First Last Name Ms. Roberts ELA __ 15 March, 2017 Suratt’s Hanging What is your opinion on Mary Surratt’s terrible, unneeded hanging? Mary Surratt was an innocent woman who was accused of helping John Wilkes Booth with the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. She got hanged for it, but the person who actually did do something to help John Wilkes, Dr Mudd, didn’t get hanged, he got life in prison.
When the colonies were being established in the United States, there were struggles between white colonists and the Native Americans already living there. Mary Musgrove helped this improve this situation when Georgia was being founded in the seventeenth century. Her blended background gave her skills that helped her bridge both groups. Born in 1700 in South Carolina, Mary Musgrove 's original name was Cousaponakeesa. Her father was white and worked as a trader.
Kayleigh Laska is a seventh grader at Lois S. Hornsby Middle School. Her birthday was March 1, 2003, and she recently just turned thirteen. Born in raised in the small town of Williamsburg, Kayleigh knows the ins and outs of most roads and restaurants that occupy Williamsburg. She lives with her immediate family consisting of her dad, Lee, her mom, Kim, and her younger brother, Jace. Kayleigh also has a cat named Cherokee.
Sarah Childress was born near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on September 4 1803. She was born at a time when few girls went to school; But Sarah was given the rare gift of an education. That gift would pay off after she married James K Polk. Sarah and James had no children, so Sarah worked behind the scenes to help his husband achieve success.
Kayla Montgomery is worth admiring because she is still chasing her dream while being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. MS blocks nerve signals which causes her legs to go numb while running in the races. Kayla is one of the fastest long distance runners in the country and is a freshman on an athletic scholarships at Nashville’s Lipscomb University. With her condition, she has no feeling whatsoever while running when her body temperature gets higher and higher. People feel as if that isn 't fair-
When you think of September you think of back to school. Right? We all remember the smell of a new box of crayons. Well in the 1900s that was not the case for many children in America. Labor laws were not fair, but there was one American woman in that era that said enough is enough.
Aileen Wournos, one of the first female serial killers, endured many different types of abuse throughout her childhood which created her attachment disorders and psychopathy. Aileen was accused of killing seven men with a 0.22 caliber gun. She did this by hitchhiking and prostituting herself along many highways in central Florida. Aileen’s family was not ideal.
Katie Shear was not your typical teenage girl. She was replete with enormous amounts of bovine and noxious behavior and was excessively overbearing and facetious. Can you believe she decided to crack a joke at her own grandmothers funeral? Her parents thought it would help to bring her to church, although it made it worse because she would commit blasphemy. Katie only erudite was to bilk others by selling unworthy items to others at school.
Will I be discovered, will my life end tonight, or will I save thousands of Union soldiers lives with the valuable confederate plans that I have hidden in the sole of my shoe? That is a moment of my life in the civil war as Pvt. Franklin Thompson. But my real name is Sarah Emma Edmonds. I was born in December in 1841 and I lived in Canada.
Lavinia Fisher, a well-known name among Charleston’s residences and Ghost enthusiast. Her name carries a bleak legend being one of the first female serial killer sparking an interested with popular paranormal television, even with so little actually being true events. Her story, even though over 200 years later, have captivated those engrossed in the dreary tales that surround the Charlestonian culture. The legend of Lavinia, like most legends, indicate what charlestonian closely identify with, in this case being religious. There is little known about Lavinia fisher, until adulthood, however, it is known that she was born in Charleston in 1793.
Katie Johnson’s parents separated when she was eight-years-old. Her mother now lived with a man who was physically and verbally abusive, which made Katie Johnson's life Hell. The one thing that kept her going was her dream of becoming a glamorous fashion model. She saved money earned babysitting; so she could go to New York to visit modeling agencies. “I arrived at the Port Authority [bus terminal] and wondered where to start.
Taking the road less traveled is an important aspect in the life of Kate Logan, an 18-year-old student at Long Trail private school in Dorset, Virginia. Logan was recognized Saturday as her schools’ valedictorian. Appreciating how her small, family style school helped to challenge and inspire her individuality, Logan disrobed mid-way through her graduation speech. “When I was up there it felt natural,” said Logan. “It didn’t feel like I was doing anything crazy.”
A Prayer has been Answered Katie Ross is 15 year old, brunette girl who adores animals especially horses. In her mind horses are majestic creatures God sends to little girls like her. On car rides, she stares out the window and imagines wild horses running along the car. She has a horse bed cover and pictures of horses hung on her walls. Instead of playing with Barbie dolls, she plays with Breyer Horses.
Miranda Lambert Covers Willin ' at Concert One of the reasons Miranda Lambert holds the record for most consecutive Female Vocalist of the Year Awards is because she 's puts on an amazing show. Her latest tour, Keeping the Flame Tour, just got on the road on May 14th and she is already amazing fans. Between belting out her top hits and killing stray beach balls that were thrown on stage, Lambert took time to cover some of her favorite songs. One of the most special of the night was her rendition of Willin '.
A young girl named Katherine G. Johnson received a scholarship from a well-known school which led her to be a human calculator of NASA. Before all black American are discriminated, everything they do can lead to a crime that no white people are arrested for. All ‘colored’ staff or employee are separated from the white Americans, they are secluded in the West building. Racism and sexism was so great at that time that everything was labelled for white and negro people. Like the bathrooms, where they get their coffee, or women can’t be engineers and so on and so forth.
