College is much different from my high school in so many ways. In my high school we was always on the same routine. We had four periods a day and first period started at 7:45 and we was on a block schedule meaning our classes was an hour and thirty minutes long. We had the same classes everyday so more learning during the day and less homework. Immediately after school we had football practice four days a week and played on Fridays. High school Is a good preparation for college, even though while in high school you will never expect what happens in college. In high school your parents were more involved in what go on in your daily life, whether you get in trouble in class or you get sick at lunch.…
Todd Lubar the President of TDL GLOBAL VENTURES and Sr. VP to some legendary investments, is one of the most motivating and ambitious stories.…
Aron Ralston is the bravest person I know. Aron was an American outdoorsman, who loved canyoneering. In a canyon of Utah, Ralston was hiking all alone, when something deadly happened. An enormous boulder became dislodged and landed right onto Aron's arm. Aron Ralston suffered tremendously, but he was brave enough to get through this tough situation.…
John Joseph Pershing, nicknamed “Black Jack” was born in Laclede, Missouri on September 13, 1860. Pershing, oldest of eight children, was born to John F. Pershing and Anne Elizabeth Thompson. His father was a prosperous business man, working as a merchant during the Civil War, but during the panic of 1873, his father was forced to jake a job as a traveling salesman while john worked on the family farm…
Paul Rusesabagina saved more than 1,200 refugees in his hotel, what was the world doing to help refugees during the genocide? Nothing, the UN hardly helped at all during the entire genocide. Paul was the hotel manager for the hotel Diplomates, a high end hotel where foreigner government officials stayed. Another hotel, hotel Mille Collines, was another hotel Paul had access to. During the Rwandan genocide Paul kept over a thousand Tutsi and moderate Hutu save in the walls of the Mille Collines. He kept these people safe with words, drinks and lots of phone calls. While Paul and a few other’s tried to save people in Rwanda the whole world turned it’s back on the small country even though they knew what was going on and then decided to beat…
The Victorians are known for their fascination with death. During the Victorian era (1837-1901) they took death very seriously, no expense was spared when arranging a proper funeral. During this time most American’s lives became restricted to the family. As the emotional focus of people narrowed to the immediate family, the significance of the final act expanded.…
To his younger sister, Rachel Gentz, Joel Gentz was a nerd in high school. He was a member of the marching band, and more specifically the drum line. He was obsessed with all things related to flight and dreamed of being an astronaut. Joel was also an outdoors-man; enjoying hiking and backpacking with his family and as a Boy Scout. Joel graduated high school in 2002 and with events of 9/11 fresh in his mind, decided he wanted to enlist. His parents convinced him to go to college first and potentially become a military officer. Joel went on to attend Purdue University with an Air Force ROTC scholarship in hopes of becoming a pilot. Joel was the Cadet Wing Commander at Purdue. He was honored four years running with the Warrior Spirit award, elected by his ROTC class. He was also a member of the Arnold Air Society. He graduated in 2007 with a degree in Aerospace Engineering and was accepted to the U.S. Air Force’s pilot training. However, Joel had been exposed to the difficult training of the USAF Pararescue and had a new dream. Joel turned down his chance to fly to become a Combat Rescue Officer, and take on…
Seth Morales is a kind, caring person. Understands what most people go through and gives advice on what they should do next. That while he was in middle school, he was in fights, also during his middle school years he injured his right shoulder. That his shoulder never fully healed. Since that injury he can't do a lot of things with his shoulder. He is also a berserk person who likes to have a blast.…
Richard Ramirez was a California-based serial killer who operated from 1984 to 1985. He was born in El Paso, Texas, but eventually moved out to California. He was known as the “Night Stalker” because he would break into homes at night, raping and killing his victims. Ramirez got his start early, as he (unsurprisingly) had a rough childhood. His father was known to abuse him, and he spent some time in juvenile detention for petty crimes. He also sustained two major head injuries as a child, having a dresser fall on him and being knocked out by a swing at a park. However, he was heavily influenced by his cousin Mike, who was a Green Beret who had returned from the war in Vietnam. Mike told Richard graphic stories about the women he raped, tortured, and…
Richard Ramirez was serial killer who went on a two rampage killing innocent people in southern California. He raped and tortured more than 25 victims and killed more than a dozen of them. Most of these victims were killed in their own homes; as he would find opened windows and doors in the night to kill his victims. But what were the contributing factors that maybe helped mold Richard Ramirez into this brutal serial killer who seemed to have no conscious? Was he born with the so- called “bad seed”, or was it events in his life that contributed and somewhat opened the door for him to be a murderer. There have been accounts stated that while Richards mother was carrying him in her womb she was having health issues almost as if her body was rejecting…
I have a huge issue with the sentencing of Brock Turner, a former student of Stanford University. Turner was charged and convicted of three counts of felony sexual assault. He sexually assaulted a 22 year-old-woman who was unconscious and intoxicated behind a dumpster on the college campus. At the end, the judge sentenced turner to six months in a county jail and three years of probation. He also must register as a sex offender, and participate in a sex-offender treatment program. Turner is scheduled to be released tomorrow from a county jail – three months early for good behavior.…
In 1993 two minors had committed burglary, and murder. The minors names are Christopher Simmons age of 17, and Charles Benjamin age of 15. The victim was a neighbor of Christopher Simmons. Her name is Shirley Crook age of 46. Christopher Simmons and Charles Benjamin had tied up Shirley Crook to the chair and thrown her in the St. Louis Meramec river. Drowning her at the age of 46 .…
Have you ever thought about what it really means to be a Canadian? What you need to do to even consider yourself to be a part of this country? I believe that Sam Steele could be considered a Canadian. There are many things that he did that made him canadian but the main reason for that is that he was the one who actually fought for Canada.…
Richard Allen was born February 14, 1760. During this time period more than one million people, representing a population increase of significant proportions, were living in the thirteen colonies along the Atlantic coast. disease, and infant mortality rates in the colonies were much lower than those in England, and life expectancy was considerably higher. Just under a quarter million blacks lived in the colonies, the slave numbers increased, along with the white population, through a combination of immigration, and natural increase. The colonies were part of an Atlantic trading network that linked them with England, Africa, and the West Indies. The pattern of commerce, called the Triangular Trade, involved the exchange of products from colonial farms, plantations, fisheries, and forests with England for manufactured goods and the West Indies for slaves, molasses, and sugar.#…
Sherman Alexie promotes the understanding of Indian culture through his literary works, including “War Dances, the Business of Fancydancing, and Indian Killer.” Sherman was an alcoholic, and he used to abuse alcohol. Once he published his first book he's been sober ever since. Sherman writes about Indian culture because he grew up on an Indian reservation. Even though his stuff is fiction most of his poems, books, etc have a story behind them. He says his books, “bring the reader into a different world.”…