Jackie Gleason

The childhood of Richard Milhous Nixon was a simple one but nevertheless a harsh one. Francis Anthony Nixon, father of Nixon had an the lemon ranch on Yorba Linda, California and later opened a combination grocery store and gas station with Hannah Milhous Nixon. Hannah Milhous Nixon was a quaker, who was revealed to be very influential on Nixon's livelihood. Nixon was born on the ranch on January 9, 1913, and was the second of five brothers in total. Edward Nixon born on 1930, Arthur Nixon born

Cry” (Beals), “I Never Had It Made” (Robinson), and “The Father of Chinese Aviation” (Maskel) are about people who are examples of people that experienced turning points in history. Jackie Robinson, Feng Ru, and Melba Beals faced life-changing events, and those events affected their countries in the process. Jackie Robinson changed major league baseball history in 1947. This day, “was a history-making day,” (Robinson) because Robinson didn’t just play in the MLB he was the first African American

I am certain I can wrap up who Ty Cobb was in a few words. He was a man that had “daddy issues”, as well as anger issues. However, he was also, from what I have read, a great baseball player. Cobb seemed to be dedicated to the game, working hard on-field as well as off-field. Although, I felt like that was more to do with his obsession to be the best or prove his self-worth to his father. Either way, his cruelty both on and off the field seemed to work for him and against him. The players hazed him

Annotated Bibliography Nonfiction Children's Books: 3- 4th grade: Not only do these four children nonfiction books show resilience, but they also convey social injustice in the world. ● Zullo, Allan, and Bovsun, Mara. (2004). Survivors True Stories of Children in the Holocaust. Wordsellers, Inc, Publication. This book begins with a heartbreaking story of an 8-year-old girl named Luncia Gamzer’s. During the time when the Gestapo were issued to capture a specific number of jews, her father

Babe Ruth Do you like baseball? Well Babe Ruth did and it got him to the M.B.L. He became a baseball legend. There was a kid named Babe Ruth. He was from a very poor family. He had to steal apples for food. He also loved playing baseball with his friends. His education went well for him. He started school when he was seven years old. He met kids there that also liked baseball. They would play whenever and whenever they could. When babe grew up He played as the star pitcher for the yankees

Major League teams wanted to hire African Americans. In order to get around the rules, they listed some black players as Hispanic or Native American. Baseball remained an independent sport well into the 1940s. In 1945, a talented young player named Jackie Robinson joined the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro American League. He would become baseball's "great

detainees and prosecution for their crimes. In the article “Guantanamo Prison Is Wasteful and Un-American. Shut It Down,” published in The Washington Post on January 15, 2015, noted Democrat who represents California’s 14th District in the House, Jackie Speier, expresses why the prison should be shut down. She argues that the prison is a huge waste of taxpayer’s dollars and claims that the prison makes us less safe and runs contrary to our values as Americans. With the effective establishment of

an unwritten rule that prohibited African Americans from playing Major League baseball. However, since when did a written or unwritten rule ever stop someone from doing something they love? This “rule” did not stop African American players like Jackie Robinson, Larry Doby, Hank Thompson or Monte Irvin from playing “America’s pastime” their own way; welcome the Negro Leagues. Communities of people united through baseball and themselves to create these leagues. Like the white Major Leagues, the

Cultural and Historical Environment of Sports Related to Steve Bartman’s Infamous Act The literature and material that has arisen because of Steve Bartman’s life does little to tell of who he is. Bartman repeatedly declined to speak, even when it would be lucrative for himself. The infamous Steve Bartman incident occurred on October 14, 2003 with the Chicago Cubs and Florida Marlins at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois. He almost caught a foul ball that controversially might have been caught by

service: Jackie Robinson was drafted into the U.S Army On april 3rd 1942. He was a corporal at Fort Riley, Kansas when Jackie and other black troops met Private Joe Louis, the heavyweight champion They told him about the lack of black officers to Louis, who later mentioned it to Truman Gibson, an African-American civilian aide to Secretary of War Henry Stimson. He was later promoted to 2nt lieutenant & the platoon leader of the all-black 761st Tank Battalion (The Black Panthers). Jackie was unhappy