John Cartwright was born on the 9th of August 1965 in Penrith New South Wales to Merv Cartwright and Carole Cartwright. Cartwright is best known for playing rugby league for the Penrith Panthers, NSW Blues and the Australian Kangaroos. John Cartwright grew up in a suburb in Sydney called Penrith. At the age of seven years old Cartwright played his first game for St Mary’s junior rugby league club. When he was young he attended Braddock Public School. He later attended Nepean High School. The most influential person in his life was his father Merv. Merv was part of the first ever Penrith Team. Merv was his coach when he was young. Not only was Merv the coach he was also the groundsman which gave Cartwright even more time to practice his skills. …show more content…
This was the start of his extraordinary playing career. He made his debut in 1985 when he was twenty years old but didn’t get a lot of game time until 1987 when he was a regular player. In 1988 him and his second rower partner Mark Geyer were the best second rowers in the game as a pair they were unstoppable. In 1989 after Ian Roberts was hurt he had to play in the front row for NSW where he wasn’t suited subsequently he was dropped after that game. In 1990 he played for the Australian team that toured Great Britain. Cartwright had an injury riddled 1991 season but he still managed to win the 1991 Grand Final with the Penrith Panthers. In 1992 Cartwright had a great representative season playing in all three of NSW games and once again playing in the Australian touring team. From 1993 – 1996 Cartwright spent a lot of time out of the game due to injury which forced him to retire at the end of the 1996 season. To top of Cartwright’s playing career he was also awarded the Dally M best second rower
Nathan Hale was born on June sixth, 1755, in Coventry, Connecticut. Richard Hale and Elizabeth Hale were his parents. Nathan had nine siblings. Enoch Hale was the most acknowledged sibling of Nathan Hale. Education was important to both of them. In addition to learning, Nathan was interested in wrestling, football, broad jumping, and women. Resources state that he was “the idol of all his acquaintances”, which was the reason for everyone’s admiration for him. This was one important part of Hale’s remembrance.
John was born April 21, 1838, in the town of Dunbar, Scotland. His parents were Daniel and Anne Muir, who also had two other children. In 1949, John and his family moved to their farm in Wisconsin. John spent his teen years going to school and spent long hours in the field helping his father maintain the farm. In his free time, he loved to read. John would stay up all night to read or wake up hours before he had to
John Sydney McCain III was born August 29, 1936 in a military hospital at Coco Solo NAS in the Panama Canal Zone, Panama. His father, John McCain, Jr. was a naval officer stationed at the Canal, doing duties at a small submarine facility. At the same base and time, his grandfather was the base commander.
Singer and British musician, founder of the mythical group The Beatles, a quartet that he formed in the city of Liverpool with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. John Winston Lennon was born in Liverpool on October 9, 1940, while the Nazis bombed the city, his father, called Alfred, was a marine who visited the home very little, until he disappeared completely, his mother Julia Stanley, who disappeared , leaving the child in the care of a sister of hers named Mary. It was she who taught John the first chords of the grandfather.
The Entrepreneurs I've gotten was the Jodrey Family. I will first talk about Roy A. Jodrey who was the one that started it then lead to his son John J.Jodrey.
59 year old John Glover Roberts Jr, was born on January 27, 1955 in Buffalo, New York. He was the only son of John G. “Jack” Glover Sr. and Rosemary Podrasky Roberts. His ancestry was Irish, Welsh, and Czech (O'Dowd). In 1959 his family moved to Long Beach, Indiana where he attended first, a Catholic Elementary School (Notre Dame), and then a private Catholic boarding school (La Lumiere in La Porte, Indiana). John then entered Harvard with aspirations of becoming a history professor.
