Jedediah S. Smith Obituary Maycee Stringham 5th Period Jedediah S. Smith was born June 24, 1798 in New York. He was one of the greatest trappers and explorers. He became one of the “Ashley Men” in 1822. Jedediah was a skinny man with brown hair and blue eyes. He was the fourth oldest of 12 kids.
Joseph Brant was born in Northeastern Ontario of March 1742. His native name was Thayendanegea. Brant had one sibling named Mary Degonwadont (Molly Brant). His dad’s and mom’s name are Peter Tehonwaghkwangeraghka and Margaret. Brant got his education at Moor's Indian Charity school in Connecticut.
The common subject in Ben Quilty’s artworks reveals his insight into the destructive nature of youth masculinity, but also reflects the present day Australian male youths in society. Quilty’s series of oil painting creation “The crash” (2009) enables him to express his understanding of his own turbulent passage through his middle and late teenage years as well as his early 20s. In early stages, Quilty’s painting mainly explores the transition of manhood shown in his work “Cullen-before and after”, mortality and objects that appeal to male youths such as classic Aussie muscle cars. In “The crash” Quilty rather than focus in intact cars, he paints cars that have become crashed wrecks smashed-out on large canvas freely in bold, thick, rich strokes
Nevertheless, for Ben Hall a young man, married and desiring a future in the evolving and progressive society of Australia which presented an opportunity for the adventurous to have ago and to build a solid foundation for their future without the social judgments that had long handicapped those of limited means, or the so-called predetermined order of things. Moreover, in 1800's Australian society, there were still in place some sections that retained the old structured aristocratic style of old England where inherited wealth and title determined a path of an assured future either in government or industry for those that were termed privileged, this of course excluded Ben Hall. However, it was for those in Australia, including Ben Hall who with courage and determination that for them the land could offer that same
Richard Joseph Daley (May 15, 1902 – December 20, 1976) was an American politician who was the Mayor of Chicago for 21 years (1955–1976) and chairman of the Cook County Democratic Central Committee for 23 years, holding both positions until his death in office in 1976. Daley was Chicago's third consecutive mayor from the working-class, heavily Irish American Bridgeport neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, where he lived his entire life. He is remembered for doing much to avoid the declines that some other "rust belt" cities like Cleveland, Buffalo and Detroit experienced during the same period. He had a strong base of support in Chicago's Irish Catholic community, and he was treated by national politicians such as Lyndon B. Johnson as a pre-eminent
Ben Chester White On January 5, 1899, Ben Chester White, an African American, was born. About sixty-seven years later, on June 10, 1966, White was shot and murdered near Pretty Creek in Natchez, Mississippi. His murderers were three hate-filled gunmen that were incorporated with the Ku Klux Klan, which is a group of people who believe that whites are more superior than blacks. The reason they wanted to murder White was to give Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a motive to come to Natchez, White had no involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, until his devastating murder.
On June, 2013 Ethan Couch a wealthy teen was speeding and caused a crash which he ended up killing four people and injured two. It turns out that his blood-alcohol level was three times the legal limit. He could have faced twenty years behind bars but his attorneys claimed that his affluenza (a product of wealthy, privilege parents who didn’t set rules for him, and doesn’t know right or wrong) made him blameless for his actions. The judge didn’t give him a sentence but ordered for his parents to pay for treatment and got 10 years of probation. His parents agreed to pay $450,000 a year for his rehabilitation.
In 2004, Doug Levitt started a journey that would change his life forever. He traveled on Greyhound buses and met people who were struggling to get by. He was inspired by the people he met and decided to write songs and stories about them. Doug traveled via Greyhound buses for eight years. He also took thousands of pictures.
Richard Loving was born October 29, 1933, in Central Point, Virginia. Growing up in part of Caroline County, people of different ethnic groups openly socialized together. Loving being of Irish and English descent met his future wife, Mildred Jeter who was African American and Native American descent, when he was 17 and she only 11. What first started as a great friendship, soon turned romantic relationship. At 18 Mildred became pregnant and the two decided to get married.
His major influences in his love for art is his mother Elizabeth, and girlfriend Alta Sawyer who happened to be a teacher as well. His mother’s
William Wilcox put up one of his farms, of 254 acres, for sale in 1893. At the age of 65 and widowed he was cutting back on the strenuous effort required to keep all his properties maintained and productive. He would still farm (and a well known respected local farmer he was) on his main homestead on the shores of Horseshoe Lake. His home was nicely nestled by the creek that fed all the lakes from First, Second and Third Lakes through Blackstone, Crane and Little Blackstone until arriving at Georgian Bay. The thought of being one's own boss and the freedoms associated with it seemed to attract Philip.
Brownie is the name of a long-running popular series of simple and inexpensive cameras made by Eastman Kodak. The Brownie popularized low-cost photography and introduced the concept of the snapshot. The first Brownie, introduced in February 1900, was a very basic cardboard box camera with a simple meniscus lens that took 2¼-inch square pictures on 117 rollfilm. With its simple controls and initial price of $1, it was intended to be a camera anyone could afford.
Yes, skill base jobs are out there, if you play sports. Everyone can play basketball, but not everyone one can play professional. You can have the schooling, the 250$ Jordan’s, 5000 dollar basketball training camps, but still it comes from hard work and worst family genes. It is very hard in American to be this exclusion to the rule person. People like Muggsy Bogues not only had skill(s) but luck.
Sandy Skoglund was born on September 11, 1946, in Weymouth, Massachusetts. She studied both art history and studio art at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and received her BA degree in Studio Art in 1968. Then she went to the University of Iowa for a Master of Fine Arts Degree. She was interested in a variety of artistic disciplines
At the urging of his parents Hopper studied courses in commercial art in order to have a reliable means
