Doris May Tayler was born in Kermanshah, Persia (present-Day Iran), on October 22, 1919. Her Father participated in World War I where he sustained some injuries where he would then meet Doris’s Mother, Emily. Before Doris was born, her family decided to moved in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). In 1949 she decided to move to England to begin her writing career. In 1950, Doris published her first novel, The Grass is singing, but it wasn’t until 1962 her novel The Golden Notebook turned her into a feminist role model. Her father, Captain Alfred Tayler was an army man until his injuries where he was then honorably discharged. He then picked up a job as a clerk in a bank. At the time when Captain Tayler was injured his nurse, Emily Maude McVeagh cared
Kathleen Orr, popularly known as Kathy Orr is a meteorologist for the Fox 29 Weather Authority team on WTXF in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born on October 19, 1965 and grew up in Westckave, Geddes, New York with her family. The information about her parents and her siblings are still unknown. As per bio obtained online, Kathy Orr is also an author. She has written a number of books like Seductive Deceiver, The drifter's revenge and many others. She graduated in Public Communications from S. I. Newhouse which is affiliated to Syracuse University.
One famous quote from Barbara Jordan is “If you’re going to play a game properly, you’d better know every rule .” Barbara Jordan was an amazing woman. She was the first African American Texas state senator. Jordan was also a debater, a public speaker, a lawyer, and a politician. Barbara Jordan was a woman who always wanted things to be better for African Americans and for all United States citizens. “When Barbara Jordan speaks,” said Congressman William L.Clay, “people hear a voice so powerful so, awesome...that it cannot be ignored and will not be silenced.”
Alonza Thomas jr grew up in Bakersfield California. Alonza played football growing and was always looking out for his younger brother. Alonzo's mother was working two jobs and was also working on getting her education which was taking her out of home and away from her boys for long periods of time. Alonza Thomas jr ran away from home at the age of fifteen and the stayed with a man at the man's home. The man fed and gave Alonza shelter for free. One day Alonza told the man he was going home the man was angry and came back with a gun and said you have to do something for me first as payment for food and shelter. The man told Alonza to rob a convenience store the man told Aloza if he robs the store successfully he will give Alonza a cut of the money (Stickup Kid).
David Taylor is a 3 time all American. He’s one of the most dedicated wrestlers in Penn State history. Once you watch him wrestle you become an instant wrestling fan his motion his non-stop. He wrestles with passion. David has a national title also a Hodge trophy going into his final year as a Nittany lion. David has had a pretty good summer, making the U.S national freestyle team and the World University Games team. Taylors record is 34-0. He graduated this year. He’s known as magic man when hes on the mat. He ended his college career of 134-3.
The lights shine down and the cheerleaders cheer as his eyes scan the field for an open receiver. Students explode with school pride as he throws a bullet to wide receiver Mark Vergara that sent the rivalry game against Granada High School into overtime. It's almost the end of just another intense football game for teenager Zach Fraade. At seventeen, the Cleveland High School football star is on the verge of getting recruited by a prominent Division 1 University where he can continue working towards his dream of one day playing in the NFL. Standing at 6’3” with a great running prowess and powerful arm, Fraade has been watched closely by scouts since his freshman year. He walks with a swagger in his stride with his broad shoulders; chiseled
Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16th, 1938, in Lockport, New York. Raised on her parent’s farm in a rural area that had been hit by the Great Depression, she attended the same one-room school house as her mother. As a young child, Oates developed a love of literature and writing well beyond her years. She was very encouraged by her parents and grandparents to pursue her love of writing and as a teenager she was given her first typewriter. This was when her passion finally came to life. In 1953 at the age of only 15, she wrote her first novel about the rehabilitation of a drug dealer, which was later turned down by the publisher because the topic was not suitable for a young audience. Although her novels do focus on the horrors of society, her childhood growing up was no reflection of that. Oates has admitted that her childhood was “dull, ordinary and nothing people would be interested in. Oates continued writing throughout high school and earned a scholarship to attend Syracuse University. There she graduated at the top of her class in 1960, and in...
