, my intellectual and athletic career. That summer in Dale lab was spent learning basic lab techniques, introducing myself to my future coworkers, and continuing to draft a complete methodology for my work. Athletically, I was jumping to varsity basketball. Every day of June was spent proving myself and preparing for life as a varsity athlete. This past summer was a time of tremendous spiritual, intellectual, and athletic maturation. I decided to discontinue varsity basketball for various reasons and pick up American football, something I had always wanted to try. I was also working full time