Vera Wang Vera Ellen Wang was born on June 27 1949 and raised in New York, New York. Her parents Florence Wu and Cheng Chin Wang were born in China and moved to the United States in the mid 1940s. Her mother, Florence Wu, worked as a translator for the United Nations. When her father owed a medical company. Vera’s younger brother Kenneth Wang, who is a bussiness man and deputy leader of the ACT New Zealand party. Growing up, Vera went to the Chapin School and then attended the University of Paris and received a degree in art history from Sarah Larwence College. At age eight Vera began interested in figure skating and competed in the US Figure skating Championships. After failing to make the US olympic team, but she later was accepted into the US figure skating hall of fame in 2009. However, Vera gave up skating and pursueed a fashion career. …show more content…
She then went on to join Ralph Lauren as a design director. After getting engaged to long-time boyfriend, Arthur Becker, Vera realized that there was little selection of wedding dress selection. She then preceded to sketch out her dream wedding dress, which was priced out to be 10,000 dollars. Following her wedding, her father helped her financially and she opened up a small wedding boutique in New York city. Her store consisted of other elite designers like Christian Dior, and Guy Laroche. After a few years, she eventually released her own collection of wedding dresses. However, Wang was first internationally noticed when she created an ensemble for figure skater, Nacy Kerrigan, featured in the 1994 winter
To start with, Rosie Perez or Rosa Marie Perez was born on September 6, 1964 in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, United States. She is a actress, dancer, choreographer, director, and community activist. Her parents are Lydia Perez, a singer and Ismael Serrano, a merchant marine seaman. Her aunt had been raising and catering her until her mother, Lydia Perez took her away and put her in Foster Care when she was 3. It wouldn't be much of a surprise if Rosie was to detest her parents after all they put her through. Rosie stayed there until she moved in with another aunt when she was 12. Later on she joined a high school in Rightwood, Grover Cleveland High School. Now most of the confusion and sadness had culminate.
The athlete I chose is Natasha Watley. She is a professional softball player and the first African-American female to play on the USA softball team in the Olympics. She’s a former collegiate 4-time First Team All-American who played for the UCLA Bruins, the USA Softball Women’s National Team, and for the USSSA Pride. She helped the Bruins will multiple championships and also holds numerous records and one of the few players to bat at least .400 with 300 hits, 200 runs, and 100 stolen bases. She’s also the career hits leader in the National Pro Fast pitch. She won the gold medal in the 2004 summer Olympics and a silver in the Beijing Olympics. She was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014.
O’Hara was born in Chicago Illinois in 1913. There, she initially lived a happy life as the daughter of strict Catholic parents. She was a beautiful Irish woman with fair skin and dark eyes and hair. Dazzled by jewels and gorgeous clothing, O’Hara fell into the oldest profession. Becoming accustomed to fast money, she left home and went to San Francisco. A few years later in mid-1938 she took what she learned and moved to Hawaii to make money.
To get where she is so far, Candace attended Kent State University where she went through athletic training. Just recently after she finished her major and became certified, she finished up with a masters degree and had a second major of teaching, which gave her the chance to teach while she is at Hoban.
The Death of Woman Wang, by Jonathan Spence is an educational historical novel of northeastern China during the seventeenth century. The author's focus was to enlighten a reader on the Chinese people, culture, and traditions. Spence's use of the provoking stories of the Chinese county T'an-ch'eng, in the province of Shantung, brings the reader directly into the course of Chinese history. The use of the sources available to Spence, such as the Local History of T'an-ch'eng, the scholar-official Huang Liu-hung's handbook and stories of the writer P'u Sung-Ling convey the reader directly into the lives of poor farmers, their workers and wives. The intriguing structure of The Death of Woman Wang consists on observing these people working on the land, their family structure, and their local conflicts.
Anne Sullivan was born April,14 1866 in Massachusetts. Her parents were Thomas and Alice Sullivan. Also, she had a little brother JImmie. Her parents who were originally from Ireland, made there way to the U.S during the Great Famine. Anne was only 8 years old when her mother contracted the virus Tuberculosis, and later died. Her father, being heart broke by Alice's death, sent both of his children to live in Tewsbury at an Almshouse.
Ruth Ginsburg was born March 15, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York. Ginsburg’s grew up in a low-income home. She was taught the importance of education and independence. Some of Ruth’s earliest memories are of going to the public library with her mother, trips that imbued her with a desire to read and a love of learning. Although her mother did not go to college she still did everything could to influence Ruth in the right direction. Her mother, Cecelia, instead of going to college worked in a garment factory to help for the education of her sons. Growing up Ruth admired the selflessness of her mother.
Vera Wang is a fashion entrepreneur that sells mostly clothes, wedding/prom dresses, perfume, makeup, bedding, wedding china, purses/accessories such as jewelry sunglasses, and shoes. Vera Wang was born on July 27, 1949 , is 67 years of age and was born in new york city . her parents are originally from china, her mom is Florence Wu, and her dad is cheng ching wang. She had a husband but they were separated in 2012, and she has 2 adopted daughters.
People are influenced by everything from jobs, music, fashion, certain people, even to different cultures. Chefs never seemed like the group of people one would expect to have an impact on the world, but they do. They change the way people see food and show that it is far more than just a way to stay alive it is sort of like a new way of life to say. There was one woman who changed the scene entirely, by graduating from the Parisian cooking school Le Cordon Bleu, publishing 19 books, airing 13 television shows, and having 8 DVD releases. Julia Child has been an inspiration for many cooks but has also influenced society as a whole while changing the way people thought about food and at the same time, revolutionizing the professional cooking industry for women.
left China in 1944. Her mother was married to another man at the time and had two twin
Hillary Diane Rodham was born on October the 26th 1947 at Edgewater Hospital, in Chicago. Her parents Hugh and Dorothy married in 1942. When Hillary was still young she learnt to stand up for herself. She told her mom that Suzy was bullying her and her mom said "There's no room in this house for cowards. You'll have to stand up to her." Hillary later knocked Suzy to the ground and said "Mom, now I'm tough enough to play with the boys! " After this she became a natural leader " She wasn't just interested in having power, but to help people. She felt sorry for the Mexican migrant workers , and organised neighborhood sales to raise money for them. She was a vice president of her junior class.
She was born in 1948 in Virginia, but grew up in Washington DC and Philadelphia. As a teenager she took class at Corcoran [College of Art and Design] in Washington DC. She later studied Illustration at the Tyler School of Art, in Philadelphia. In 1970 she received her Bachelor of Fine Art degree from Tyler. Though she received training as an illustrator she redirected her constrained on design and typography. In an interview for Eye Magazine John L. Walter asked Paula Scher, “ Did you understand what a designer did?” She said, “No, I was there for drawing and painting. I liked printmaking, but didn’t find myself until I did a course called Graphic Design.
In her early days, Tonya Harding was an amazing athlete. She was the first American woman to land a triple axel in competition for figure skating. It was a big deal. Tonya was one of the best female figure skaters in the country. She even dropped out of high school when she was a sophomore to be a better figure skater. According to “Tonya Harding biography.com,”
Florence Nightingale was born May 12, 1820 in Florence, Italy to a rich, upper-class British family. Her parents, William Edward and Frances Nightingale, named her after the city of her birth. Her father treated her as his friend and companion since he did not have a son. Mr. Nightingale took over as her primary educator and taught her a variety of subjects.
She did well in school and got into Brown University where she studied political science which later turned into feminist theory. That was the starting point for Nancy’s career. She received a scholarship ...