Rachel Portman (OBE) Rachel was born on the 11th of December 1960 in Haslemere Surrey. From a young age she was interested in music and started composing music at 14. At college she started composing music especially for student films. Her career began writing music for drama films on the BBC and Channel 4 including Mike Leigh’s Four Days In July and Oranges are not the only
When most people think of Texas legacies they think of Sam Houston or Davy Crockett, but they don’t usually think of people like Jane Long. Jane Long is known as ‘The Mother of Texas’. She was given that nickname because she was the first english speaking woman in Texas to give birth.
Helene Melanie Lebel, one of two daughters born to a Jewish family, was raised as a Catholic in Vienna. Her father died during World War I when Helene was only 5 years old, and when Helene was 15, her mother remarried. Helene entered law school, but at age 19, she started showing signs of an illness. By 1935, her illness became so bad severe that she had to give up her law studies. Helene was diagnosed with Schizophrenia and was placed in Vienna’s Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital. Although her condition improved in 1940, Helene was forced to stay in Steinhof. Her parents believed she would soon be released, but in August, her mother was informed that Helene was transferred to Niedernhart. She was actually transported to Brandenburg, Germany where she was led into a gas chamber or room? disguised as a shower room, and was gassed to death. Helene was listed as dying in her room of “acute schizophrenic excitement”.
Alice Coachman was the first African-American woman to win a gold medal. She was rewarded the gold medal at the 1948 US Olympics in London for the high jump competition. King George VI awarded her the gold medal. She was invited aboard a British Royal yacht.
On July 17, 1950, Little Company of Mary hospital was the location of the first organ transplant in medical history. At age 49, Ruth Tucker “suffered from polycystic kidneys” and was in need of a new one. Her family also suffered from this disease, losing her mother and sister to it as well. It was five weeks before Tucker and the hospital would receive a healthy kidney as a donor. During the operation, about 40 doctors were there looking on the operation. The entire procedure took about 45 to 60 minutes to complete, starting at 11:30 am. Several papers and magazines, including Newsweek and TIME, reported on the procedure, calling it courageous and brave. Tucker recovered a died five years later, only from the onset of pneumonia, completely
Jill Brown is a 38 year old mother of one, who lives in Carmel with her husband, and son Mathew. Mathew is 12 and is in the 6th grade at Carmel middle school. He keeps Jill busy by playing basketball and golf all year round. Jill is married to her husband Andrew who works for Alison transmission as a shift manager. With their provided dual incomes, they are able to live in an upper middle class home, and go on vacation once or twice a year. Unfortunately, Andrew has to work 3rd shift and is not home in the evenings to help Jill with the majority of the responsibilities. Jill also continually volunteers at St. Jude Children’s Hospital where she manages activities for children to do. Jill is an only child and also went through her entire education at Carmel. She grew in a home with both parents living together. Her mother Janice, worked as a receptionist for an insurance company in Indianapolis. Her father Daniel worked for a used car dealership on the east side of Indianapolis. They were very involved in Jill’s schooling and taught her to be disciplined and work hard. She spent most of her summers with her grandparents who lived on Brookeville Lake, in Richmond Indiana. Going through school her father allowed her to follow him around and learned how to speak to customers to build good communication skills.
On November 1, 2016 Maryville University had the honor to welcome Rachel Miller; she is a holocaust survivor and she shared her story with us. Miller was born in Poland of 1938, she is the youngest out of four children. She had two brothers and a sister. Her sister Sabine was her idol and she always looked up to her. Rachel and her family was born Jewish. Miller showed photos that her family had taken together and she named almost everyone in those photos. Her father moved them to Paris because he did not want to serve in Poland army. Once her family moved to Paris her happy childhood began to fade. Her father and uncle was the first to be taken to the concentration camps. They were allowed visitors so her mother insisted her father three times a week. One December 28 when Rachel sister, mom, and herself went to
On January 4th, 1937, the legendary Grace Bumbry was born in St. Louis, Missouri to a freight-handler and a Mississippi school-teacher. While a very religious but only middle-class couple, Benjamin and Melzia Bumbry made sure to tell their three children to seek their riches through music. Singing was always a part of everything that the Bumbry family did whether it was washing clothes, helping with dinner or gathering around the piano and singing just for fun. Thursday nights was especially important because the Bumbry family would attend church for choir rehearsal. Grace's brothers, Benjamin and Charles, were part of the youth chorus at their church and since Grace was too young to be home alone, she tagged along as well. Her brothers eventually
Tina Vindum is the President and Founder of Outdoor Fitness, the breakthrough fitness program rooted in the mind/body connection – and a greater connection to the natural. From the mountains to the beach and all points in between, Tina Vindum’s Outdoor Fitness is revolutionizing the way thousands of people around the country are getting in shape by getting them out of the gym and back into nature.
It is a beautiful, sunny Wednesday afternoon at the renowned Granada building in Los Angeles. Sherry Robb’s office is particularly chic in a loft environment with busy interns and clients moving in and out of meetings over their literary material.
Ruth Hamson is 87 years old who still be able to walk and do some housework. But she loses her sight and has to wears eyeglasses. Ruth believes that she is fortunate because she is still in a good health and has a lot of helpful friends. At age 87, Ruth still drives, but she keeps off from the freeway. Furthermore, Ruth said that a lot of people chose to live in nursing home and she believes that seniors must accept the fact that they get to give up on some of the thing they always enjoy. Next, she states that the hardest thing for being aging is inability to run. The pro in Ruth’s life is she still has children who support and help her to settle to a new house. All her children want her to enjoy her life as much as she can and as long as
Alison Hymes fought for her patient rights; she was committed against her will. Alison sat in a small waiting room of a Virginia mental hospital; the morning of her recommitment hearing. She scribbled down her thought and list of arguments in favor of releasing her from Western State Hospital in Staunton, Va. She wrote everything down into her green composition book. Her notes included: Being at the hospital too long, and becoming institutionalized. Alison knew no one was going to listen to her. Ms. Hymes had six other recommitment hearings over the previous 17 months and repeatedly said the same thing at each one. A judge ruled that she was a danger to herself and involuntarily hospitalized her twice in three years.
“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.
Rachel Jackson is a prominent activist of violence against women and children. Rachel life passion is to bring awareness to the issue of sex trafficking and how it brutalizes our American youth.
Britney Spears was born on December 2, 1981. She lived in Kentwood, Louisiana and was constantly performing in front of people and always wanted to be on 'Star Search'. Britney tried out for the New Mickey Mouse Club at age 8 and then again at 11 and made it. Then she went solo because her talent was evident and she wanted more (A & E Television Networks, 2011).
Numerous arguments have emerged due to the idea that Thomas Jefferson had an affair with his slave, Sally Hemings. Such idea was thought to silly because in those days nobody thought that a white southern gentleman could have any relationship with his slaves. Could you expect Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding fathers and having such respect among the American people would have a sexual relationship and bear children with his slave. A political journalist of Richmond newspaper named James T Callender put forward allegations that pointed a possibility of a sexual relationship and fathering some or all of Sally Heming’s children in. In this essay, we are going to look at this issue of Jefferson-Hemings controversy with the help of the DNA