Casi Gabrielle Becnel is one of the best people I know, even if I have only know her for a few short years, it feels as though I have known her for a lifetime. She is sixteen years old and is a junior at Mount Carmel Academy. Casi has always gotten straight A’s and is a really good person to look up to when it comes to succeeding in high school. Before attending MCA, she went to Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Belle Chase, which is where she now lives.…
Hattie Caraway was best known for being the first woman to serve in the United States Senate. Her life before, during, and after the Senate was all very important. She was a very important woman in Arkansas history. Hattie was born on February 1, 1878, in Bakerville, Tennessee on a farm.…
The French settlers arrived in Louisiana in the 1800s with their dog beauceron. They told of strange looking dogs with haunting glass eyes that were used by the Indians to hunt game in the swamp. It is thought the Beauceron and Red Wolf/war dog were interbred to produce the Catahoula. One theory as to the origins of the breed states that the Catahoula is thought to have descended from "war dogs" (Mastiffs and Greyhounds) brought to Louisiana by Hernando de Soto in the 16th century. Dogs left behind by the explorer's party were interbred by the local natives with their domestic dogs.…
Part 1: In a minimum of 550 words, discuss how the HUMA 2319 course has altered your consciousness about the conflicts and contradictions of our culture. This semester was very interesting and different in my opinion. First of all, this course was my last class with honors and I think it was very interesting class, we had so much interesting topics to discuss with. This class was different compare other honor’s classes.…
Alisha Hardy Alisha Hardy, who also goes by Lisha, is an eighteen-year-old Choctaw Native American woman from Wright City, Oklahoma. She is a student at Murray State College in Tishomingo, Oklahoma where she is studying nursing. In high school Lisha was an honors student and played softball. She is a very active member in her tribe’s community and her role as young Choctaw woman is very important. She enjoys taking part in cultural activities and keeping her tribes customs and culture alive.…
In February 2009, Charla Nash was viciously attacked by her employer's chimpanzee while attempting to help get him back into the house, losing both of her hands and most of her face. She filed a strict liability claim against Sandra Herold, her employer and Travis' owner. For the first time in its history, the Superior Court of Connecticut ruled on the liability attaching to the owner of a wild animal that causes injury to another and subsequently allowed the personal injury claim to proceed. The harm that came to Nash as a result of the dangerous propensities that are characteristic of wild animals is what allowed her to pursue the tort of strict liability.…
Myisha Collins is my wife who I married in August 1st 2015 I have known Myisha Collins approximately 10 years and met Feb 14th 2007 in Oakland, CA. Being the husband of Myisha Collins I am intimately aware of her habits and can speak with an extremely high degree of knowledge and confidence when I state she has no substance abuse problems with any form of drugs or Alcohol. She does not utilize any prescription drugs or marijuana. I can even state that she does not even smoke cigarettes.…
Hi to all! My name is Crizelda Bagtas, and you can call me “Criz”. I am currently working as a Clinical Nurse Case Manager at the Harris Health System, Lyndon Baines Johnson General Hospital. I am taking this class as a requirement for the Master of Science in Nursing Administration. I am looking forward to learn something new, since this is totally unfamiliar territory for me.…
Coming from a life of using the canal as a swimming pool with parents doing migrant work, struggling to make ends meet, Graciela Alvarez Bradwell turned her life completely around, going through multiple fields of work such as, cosmetology, teaching, music, and, finally, business. Through hard work and a burning desire to succeed, Mrs. Bradwell enabled herself to become the successful woman she so desperately wished to become throughout her lifetime. Approximately forty miles from the border of Mexico, in Harlingen, TX, on August 7th, 1963, Graciela Alvarez was born to parents Jose and Leonila Alvarez. Leonila Alvarez, Graciela’s mother, was a Mexican immigrant who was only ever able to achieve a third grade education while Graciela’s father, a native Texan, was educated to a ninth grade level. As the fifth of six children, Mrs. Bradwell has always had strong family values which helped to form her unconditional love for children.…
We would like to bring your attention to the fact that Mrs. Leticia Spinelli De Biase Martins has a dual citizenship (Brazil and Italy). Mrs. Martins has been assigned a shorter version of her name for the Italian citizenship, which makes use exclusively of her family name “Spinelli” Enclosed you will find a copy of her Italian passport as a proof of identity.…
As I was reading over the story of how Cecily McMillan and how she assaulted the police officer. I believe in my opinion she is guilty. The reasons why I say this is because when you read the story and watch the video of the activists outside protesting you notice the officer in the video are holding her arm and walking her through the crowd and you notice her jump and throw her elbow into the officers face causing him to have a black eye. So right then and there the officers take her to the ground and she goes into a seizure. They arrest her and take her to jail.…
Pamela Cummins has had some whacked out dreams in her lifetime. At six years old, she dreamed that a boy (whom she had a crush on) and her were running away from a wicked witch. In her twenties, a man appeared in her dream who had two penises, one was really small, and the other longer penis looked diseased – Eww, gross! The Buddha came for a visit in her early thirties and performed a healing on her. Pamela also dreams of more mundane things, such as cleaning, doing loads of laundry, or yard work.…
Julia carta is known for being one of the best TV and film makeup artists. With tons of experience doing celebrities hair and makeup including John Legend. Julia is all about positivity and making people look and feel beautiful. She started her career as an apprentice within Vidal Sassoon salon in Knightsbridge where she got the chance to work alongside some of the best creative hairdressers such as Tim Hartley. After some time, Julia joined the college of fashion in London and the college of beauty in London passing with a distinction and this is where she discovered her lifelong dream and the passion for creating beautiful makeup looks by using unique techniques.…
I’m currently seeking representation for my YA novel, ANOMALOUS. I chose to query you personally because you rep one of my favorite authors, Holly Lisle, and she gave a rave recommendation on you as an agent on her website. Given your interest in science fiction, I thought it might be a good fit for your list. When Brinya Greyson was thirteen the visions began. Now, three years later, she is fully aware that her ability to dream, a forbidden old world human trait, could be the very thing that gets her dubbed defective.…
Emily Carr is one of Canada’s most well known painters but, there was more to her. Emily Carr was born on December thirteenth 1871 in Victoria, British Columbia (Neering, p. 3). Her parents died in her early teenage years (Neering, p. 8) and in 1890, Carr studied art in San Francisco for five years (Neering, p. 12). When she returned to Victoria at twenty- four years old, she taught children’s art classes in a barn studio (Neering, p. 17). Later, in 1899 she travelled to England to study art at the Westminster School of Art (Neering, p. 17) and then in France in 1910 (Newlands, p. 20).…