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south down, the Queen of Voodoo is very impressionable. She had many names a few; mother, prison worker, healer and a civil rights advocate (Ward). Dead and gone everyone ask who was the Voodoo Queen. This paper will give you a small peak into Marguerite Laveau’s life during her time and today.

The Novel: shades by Marguerite Poland Shades is a South African novel by the award-winning author, Marguerite Poland. Her academic credentials are impressive, as she has degrees from Rhodes and Stellenbosch Universities and the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She has studied Xhosa, Social Anthropology and Comparative African Languages, with a special focus on Zulu Literature. She has written for both children and adults, which is an unusual achievement. Of her eleven children’s books, The Mantis

person at fault when it came down to the death of her rapist. According to an article written by Smelstor and Bruce, at birth, she born with the name Marguerite Annie Johnson on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the daughter of Vivan Baxter and Bailey Johnson. At the age of three years old her parents decided to separate. Forcing Marguerite and her brother Bailey at the time to move to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their paternal grandmother, Annie Henderson. While staying in Stamps she

This left his ten year old son king with Catherine De Medici, his mother, as regent. Catherine was a devout Catholic and wanted the Monarchy to stay under Catholic control. So she arranged the wedding of Catholic, Marguerite de Valois, and Huguenot, Henry of Navarre. At the wedding they brought numerous Huguenot nobles to Paris, so political and religious tensions elevated. Gaspard De Coligny a Huguenot leader was shot by a hired assassin from the House of Guise. However

Dr. Maya Angelou was conceived Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri on April fourth, 1928. She conquered a traumatic adolescence to bloom into a widely acclaimed artist, creator, instructor, on-screen character, student of history, producer and social liberties lobbyist. Throughout the span of an advantageous vocation that traversed a half-century, she would compose 7 personal histories, 5 accumulations of expositions, 18 books of verse, 2 cookbooks, 7 youngsters' books and 7 plays. She

A person I admire is Maya Angelou, she was named Marguerite Johnson ,and she was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928. She is a women who has over come many obstacles in her life time. At a young age Maya was sexually assaulted by her mothers boyfriend after that Maya did not speak to anyone but her brother. In those four years of silence she turned to poetry. Maya has been famous for her poems she has accomplished many of them excellently her poems encourage people to stay strong in everything

woman… Angelou had the ability to remind us that we are all God’s children; that we all have something to offer”. She clearly had friends in high places. (“Maya Angelou” 2018) An African - American women named Marguerite Johnson now known as Maya Angelou, was born April 4th, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. She is well known as a poet, but she also was a dancer, songwriter, playwright, performer, and a civil rights activist (“Susan Wheeler” 2017). Sadly, Angelou grew up through a difficult childhood

Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri by the name of Marguerite Annie Johnson. Angelou passed away on May 28, 2014 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina at the age of 86 years old. On October 28, 2014, an Autobiography book called Rainbow in the Cloud was published by her only son named Guy Johnson after Maya’s passing. According to Poets.org, “Angelou was an author, poet, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, singer, and civil

Samuel De Champlain was an explorer who sailed under the France flag in the 1600s, he later changed the world by discovering and claiming parts of the new world. Born on August 13, 1570, in Brouage in southwestern France to Antoine de Champlain and Marguerite Le Roy. Champlain was born into a Navy family where he learned navigation from his father and his uncle. “As a young boy Samuel de Champlain went with his father and his uncle on various voyages studied cartography, navigation, astronomy and mathematics

When you become an author, actress, screenwriter, dancer and a poet all at a young age I guess you are just bound for greatness.Maya Angelou found a way to open eyes and change lives, all with just her writings (Bio.com 2015). She grew up with the mindset of victory, because as she said, “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude” (BrainyQuote 2017).Maya Angelou's name actually derived from her childhood nickname,Maya, and a shortened version of Greek sailor