The Execution Of Mary Surratt Mary Surratt should of been executed due to her being a part of the Lincoln assassination. Mary Surratt was a conspirator who helped John Wilkes Booth kill the president, she also lied to an officer. The way Mary helped John Wilkes Booth was by having every single gun ready source 1 stated,” Mary made sure she had the guns ready” The reason for this is because she knew about the assassination,they same source also said that she was the only one that put the guns out the reason for this is because Booth never thought they would expect her to do that because she said that she has bad vision this is also why Booth never mentioned Mary in any of his letters.…
Betsy Bueno, the owner of this start-up company received her Bachelor of Business Administration from Northern Arizona University. Her past experience includes working as Skechers' retail merchandise planner at the Manhattan Beach, CA corporate office. She began her career as a part-time sales associate at a Skechers retail store, then a year later was selected to be a summer intern at the corporate location. Betsy's creativity sparkled and she was recognized as a key merchandise/store designer for young girls fashion. Loyal to the company, she worked there for 7+ years and now wants to be an entrepreneur of her own shoe business.…
In the fairly small town of Sherwood, OR, there is a very controversial mayor. The mayor is Krisanna Clark. The controversial mayor has done numerous things to help Sherwood become a better, safer, and happier place to live for all ages. Recently, Krissana has done things many people do not agree with, such as taking away one of the best places for kids and working out, the YMCA. Countless people have gotten very angry with her for that idea and it has caused backlash from a great deal of families.…
Before me there was Tina Lee Williams and Anthony Wayne Underwood. I am Leigh-Ann Underwood. I am the youngest child of Tina and Nick Scruggs. My five siblings are Ashley Spruill-Pearson, Amanda Brooke Underwood, Crystal Scruggs-Breckenridge, Bobby Scruggs, and Teresa Scruggs-Williams. I was born at Baptist Memorial Golden Triangle Hospital in Columbus, Mississippi on February 2, 1998.…
Kayla Cloward of Blackfoot Idaho, passed away Saturday, October 28th due to injury sustained in an automobile accident at the age of Fourteen. Kayla was born March 17, 2003 to Kasey and Katherine Cloward. Kayla was a sister to Kayge Cloward, 19 and Kacyn Cloward, 13. Her Grandparents were Danny Cloward and Laurel Brummond. She was going down the freeway with a group of friends as a car jackknifed into the passenger side of their car.…
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.…
My full name is Danielle DiCorcia. I am a member of a family of 4 people; mom (Ann), dad (Tom), and younger sister (Caitlin). My mom and dad are separated but both are civil and the family isn’t that my much different with the separation. One thing about my life that you should know is that I am an athlete. I play volleyball and I use to play basketball.…
Mary Harris was born on approximately May, 1, 1837 to the parents of Richard and Ellen Harris. Mary Harris nickname “Mother Jones” was given to her for her kindness and careness by inspired workers. Mary Harris was a union activist, an active campaigner for the United Mine Workers Union, and a political progressive. In 1898, Mary Harris was the founder of the Social Democratic Party. Harris early life left many personal tragedies , soon she decided to begin her work as a labor activism and leaving her name with legacy.…
“Like most young Lackses, Day didn't finish school: he stopped in the fourth grade because the family needed him to work the fields. However, Henrietta stayed until the sixth grade. During the school year, after taking care of the garden and livestock every morning, she'd walk two miles past the white school where children threw rocks and taunted her to the colored school, a three-room wooden farmhouse hidden under tall shade trees." Publishing Henrietta lacks in 1951 would not have affected anything and nothing would be different. No one would care about what that book has to say.…
Did you know Hannah Senesh was executed for helping save Jews? I learned about her reasoning for joining the British Army, her being a poet and diarist and all the bodies of work she left behind inspiring many generations, and her legacy. To many people in Israel, Senesh is a symbol of idealism and self-sacrifice. Senesh was in her twenties when she joined the British Army. Stated in the Jewish Virtual Library, “The operations purpose was to contact the partisan resistance fighters and to help the Allied forces in Europe” meaning they were to parachute into Europe and help the soldiers and Jews.…
I can recall it being around Christmas and seeing her face all over the television. Hearing her name come out of everyone’s mouth. On the Eastern Shore, crime and violence make up the daily life. A local devastating murder of Sarah Foxwell took the whole Eastern Shore by surprise because she was so young, she was only in the sixth grade when she was tragically raped and murdered by a familiar face in her family, Thomas Leggs. There was more to Sarah’s life than just being a victim of kidnaping and murder.…
As she describes it, “My whole life has been really tough.” Though not very close to her family she not only cares for them by preparing meals and cleaning the house, she also cares for her dog and lives a very independent lifestyle. Only in 10th grade, she works and purchases her needs and desires with the money she earns. She buys her own school supplies, clothing, pays her own phone bill, and much more. Nowadays Jessica enjoys cheerleading, playing soccer, and enjoys spreading joy to everyone because no one used to do that to her when she was growing up.…
Melinda Sordino’s behaviors are best diagnosed as posttraumatic stress disorder with a secondary disorder of depression. Melinda’s symptoms last for a whole school year, which is consistent with the one month bench mark for most posttraumatic stress disorder patients. One of Melinda’s symptoms of her posttraumatic stress disorder is that multiple times throughout the book she bites her lips and nails to the point of pain and even sometimes until she bleeds. At one point in the story, she even says, “I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way”.…
Jhamiya Sumpter Period 6 2/15/18 Katherine Johnson Katherine Johnson is an African American woman who is from White Sulphur Springs, West Virgina and attended West Virgina college in 1937 studying Mathematics and French. Katherine Johnson was very brilliant she went to high school at the age of thirteen because she was very intelligent with her numbers. Katherine Johnson was also the third African American to earn her PhD in Mathematics. Katherine Johnson contributed to space exploration by working backwards to make project mercury a success, Johnson also worked on the calculation that allowed the Apollo astronauts to return home from the moon, and to look at the black box data from crashed airplanes. To begin with Katherine Johnson once worked backwards to make mercury a success which was one of her contributions.…
Laura secord Many people know the story of Lara Secord but some of you may be a bit fuzzy on the details. Laura Secord was born Sep.t 13,1775 a Wednesday. When laura was 8 years old her mother died leaving Four little girls to her father. Her father remarried 3 times and had a large family, by his third wife. Laura was married at the age of 20 in 1797.…