John Trudell was born in Ohama, Nebraska on february 15,1946 where he was raised in small towns in Northern Nebraska near the southeast corner of South Dakota. The tribe he associates himself with is the Santee Sioux tribe (Nichols). In 1963, John was 17 years old in high school when he was called up to the principals office and was told that he had a lot of potential but that he needed to study hard to make something of himself. John felt disrespected because he felt like he had already made something of himself so after he left the meeting, he dropped out of school and this is when he joins the U.S. Navy. He served during the early years of the Vietnam War until 1967, where he would then go to college at San Bernadino Valley College in San Bernardino, California to study radio and broadcasting (Nichols). Years after that he will become a Native American Activist while joining two organizations named The Indians of All Tribes and the American Indian Movement.
Walter Payton was born in July 25, 1954. Son of Peter and Alyne Payton, Walter Payton was born in Colombia, Missouri. Walter’s father wasn’t really into football as much as people thought, Peter Payton was a semi-pro baseball player. Walter was had one older brother Eddie, who was born 3 years before Walter but in the near future wasn’t the one to be a football star. Eddie learned a lot about football from his dad, but when Walter was born, he knew he would have competition. At a very young age Walter and Eddie would have pickup games in the backyard. When Walter was 5 he started to play in a little league. Coaches were shocked to see Walter play football, almost every time he touched the football, touchdown. Not only his parents, but the players, and the coaches noticed that the harder Walter works he could go far.
James Marshall Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942 in Seattle Washington. James faced a somewhat difficult childhood as he was faced with many obstacles. His mother named him John Allen Hendrix at birth and played a dominant role in the early years of his life. His father, Al Hendrix, was busy fighting in WWII at the time. In 1943, young James' mother became sick with alcoholism and was sent into a rehab center. James was then sent to live with his grandparents in Berkely, California. After two difficult years of living with his relatives, his father returned from WWII and renamed Johnny to James Marshall Hendrix. His father quickly divorced his alcoholic mother who later died in 1958. Years passed and Jimi continued living with his father and attending grade school. His father introduced him to the guitar at age 13 and taught him how to play. James grew fond of playing but never pursued it as a child. In 1959, Jimi was expelled from high school because of poor behavior. With nothing to do, Hendrix got into trouble with the law for stealing a car with his friends. He was given the choice of spending two years in jail or enlisting in the army. Ji...
Therefore, he was an Aborigine. Second, as an Aboriginal bloke, he experienced a situation, which was being separated with his family and is recently known as the Stolen Generations. Perkins (1975, p. 15) explained that at that time, part-Aboriginal children were removed from their family by government and he was taken to Adelaide. Third, he was a successful soccer player. According to Perkins (1975, p.), he played one of the best team, Budapest, he won an award once and he got an invitation from Liverpool, a soccer team of England.
Steve Irwin was born to Bob and Lyn Irwin on February 22, 1962. He was born in a town called Essendon, located on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia. Steve’s parents both loved wildlife; his mother Lyn had made the Irwin home somewhat of a shelter for wildlife. Steve learned early on how to care and treat sick animals from his mother. His father, Bob, studied reptiles, collected snakes, and worked with crocodiles.
He went to St. Serfs school were he was a rather quiet pupil, until of course, as anyone who knows him, he stepped onto the soccer pitch. He shunned the roll of forward for the more unorthodox "bare knuckle boxer” and "chief shin kicker” role, it was novelty for him to be on the pitch a whole ninety minutes, never mind score goals. He then went on to play for Prestonfield Boys Club and then Napier University football team. Sadly this was to be the end of his sporting career, as this was when he discovered alcohol and women.
John Von Neumann was born on december 28th, 1903 in Budapest, Hungary into a Jewish family. Von Neumann’s original name before changing was János Neumann. His father Miksa Neumann also known as Max Neumann was a banker and huge influence on John. His mother Margit Kann also known as Margaret Kann came from a family
He was born in 1940 in Liverpool, England during a German air strike in the World War II where he also grew up with his parents, Julia Lennon and Alfred Lennon. His father was often away from home and wasn’t present at his birth, but sent regular pay cheques to where they lived. Julia and Alfred separated when John was only 4 years old and he then ended up living with his aunt, Mimi.