Cornelia Walter was born on June 7th, 1813 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father’s name is Lynde Walter and he was a and her mother’s name is Anne Walter and she had an older brother named Lynde Walter. Her brother, Lynde Walter was the original editor of the Boston Transcript which is a little evening newspaper by Dutton and Wentworth. Unfortunately he got very ill from inflammatory rheumatism also known as arthritis, an infection of all joints in the body. This caused him to be in for bed two years and Cornelia Walter became his assistant during that time until he died at age 24 in 1842. After he died she was offered to become the editor and theater critic of the Boston Transcript for five hundred dollars a year. She took the job and became the first women to edit a daily
Dorothy Rothschild Parker was born on August 22, 1893, in Long Branch, New Jersey. She was the youngest child of three siblings. Her mother Eliza Annie Rothschild was a Scottish descent, and her father was German Jewish descent. Her mother was devout to Catholicism. Her mother (Elizabeth Jane Barrett) was a survivor from the Titanic; she boarded the Titanic as first class passenger. Her mother died in July 1898, after her father remarried to Eleanor Frances Lewis. Dorothy was not close with her stepmother. She an had unhappy childhood, and she was lonely. She later accused her father of being physically abusive. In You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker she shows her father as being a monster. Dorothy’s stepmother was into Roman Catholicism, and Dorothy was sent to a boarding school run by nuns. Dorothy Parker was one of most accomplished feminist in her time and a successful literary writer in history. Dorothy attempted suicide and struggled with alcoholism, and spent some of her years to overcome it. Dorothy Rothschild was known in her time the most significant woman for writing books, poem, and short fictions.
The very inspiring woman, that will be our keynote speaker today, once said “In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism” that is from the book “Unsought and Unbossed” by the one and only Shirley Chisholm. If you haven’t heard that name before you probably don’t know a lot about the black political world. She is most known for becoming the first African American congress women in 1968. But let’s find out how she got to that point in her life.
At a time when muckrakers are running rampant in the major cities of America, stirring up trouble and pushing false claims, true journalism becomes increasingly hard to procure. Nellie Bly, however, is dedicated to reporting facts and uses writing to raise awareness for the welfare of those who are oppressed by society’s ignorance and indifference. She is an admirable woman because of several traits, including her intense passion and strong determination, and she proves her will-power in her renowned statement, “Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.” Not only does Bly accomplish and succeed in most everything she puts her mind to, she does it all under the pseudonym of Nellie Bly, keeping her real identity a secret
Being birthed from normal human parents, Thayne Nitesh was born but unlike his parents. From what the ancient text said, that he was born with the gift of the gods, to be an angel in human form. With those that were born with this, they are known as Aasimar. As a young one, his living in a quaint house in a small town called (-- removed HTML --) . Once the parents started to catch word of the other town folk’s talk about him and what he was, this was the beginning that his simple life was going to drastically change. As I grew I started feather started to appear, by my parent's instructions to hide what he was, they started to remove the feathers to blend in with the others. Little do I know my parents were selling them to others saying they
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”- Dalai Lama. In my opinion, the chocolate chip cookie has an interesting story. A woman named Ruth Wakefield discovered this delicious treat and from then on, everyone came to know it as the famous chocolate chip cookie. In fact, the chocolate chip cookie is one of America’s favorite cookies. Ruth Wakefield was an amazing and very lucky baker.
Sophie Treadwell was born on October 3, 1885 in Stockton, California. She is known mostly as a playwright, but wrote in various other genres also. Her written works not only include plays, but also books and novels, fiction and non-fiction. Her journalism career was quite successful. Her commentaries and articles were always captivating to the public eye. Sophie frequently followed sensational stories in the news, some of which gained much acclaim, one being her interview with Pancho Villa.
Civil rights activist, Daisy Bates was at the core of the school desegregation catastrophe in Little Rock, Arkansas in September 1957. Bates used her position as president of a local Arkansas branch of the NAACP to strategically destroy the segregated school system. Her civil rights work involved changing the policies of the Arkansas Public School System that promoted segregation of school students, which in turn denied equality of educational resources and qualitative instruction to Arkansas’ Negro students. This fight for civil rights for students of color caused a fundamental shift in how the state educated its students both Black and White. Her plan halted the nation to expose the segregation in the Arkansas school district. Bates advocated for Black children to attend public schools that had been segregated arguing that the school system needed to be desegregated. As a result of argument, Bates became the mentor to nine African-American students, who enrolled in
Author- Agatha Christie was born in 1890 in England and raised by a wealthy American father and English mother. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the author of 78 crime novels and was made a dame in 1971. She was married twice, her second husband being an archeologist whom she often traveled with on his archeological exhibitions to the Middle East. This gave her an understanding of that part of the world, which she used in this story. Agatha Christie died in 1976 in her home in England.