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Sally Ride was the first American woman to fly into outer space. She was born on May 26th, 1951 in Los Angeles, California and she passed away July 23, 2012 at the age of 61 (Dunbar, 2014). Sally attended and graduated from Westlake High School in Los Angeles, California, in 1968. While Sally was in high school, her dream was to be a professional tennis player, however soon after graduating she took her success to Stanford University. Sally graduated from Stanford University with bachelor’s degrees

Rudyard Kipling's Kim Kim gives a vivid picture of the complexities in India under British rule. It shows the life of the bazaar mystics, of the natives, of the British military. There is a great deal of action and movement, for Kipling's vast canvas painted in full detail. The dialogue in the novel makes use of Indian phrases translated by the author, they give the flavor of native speech in India. They are also touches of the native behavior and shrewdness. Setting: The time the novel

In 1983 Sally Ride was the first woman astronaut is the American history. She set the base for all young girls and women to think about all they could do even though they were “just girls” She was one of the primary sources of women empowerment in that time. Sally Ride was a very important person in the 1980s and was important to the US, her becoming an astronaut has led to many realizations of what women can do now. Sally Ride was the first woman to join NASA in the United States. Ride worked

The Eye of the Needle The Eye of the Needle was always an iconic place along the Missouri until May 1997 when it collapsed under suspicious circumstances. On the expedition of Lewis and Clark, the White Cliffs of Montana was a signature site described by Lewis. One of the extraordinary landmarks was the Eye of the Needle, which Meriwether Lewis first described its scenery by comparing its magnificent rock formations to “elegant ranges of lofting freestone buildings, having their parapets well stocked

Something that was really hard for me was to come and study here in the US. What opened the doors to achieve this personal goal was the sport that I play, basketball, thank to that I have a scholarship, and of course the support from my parents was one of the most important thing to get it done. To get to study in the US for me it was a great achievement, because since childhood I wanted to do, always kept my goal in my mind and insisted to get it, until one day I got it and did not hesitate to accept

Success Is The Key to Life Everyone has a different opinion on the term success. According to the Webster Dictionary, the word success as a noun defined as achieving wealth, respect, or fame. Success can also be measured in many other ways. Many people throughout today's society strive for their own forms of success. Success has many interpretations; while some people's understanding of the term is similar, everyone's definition is a little bit different. To me, success is when someone or something

My hometown is known for being an old classic German immigrant community. The towns name is Columbia, Illinois which is located about 10 miles south of Saint Louis in the southwest region of Illinois. All my life I have lived in Columbia attending school there and always going to town events. Although Columbia isn’t filled with many national historical events or structures, it has a rich local history and important local historical sites. As a kid I visited many of these locations on school field

struggling for basic needs. Right here in America their are kids in: East St. Louis, Camden New Jersey, Washington D.C., Bronx New York, San Antonio Texas, Cincinnati Ohio, southside Chicago, Detroit Michigan, and Alabama who are not given the equal chances to rise in the world. These kids are faced with but not limited to poverty, lack of education, crime, dilapidated housing, insufficient healthcare, hunger and unemployment. East St. Louis “the most distressed city in America”, “ the bottom” 98% of

In 2013 Ochoa took the helm and became director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Today now, She is married to a computer engineer named Coe Fulmer Miles and lives in Texas with her husband. She is fond of sports, music, and flying. She has a private pilot’s license and is an accomplished flautist. Ellen Ochoa has now retired from her engineering career. Ochoa compares being a space traveler to being in school once more, portraying it as a steady learning process. Back at NASA, she has additionally

Not too long ago in downtown St. Louis Missouri, there was a boy named Cade Burgundy, He was the leader of the second most powerful gang in town. The Market Street Mafia. If you were walking down the streets in St louis and you saw boys in red leather jackets and navy blue pants, you know you’re in trouble. The Mafia was known for their bloody spoon attacks, (they also carried heaters). They would often go to Busch Stadium to watch the game but end up fighting with Dragon gang members and getting